| Show REPORTED STRIKE AT YUCCA eer Lter prise hart cal yucca mohave county arizona a santa fe station thirty seven miles east of needles and twenty miles from the colorado river is the scene of the latest reported oil strike constable M P moore and charles lamb left thursday for the new oil fields being sent there by a number of hart business men for the purpose of locating ground in the vicinity what there is to it no an can yet say outside of the presence of oil in the santa fes foot water well at yucca there has been no other indication of petroleum in that section the well has been strongly impregnated for years but this has been attributed to the presence of a sump hole and storage tanks nearby from which seepage entered recently the quantity of oil has become greater and for some time it is alleged that efforts have been made by the company to control what appears to be a steady petroleum flow from somewhere nto into the well no one is allowed to enter the sump hole now and examination is said to have shown a hard cement all around it |
