Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1912 — First Gas Well Gone. [ARTICLE]

First Gas Well Gone.

The first natural gas well in Indiana, the first well the citizens of Hartford City ever saw, the parent of the natural gas boom that made the Indiana gas belt one of the world’s manufacturing centers, about twenty-five years ago, is abandoned, says the Hartford City Times-Gazette. A gang of workmen is at present engaged in pulling the casing from the well. , It' is on' a tract of ground adjoining Eaton and several years ago ‘‘played out,” although for many years the .gas pressure from the well, which alone supplied Eaton and surrounding territory, was as high as three hundred pounds to the square inch”. Now when a good gas well is struck it shows a pres- 1 - sure of thirty to forty' pounds and its volume is usually increased by pumps. The well was known as the Carter, well. Its roar could be heard and the light from its flame could be seen in Hartford City, eight miles away. The Lake Erie & Western railroad ran excursions twice a week to witness it.