March 22, 1910: Oil executive A.B. Cohn says "… the Lakeview gusher can be seen sprouting oil like a miniature volcano for 20 miles across the desert country and it is impossible to approach within a reasonable distance of the well unless one is prepared to take a shower bath in crude oil. The oil, he says, is being thrown from the well in a stream as thick as a man's waist to a height of 300 feet.”

It’s interesting to speculate on the environmental effects of letting these wells gush onto the ground, where the oil was collected in open reservoirs.