Show GREAT GUSHER OPENED at aln pico mex alex may 11 on march t he current year the huasteca Hua company acci e most important subsidiary of the me mex X re rl an petroleum company brought in the MW I 1 lerro arro azul no 4 well which is by far the latest single producing oil well the world aas yet seen the birth of this record wre breaking 0 aking 9 gusher duslier is vividly portrayed in the R record e cord issued by the company and 1 rom om which we quote there was a rumbling and a tremor 1 hen en a terrific roar which sounded as if a ol canic eruption were taking place As hese noises began the men ran for their W alves alves before they were twenty feet away ILI uch was the force of the gas the great arili trill weighing two tons shot through the ir dr to a great height and landed forty one I 1 bards from the well almost at the very feet if f the photographer the throwing out of the tool carried way tway the crown of the derrick and the Z greater reater pa part rt of the structure was quickly demolished by the force of the gas tearing t down to the fourth girth afi this great body of gas was struck early 1 I n the morning and continued to increase Z about the middle of the afternoon oil appeared 7 1 2 As the quantity of oil increased the iet et rose more and more until early next borning nor ning when our engineer on an n making an I 1 ic curate measurement with instruments aund it to be feet high the well at JC hat time was making at the rate of barrels arkels a day As the quantity of oil increased the height of the wavering jet was I 1 reduced somewhat so that it stood about just before it was closed in ill by the time the heavy shutoff shut off valve had been fixed in position over the nuge jet of al ail the flow had reached a rate of barrels a day which as an interest close to 11 company dryly expressed it assuming that azul A zul no 4 takes no time out for sundays or br holidays is at the rate of approximately ly barrels a year the production capacity of the new well is approximately one third of the entire output of the united states as reported for last year it Is almost as great as the output of oklahoma which produced round i figures last year and greater than the 90 barrels produced by california the ite cond largest producing state in the union 4 |