The Great Karg Well Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 1/28/2006
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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UDATED CACHE. YOU ARE NOW LOOKING FOR A MATCHSTICK CONTAINER WITH A LOG BUT NO PENCIL SO BRING YOUR OWN WRITING INSTRUMENT. HAPPY HUNTING!!

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Most spectacular of all the Ohio Natural Gas Wells was the Karg well in Hancock County. First erupting January 20, 1886, its initial flow of gas was 12,000,000 cubic feet per day at a pressure so great it could not be brought under control for four months. For safety reasons, it was burned off. The roar of the well could be heard for five miles.

In Findlay, they call it the Gas Boom. Although the phrase "Gas Boom" brings to mind the unfortunate image of a match strike gone wrong, it turns out that Findlay's petroleum reign did start with a surprise explosion. Back in 1836 when a farmer named Richard Wade tried to dig a well on his land in Ohio's Hancock County, he was disappointed to find the well stank. Lighting a torch to investigate, Wade experienced the first oops! of northwest Ohio's Gas Boom: an explosive upwelling of natural gas that made him look for water elsewhere. It wasn't until after the Civil War that industrialists discovered that oil and natural gas--the stinky stuff that polluted northwest Ohio wells--could be put to commercial use. Starting in 1884, natural gas was pumped from Ohio's petroleum fields to neighboring towns where it fueled genteel lamps and stoves. In 1886, the massive Karg Well was tapped on the rural outskirts of Findlay. The prolific Karg Well led folks to believe that natural gas was an undepletable resource that would renew itself as quickly as it was spent. For more information on the Gas Boom you can go to: http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/cac/ac9312.html#gas

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