Identifier: americapicturesq01cook (find matches)
Title: America, picturesque and descriptive
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Cook, Joel, 1842-1910
Subjects: United States -- Description and travel Canada -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, P.F. Collier
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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century. The Frenchheld it until the conquest of Canada, when that Do-minion and the whole country west to the MississippiRiver came under the British flag by the treaty of1763. After the Revolution, the various older At-lantic seaboard States claiming the region, ceded sov-ereignty to the United States Government, and thenits history was chequered by Indian wars until Gen-eral Wayne conducted an expedition against theMiamis and defeated them in 1794, after which theNorthwest Territory was organized, and the State ofOhio taken out of it and admitted to the Union in1803, its first capital being Chillicothe. It was re-moved to Zanesville for a couple of years, but finallylocated at Columbus. Beyond the Scioto the watershed is crossed, bywhich the waters of the Ohio are left behind and thevalley of Sandusky River is reached, a tributary ofLake Erie. Here is Bucyrus, in another prolificnatural gas region, the centre of which is Findlay.At this town, in 1887, the inhabitants, who had then
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THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 405 had just one year of natural gas development, spentthree days in exuberant festivity, to show their ap-preciation of the wonderful discovery. They hadthirty-one gas wells pouring out ninety millions ofcubic feet in a day, all piped into town and feedingthirty thousand glaring natural gas torches of enor-mous power, which blew their roaring flames as anaccompaniment to the oratory of John Sherman andJoseph B. Foraker, who were then respectively Sen-ator and G-overnor of Ohio. The soldiers and fire-men paraded, and a multitude of brass bands tried todrown the Niagara of gas which was heard roaringfive miles away, while the country at night was illu-minated for twenty miles around. But the wells havesince diminished their flow, although the gas still ex-ists j while another field with a prolific yield is inFairfield County, a short distance southeast of Co-lumbus. Over the State boundary in Indiana is yetanother great gas-field covering five thousand squaremi

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