Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-11-10
GAS WELLS IN OHIO.
Encouraging Opinion Expressed
by an Eminent Geologist.
Towns and Cities All Over the Buckeys
state Boring for Cheap ruel-Ths Now
Famous Findlay Gas weits-Sue-
cessfal Wells In other Places
IN. Y. Mail and Express.l

lN' H HAh auu hApEcso-l
Prof. Edward OrtOn, the Stats Geo'ogist
of Ohio, recently gave some interesting
facts about inflammab.e gas, which has
boen discovered in the Buckeye State.
The professor said: When natural gas
was used on a large scale in Pittsburgh
three years ago it created profound i'm
preston upon competing manufac- uring
centers, esp acially upon the towns and
cities of Eastern Ohio. The new fuel was
discovered to be much cheaper than any
othor, and the manufacturing towns that
were fortunate enough to have it convent
ent 20 utilize made competition almost inn
possible to those without it, This fact
caused a search for natural gas to begin in
Eastern Ohio. Tbs result has been that it
was discov ere in the Western part OF the
State and other sections. Hiya pressure
gas was discovered in 1884, in Findlay,
Hancock County. 1T depth OF
1,loo feet. The surface signs of
gas were very obvious and abundant
there, but the sourcs had not been dis
covered nor even conjsctured. 1t was q
| complete geological surprise to find The
Trenton lime-stOnN, one of tho most wide
spread an1 important strata Of lower Silu-
rian age in North Amer ca. but which no.
| where rises to the surfacs in Ohio, q sou,ce
of gas, and later of oil
.Whoszadiscoseret the Findlay eAss.
| wellsF
'Dr. Charles O,sterlin, a highly respect
ed citizen OF Findlay. lnhammable gas
has been constantly found in Findlay dur.
Ing the past fifty years in digging wells,
| cisterns an sewers; in springs aud rock
creviccs. 1t is a well-known fact that Mr.
Jacob Carr had for a number Of years
| lighted bis house on Maiu street with gas
| collected from wells on his premises Dan
| lei FOsser in 1888 introduced the gas into
Mr.. Carr's house, and it has been running
| ever Since. The fact that explosions fire.
| quently occurred in wells from natural gas
made many afraid of it. But DR.. Oester-
lin saw clearly that it could be
| male a source OF light and heat
He desired to start company many
years ago and drill for gas Tho
Findiay Gas Company (artificial gas) saw
| that its occupation was gone unless il sunk
a well and secured natural gas 1t did
SO and turned on the natural gas into the
city mains. Machine shops and manu-
| factories drilled wells and used the gas tn
run their machinery. The third we'll sunk
| yielded about eighty thousand cubic feet
| of gas per day. The first and second
| yielded nearly three times as much as the
third. The fourta we'll panned out much
better than the rest, and the snemometsr
measurement showed that 296. 900 cubic
feet were escaping each day. There are
| now seventeen wells or more in use in and
around F4ndlay. Two of the seventeen
| wells were failures. The others were pro-
ductve. eleven yiel ling dry gas and four
yielding gas and oil OF the last number
one is an oil well exclusively, but there Is
| gas enough in it to raise the oil once in
twenty-four hours, the fow averaging
thirty-five barrels per day Of the eleven
wells yielding gas alone one stands out
very prominently. The Karg well is prob
ably the largest in the State. 1t was
| opened in January last. Ths measured
| yield Of this we'll is twelve million cubic
feet per day. Four of thu principal wells
yield per day as follows: