Show GAS WELLS IN CHINA how the people of the orient utilize it in evaporating ut water bodon advertiser here is something to interest capitalists t scientists students all who like to note the workings of natural gas in to days C reports it seems that natural gas has been let out and put to use in china consul denby writes from pekin that most of the wells are faund in sandstone and clay when a portion of the rock is mashed clear water 4 poured in to the hole a long bamboo aube with a valve in the bottora is lowered and the tur bid water raised to the top pipes of cypress wood are ramm ed it to the sided of the bored hole prevent the water contained in the surround IN ground from getting access to well the pipes are attached to each other at the ends nails hemp and tun 1 the inner width of the is abot t five inedea As the wor pir proceed 3 the pipes are rami lied deeper and a new one attached on the top the rop e too Js made longer at a d t varying from 70 to I 1 00 chan 9 7 0 to 1000 feet the brine is ta tick and the well is fit for use the brine is raided to ilia to through long bamboo tubes M barn boo ropes as described by means 0 f a horsewhip horse whim and then carried to large pans for tion or led to theta through evadora ain boo B d these wells cheze are others which are bored to the depth of from eighteen hundredth to two thousand feet at that distance below the surface petroleum is struck immediately on reaching it an inflammatory gas escapes with great violence work is now stop ped and a wooden cap fastened over the mouth of the pit perforated b y several rows of r aund holes in each of them a bips pips is inserted and through tass the gas isled under the eva pans the p i ipes rami V a a d on each end 4 tadej moudis cc tamin atlig in a smil kinf aperture is attached the gas is then used for evaporating the brine the enterprising spirit which in deuced the chinese to examine the ground at so great a depth is said to have lad its origin in the drying up of a brine pit the proprietor was in hopes of meeting brine at a grater depth but found instead tha a M aben the country was infested with rebels during the T a I 1 pt in C re they removed the mp it 4 I 1 one of the gm pits and et fire I 1 since that time or at aleut leut to it tile time that alron lj 10 ric h wrote a long column of toren fi from that pit and it I 1 a roc I 1 nearl y impossible 0 cona top the the pits and brine ill owne d separately b pits are tile owners are BUT corpor 1 conk cottrol of tb a to the 9 mono I 1 th e bands of the 2 Y fis in the at that alaci 0 resides |