146 Scientifie Intelligence. 
A little oil being found in Well No, 2, an inch pipe was re mra 
at the depth of 2,000 feet (the well being 2,004 deep), and it w 
proposed to utilize the pressure of the gas to force the oil out of 
the tubing. The resistance offered to the flow of the gas was so 
great that after a few hours the gas ceased to flow entirely from 
both wells, Nos. 1 and 2. After thirty-six hours of inactivity it 
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of the wooden plug which had been inserted into the casing and 
which the gas was unable to blow out, the casing was broken ata 
depth of 175 feet, and the upper portion lifted bodily out of the 
well. As soon as this occurred the conditions which had existed 
during the process of drilling were restored, and a column of 
This continued until about the middle of May, when the gas from 
both wells ceased to flow without any obstruction having been 
knowingly placed in its wa 
On the 14th of July, at ere M., the gas made its appearance 
again and ae to throw the water with great energy to a height 
ranging from 85 to 115 feet; ; also with a smaller column from 
three to eight feet high in the intervals between the larger ones ; 
the phenomenon recurring every seven minutes. 
tere the time that the water columns are a out of the 
ears at night. e water and fire are so promiscuously 
ae July _ I _ watched the well for. two hours, from 
1.19 to 3.22 Pp. M., and carefully recorded the time of each change 
in the condition o the water and gas as they spouted from be 
noting the number of pulsations in the larger column, and det 
wees _ maximum height by triangulation. 
inspection of the intervals between the recurring pheno- 
sei: it is at once seen that there is a marked d regularity i in the 
action of the well; in fact, the slight irregularities observed may 
in a measure be attributed to the personal equation 5 me oo 
server. In the a. included from 10.39 A. mM. to 3.152 P. 
were counted 39 of the larger water columns, making the reins 
time between the commencement of each column 6 minutes an 
55 seconds. 
Occupying oo. consecutive 7 + minutes we have the follow- 
ing sequence of events, 
e water from the “water vein” at the depth of 60 feet, and 
from the pool surrounding the top of the conductor flows into the 
well for 55 seconds, during which time no gas is detected issuing 
from the hole. At the end of this time be water from the pool 
ceases to run in, and the gas rises bubble by bubble for 5 seconds. 
