The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-08-06
THE GAS WELL DEAD.
Was Killed I'm Thirty Minutes With
Mud--The Job Was Executed by
BrOWR Bros.-It May Be Revived
Into Activi9.

The Caucasian may recall it
words recorded when a conference
of experts had been held at the clul
house at the State Fair Ground
when the gas we'll was threatenin,
to blow out. Up to- that day the eau
casian with w. X. Henderson ST., A
Querbes and others were opposed t
the killing, but when the necessit,
for the killing was made plain al
opposition to the killing was with
drawn. It was on the announcement
of this conclusion that it was thu
talk on street corners tt@ the eau
casian had sole out to The Gas Com
pany.
What joke! But it came not from
jolly jokers.
We have long since realized tha
some people will talk, and if le
alone will peter into silence. 1t i:
the very life Of some people to twad
die and they can not help it.
The gas well is dead. It was
smothered with mud by the Brown
Bros. in about thirty minutes after
several days of readiness for the
event. Without indulging into de
tails, sr9ice it to say @1at the opin.
ion deliberately expressed by the
gentlemen who were at the clut
house at the Fair grounds has beer
fully verified. The smothering was
effected this morning.
To save the well, which should
long since have been killed. thous,
ands of dollars have been expended
but there should be offered no com.
plant nor adverse criticism. The
best was dShe that could have been
done.
It may be regretted that our fore
sight" is not as good as QUO hind
sight" II it were, we would all Gave
engaged in ventures realizing bill
lions of dollars and we would all
have money to throw at the birds,
and the gas we'll, which has pro
voked feeling and talk and threats of
recall and what not, would not have
survived day after it had been
brought in"
Seriously, the well was not in a
condition to sustain the pressure of
gas. As a fact, the well was drilled
for salt water. And another fact is
that the six-inch easing Had slipped
from its placement, and finally, to
save it, paradoxically, it must be
killed. -.- .s....
A thorough examination of the
well will develop it's actual condi-
ton. RI it can be used, if il can be
fortified, it will be revived for prac-
teal usefulness, but if it must re-
main dead, then another well will be
drilled, and drilled not for salt water
but for illuminating gas
As a correlation 10 this we'll which
has been one of the most vexing and
exasperating of the problems for
solution by the commission form of
Shreveport is the Gas Well Commit
tee of citizens upon whom it has
been attempted to unload shorteom-
ings and responsibilities innumer-
able, but each and all the committee
survive.
An enthusiastic gasser of Shreve
port remarked at the time: It'll ven
ture dollar against nickle that
that committee is going to do some
thing. You'll hear from them inside
of a week." And gasser's forecast
was verified when the Mayor, per-
picked in the extreme, referring to
the committee, declared: '"They've
played ." The charge against the
was that without consult
ing the Mayor the committee had
tampered with the well, and as the
Mayor had said: Had played -"
But the committee retorted Wig
orously and emphatically and
subsequently ii was made plain
that the committee had not
with the we'll but had Sc
cured the services of two of the best
in wells and gas to open the
we'll and test it. So, therefore, the
committee did not play -" but
demonstrated that they had exer-
cised good, common, practical sense
in the test of the well, requisite
to the carrying out of
plans they were maturing for the
and profitable use Of the
product of the we'll
This gas we'll, instead Of being a
blessing in disguise" bonanza
with gold and silver fringes, has
been a source of irritation and of
and of gassing without
limit, but if possessed by some other
town there would have been a rally