Deseret Evening News | 1907-10-19 | Page 3 | Oil Struck at Payette

OIL on STRUCK AT PAYETTE JOn J Is 1 Our Time TIlt Ills BIg Special lr elJ to th t the News New Ne Payette Idaho Ort Oct l a t great spouting of water waler from the oil wells well bUttil bred hed here bel by b the Oregon Oil on O g company late lat yesterday af at afternoon f te today pure pu oil Is I bulling In the thi tI mouth of the well fill A big bla hoW ha ba been at nt a depth if f 75 ls 25 feet and d ss si 8 the gas u force lo through the Ike 01 oil It keeps the liquid In I a I turbo turU turbulent lent state dUte tat Th The strike Wa was v mad made when the Ih drill bored through a hard strata about three fr tC fit t 1 thick When the Ibe crust wan wu pierce I water spouted ut d from the well II so soly o ly I that the ike men barely had hd time to ape from the enclosure The Thi water spouted more than IM I feet fei In m the th alt at II IId and amid d continued to spout in Keat girat Jr jel tot for nearly narl an sn hour when the fl no grad gradually rad ully ual checked by b sand nd packing about the drill which hl h we wee wa In the well welt It re required 1 r two hours hour to withdraw the drill When the covering was WAI removed from the th well wail el this morning the oil WM was u boll boil bolline log ine near the mouth of oC the casing Nothing I 5 being done don until nUl the th corn com en ean make preparations for tor hand hana handling lAny ling the oil It I feared that If it the lh well 11 I is disturbed now nov no there thee will N be a II disastrous blow blowout out of if gas The Th en entire n tire tiro town Is I 1 excited over the strike