The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-07-28
Kodakins a Gas Well
4 Summer Day ExcursiOn.-HOs
pitable Entertainment.
A New wild Beauty" Intro
duced to PicnicerS.

duced to PicnicerS.
On last Friday, accepting an inva-
tation from Col. r. E. Hill, Super
intendant Of the Brice Gas Syndicate
in Hooking, to come and see gas
well 'sdrilled in and take picture
of it, equipped with kodaks, and
accompanied by Miss Elsie Yenert'
an artist and an expert "snap shot,
we went to Millville, and thence on
the public road mile from the
village to the farm Of Mr.. Marshal
where the we'll is located.
Mr.. Hill met US in the lane, and
escorted us to the Well, showed ur
all round, and explained all the
mysteries of the Well, the wonder
full magician whose touch awakens the
slumbering forces OF light and heat
in the cluches of the granite two
thousand feet below where we stand.
We Girls took dozen "snap shots"
at the works, secured good pictures
of the things around about the we'll,
but could not see or kodak the gas.
but we heard it hiss and whistle and
shrek and roar and blow like the
voice of the unhridled storm.
The we'll is located in a glade at
the opeing of a glen which rock
bound and in a horse shoe bend ex-
tends back about quarter of mile
On our arrival at about 8 o'clock,
the gas rock had just been pene.
trated, and the voice from the speak
ing trumpet of the slumbering
giant two thousand feet down in the
deptL, was faint whisper. The
drill, weighing two thousand pounds
kept up a constant stroke, about 80
to the minute, end going down about
half a foot an hour. At every 40
minutes the dEilll was taken out and
replaced with a sharp one. As the
drill penetrated the rock the rush of
gas became stronger and when we
left at about 8 o'clock the shrek and
roar was terrific and deafening.
The cold facts are, the gas rock
was reached at depth Of 2ls4 TT.
Its capacity, it is thought, will be 6
millions. 1t is the 18th. we'll drilled
by Mr.. II i'll. in this territory. 1t will
be called, may we modestly guess,
--"Grace- Louie"
"representive" of the SENTINEL
accompanied our picturesque look
ing party, and when the pictures are
finished. will furnish, with illustra-
ions. an article discussing the gas
business for the information of the
general public.
Our party was Joined at the well
by Mr.. F. S. aud Miss Helen F.
Purcell.
The men employed at the works
are gentlemen. They welcomed our
intrusion with pleasant smiles, ans
wered our often silly questions cheer
fully, and gave us every possible
attention. They kept at their work.
and IN their work, as well as in re-
cieving US, they showed themselves
true gentlemen.
1t is not the kind of work one does,
it is not the kind of clothes one
wears, ga mans man for a that"
said Bobbie Burns, and we girls say
so too.
EXPLORING THE WILDERNESS, FIND A
Wild WOOD BEAUTY.
The Well, displaying the highest
evidence of civilization. stands
within a rod of pyimeval wilderness,
at the opelng of a cove which extends
between inaccessible rocks, quarter
of mile where shelving cliff
rounds the horse shoe enclosure. and
affords vaulted cave large enough
to shelter a big church congregation
or regiment of men. The Ieyel be.
tween the walls of rock is a dense,
almost impenetrable copse out OF
which mess of vines and bramble and
brush, here and there huge trees lift
up their heads hundred feet high
to the sunshine. The enclosing walls
and the cliff at the rounding end are
as high as the Court House steeple,
and in some places lean over as
though straining out for plunge
upon the adventurous and awe
st1iken eyes looking up. In places
the wall is split with wide fissures
which recede in diminishing space and
vanish in utter darkness. Gloomy
holes near the base look like the
dens of savage beasts of long, long
ago. Occasionally asingle rock stands
out and off rod or so, like watch
tower on the keeps of the castles on the
Rhine Wa 500 in our n;cfuro hooko