TARANAKI PETROLEUM.
(press association telegram.) NEW PLYMOUTH, January 28. There is great interest locally at tlie turn events have taken at No. 2 bore, where a new gas and oil vein wa3 slraclc on Thursday afternoon, at a depch of about 2610 feet. Since then, until six o'clock tonight, the well has been literally hurling oil and salt-water for 3o minutes at a iinio, witJi abcut 45 minut(\-,' between each flow. These ixtiVJs are being maintained with clockwork regularity. V°* ibti twenty-four hours from six o'clock nn Timrdav till £. : x o'clfxk t«-day, CO larreN of pure oil were produced, totallina; 252f) "sallons, in addition to ■some tJion.sands of pa lions of salt-water. At no time in the hfstory of local oilhering has tho present flow of No. 2 been anrro.-rhe'd. This &!iows the -vour.clnessof the new policy of deeper Ixinnc.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13645, 31 January 1910, Page 4
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