Show MEkTfASSfltIKE The AittfNcAn l Comfmny Brinp i3lthe Bitfgrest Well Yd 11 Tier Lay Jw < Hi last Ttat 5 IMc li < JM of tt JraMwxt UM flsId teifee 4ej tn 8 AmecaiurttGu If na Ftti ocMnpanyW gel out of sight he lhvebu Jin < j lebrtting double v1etorytbe PMHi tie ordinance over iae mayo veto and me big gas strike fm saon uQy The cojopMjr hINt drilled four welU af I I Lake Shore but owing to the treachero I foraiatioa of the strata coverlngtho gaf It ha beu almost impoesible to sp the < eUs so uo hold tbega in and prevenrlek ag The Im find of gas was at aepth of 250 feet and lals was viewed wit sasplc ion by all expert gas men as A was believed be-lieved to be too DMl the Kttc of the ground to prove permanent Natural gas is ouad In Indiana at a > p fa of aboutTOOO feet andtt Ohio l2dO ferl below the surface sur-face of the ground Iihe been demonstrate demon-strate that thagreate the distance of the I gas from the surr cet1e greater the rock pressure or the cnrig1 i which exerts in freeing Itself romt subterranean imprisonment impris-onment It is tW force which carries it thioutfb pipes i0r great distances and makes itpossil10 to utilize it as a fuel rVa e reason wljJ capitalists have held bfckfromif < estln In this gas field was QWHSM to tb act that the gas was Jound so r t e fJrface V TUMORS diwovery was of 5 THE GREATEST IMPORTAIiCE as jtlesaonstrates to a certainty that there is pKrest reservoir of gas 850 Jeeubelow tbd surface Well Uo 4 had been drilled to a d pth of over eight hundred feet sm eral weeks ago but the company was afraid to bring It in until they secured clamp for fastening the pipe down These were received on Tuesday and the drill was dropped to tap the covering The gas was soon eocoumtered and it came tearing up at a frightful velocity making a ror that could be heard for miles away The earth was actually rocked by agitation agita-tion of the escaping ether and the gas camo out with such force that it wore off ron as If it was tallow A pair of iron tongs used to hold the pipe in place was actually worn away aaif it had been melted 111 a furnace r This discovery of a great reservoir of gas SOO feet below the surface is of incalculable value to this city as Itwill now be easy to secure the necessary capital to construct s pipe line Turn on the gas |