File:Bulletin 429 Plate XXI A Well on Gilbert Tract.jpg
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English: Bulletin 429 Plate XXI A original caption: Caddo Gas and Oil Company's well on Gilbert Tract, 1 1/2 miles south of Oil City, December, 1908. The "crater," 300 feet across, was excavated by wave action. Red, thick, muddy water is here being tossed 30 feet in the air by the force of the escaping gas. When ignited the flames are from 40 to 70 feet in height. |
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| Source | Oil and Gas in Louisiana with a Brief Summary of their Occurrence in Adjacent States, Bulletin 429, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1910. |
| Author | G. D. Harris |
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