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Rh and a half minutes over the crown pulley, eighty-two feet high. Then they shunted the flow into the pipe line and the later report was ten thousand barrels per day from this well, with expectation that she would later "drill herself in." This means that when cleared for action she might be a third great well for the Mexican Petroleum Company with capacity of several times ten thousand barrels per day.

As this is the one well in competitive territory, the supply at other wells of this company must be still further shut in to permit full flow here.

On the hilltop, high above the surrounding country, blaze day and night twelve gigantic gas flames relieving the pressure on the famous Casiano well of the Mexican Petroleum Company which is in the valley beyond, with beautiful surrounding hills, and probably geologically isolated in this oil country.

You climb in and out of this valley by team or in saddle and a clearer picture one would go far to see cultivated fields, neat houses, pumping machinery moving like clock-work, but set in a tropical fruit and flower garden.

"Casiano Number 7" came in September 10, 1910, at seventy-five thousand to eighty thousand barrels a day and is now shut down to