Emery County Progress | 1901-12-28 | Page 2 | Petroleum Found in Egypt

petroleum pound in egypt london daily telegraph publishes a dispatch from its correspondent at cairo to the effect that after working for two ears at geb el beit noar suez operators employed by the petroleum syndicate have encountered petroleum in the sand at a depth of 2115 feet A terrible flow of gas followed the dis covery and caused an on which wrecked the boring plants and blocked the well th s discovery is cons dered important the correspondent contin aes ues as pointing to the existence of oil fields in