Examination of a new and extraordinary gas well in the state of New York

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Abstract
A NEW and copious outburst of gas has recently been observed in the township of West Bloomfield, county of Ontario, and State of New York, about twenty miles south of Rochester, and sixteen miles west of Canandaigua.It is now about four years since the owner of the ground, Mr. Beebe, while boring with the hope of getting petroleum, struck the cavity from which the gas flows, at a depth, as he states, of 500 feet.The bore-hole is tubed down to, and into, the solid rock, and the tube stands about ten feet above the surface.This tube is five inches in diameter; and the issuing gas, when burn-'tng, as it was when I saw it, gives in a still atmosphere a flame some thirty feet in height.The flow has been stated independently by two parties, who have measured it with large balloons of known capacity attached to the outlet, to be fi'om four to five
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Authors H. Wurtz
Journal american journal of science
Year 1870
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10.2475/ajs.s2-49.147.336
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https://doi.org/10.2475/ajs.s2-49.147.336
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