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Natural Gas Product

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
March
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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At Oil City tliere are two natural KM companies dnwins tlieir supply lïoin i tic same district - the üil City Fuil Supply Compaay and the Manufacturera Gas Company. Over $1,000,000 have been invested in the plants. The two oorupan lea have drilled about tliirty wells. When one oil well plays out, as it is bound to do in time, another one lf drilled and the stipply kept up. It is nol possible to determine the life of any oil or gag well. The olil Newton gas well near TltUfYlU. produced in enormous quantitles for five years, yiclilinjr eoouieli to have upplieil tlic entire City of Cinoinnatl d uring that time, and the supply is not yet exhiusted, altbougb it is nearly so. 'J'hia well was struck RfUen yeara ago. The bij; gas well at Fuirview blowed away for four Taan, (ruttng ¦ fortune every month. Some of the orifrinal wells in tlie -Mnrraysville or PiRtbnrgb ditlrict are xtill ylelding in luige quaotliiet. The pressure of gas escaping trom the Pennsylvania wolls ranire trom 100 to 500 pounds to the square Inch. Sonic wel II are said to Imve a pressuie of 1,000 pounds to tlie square inch. For live yeari the product of the Hiiyinarlct well in the jMarysville district was equivalent n lua'infi capacity to 1,000 tons ot eoa) per day. Thia well was nllowed to waste. s at that time there was no line to Pltttburgh,

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News