| Show LOCAL GAS WELLS SOME interesting DETAILS cox CON CURNING THEM we had bad a call this morning from mr k E garn of lake shore davis county the original ot of toe the natural gas nobis jn this territory As already mentioned lu iii the baws he has been using lifting gas 0 obtained from a drive well tor for co cooking akin and lighting purposes la in his bis house ion se for f or some wantha now la 14 addition biti on to this he has three wells at his salt works oi oa the line 91 0 t the D K R IG W adlof which furnish a etring flow or 01 gas as well as water and wale which h he is about to utilize in boiling salt ane outbreak of gas on the D ILG ga W roadbed of of which mention n ii t on bias been made was due aue to one of his I 1 wells having vink been shut off by screw I 1 ing hg a cap down dowil on the top of the e pipe alp anen W unable to find an outlet by the he regular channel it permeated the soil and came to the surface some distance awa agaj his reason for stopping the outflow at the well was that 1 it was sunk punk to such a great depth that an unusual quantity of water came iq up with W ith the gas and he hord hoped by d doing 0 wil U so to have the lower par part of the filled up lip with sand he has succeeded in checking the outflow of ras gas on the roadbed by sinking another well near by which taps the gas veins that before supplied the stopped off well and without extending to the objectionable undercurrent u ader current of water the manner in which wells are sunk by mr garn differs somewhat from the method adopted in other parts of the territory but bisno is jio less effectual re he drives down one length of one a quarter inch pipe and inserts a washout pipe into it which is connected at the upper end by a hose to a force pump pum and down which he forces a stream of water by operating th the e pump plimp the washout was h out pipe can be sunk to any depth desired and the well furnished without any more than the one length of larger pipe being used instead of having it extend all the t way a down to the bottom boctot of the well the he gas seems to come from various depths and apparently from layers of decomposed vegetation the outflow is very strong and the supply apparently ap pp inexhaustible it burns waith with a steady blaze which differs slightly in color from thab tha of the artificial gas |
