WORLD'S DEEPEST WELL.
One of the seven experimentaili bore holes being sunk for oil in Derbyshire has now been drilled to a depth of nearly 4000 feet, according to latest reports. This is “some well,’,’ but it by no means establishes a record, says Lloyd ’s News. There is a well in South Africa that is 8000 ft. deep, and there are at least a score in the United States whcse depths vary between 6000 ft and 7000f/C. The “'ol'ld"’§ deepest; well, however, according to the Paris Matin, is situated in the neighbourhood of ‘Gobelins. Boring was started in 1892, and’continued interniitfrently up till the outbreak of war, when the extraordinary ‘depth’ of 18,000 ft had heen reach-» ed, at a. total cost of nearly £40,000.
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3316, 21 October 1919, Page 5
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126WORLD'S DEEPEST WELL. Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3316, 21 October 1919, Page 5
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