| Show Oil Men l Find Gustier Gusher Which They Thy Were We're Were Vere Endeavoring to to A At old It Itis is reported that promoters ar-A ar r ranged to sink gas and oil wells near Barboursville Ky Ivy to a a depth where they were certain certain- that oil w would UI be found in paying quantity and then plug the well leaving the impression that it is a I- I dry hole in order that the prices for land leases might t b be kept down Since Christmas the tire overseers were absent and it is claimed that the lers went too deep The result was vas wasa vasa a gusher six six miles from Barboursville yielding 2000 barrels banels a day The oil became ignited destroying all the machinery machinery ma ma- machinery chinery and surrounding timber shooting shooting shooting shoot shoot- ing up a a. distance distance- of over a hundred bundred feet every twenty minutes |
