New-York tribune., 1886-11-08
TIE GKELT OIL STRIKE At BAKU.
ELEVEN THOUSAND TONS or PETROLEUM SPOUT
ING EvFRY DAY.

ING ENfRl DAY.
Mr. Ckaris Martin In The Pdu Mdu Gazette
The Russian newspapers received to- day con-
tain telegram from Bsku announcing the greatest ou'.
burst Of oil ever known. II runs thus: "Basu. Octo-
playing At tss rate Of 80 900 po"" Of pcrora an
nour 1ts height l. 224 eet In spite Of Its being five
wcon hr bnuss tG and n II u sou'sp" tn"
the ST. Petersburg spondcnts OF the London papers
should not have telegraphcd this remarkable pnenom
Mesa on the grounds that they have either
bcen too preoccnpied with Bulgarian matters
Bsku lately To he blunted TO the significance OF the
present one. Yet Taecfs "susher beats out and out
every previous record in the oil regions of IN" wo hem
ispheres The champion petroleum fountain up to now
has been the "Droopa" which IN 1888 spontod to me
tons OF oil day. This single WELL" wrote from tho
seot In that year spSntns mors oil than all tho
sucn an overflow was looked upon as almost incred
l:e and had there not been Other Ens.nnsn at Basa
Bruce and other travelera Bot the Droolba Is no
hour or more than il 900 .ons o. Ola dsy INT
10 London II wonld top The monument by twenty feet
covered with It's greasy dust During The
birth ihroes OF Baku oil fountain. stones are
carry the fine sand spoung up with the oil
miles The roar Of the "a. preceding the oifow
almost unbsarabe. COMPARED with sucn fonntaius as
Droojba and Tazicf the Great G-yser OF Iceland IL
TO rattle about surrounding buildings and then the
fountain becomes as orderly as those In Trsfalear-
roar and forming round aont the thirteen or fouresn
inch orce v. shoals OF sand. beyond which the pero
gathers In lakes large enough sometines TO sail
yacht In.
ultimate Yield will he will depend upon circumstances
The Drooba lasted 1l tsvs howng for 43 lays at tho
average rate Of nearly 3.400 tons day, 81 days At
1000 tons 80 days at out 900 TONS and III days at
500 tom. The owners then managed to fix soap
the orce and placed the well under control Tns 'oai
900 600 tons, or 55 100000 galons-ths highest es-
the oil spouted in America would have realized
million sterling, and made II. owner millionaire, IN
stead of wncn tho fate OF the fountain at Bsku to
render ts master bankrupt for The shoals OF sand
gung neighboring hu dings led To claims for damage
snrpassing what he got for the small quantity OF oil
was able to catch ana store while the res flowing be-
yond To other peoples property, was In most cases
"annexed and not paid for. II Is to be hoped that
Tagieff & Co will not be unlucky; but in any
most Of IL IS sure to be wasted.
During the autumn as II To spite the American Con-
sui, reported short time ago that B'kn was be:
ginning dry there has been whole succession OF
fountains and in consequence there such ont that
Taeies Will hardly be abs to obtain for a ton $3.50 gal
lons) OF their oil the price that the London on I'M,
portorpays America for single gallon Of the refined
article For want pipe line to run 1t to the Black
Sea most OF the 2a million gallons OF oil spouted daily
by the fountains OF Tagehs will slnk into the so de-
reriorae lakes minge with the waters OF tho
Caspian such b.rbsrons waste % OF ,h the World: rs
ornmen by any ind enant scientist In Europa II tho
o"s tbs foUntaH sna. s cap over The well aud keep
the oil below Tho surface until wanted)
es, is pu no effect poeS agreed on the
OF the Drooba ouburst and send engineers with full
whrther thsy viii succeed is another matter When the
DroOba began In force 10 WAS stil powerful
enough with its sand blast formed by the commngled
oil, grind to atoms In All hour or two the 3-
inch boiler plate the engineers tried TO fasteD on
top the On the 5th OF October the fountain OF
Tagiefs spouting with ten timos the intensity OF
the Drootba when the latter achieved this memorable
feat. ana however much tho Russian Government may
command the latest of the Baku gushers will proba-
bly, prove more than match for the engineering skll
and resources brought to bear upon IT,
The paran industry is ono In which Scotland takes
great pride and optmsts who think that II
has al IN before produce
Scotch parafn every year over 22oOOOO tons OF shas
coal hSve dug from mines, and the energies OF
thousands OF men have to be utilized before tho
10 600 600 gallons OF crude shao oil extracted from
oan be to the refneries to be distilled into the
few hundred feet, and from the tube they thrust into
wells Of the earth without further hn-
effort tens OF mi lions OF gallons Of oil ready for
the refinery Ii s thus exaggeration 10 say that IL
thousand times easier to obtain oil for lamps at Baku
than In the shale oil dstricts In Scotland. TO
quote a few instances OF what the five hundred
wells at Baku spout forth: Nobel Brothers
No. 1S has yielded from depth OF 72l feet nearly
3O,O00,O0O gallons OF oil their No. well. from
Of $40 fest. 4OOO0.0O0 gallons and their No 10
Thst is to sin se OF mon score at the out
aide. b0riny for about year. is able at Baku 10
bring the surface oil than all tho mines; men
and share oil disiileries OF Scotland during the same
period put together All Scotland takes year To pro-
duce 20 600 900 gallons oi crude OIL The No. well OF
pipe line Is lsii down from Baku to the B aek Sea and
begins s steady yearly yield OF lG0 100000 gallons,
parAip trade will suffer from the cOmpet-
,ion Russia keenly the petroleum industry or
would he glad to hear that Biku drying up, in-
stead OF Yielding more cOpOusly every year.