News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-04
A CUSHING GAS WELL.
1t Promises to be the Largest One Ever
Discovered.

Immense" calculated spectator at
the Morton roarer, as they call the latest
oil well found in the oil regions. This
is the largest and most boisterous well
yet struck in the neighborhood, and, if
it keeps on improving as 1t has, 1t Will
be the biggest one ever discovered. A
reporter visited the scene OF this recent
excitement. A few minutes after his
arrival there was flow. A large volume
of salt water came rushing up the well,
Ioverfowed and gurgled back again.
Then boiling sound was heard as the
gas dubbed to the surface, reaching the
air with loud explosions, and after a
brief rest, up came the water a second
time. It rose for seven or eight feet,
spouting impulsively, and splashing the
brine over everything within radius of
seventy-fve feet. There was terrific
force down in the ground somewhere,
| and after this ambitious effort the
ebullition in the well was more furious.
The gas spluttered and agitated the
water for another five minutes; finally
the browning act of the performance was
witnessed. Up, up went the water, a
solid column from which torrents fell.
Higher and higher the geyser assembled,
until the TOP of the derrick was reached.
It had gone Y feet in mid-air, defying
gravitation, but the energy backing its
movements was mighty force. The
gas effervesced the salt water into foam,
and like fountain of milk the gusher
PLAYED, throwing off white spray, and
surcharging the atmosphere with mois-
ture. After playing for while at this
height, there was another squirt. The
column mounted almost instantaneously
to distance of 40 feet beyond the point
of rest at the top of the derrick. 1t was
grand spectacle-a fountain of salt
water 10 feet high, accompanied by the
deafening roar of escaping gas and the
loud "swash" of water as it fell into the
ground. Had it not been for the over
ambitious driller, this salt water would
not have given the curious anything to
look at, or the owners any trouble.
At midnight the other night the driller
sent the tools and the bits into sand and
got good rush OF gas at the depth of
It's feet. Thinking that if he sunk
the we'll further into the sand a greater
flow of gas would be the result, he drove
the tools down three bits more, or IS
feet, making in all 81 feet in the sand.
A rush OF salt water instead came up the
well and drove the men away from the
derrick. The tools were left in the hole.
Were they ont now it is thought that
the "sprayer" just discovered would far
exceed its present powerful conduct.
Every Is minutes these immense flows
occur and in the interim the gurgling
and boiling of the gas is to be heard.
Mr.. Eiseman, the representative OF a
Bradford tool company, and man who
has drilled for oil in Russia, has the
following to say in regard to the strike:
"That is wonderful well, and will be
equal to any yet discovered anywhere.
1t will make its owners rich. 1t behaves
like Westinghouse, No. 2, and will have
to be plugged with lead. To do this
they must take a large leaden plug,
insert it in the hole, and then drive
it down the well until it has filed up the
space drilled below the place where gas
was gotten. That will plug the water.
1 am of the opinion that this is big gas
well"