Rich County Reaper | 1938-06-24 | Page 1 | Greatest Pitch Lake

greatest pitch lake Tri trinida nidar 1 an island of the british west indies and off the coast of venezuela is noted principally for the feet high maracas falls and pitch lake from which more than tons of asphalt for paving purposes are exported each year principally to the united states the supply is inexhaustible any hole made by removal is filled by nature in action near the center of the lake bubbling up in a liquid state A steel pipe one inch in diameter has been thrown into the lake which covers three acres and weeks afterwards was found in a distant part bent and twisted