Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-07-01
MONSTER UNNAMED
.vc OF THE "RIG MOSES" GAS ,uetl IN WEST VIRGINIA.

\ WE'LL IN WEST VIRGINIA.
 n,ew Itself Out-Belching Eighty s ,,.. Feet of Gas a Day-Attempta
 Failures to cOnfins It-wsstes 1srtuns Every Day.
 "Bie Moses" gas well, on the
 - .r farm, on Indian creek, Tyler tv 2s W Va, struck by lightning apil'y' afternoon, extinguished itself fRaa, an,e evening, after consuming the y sal .ai- and all the combustible matter ''sllia ,,ta nressure was so great that it sim .blew Nj itself out, after furnishing the Y s..pes pas of that country with one of the as s,,dest sights ever witnessed.
 x, mha "a flames at no time descended near
 on 70 feet to the hole, and the ssuinp to and fro of the great myste- ~ !,rs inyisibly supported fiambeau, '9 .s7reds of feet high, to which was ',sI 'ssed deafening roar, made a specta- z .'' owa inspiring and terrible to behold. xotbine had ever before been struck s.s 0 annroached the "Big Moses" in a senitude, The pent up pressure, when ''e l'ssisbed an avenue of escape through ss = s1/ inch hole, fos three months de- a' ' avery T effort to bring it under con
 
 %ba earth trembled within 1000 feet , +ha well. and the roaring monster 'sald he distinctly heard for distance ,g .9 miles. No accurate gauge of this lssbo of all Jumbos has ever been talk < At one time a partial test was made sitb an ordinary steam gauge, and it 'Aswed a pressure of A pounds from an M .i% inch opening At another time from inch opening it showed & press nd of 600 pounds the first 15 seconds. lhan attempts at complete test had Co s abandoned.
 When flowing through the casing, its jailv capacity was estimated by experts 'a he from 80, 900, 900 to 12O, 900, 900 ,abic feet day. It was struck in No of last year, and during six ,aabths of the time since then the valu- sble fluid went to waste.
 Yake the lowest estimate, 80,0O0,- ,- 60 feet day, and compute it's value at s5 eents per l, ,000 cubic feet, as charged bg the city gas companies, for 8 period oi six months, and the result presents n array of figures too great for the com nshenSion of the human mind, when isdnced to the "coin of the realm. /" @
 t may sound ridiculous, but the sell ihg value of this wasted gas in Pitts barg would be worth $3, GAO, 900.
 Inc Carnegie Gas eompany's expert visited the well and estimated its capac- iEg to be great enough to supply fuel for tAeir entire Homestead plant, if 1t was accessible. Another expert expressed the 9pInion that its output would be equal b the demands required to furnish the antire city of Pittsburg for domestic purposes.
 The owners expended 5000 in shuts ing the well in, and three months after ltbroke through and forced it's way up through the surface.
 4 powerful pump was then set up near the well, and for five days they pumped water into the monster with the hope that the gas pressure could be crowded back and give them q chance to put in packer, but their efforts proved futile, for the water was again forced Eo the surface from Assures that it made, md the result was dozens of geysers spurting up into the air-truly most sight ss
 Some of them even made their ap- Iaarance almost half mile from the well
 Some idea of the noise that it makes may be had when it is stated that two persons, standing side by side, find it to converse understandingly within half mile of the well-Pitts- |barg Dispatch.