Show AMONG THE GAS MENThe MEN-The Indiana Company Will Begin Be-gin Drilling S They Deny That They liMe gold Their Territory Ter-ritory to Major I Doxey J E Gibson vicepresident and general manager of the Indiana Natural Gas and Pipe Line company left for the east last evening and will remain in Indiana until after the election to put in a big ballot for Grover Cleveland the next president of the United States While the agent was preparing his railway rail-way and sleeping car tickets Mr Gibson talked to a HtKALD reporter Among the bits of information gathered from the Hoosier gentleman was that Cleveland was dead sure to carry Indiana He denied de-nied that the Indiana Natural Gas company had closed a deal with Dozey that contemplated con-templated a transfer of its lease and assured as-sured the reporter that the Indiana company com-pany meant to stay by its possessions On his arrival in Indiana he will confer with the principal stockholders of the compan in regard to purchasing a set of drilling tools and shipping them In this held The Indiana company has leases on several S thousand acres of gas land whicn inoy believe be-lieve to be the cream of toe territory and Mr Gibson felt very confident that his partners would favor pushing ibid operations opera-tions at as early a day us tool can bo secured se-cured and a derrick erected Mu Gibson accompanied the city council on its visit to the wells of tho American company on Friday and expressed himself as greatly disappointed in the showing made In what respect were you disappointed disap-pointed was asked Well the big well the Tuscarora of which we have heard so much did not show up as strong us I had expected The former exhibition was given through a twoinch pipe while yesterday they had a oneinch pipe screwed on its end which of course reduced the size of the hole nearly twothirds You do not mean to say that the gas is giving out 1 mean to say I have no faith in the wells of tho American company us tho gaa is found in the sand instead of rock Then thero is plenty of gas if you go deep enough down l That is it The wells should be drilled deeper so that tho pipe can be cased in the rock to prevent seepage |