Newspaper Clipping from 1886

ID: 1899 ~ Source: Kokomo Gazette ~ Creator: Kokomo Gazette ~ Date: October 12, 1886

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Clipped from the article celebrating the discovery of gas at Kokomo, this quote from Mr. Churchill, the head of the drilling company, illustrates the prevailing opinion of the time: gas would last forever. Mr. Churchill would be proven wrong.

This file appears in: Natural Gas Well Drilled in Kokomo

Natural Gas Well Drilled in Kokomo

By Howard County Historical Society

The use of natural gas as fuel goes back to the 1820s, but its real value didn’t become apparent until the 1880s. The discovery of a gas reserve in Pennsylvania revolutionized the steel and glass manufacturing industries there in the 1870s and…