Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-02-02


members of the Iowa State Medica
Society, believe that the appropria.
ton of public funds for the support
of any medical school is a fruitful
source of discord and never ending
Istrife. The large majority of regu'
lar physicians of Iowa have never
asked, and do not noU ask, for such
appropriation therefore,
| ResOlred, That the Iowa State Med.
ical Society. say now, to the people
of Iowa and their Lawmakers that
they are not in favor Of appropriat.
ing money to any medical school.
| Dr. Thrall moved the adoption oi
the resolution. On division the
yeas were %, nays %. So the rcsolu-
ton was adopted
! Natures Gas EacseFy'
In Millerstown, Pa, into the very
center Of Butler county,I went up on
the hill, and counted 49 small burning
wells. The whole heavens were aglOW
with light. The clouds were silver
lined, and reflect back the lurid glare
from the wells. / could stand any
where and read a newspaper. The
boilers of 90 oil well engines heated
with gas line the valley. Away to
the south glare like a city on fire
lighted up the heavens. From toward
the lighted horizon came a rumbline
roar that drowned the hnbbub Of the
street. es,a 4.s6.s
All night long listened to the roal
of that great Delcmater mill, and thu
next morning l rode four miles over
scrub oak hills, through muddy gulch
es and past, suppose, 30 pumping oi
| wells, tO see the startling wonder.
I The noise grew louder and louder
as we approached. Then the rumble
changed to q kissing rush like thou
sand locomotives blowing off steam
Atan eighth of a mile the noise
changed again to the continuous roal
of a thousand cannon. ,Communica
tion was by pantomime. The flame
shoots in the air 20 feet, like a steepl,
on fire. The hills were covered will
4 snow, but for two acres around tn,
1 well the grass is green and growing
except close to the well, where til,
ground looks like burned lava. At 1
safe distance calf and sheep .stant
i warming themselves and eating tn.
4 hOt-housc grass. This two acres o.
sterile Pennsylvania looks like sec
tion of fertile Florida.
Il what makes ii sound like the con
tinnOus report OF artillery = asked
the engineer.
+! Because il is a five-inch cannon
constantly exploding, Look" said
he, ''yOu see the first fame 20 fee
J from the muzzlc-that is the fash, thu
explosion. 1t is like cannon. onl,
this is continuous million cannons
a minute-in fact one explosion and
conclusion going on forever.
4 1t is wonderful 10 see this volcano
flame exploding in the air. The pres.
sure is so great that the gas cannot ig.
mite till it gets twenty feet beyond the
nozzle.
! The stream Of gas comes mp l.66(
\ feet through a tive-inch iron pipe. .and
rs conducted off 200 feet through am
other tube, where it finds vent. The
general pressure Of the gas with the
!. valve open is 800 pounds to the square
Inch. We partly closed the valve
and the pressure ran up to ZOO
closed it little more. and the tubing
began to trcmble. and the great tor
weight holding it down began to lift
1t was only by quick turn of the
skilf0l engineer that saved l,6OO feet
of iron tubing ,anchOred down by sev,
eral tons weight, from shooting likt
an arrow into the air. You can bet
ter realize the terrible pressur,
Of this gas when YOU reflect that thu
pressure on the ordinary locomotiv,
boiler is from 20 to l25 pounds to tn,
square inch while the pressure from
this well, if the valve is closed, woulC
run up to 800, and then tear the tub
ing out and throw the heavy macllin
cry into the air.
The engineer conducted a half-incl
stream of gas into a twelve-hors,
power steam engine and ran ii so t'as
that the machinery broke.
I The heat and light in the gas escap
ing is equal to 2,l00 tons Of coal pei
day.
The gas would light New York
Philadelphia and Baltimore. 1t woult
, run every locomotive in the State o
Pennsylvania, 1t would fill the big
gest balloon in half a minut,
and burst it in thousand tatters o
shoot it of like a gigantic bombshell
and as it is very light-much lighte
than ordinary gas--it will be of i'm
. mense value hereafter in trying bal
loon experiments.
! So great is the pressure that engin
eers say this gas would Aow through
tubing to Pittsburg, distance of A
miles, in 10 minutes. The pipeline
here push oil 12 miles over hill ant
. valleys with 1000 pounds pressure t,
the square inch, but this gas woul,
push itself to New York in a few
hours. The well is estimated to pro
ducc 100000 cubic feet of the riches
gas in day. M
!. The well is named after Mr.. Dele
mater, who bored 1t. He was employ
ed by Henry Harley, formerly con
nccted with the Erie railway, VIII
now claims the well, and Ii six mel
and six hickory clubs will keep hin
in possession against another claim
ant Mr.. Harley will continue to owl
it.
l saw James Murray. who assiste,
to bore the well. When lasked hin
to give me the history Of it he said
J, well, sir, after borin 800 feet W
struck rock, solid rock, and followe,
ii for % days. Atthird sand we struc
oil. and pumped several barrels. o.
Oct. 1. after boring Is days and l,6J
feet, we struck a flaw in the rocl
about o'clock. Wen, She ficw 10
feet i'm the air. Stones, salt, water
oil. and gas. busted like canon, an,
the ST. 10 people cum rushin over tn
hill to find busted biler and dca,
drillcr, but-wcll. we run like TN
devil; run to get away from tn
stones. gravel and gas. Hill Mcainir
says, Jim, we've struck hell. and tn
devil is conin'-run. and We go
: away from that well and stayed ava
! till the next morning.
.Thcn II blew all night without be
ing lighted. did it!'
Yes; we dasscnt =" near her i'u
two DAYS. The gas shot up like ;
J mist, cold rs ice. You could see
in the air. After two days 1 got
ball Of candle wickin', soaked il il
turpcntinc, tied u stone 10 il, aud tina
night SHE'D 1t into the gas.
did she make noise. Jim z"
!, "Make noise! Great sun, sh
busted like a cannon full Of sand
+ Yon'd have thought the bowels Of tn
! earth were flying out. And light
! why, the whole basin here was a
light as day. could count the flock
, | of sheep way over in the woods, an
.. folks way over in Petrolia, ten mile
! away, saw it--and heard il. too. nm
, they hear il just as strong to-day a
!, they did that first night"
: This sounds like Josh billing,
| gate: "Menny folks are SO anxious Il
sorrow that they are not only willin