Hemingray has it's well down 2000 feet

DISAPPOINTED DRILLERS.

SEEKERS OF CHEAP FUEL STRIKE

A VEIN OF BLUELICK.

Covington Firm Bore for Natural

Gas and Get Sulphur Water —The

Delicate Aroma of the Strike

Causes the Surrounding Country

to Think a Pestilence in on Hand.

Cincinnati, August 13. — Some time ago the Hemingray Glass Works, of Covington, began sinking a well on their property on the river bank, a square or two west of the Suspension Bridge. Their object was to strike a gas vein, if possible, in order that they might be placed on an equal footing with their natural gas consuming competitors of Pittsburgh. This well has now reached a depth of 2,007 feet, but without the desired result, and work has been sus­pended for the time being at least. The cost so far has been $8,000. The Hemingray folks are of the opinion that nat­ural gas in paying quantities could be struck at an additional depth of about five hundred feet, and they are anxious to have other parties join with them in drilling that much deeper. The addi­tional cost would be about $2,000, and the others could share the benefit, in ease of success, by using whatever por­tion of the gas that would be required to run their establishments.

Gas in small quantities was struck in the Hemingray well at a depth of 365 feet, again at 565 feet, and a third time at 720 feet. At a depth of 1,650 feet a vein of Bluelick water was struck, and to-day there is flowing from the well Bluelick to the amount of 25,000 barrels. This water is so strong that the odor there­from is carried for miles by the wind. So loud is the smell that when it first obtruded itself upon the notice of per­sons who had occasion to get within range they imagined that some kind of dreadful pestilence had broken loose, and was about to sweep the face of the earth of every living creature. But the water is not only harmless, but it is ex­tremely healthy, and hundreds of people daily repair to the wells to drink without money and without price. The price of Bluelick in the market is $3 per barrel. Anybody who will cart it away from Hemingray’s well can have it for a cent a barrel.

The well is cased 1,500 feet, and if the plan of sinking it until gas is secured it will continue to flow Blue-lick forever, no doubt. In the event of the abandon­ment of the natural gas scheme, the flow of water will be utilized in some way to render it profitable. Since the striking of the vein of water now flowing, the springs at Blue-lick. Ky., have almost dried up.

In conversation with one of the Messrs. Hemingray yesterday, it was stated that in case they could not strike natural gas in sufficient quantities to supplant coal, they would be unable to compete with Pittsburgh in the manufacture of staple glass-ware; but he added that they make a great many specialties and novelties, from which they could make a living. He stated that the iron men of this sec­tion would be hurt worse than glass manufacturers. He claimed that the Hemingray works had everything but fair rates of freight and cheap fuel.

A strong effort will be made to inter­est certain parties in the well, and it is altogether likely that the work of boring will be resumed in the course of events. The desirability of obtaining a heavy flow of natural gas amounts almost to desperation.