PATE GEOLi Gl -T 109 



. at my ' I P >r the d n of 



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Shales linized have an existence in our State, about 



I have elsewhere eipresi • I 



Id a spontaneous flow 



•I' neighl ri 



coun&rj b be made < xt< nds fr< m 



W , P Huron, ami from Thunder to Grand 



Tr i il relations and the surface indi- 



• cially al southern belt, that a : 



w iuld b ■ fully justified. A few years ago, as I am in- 



f rmed by Mr. P. P. Bouteller, a boring for water was under- 



Baw mill in the township of Greenfield, Wayne 



After the drill bas passed through a bed of bluish 



the depth of 70 or 80 feet, it was suddenly wrested 



rrkmen by the violent escape of a fetid 



g - r ich throw up water and sand to the ; . ' several 



B v, the stream of gas was ignited, and sent a 



c lumn f !l c le to the roof of the mill, which had to be re- 



to entinguish it proved futile for several 



lion placed over the well to i; - uide 



.' the owner, had the effect 

 ■ [factually 

 ion of the uether G 

 I ag tii" h lc wil • well rammed down; 



: in reiusing t > allow any further 



acter upon his premises. Sim* 

 ii witnee points aloe'.; the 



ke. 

 "• product i i" the distillation of ■ 

 li-iim. and it is i . extending i 



il would be 



w I 



' fian wells ui the 



