Most of my family lives in Columbiana County and most of them have made some big fracking money. There are gas wells going in everywhere. There are lots of ‘wet’ wells, the kind that result in big money liquids. They are drilling in the accessible areas now, and a lot of road improvements are needed to get the heavy equipment to the rest of the county.
Columbian county has made its living off the coal industry for a hundred years, now its switching to gas just in time as the coal coal industry is being killed. Excellent luck this time unlike 200 years ago when we opted for a canal instead of the new fangled railroad. The little village of Youngstown got the railroad...