Show Natural Gas Brings of Undreamed of amed-of I Riches to Denizens of Snake Hollow I r T- T n T A te J 1 L SI ural g-as g In huge quantities was recently discovered discovered dis dis- discovered covered at Hollow near neal l port Olt and the tho people of oC that section are areno arenow arenow now no all getting rich The latest well to be brought In called tile the poorman's poor poorman's poorman's mans man's well because all the stockholders ers are aro poor men yields cubic cubic cubic cu cu- cu- cu bic feet of ot gas a a. da day Wells Yells have been drilled in dooryards and md almost In the streets The first well in Snake Hollow to yield gas goaR 1 J b by RenT Henry N. N Groff Originally this well wen was dug sixteen feet deep for tor tora a water ter It went dr dry and was dug dub two feet Ceet deeper when gas was struck The Tile following legend now HOW appears over this tills well weli I r am tile tho original gas bas well of oC Snake Hollow I was wan born on August 14 H 1899 I am i only eighteen feet teet deep and I have ha been giving g m my boss and S rl l c 4 4 4 A k I r 4 3 tL 1 I Y ig I I ii I I i Original gas well at Snake Hollow Pa and its owners Henry N. N Groff right his wife and son Below Men Mci I I fighting gas as well fire in the Snake Hollow field I I his neighbor real gas for tor twenty long II years ears The boss likes me better ever every da day because everybody wants to see sec me Inc meI I guess uess I 1 will soon be all in In formy for formy formy I my brother in the front yard ard is pull pull- 1 t if S p i I 4 fe t 4 ii X ff y v t. t i x A 4 a v v aaR jc r vw ing from rom me Ver cr very hard ilard So I m soon sa say good good-b One of oC the accompanying photos shows men fighting a a. gas well vell fire tire Inthe In Inthe Inthe the Snake Hollow district They are t trying to knock the tile cap off the well wal I with a a. big pipe so that the they can better bette fight tie tho the fire Cire with steam Tho Tho tw two men at the head of or the line are holdIng holdIng holdIng hold hold- Ing up sheet iron Iron as protection from fron rom tho the heat |