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Show MORE OIL FOUND IN CALIFORNIA WELLS Word has been received from California by Senator Simon Bamberger. J. D. Wood and others that a flow of 2000 barrels of oil a day had been struck at well No. 35, which Is located In the Salt Lake district of the Associated Oil Company's property between Santa Monica and Los Angeles. Workmen had drilled to a depth of 25S0 feet, when the oil reservoir was tapped and the force of the oil and gas hurled the machinery back, destroying the derrick and deluging the surrounding land with li.OOO barrels of oil before the pout was clopped. Plans are now being -made to reopen this and save the oil. This Is the third well which is yielding over 14,000 barrels of oil per day. Those la charge believe that the wells are located over a subterranean subter-ranean sea of olL |