The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1886-10-22


Encouraging Opimion Expressed
BY IN Eminent Geologtst.
Towns and Cities All Over the
Buckeye state Boring for Cheap
Fuel why Don't our Jasper
Manufactures Bore for
Gas?
lSY Nail and Expressl
| Prof. Edward Orson. the State Geolo-
giss Of Ohio. recently gave some inter-
esting facts about indsmmsble gas,
which has been discovered in the Buck
eye state.
The professor said: "When natural
gas was used on large scale IL Pitts
hurgh three yesrs ego II created : pro-
found impression upon composing man.
ufsefuriug centers, especially upon the
towns and cities Of Eastern Ohio. The
new fuel was discovered to be much
cheaper than any other, and the manu-
featuring t0Wns that wers fortunate
|en0ugh 10 haze il convenient TO utilize
made c0mpatiiion almost impossible to
those without IL. This fact caused .
search Tor natural gas to begin il East
ern Ohio. The rcsulf haa been that Il
was discovered in The Western part Of
the State and other sections High
pressure gas vas discovered 10 iS54- ~
Finhiay, Hancock county. et depth Of
l.lO0 feet. The surface signs Of gas
were very obvious and abundant there,
| but the source had moi been discovered
Inor even conjectured. II was COM
plete geological surprise 70 dnd the
Trenton lime stone. one Of the most
widespread AID important strata Of
lover silurian age in North America.
but which nowhere rises TO the surface
Iiu Ohio, . source Of gas. and later of oil.
| ..Who discovered the Findlay gas
wells ?"
~Dr. Charles Oesterlia. : highly re-
spected citizen OF Fiullsy- In6 6lmms-
\ BILE gas has been constantly found In
FindIay during the past jfty years in
digging wells, cistcrns and sewers; in
springs and crevices. II is . welI-known
/ fact that Mr. Jacob Carr hal lor num-
her Of years lighted his house on Main
street with gas collected from wells on
\ his premises. Daniel Foster in 1888 in
troduced The gas into Mr. Carr's house.
and il hss been running ever since. The
tact that explosions frequently occurred
lin wells from natural yes made many
afraid Of IL But DIR. Oesteslin saw
Iclearly that il could be made source os
flight aud heat. He desired to start =
company many years ago and drill fol
gas. The Findlsy Gas Company (arti6.
lcial gas) saw that its occupxfi0n wa,
5 gone unless il sunk : well aud secured
natural gas. II did 90 and turned on th<
!; natural gas into The city mains. Machine
shops and manufactures drilled wells
and used the gas 70 run their machinery
:. The third well 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 fourth
well panned out much better than the
rest aud the thermometer measurement
showed that l.296,OO0 cubic feet we're
Escaping each day There are nov sev-
eniee. wells or more in use in and
around Findlsy. Two Of the seventeen
wells were failures. The others we're
productive. eleven yielding dry gas and
tour yielding gas and oil. OF the last
number one is an oil well exclusively,
but there is gas enough in il to raise the
oil once in twenty -four hours, the dow
averaging thirty -ive barrels per day.
Or the eleven wells yielding gas alone
one stands out very prominently TEe
Karg well il probably the largest In the
State. il WAS opened ia January last.
The measured yield oi this we'll il twelve
million cubic feet per day. Four Of the
principal yells yield per day as follows