394 | C. A. Ashburner—The Kane Geyser Well. 
Art. XLVII.—The Kane Geyser Well; by Cuartes A. Asn: 
BURNER, Assistant Second Geological Survey of Penn.* 
THE Kane Geyser or Spouting Water-well, which during 
the past year has attracted such general attention from the 
“sight-seeing” public, is no novelty to the oil man. The cause 
of the action has been so erroneously represented, that a correct 
explanation seems to be demanded. 
is well is situated in the valley of Wilson’s Run, near the 
line of the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad, four miles south- 
east from Kane. It wa 
of 2,000 feet. No petro- 
leum was found in paying 
quantities and the casing 
was drawn and the hole 
of water and gas to heights 
varying from 100 to 15 
feet. 
the operation 
feet, which was the limit 
of the casing. Ata depth 
of 1415 feet a very heavy 
“oas vein” was struck. 
This gas was permitted a 
free escape during the time 
the drilling was continued 
conflict between the water and gas commenced, rendering the 
well an object of great interest. The water flows into the well 
* The above notice of this remarkable water-and-gas geyser is from Stowell’s 
i . 15th. The view of the Geyser 18 
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oped from a photograp the editors by M burner. A fuller de- 
a ie of a adjoining well by Mr. Ashburner appeared in 1877 in the 
-ransactions of the American Philosophical Society, and is noticed in this Jou 
im volume xvi, at page 140, 1878. . xf 
