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Energy companies are paying around $2,500 an acre -- a lump sum of about $375,000 for a typical 150-acre farm, he said. And more money will also flow into local economies from gas royalty payments on Dell latitude d430 battery , which are yet to be paid in significant quantities.n Tioga County surrounding Wellsboro, the biggest local operator, East Resources Inc., drilled 42 Marcellus wells in 2009 and expects to sink another 200 this year.
The company and its affiliates employ about 60 people in the county and it expects its work force there to grow by 30 percent in 2010.Bob and Marsha Chesko own the Sherwood Motel in downtown Wellsboro and say it was full of Dell CF623 battery , or nearly so, throughout the 2009/10 winter -- an unprecedented experience in their seven years there -- due to an influx of workers at nearby gas rigs.
In previous years, the hotel's winter occupancy struggled to reach 40 percent and traditionally depended largely on the summer trade of tourists visiting the picturesque northern Pennsylvania countryside of Dell latitude d610 battery .The Chesko's previously set aside money from the summer tourist trade to see them through lean winter months, but this year the jump in winter business has allowed them to meet running and renovation expenses without dipping into reserves.
And with the expected growth in the area's gas industry, Bob Chesko said: "It's just the tip of the iceberg. Some say it's going to be a 20-year project." But some Wellsboro locals have raised concern over damage to roads from heavy truck traffic to Dell GD761 battery , worries about possible water contamination from the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, and unease that their quiet rural life style is being lost.
"I caught myself feeling very sad," said Mary Worthington, treasurer of the local chamber of commerce apple a1148 battery , as she recently watched a constant stream of gas-industry trucks and mud-spattered pickups grind past her town-center office.
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