Richfield Reaper | 1923-07-26 | Page 1 | Richfieldian Sees Big Long Beach Gusher

RICH FIELDIAN SEES BIG LONG BEACH GUSHER peter nielsen returned last friday from a trip to california and he comes back with renewed love and faith in utah after an intimate view of the golden state the oil game has no charm for him and in fact he was but poorly impressed with the hustle and bustle of the coast cities he visited tile the big oil gusher at signal hill long beach where he beheld the unusual spectacle sl stacle of an oil well on an uncontrolled rampage he could not get closer than a block and a half to the big and the noise and earth tremors at that point were alarming he states that it was estimated that barrels of oil were being ejected every 24 hours and with it came three times that amount of water sand and gravel and there was no way to control it the best that could be done was to construct ditches and try to lead the deluge to the sea a distance of a mile and a half meantime the huge geyser anas as destroying thousands of dollars worth of residence property in the vicinity of the well mr nielsen is well satisfied with utah since his visit to the coast