Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1855-04-25
GAS FOR THE CITY.

A meeting was held here one day last week, to
take into consideration the subject of lighting the
City with gas; and a committee, consisting of
Messrs. Palmer, Coote, Jordan Williams, Pescud,
Burch and Dewey, was appointed to wait upon
the citizens with a view to raising the necessary
stock. The gentleman who was here from Balti-
more, has furnished estimates for the construction
Of the works. Thirty thousand dollars will be re-
quired; and it is proposed to raise this amount by
subscriptions to stock company in shares Of fifty
dollars each, the Baltimore company taking at
once ten thousand dollars of the stock. The works
proposed to be erected, will furnish an ample sup
ply Of gas for the whole City, and also for the
Asylums, for St. Mary's. for the State House and
grounds, and the Governor's Mansion. The gas
will be distributed opposite each PERSONS door, and
meter will be furnished by the company. Each
consumer will then put in his own pipe, which will
cost from six to fifty dollars according to the size
of the dwelling and the number of rooms to be
supplied. The gas will be disposed of at So Is
per thousand feet, as registered by the meters. At
this price we learn that each burner will cost less
than one and half cents per hour, and will give as
much light as camphene lamp. The gas to be
made from the oil of rosin, which is said to be
equal if not superior in every respect to any coal
gas.
In connection with the subject We copy the fol-
lowing from the Hagarstown (Md) Chronicle,
showing the Importance and value of the article
and the cheap rates at which it can be furnished
Hagarstown, which is much smaller place than
Raleigh, has works of the kind referred to, The
Editor says:
LAS practical test of the advantage of this light,
we think we can give no better instance than
own consumption and cost for the time during which
it has been in operation We have four burners,
two of which have been used almost every night,
and very frequently the whole number, to late
hour. We burned from Nov % to March 18th, l.
$50 feet, at cost of $7.sS. The average cost per
burner, was one cent and one-eight per night, or
four cents and onehalf for the whole light. To have
afforded US even Indifferent light for our business,
would have taken each night from a pound to a
pound andahalf of candles the cost of which would
have been at least 1sa cents-more :han four times
much as the gas. To have made an equal light,
and to afford equal advantages, would have taken
more than five times this number of candles, with
their proportonate COST and the dirt and grease in
cident to their use.
No man who has made the experiment, can doubt
its advantages its economy, and its superiority
every other light ond we much doubt whether any
one could be induced to dispense with its use, after
having enjoyed its beauty and luxury"
We have thus laid the material facts and advau-
tages before our citizens and it is for them to de-
eide whether they will avail themselves or not o1
the liberal offer thus made by the Baltimore com.
pany The gentleman who has the matter in
charge for the Baltimore company, will, we pre-
sumo, visit the City again soon.