In the 1870s Josh Cooper was tending a pot of boiling maple sugar in the woods of Murrysville along Turtle Creek, about 18 miles east of Pittsburgh. The boiling pot was a very familiar part of life here. However, its fuel was very odd. A steady stream of invisible fuel from the ground heated the pot. For Cooper, this was merely a convenience. Enterprising eyes, however, would see it differently.
In 1878 Michael and Obediah Haymaker drilled the great Haymaker well on the Remaley farm near the axis of the Murrysville anticline. The well "blew in" at 34 million cubic feet of gas per day, the largest gas well ever drilled up to that time. There was a great explosion in 1881 and fire extended 100 ft into the air. The gas burned for 1½ years before being brought under control. Upon viewing the well, George Westinghouse suggested that the gas could be piped to Pittsburgh to be used in place of coal in the mills. This was the start of the modern natural gas industry in the United States. I had change the cache container and location due to muggle has dialed into the new cache activity on the trail. I have lost two nano caches in less than a week. The new location will add the difficulty in the terrain rating. If you are under 5'3" you might want to bring a caching buddy that is taller!!!