Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1912-07-05 | Page 3 | World's Greatest Oil Well

World's Greatest Oil Well. The scene in the Potrero del Llano district, a few miles above here, where the biggest oil well In the world has been active since January 3, 1911, can not be adequately described. Imagine a solid column of oil shooting to a height of more than four hundred and fifty feet from a hole In the earth, with a mist of rninuteglobules car rled by the wind for more than tec miles settling down upon the vegetation vege-tation and forming pools of oil within that radius; then a great lake of the fluid four miles long by three miles wide and formed by means of an earthen dam hastily thrown across a natural reservoir, and at the lowest depression of the bank of this lake t channel several feet wide leading intc the Tuxpan river, through which the overflow of oil from the wonderful geyser Is constantly going to waste. Tuxpaw (Mexico) Dispatch.