Years before Col. Drake drilled the first well for oil and gas at Titusville, Pa., gas seepages had been noted at various points in Ohio. As soon as the importance of natural gas was realized, the citizens of different communities, interpreting the various seepages as surface indications of oil and gas accumulations, organized companies to drill and test the underlying rocks of their vicinity and thus natural gas in the Trenton limestone was discovered at Findlay, Ohio. The first two wells drilled obtained gas in small quantities, but the third well produced over a million cubic feet of gas daily....
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