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Show GAS DEiCTSTI! PROVES TO BE GOOD H. L. Nelson, However, Promises Hereafter fo ! Prove His Point by Proxy. ! Although H. L. Nelson, secretary of the Bonneville Oil and Gas company, is an expert on gas, he learned something ! new concerning that product yesterday. :The knowledge came to him without 0 j much as a second's warning, but, in ad- dition to several painful bruises, he is ! none the worse for his novel experience. experi-ence. Mr. Nelson, accompanied bv II. A. Langford, also of the Bonneville coiih pany, was piloting a number of eastern capitalists through the oil and gas fields west of Centerville. As is well known, there are several old gas wells in the field that were heavy producers twenty and more ears ago. Mr. Nelson told his guests of the early-day production and pointed out one well, with the remark that considerable consid-erable gas was still escaping from it. A member of the party was inclined to doubt the statement, when Mr. Nelson Nel-son offered to prove his assertion. Accordingly, Ac-cordingly, he obtained an old tin bucket and placed it upside down over the casing cas-ing of the well in order to, allow it to fill with gas. The bucket was a perfectly per-fectly good utensil, with the exception of one small hole in the bottom. When Mr. Nelson estimated that he had obtained enough gas to make a showing he lighted a match and applied ap-plied the bla7,e to the leak. The result re-sult exceeded his most sanguine expectations. expec-tations. There was gas plenty of it and as the blaze came into contact with, the gas there was as neat a little explosion as .anyone, even an expert, would care for. The next thing that Mr. Nelson remembers re-members was that several of his friends were picking him up about fifteen feet from the point of contact. The member mem-ber of the party who expressed doubt that the old well was still on the job apologized, and he assured Mr. Nelson that he had every belief in his statements state-ments concerning the well and was ready to believe anything else he might have to say about any of the other wells. At his home last night Mr. Nelson said he was feeling all right, with the exception of bruised limbs, but that the next time he applied a match to a leaking leak-ing gas well he would do it by proxy. |