Show oil men find guiher they were oring to avoid it is reported that promoters ar ranged to sink gas and oil wells near barboursville ky to a depth where they were certain that oil would be found in paying quantity and then plug the well leaving the impression that it is a dry hole in order that the prices for land lease might be kept down since cl the overseers ove seers were absent and it is cla mod that the drillers went too deep the result was a gusher six miles from barboursville yielding 8 ban els a day the oil became ignited all the ma camery and surrounding timber shoot ing up a distance of over a hundred feet every t venty m |