FLAMING GUSHER
OIL FOUND IN' MOROCCO RUSH OF FORTUNE HUNTERS (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—'Copyright.^ LONDON, March 14. (Received March 14, at 10 p.m.) ' A Casablanca message states that prospectors who have been • searching desert mountains for six years for oil' struck it under Mount Tselfat, 25 miles from Fort Lyautey. The oil. spouted with such velocity and volume that it broke high tension cables 50 feet high and caused a short circuit. A sheet of flame shot upwards, followed by a thunderous roar as:the 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. Almost all is going to waste, but preparations are being made 'to dynamite the mouth of the Well, and thus dose it and extinguish the flames. Fortune hunters are rushing to the scene, and land'round Mount Tselfat has increased in value tenfold in a few days. ■''■
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22212, 15 March 1934, Page 9
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