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Show THOSE (i AS WELLS. VISITED BY AN AGCRECATION OF REPRESENTATIVE REP-RESENTATIVE BUSINESS MEN. All Are Delighted with the Showing Mada anil Kipressed thn It most Confldenro In tha Wells I'frmtuenfe-The Lai-; Wrll to ha Sunk Deeper. It Is quite an unuual thiug low for a day to puss without a large party or a number of people going to w-e the natural gas well which hus hern sunk on the shores of the Juke twelve miles from tha city. Such a party counting in all twenty peo-pie, peo-pie, including a Timk. r'porler, made the. Journey to the blazing well yesterday after-noon. after-noon. In that parly were some of the lead, anil most aggie.sivo epirila It tlie city, am three eastern men who had seen the. giant wells of Ohio, IVnnsylvnri and Indiana. The party wiis composed as follows: Fred Simon, II. V. Melor, W. il. Shearman, W. C. H. Alien. John (iroeshei k, A. 10. He Kicq. lea, VV. U. Cassady, J. K. Bamberger, F. .1. I.ennaid, Fred Trimmer, K. I'. Newell, A. M. rtpooner, I!. ,1. burton, jr., .1. 11. Hedges. A. ,1. Hoot the apiarian of Medina, O., lion. John Item, president of the Mercnr Mining Co., and IreaMirer of Dodge county. Nebraska, Jno, Heimrich n heavy stockholder in the Mereur, and the representative of this paner. There has never been so much interest shown in any retoutre which nfficti-d the future of this city as there is uow, on the subject of natural gas. It i? talked of every, whsre. Kvnry hminoss man is asking his neighbor hat he knows about the gas we,!. In the lobics of the holele it is tne one topic of conversation, tin the streets, natural gas divides time with the, most recent scandal. scan-dal. That well mar Farminglon when it has an opportunity shoots its tlamiue Hold into the air, is Wired upon as hclnij of as much importance, as the npeniug of a big mining camp would. A visit to ihose wells, for there are two. Is all that is necessary to eoavlnce even the skeptical that there is a reservoir of gas in this valley which is probably not surpassed Inthewoild. They are nol the mere out. pourings of gases irenerated In a wmp aud the existence of iv nil b would be transient They come from fountaius which are dca seated. Neither of the wads which hav been uuk aio regarded at this time as having reached the point where the greatest quantity of gas accompanied accom-panied with the highest degree of permanence perma-nence Is to be fwinJ. Wonderful as are Uie two already opontd, they are the premonition premoni-tion of mora wnndren dleeoveries which will be made. And yet there is a well out there scarce half as deep aa either the two spoken of which has been supplying a family fam-ily with heat and light fur fully five year. But to those wells! The visit of the party yesterday was entirely en-tirely unannounced to the men in charge of the property. Nothing had been fixed up for exhibition purposes. The big hole hart been closed until soma pipe connections had been Bent out, and therefore none of it power to shoot chunks of mud two or throe hundred feet in the aircould be shown. This big well has never yet beau lighted, but the volume of gas which belches from It is so large at time that it is almost Impossible Im-possible to control It with the appliance now in us. To touch a matcn to uch a well would mean the instant destruction of the buildings aad the machinery. But the well i there, nevertheless. A steam guage attached to th pine shows It to have a pressure which varies from 110 to lUO pounds. Some of the gas which escapes es-capes from It, was conveyed to a safe distance dis-tance and it waa found to burn as fiercely as that from the smaller well. This small well is sunk at a distance of some fifty feet from the larger one. The pipe is three inches iu diameter and the bottom bot-tom of it Is itSt feet beneath the surface. The pressure on this well is 115 ponnds good and strong, the guage shooting up to that mark in less than a minute. For the benefit, of the party the well was ignited. The wind was blowing half a gale, and yet that, sheet of flame rose to a height of twenty-five feet before the gns which fed it wa consumed. All the time it was burning burn-ing small pieces of shale would be shot from the pipe as if coming from a smoothbore smooth-bore rille. After seeing that well burn theie was no skepticism in anv of the parly' minds about the existence f natural gas. The larger well Is BOO feet deep. Vbe.n the flow i f gas was struck in it, the drill was several feet ahead of the pipe, used as a casing. The drill dropped Into a crack In the shale and Unwell Un-well began to spout mud, gas and sand and it has never stopped doing so yet. W ith such force did these spouting come that the knuckles on Hsu drill rod were worn almost in two in the lew hours before they could be gotten ont of the hole. Chunks of mud as larsje uud as long as a man's leg were blown -'Oil feet into the a:r. This morning the superintendent commenced to drive the big well deeper, in tlie hope that the easing ran be gotten down to the .-olid formation so as to cut off the mud which is now being forced into the pipe by the pressure of the gas. The members of the party who had had more or loss experience in th gas business, ugretd that they had nt vcr seen so remark- , iihlea showing with the same amount of j development. The shale formation is not at all uutavorable. Some, of the largest J "ells Ht Pittsburg. Oil City and Corey City, l'a.. and at Zanesvllle and Newark, Ohio, are I iu & formation almo-t identical, j Mr. llen who has iately returned from ! tiie en-t, claims that no news front the west li devoured v,ith more aridity than that which le'ls of these gas wells in Vtah. Should they be successful in the tinding of I a (i ov of such volume as anticipated, it ve:!d not take twelve months to niHi,e Salt. Lake the greatest manufacturing center wet of Olea-o. |