Crossword-Solution: GUSHER 6 letters, 44 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Oil flowed so plentifully in this region that it frequently ran upon the ground, and the "gusher," which threw a stream of the precious liquid sometimes a hundred feet and more into the air, became an almost every-day occurrence.

One big well would set them up, and there was always that danger, for scarcely a week went by without news of some gigantic gusher.

What was more alarming by far, in view of these blazing beacons, was the news that a huge gusher on sixteen was wild and pouring its inflammable flood out upon the surface of the water.

Why, they might have cost us thousands--yes, hundreds of thousands--if it had been the kind of a gusher we figgered on! Say"--the speaker's brows drew together in an angry scowl--"what ails this Nelson, anyhow--tryin' to get you shot, an' firin' your wells, an' everything?" "He once did me a great injury." "What kind?" There was a pause.

Where we might incur knowledge of Beaumont "gusher" or Pittsburg mill we should never have discovered that teas and receptions are really falling into disrepute; that a series of dinner-dances will be organised by the mothers of debutantes to bring them forward; and that big subscription balls are in disfavour, since they benefit no one but the caterers who serve poor suppers and bad champagne.