Show GAS WELLS if ir any aay of our readers are acquainted with the process of boring for procuring and utilizing the natural gas found in pennsylvania ohio kansas or ether other parts of the be pleased to have them communicate the information in their possession for publication in our columns considerable Inte interest rest Test is being felt in the subject just lust now since the discovery a few weeks since of gas gag escaping from the pipe of a drive well on the premises of T J L winters and subsequent developments in that line in other places and there is a strong belief that a sufficient supply of natural gas may be obtained in the ath ward and vicin be used for illuminat illuminating illumination in and also for f fuel uel and possibly to f furnish power for propelling machinery the strongest now ow of gas we have heard of yet in this region was found by parties borin boring 1 I for water on the farm of john Q cana cannon near the jordan river on reaching a depth of sixty feet when the augur was withdrawn the gas rushed up with such a noise as to startle the workmen on touching a match matchton to it it blazed up brightly and to a considerable height producing g so much neat heat as to soon render the pipe red hot an attempt to fan I 1 it out proved unavailing and it I 1 had to be smothered out whether the supper supply of gas aas at this place or others at which it I 1 t has been struck will prove i permanent whether it can be conducted in pipes directly from the well to where it is desirable to use it or whether it will be necessary to store it ina lna in a are queries that arise in the minds of the uninitiated and glints points upon which light may possibly be e thrown by persons in the community who have had experience in such matters in other parts the utilizing of natural gas in some other parts of the union has produced quite a revolution in the mater of heating lighting and propelling machinery and ana it may do so in this region yet we find it mentioned in on one e of our exchanges that the largest vein of gas ever struck in ohio was recently reached at shelby sheiby at a depth of feet the men were warned of its presence by a roaring sound and fled for their lives hardly escaping before the gas rushed from the orifice with a tremendous report shattering the derrick and throwing the dirt and mud many feet into the air A tem temporary izen laen p pipe W e seventy feet in length has been la laid iaia connecting ingrith with th the well ewell and it furnishes a steady stream of fire twenty nive five feet III lil high h the discovery will supply the whole town with light and f fuel uel for dwelling houses and manufactories manu factories |