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Show SIRFACE CAS TEST. IIo-t liO-iema up a Larc Wnler-Tlj-ht llarri'll. A few days ago a test of the power backing one of the gas wells near to w n w as m ad e. The pi pe that tans the gas cavities is down some 200 f.et. The conductor was i placed in a boleof a tight 40-gallon barrel filled with water. The bung-hole was plugged up and the gas turned on. Almost instantly the strong staves began to give and directly the water was spurting in all directions from between them. Again the bung-hole was left open; the gas applied, when a stream of water, was thrown twenty feci into the air by the powerful gas pressure at the other end. |