| Show in met in to r I nn I j r BURNING WORTH WORK OF I OIL JUST TO DESTROY IT g Loa Hanos not t beast to 10 Salt Bait H slough and III lilt thi marshes bordering Ul the Ian Ilan Joa on Oil the lh i Merced wagon 1011 road U la I on one of ot time the most moat bar barren barren barre ren re n and ah d c of ot t coun coon country try Iry imaginable a 1 ISrel monotonous land of and lid covered only with patches hatches of ot een Which elks alka alkaline line In waste te fill glitter litter In n life tin tile neree heat hlat o of f the Iho sun 1111 says 18 says the th gel SI l Chroni Chronicle cle ale Pour Four miles from LOS oU us patios Hanoi the tho pipe pipeline linn line of or the tilt Stands Oil company out cui cum scroll this thin Ihl desert conveying the fuH rupi nil all tn to the time sea lien her lie a I great tank Is II being heinli built buill sad and n a l r artesian artesian well lien bun been beon i 0 which pith the little Hille of ot buildings building and ana the th green things thill that Ihal may soon l Iun be ex soled ct d to spring w II p am alII creating an 11 to lu time the eye ep epAnd And here one on day Qa last vre week WIe k u a remarks remarkable ble bl and amid spectacle was 1111 witnessed Somehow time the lIe big oil pipe sprang pran u II leak 1 lk Burled A aw It II is I beneath R a huge hU embank embankment ment It was w some snipe lime time before the defect i mild could be u located and anti the oil was WAR pouring out welling up through the sands lands and slid alkaline earth rth expending from poufs 1 into Inlo a and r and amid from ITH HH into lakes Ik lakes Just river how ow much of f the black fluid escaped before the pumping lumping could fault be bo et pills milt above and tho fault fau t repaired will probably never be b It known as 08 tint the Standard Oil doe not take lok the Into Inlo Its Hit confidence on till the sub cub subject sect of Its III lases nay any RII more maple than on In the i Nt IU to 10 Its Ile profits but t In to the observer It h would would bIll d wem even that th Ih thOM the 10 OM oss must have run well w up pp toward MM barrels If not nut beyond that figure unA tin In tarry larry l lake k extended very VIr nearly nearby n orly n a colts nut t lIt ut over the desert dOl Then rams ram the punting question of how haw tn to of the lake fake of 0 oil nil oil stork toi k at Illare of merge large In all thin tl Mu uch und ul If k rattle t walk Into the lite n l ther hr would be hf i little hope of their while w a 1 more menace appeared In Inthe Inthe the shape hape nape of possible damage stilts milt pre pie Terre tI by enraged sportsman s who are art no lit d I to II chase the Ihl through wilds The Tho winters ruins ruh could not wa wash h II It away allI It would take IlIk years to 10 dry My It 1 down to tu an asphalt uphall pouting coating and mean meantime meantime time the chance that hut puma youngster or careless might l 1 Is I the thi l iske kt t 1 tm tt tank sta station linn tion WAS ryas well 1111 a n ae human fives live suggested nameplate peril Will was but tut one WilY why out cult cf ot the dif difficulty Iku and 1 thi wan to burn the oil at pis applied The Irhe match wt applied and a col cui column nt at f bUck black smoke billowed billow that Into Inlo the tho sir air lr masking the red 1 name flames that writhed upward up UI upward ward It ft wa was as a If Ir another Vesuvius lId had i d suddenly broken through the desert All that Ihal day Ilay d and end tight night the tho fir nit Are raged and In an Ai people for many mile around mArvele J and Ind nd wondered When the III flames tiaras at It length tiled died dl 1 down they left Itt a 1 baked crust covered with a new no v alkaline powder r the wade ash of oil ell drawn drawn from the Ih bowel bowels of ot time the hll earth many any miles away ay qa HH Il i FF F Ft i r t It it t t I f tt f |
