Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-10-25
RAMBLER'S NOTE BOOK.
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"A Springfield Opsra-Look At tho Gas
VIOLA Glorious Prospect Concerts
Notes. News and Opini.ns.
"We're bothered TO d a,h With visitors, and
will have to find some way to &c, rid OF
them" said the young man in charge OF the
operations at Frey's quarries where the gas
we'll 10 baing bored, as he turned srourd to
answer two solemn looking young fellows,
o1e Of whom war ted TO know what color the
g.s is when 1t is first found, and the other
"whether this here gas 10 the same that dem
lists give people TO make 'em laugh when
they're pulling out their teeth"
The crowd Of sight-seers who stand around
the we'll. and listen TO the nonotonous "chug,
chuR" Of the bits 40 they fall never dimin-
ishes, and on Sunday the crowds 70 up into
the hundreds. The works at present consist
Of . ull open pyramid shaped wooden frame
work u feet high, the lower part OF which
10 entirely closed. with board siding. In the
center Of the little room thus formed is the
well. The power is supplied by a stationary
engine, in an engine house near by, The
up and down motion necessa-
~ for raising the bits with
which the we'll is bored, 10 produ ed by a
huge beam suspended on a pivot, and id-nti-
cal in operation with the walking beam Of
steamboat. A heavy cable ia rolled on
drum and Is paid out as rapidly as the deep
ening OF the well req Iires. As the bits with
which the boring is done are fiat shaped, it is
Necessary that they shall be constantly turn
ing so rs to make the hole round. This is
accomplished by man who, seated on
barrel, constantly turns the C BILE. The well
is now 100 feet 10 depth, said the young
man, who is in charge Ct the work" We
commenced drilling right 10 the
solid rock, and we have found
nothing but rock so far.
The progress OF the we'll depends entirely on
the hardness OF the material through which
we bore; sometimes the ro'k is softer and
sometimes harder. We have been making
about five feet every two hours 50 far We
shall probably have reached the depth where
the gas is u uslly struck IN about forty days.
The depth to which we are limited, II he gas
is not sooner tOlnd, 10 5000 feet; but We
shall eIpe I to find traces of it when a depth
Of 800 to l,5cO feet is reached. How do we
know when gas has been reached? Why,
easy enough; it can be plair ly seen in the
. might issuing from the orihce. and it also
has peculiar and ch rsc,eristic cd n when
il is first found. If th- quantities and
the pressure it exerts are satisfactory
an iron pipe is itted INTO the well, ard the
jet Of gas lighted. Before this is done the
engine house and framework are, OF course,
removed, as the blaze from the well frequent
ly shoots up TO light Of 80 or 40 'eet. II
is lucky that We have a quarry TO dig this
we'll in, since there are no buidiBgi vi hin
several hundred tect OF il. OF course we
cannot give an opinion ~ yet whether there
Is probability of hnding gas but II there is
any in the neighborhood We are sure to hud
1t. III this well tails, we are engaged to
bore another IN some swamp
LANDS, ME east OF the city.
The capitalists of Sprins field St EN- determined
to give the m 'ttsr thorough trial and settle
ouce lor gooo the qleslion whftber thls most
VAinapie OF hatur-s treasures nOws IN the
grosud benea'h oAr set.
The contrac ing .isa which Is engaged IN
boring the well is Aessrs. Laney aud Church
hill, OF Bradford, IA. This hrm has bored
several OF the la'ge gas wells in, the neigh
borh0o1 OF Cleveland, and Is very successful.
They shipped the engine, cables, buildings,
ETC., tor the work to this city. They state
that the cos' OF complete boring apparatus
10 u least y, ooO.
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