Ligonier Valley Rail Road Newspaper Articles
We have compiled over 1,400 newspaper articles that mention the Ligonier Valley Railroad, or related subjects. The articles were originally published starting in 1873 and our collection runs through 1995. Enjoy!
Gettysburg Times
Saturday, August 8, 1925
Cease Drilling, 7,756 Foot Well
Latrobe, Pa., - When drilling operations were stopped on the deepest producing gas well in the world, at Longbridge near here, 18,054 feet of various sized casings had been used. The well, which has been sunk to a depth of 7,756 feet, is the property of the Peoples Natural Gas Company. The gas, however, is subjected to a filtration process to take off the hydrogen sulphide, before it is passed in the distributing mains.
Drilling of the well was started May 23, 1922. Five different strings of casings have been placed in the well, one casing inside the other. The first was 60 feet long and 13 inches in diameter; the second 1,100 feet long and 10 inches in diameter; the third, 3,900 feet long and 8 inches in diameter; the fourth, 6,200 feet long and 5 3/8 inches in diameter, and the fifth, 6,794 feet long and 4 inches in diameter.
The company has a second well in the same vicinity which at a depth of 6,822 feet still is giving off a large supply of gas. Another well, drilled on the opposite side of the Ligonier Valley railroad company tracks, proved non-productive although sunk to a depth of 6,989 feet. Work on this well was abandoned sometime ago.