Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1894 — RENEWING GAS FIELDS. [ARTICLE]

RENEWING GAS FIELDS.

hat appears on first glance to >e a purely visionary undertakng—i. e. to renew the natural gas ields, that have failed, by artificial neans —has actually been inaugurated in the Findlay district. Mr. Yilliam Heckert, an expert engiicer of Findlay, has formulated a jeculiar theory. He believes that f a sufficient quantity of air is breed down into abandoned gas veils that it will permeate the oillearing rock? from which the gas iriginally flowed, and be transormed into gas which may be utilzed to an unlimited extent. An expensive plant has beenpurchased md the test will be made at an early late. Capitalists from Pennsylvania and experts from various flaces in the country have been favorably impressed with the theory md are on the ground in person or >y representative to watch the exjeriments. The possibilities of the jxperimentsare almost beyond commutation. If successful, gas can be urnished cheaper than natural gas n the, past, with the additional advantage of an assured supply and a low that can be regulated at will to my degree of pressure. Every ibandoned well in the country will lecome valuable property 7 if the experiments are successful instead of being a dead loss as at present, while the future prospects of every 7 gas :own will become an assured reality, nstead of a vague uncertainty ever launtedwith a dread of collapse at Tome unknown date in the future.