Photograph from Mexican Petroleum Co. 



THE WORLD'S GREATEST OIL WELL 



A well in Mexico named Cerro Azul Xo. 4 shot a column of oil higher than onr Wash- 

 ington Monument and drenched the country with a rain of oil for two miles around. Engi- 

 neer measurements showed the column to be 600 feet high and the flow to have been more 

 than a million barrels in the week before man harnessed this srreat force. 



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