GEYSER OF LIQUID FIRE
Prospectors Strike it Rich MOROCCAN OIL WELL FOUND LONDON, March If. A Casa Blanca message states that prospectors who have been searching i the desert mountains for six years for i oil struck it under Mount Tselfat, 25 miles from Fort Leyautey. The oil spouted at such a velocity that its volume broke high tension cables 50 feet in the air and caused a shortcircuit. There was a sheet of flame, then a thunderous roar as oil flared skywards in a gigantic geyser of liquid fire. Experts estimate the output of the flaming gusher at 1,800,000 gallons a day, and almost all going to waste. * Preparations are being made to I dynamite the mouth of the well and I thus close it and extinguish the flames, j Fortune hunters are rushing to the ■ scene and the land round Mount I Tselfat has increased in value tenfold in a few days.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 79, 15 March 1934, Page 9
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