Record op Geology op Texas, 1887-1896. 
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driopped or fcliroiW.n in the well. The gas oontinued to flow, and was utilized 
both for fuel and light in a small tenant house situated about thirty feet 
from the well, for about three years, when, it was found that the well had 
been stopped up the distanee of about twenty feet from the bottom.’ After 
the flow of gais was thus cut off, no attentio-n was paid to the matter 
until the winter of 1887-8, when J. B. Gilmer & Co., of Waco, leased the 
tract on which the land was, and many other tracts in the neighborhood, 
and commenced boring to see if the gas 'was still there. They attempted 
to bore out the old well, but found it so effectually stopped that it was 
cheaper to bore a new one. * * When the first well put down for 
J. B. Gilmer & Co. reached the depth of the old well, the gas began to flow 
as when the old well was in its glory. The workmen were found to be 
incapable of properly casing a well, and out of a number dug in the spring 
of 1888, none were saved, as the clay caved and cut off the gas. This 
caused a suspension of work until October, 1888, when an experienced 
driller was secured. 
“iSince then three wells have been put down and secured. One is near 
the original well, h54 feet deep; one about three or four hundred yards to 
the southeast, 134 feet deep; the third about a half a mile to the north- 
west, about 114 feet deep. Measured by an anemometer, these three wells 
flow about a million and a half cubic feet of gas per day. Prof. J. P. 
Lesley, State (Geologist of Pennsylvania, estimates that one pound of coal 
has a fuel capacity of 7^ cubic feet of gas. On this basis the fuel value 
of these wells amounts to 100 tons of coal per day. When the shallow 
depths of these wells through clay is considered, and the cheapness with 
which they can be made, their fuel value, compared with their cost, is 
enormous. This field is 10^ miles from Brenham, a city oif seven thousand 
people, or about one thousand families. It offers a market, on an estimate 
by one of its most conservative citizens, of about $75,000 worth of gas per 
annum. This is as the city now stands, without any calculation for in- 
crease of wealth from growth of place. The wells are about 1^ miles from 
the Austin branch of the 'H. & T. C. R. R.” * * * 
165. Gannett, Henry. 
iA Dictionary of Altitudes in the United States. (Second Edi- 
tion.) 
Bull, of the U. S. Geol. Surv., Ho. 76, 393 pp. Washington, 
1891. 
The altitudes of the principal railroad stations in Texas are given, as 
well as of a number of other points. A valuable work of reference. 
166. Genth, F. a. 
iContrihutions to Minerology, Ho. 44. 
Amer. Jour, of Science, III, Vol. XXXVITI, pp. 198-203. 
Hew Haven, Sept., 1889. 
“1. Gadolinite. — ^In the fall of the year 1888, Dr. A. E. Eoote sent me 
for identification a shining black mineral which he brought from Burned 
county, Texas. A preliminary examination, which I made, proved it to be 
Gadolinite, which, excepting that from Colorado, described and analyzed by 
