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Show cavern at a distance from tho well, and the uir conies through u small passage : leading from tlio cavern to tho well. No j cHveru or passage liaa yet been found, as the well is wiilled np, und the air ; comes through the rxdis in tho well. Utsalady (Ore.) News. An Oretfon Iri-calltfiig; Well. The well is one and a quarter miles east of Stanwood, on the high land, nearly near-ly lo0 feet abovo sea level. Its owner, (3. W. Coltom, began digging it last June, ; but abandoned it various times becatiso j of gas or firedamp. II-.J succeeded in i reaching an abundance of good water ut a depth of ninety feet from tho surface last October, having passed through smc-ccssive smc-ccssive layers of clay, sand and some kind of stratified rock. About eighty I feet below the surface ho found a sprink- ling of anthracite coal, and still farther I down large quantities of loose spoci- i i mens of volcanic stones of several kinds, j many cf which have the appearance of having been melted and run together. ! About the close of October -Mr. Coltom j noticed that the well was blowing out a j kind of gas with considerable force, and j at irregular periods of time, varying from live days to sixteen hours' duration. It would reverse tho oorations and begin be-gin to draw in the uir with equal force, the inhalations lasting about as long a time aa the exhalations. Shortly after the gas disappeared, but the respiration of air continued with increasing force, until at the present time it has sufficient force to drive a large windmill. Not long since Mr. Coltom went down into the well and discovered that the air was being drawn in and blown out at a point fifteen feet from tho bottom of tho well. It is supposed that there must be a large |