Show PAYETTE PAYETTE PROBABLY llA HAS OIL GUSHER Great Excitement Prevails Over Strike in First Well Sunk GAS PRESSURE IS STRONG Believed Flow Will Develop When Hole Is Freed of Choking Sand Payette I Idaho aho Oct 21 Great Great ex ex- ex I prevails hero ov over r the oil and gas s-as strike e and arid the town Is rapidly filling with visitors The h hotels arc are filled and the hotel keepers are aro rustling rus rus- riis- riis rooms In private ate residences Ii in all aU parts of or the tho city A. A E. E Clark attorney for tor the Oregon Oil and Gas company which made the strike arrived ar nr- ar- ar rived rhe this afternoon from Portland It Is not l known yet et how large larg-e a flow of oC oil has haR been encountered but hut It Is believed by hy the experts on the ground and the officers of the tho compan com com- pan jiny that a n gusher g will be he had as ns soon as fiR the well is of the sand which Is IR now choking it There Is I no doubt what whatever cr of the fact that a i i er very cry lar large e quantity of gas goas has been tapped This morning General Manager Manager Man Man- an- an ager Taylor wired for a a. cap for the tho well veil so the oil can be controlled when he tho well weB is Is opened It will vill arrive wIthIn four tour or five days and It Is not expected that anything anything- will be bo bedone done one until It comes cornea It II Is thought however how that another blowout out Is iR Habe Hale Ha Ha- bt be le to occur at any t time m Oil Cloo to Surface When hen the tho covering ering was I removed moved from rom the well weIl this morning following he tho bl big blowout of yesterday afternoon after after- noon oon tho the oil was v within a n few Inches of oC f the surface During tho the day It grad gradually un I lowered about two feet where It remained and ancl i Is in Sn a contant con con- stunt tant boll boll boil caused b the tho pressure of ot the he gas gns from b beneath neath A small bucket was lowered Into the well for tor about fifteen feet and nothIng nothing nothing noth noth- ing but oil was wa found 50 so the driller does not know how near the sand comes to the surface Considerable oil on stone has lias been found where 11 it tell foil about the tho well It readily burns when lighted Pieces of or very hard bard anthracite coal conI were also thrown up with th the gusher General Manager Ta Taylor lor says that as soon as this well Is 13 cleaned out If It Is found that 11 it is not nece necessary nr to boro bolo deeper other wells will be begun and the company compan will proceed to develop the field on a no largo large scale Doubt no longer exists that this enire entire en- en tire ire basin is with oil an and 13 n Blowout E Populace The well Is within th the eft city limits within a n. few hundred feet of the Pay- Pay otto otte river and within a few feet of ot ho tho hank bank of an old mill slough h. h hen When the he blowout occurred yesterday the stream of spouting oil oH oil gas JilS and water water wa- wa ter cr could bo La plainly seen from the business portion of the town and It presented a spectacular sight to the hundreds of people who watched it In n great Jets jab It shot hot tip Up twenty five feet ab above ve the tho top of the derrick which is seventy-four seventy feet high When the news spread that a gu gusher her had been struck truel stores tore and offices were dc deserted as everybody e ru rushed hed to the scene scene- |