| Show OIL AND ADD WATI WATER WATERSPOUT SPOUT FEET Well at Payette Ida Id Is Per Pr Performing Performing forming in a Most Spectacular Spec Spectacular Spectacular Manner MannerA A second gas blowout from oil well No Not NoI 1 t of the Oregon Oil Gas company has hasette hasette ette eUe has in addition to the many rich resources that th t now abound here the great resource of natural gas and oil all and andall andall andall all that is now needed ts a s for the bodies of gas and oil to be tapped and the gas and oil utilized Only those who have been so fortunate as to live in of country where such finds have 1111 been made thade and have witnessed d the de development development which follows can fully re realize realize realize alize all that this discovery means to Payette Even more spectacular than the first blowout was the tile second one which oc Tuesday morning about 10 just twelve days from the time the gas first forced Itself through the opening The force of the demonstration was greater this time and oil water and sand were shot Into the air fully 00 feet teet Big rocks were wore also thrown out of the well weIl welland weIland welland and pieces of Trenton rock with black particles that look like high grade bi bituminous bituminous bituminous coal Men experienced In oil oilfields oilfields fields say that the oil oU sand thrown out is the of ot the sand they have ever seen The Tile blowout came from the lie same depth as the first one about feet For J or a number of days the driller had been en engaged engaged engaged In cleaning out the sand which time of the first plugged the tile well at the I demonstration As soon as it was loos boa loosened loosened ened up to the original depth the tile gas broke through again For nearly thirty minutes before the blowout occurred water and oil poured out of the well velb in a stream which rose two or three feet above the top of the casing The flow became so strong that the driller had to take the bailer which he was using out of the well isell so there were no tools in the well at the time the gas blew The blowout was vas of ot o shorter duration than the first time and when the tho force subsided a plug was driven Into the well There Is about the same 5 amount of oil in the well as before Manager G W V Taylor Talor says he has enough gas In the well to furnish gas to toPa Payette Pa ette for heating and lighting pur purposes purposes purposes poses He has notified the city council that at their next regular meeting he will ask for a franchise for piping the city Nothing more Is to be done don to the well until tie the company Is prepared pr lIared to handle the gas Another well will be sunk with within in a few feet of ot the first one Lumber is isnow Isnow isnow now being hauled to the place for the erection of at a derrick This well will be bo fourteen Inches whereas the first one was only eight It will wIli be drilled with the rotary drilling machine which has been ordered It is the tha intention to drill the next well deeper than the first one with the ex cx expectation of tapping the tue oil all lake which is now known to be beneath this basin Quarters for the men have been built at the well ayd ad the work wll be pushed without interruption I |
