Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-11-26

turbed. The food of the previous
Ju1e had ruined ais fish pond in
which he could fish from the rear OF
hls Office and ruminate on things
spiritual and lift himself in immagi-
nation INTO the seventh celestial re-
glon, but things of immagination
were not TO be compared to IA feel
and touch and haldle and barter OF
the almighty dollar that would fill
1he Golfers, if the camp meeting
ground we'll should turn out to be a
cal oil spouter. But brother Nor
rIson Is not as fond of the almighty
dollar as some other classes of peo-
pie or he would not be running
country newspaper However much,
MS spirituality may have been dis
turbed, the thread or continuity of
his spiritual life has not been broken.
and bell be happy If they don't get
a drop OF oil or another puff of gas.
The tools got fast in the well a sec
ond tIne-this was after camp-meet-
lng-and machinery from west of
the mountains was brought to fish
them out. Work was resumed ON
the llta -ust, Oh the l+th salt water
anu small Quantities of coal oil were
found, but the
GREAT EXCITEMENT.
took place ON the afternoon of the
18th when the gas spouted all the
water out of the well The water
spouted to the height of the trees.
The weight Of water thrown out was
two tors and half In addition
To Gamble and Scuders, there was
present at the time of the spoutiug
of water, David HeIster, a highly re
spectacle citizen, of Newton Hamilton
Such manifestation of gas set the
community in a state of unrest.
People talked of the big prices they
will get for their land. One man
who had bought n tract of 75 acres
for three hundred dollars said he
would not sell If some one would offer
him a thousand dollars an acre. 4
man who had bought a farm for
81, 800 siid he would not sell for less
than 10000 The people however
We're not
ALL EXCITED.
A number of people in the commu-
nlty preserve their usual equiuamity
and those Of them who have property
10 sell asked no more for it than be
fore the excitement. Some even
PoOned the whole thing and said 1T
would be an easy thing to put salt in
the well II make salt water, and It
would be just as easy TO put coal oil
III the well and they went so far rs
to expr, - the belief that some devise
could be useI 10 generate gas IN the
hole and cause 1t 10 spart, but the
number OF disbeliev-rs Is not large.
NATURAL BASIN.
Such Of the citizens who looked at
the face OF nature said. this locality
Is nature basin for coal oil and gas.
We are near the Broad Top coal field
and if coal oil and gas is the product
of coal the fund and gas has settled
here IL this basin, don't you see we
have all the surface Indications, the
water from ali points If the compass
flow INTO this basin YES sir, Just as
certain ns you live this Is q natural
coal on aud gas basin
ASSOCIATION sTOCK
While there has been no boom in
Camp Meeting Association stock, that
previously had been traded eff for
what ever the holders could dispose
OF It ior, Is Low held for n rise
Newtonhamiltoa Eoidtrs are not
trading off the stock for trifing ar
ticles of merchandise, though thew
don't relish the thought of the asso-
claticn going ON to sink the well to
the depth Of several Thousand feet
TO test the territory To- a certainty, for
H. that event they are fearful that an
assessment On the stock Of %, or 80,
or perhaps a higher percent would
be levied on them 20 meet the ex-
peusss. TIE building uf the hotel
on tine grounds and the boring of
the Well to the depth of 500 feet has
put the association in debt, and if
they propose 10 deepen the We'll an
assessment VIII have to be laid on
the stock, or money VIII have to be
borrowed ON the property.
The DEPTH OF THE WELL.
The lspth Of the well, last We'd
nesday when the writer was there,
was 65O feet. The top, surface, is q
sand. The next is a black slate 800
feet thick, the next Il sIey rock 2CG
feet thick, the mex, a gritty shelly
hard blue slate which they had pen
etrated to the depth of $50 feet.
When we were there, last "Wednesday
they In $50 feet to bore to com
plete their contract What the out
come will he time VIII tel
We incline 10 the belief ihat tine
darI; shale that they are BOW drilling
through on the camp nesting ground
Is the Devcnian saale, the same dark
material III which JunIata Co people
have been looking fOr ston5 coal o.
the Huber propertN near Port Roy
al The Devoniaa black slat.s ira
verse the entire length Of Juni4ta
county Men Who prof s. to know
saw TIA; cal OH : found IN Ii diff
fer-nt formarioDs &IiI among the
number is that immediately beneath
the Dew Man black states.
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