The daily gazette., 1875-12-13
KEELYS MOTOR ECLIPSED
MR. ELI PERKINS DISCOVERIES
IN NPENNSYLXANIA.
A Gas Well That VIII supply Power
for all the Engines I'm the state, and
Light all the Cities-COming Down
fall of MOnODOly,

for all the Engines In the state, and
Light all the Cities-Coming Down
fall of Monopoly.
PITTSBURGH, Dec. IL found Pitts
burgh in a high state of excitement
last week about the rev gas we'll dis
covcries in Butler county. Iron max
ers were predicting revolution in the
iron business, if the gas discovered
should keep up the vast supply now
pouring out of the ground, and gas
companies were trembling for fear the
gas works of the Almighty were to do
away with all their artificial perfec.
tions for heat and light. The largest
rolling mill in Pittsburgh, Grant,
Bennett & Co., had already run five
inch pipe, eighteen miles from Pitts
burgh, and they were heating dozen
iron retorts with natural gas from the
Modoc we'll in Butler county.
After I had spent half day watch
ing the making of iron and steclby gas
heat, | asked one of the gray haired
partners of the house if the gas was
proving much of success in the rolling
mill.
Yes" he said, "we can make bet
ter iron, better steel and better wrought
nails, and make them very much
cheaper with gas than with coal. We
and no sulphur in the gas, and 1t is
equal to the best charcoal to make iron
with"
care other iron works using gas too?"
| asked.
"They are preparing to use it quite
generally in Pittsburg. One gas com
pany is laying pipes now. The rolling
mills at Erie use gas. One axe factory
is using 1t here, and in Petroleum, St.
10 and hillerstown they are using it
entitely to run steam engines with and
light their streets; also in Fredonia,
n. Yves. and they use gas stoves
everywhere up the Allegheny and Old
Creek valleys
On my lecture route through the oil
regions during the past week have
found that natural gas is being gen
orally utilized for heating and lighting
purposes.
, IN TIE GAS REGION.
My engagement in Millelstown, Pa.
+ took me into the very centre Of Butler
! county gas producing region. After
I the lecture | went up on the hill above
! Millerstown and counted foIty-nint
small burning wells. The whole
heavens were aglow with light The
n clouds were silver lined, and reflected
), back the lurid glare from the wells
Il | could stand anywhere and read {
!; newspaper. The boilers OF the fift,
\ oil well engines heated with gas linz
the valley. Away to the south glar'
. like city on fire lighted up th'
r. heavens. From toward the lighte,
h horizon came a runbling roar tina
al drowned the hubbub of the street.
Id What is it?' | asked Mr.. Warm
I'd castle.
rs Is That's the great Delamater ga
mill, Mr.. Perkins, four miles way,
he answered.
d. II thought it was four hundrc
trains OF cars passing over q bridge, y
said.
oy "All night long listened ia the roG
u. Ut of that great Delameter mill, and IL
IT. next morning l rode four miles ov,
scrub oak hills, through muddy gulchs
/ and past, suppose, fifty pumping o
wells, to see the startling wonder.
The noise grew louder and loudt
~ as we approached. Then the rumb
IS changed to Kissing rush like thou
90 and locomotives blowing of steam.
"a At an eighth of mile the mol
w changed again 10 the continuous ROT
., of thousand cannon. The huns
lp. voice could not be heard Commur
to cation was by pantomime. The fan
vi shoots seventy feet into the air like
steeple on fire. The hills are covert
be with snow, but for two acres arour
fill the we'll the grass is green and gro'
ing, except close to the well, whe
the grass looks like burnt lava.
~ At safe distance calves and she,
*. stand warming themselves and eatir
the hot house grass. This two acres
sterile PENNSYLVANIA looks like sc
z" tion of fertile Florida.
"What makes it sound like the CO
tinuous report of artillery | ask
the engineer.
N. NATURES ARTILLERY.
Because it Is five inch cannt
r constantly exploding Look, sd
he, "you see the first fame twenty fe
from the muzzle-that is the flash, Il
explosion. 1t is like cannon, on
Oo, this is continuous million cannon
80. a minute-in fact, one explosion AZ
conclusion gcing on forever"
1t is wonderful to see this volcai
81 fame exploding in the air. The pre-
=, sure is so great that the gas cam
" ignite till it gets twenty feet beyoi
the nozzle.
~ The stream of gas comes up 1,6
90 feet through five inch iron pipe, al
is conducted off 200 feet through a
50, other tube, where it finds vent. tt
general pressure of the gas with Il
10 valve open is 800 pounds to the squa
inch. We partly closed the valve al
q the pressure ran up to LEO
closed it alittle more, and the tubir
re- began to tremble and the great t
o'' weight holding it down began to lif
: 1t was only quick tarn of the skilfI
engineer that saved 900 of iron tu
ing, anchored down with several tor
} weight, from shooting like an AFRO
:, into the air. You can better realii
the terrible pressure OF this gas wht
YOU reflect that the pressure of s
ordinary locomotive boiler is from
nd to 1875 pounds to the square inc
l.