The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-12-10
KEELEY'S MOTOR ECLlPSED.
mr.. Ell PERkINS'S DTSCOTERfES
~ PENNNILJANII.
A Oas wen TINT will supply Power for NIL
the Engines IL the STATE, aud Light all the
,t,t.. Tn,niuu nuOuuIl of 1Iouopuiy.

DfTI@yt NGlI, Zee. i.--l iOlllll lIlcDulEu
nAngn state OF excitement last week hout
N. new gas well discoveries in Butler c0:nty.
fronni. kcrs we're predicting arevoiutio,i in the
Lan business, u the gas discovered si1uld keep
" the vast supply now pouring out of tho
around. md ga companies v, re- trembling for
pesr tho sisworks OF tho Almighty were to do
swsy with an their ARTIFICIAL Projections for heat
and Hight. The largest rolling mill in Pittsburgh,
Grant, bennett : Co.. had already run I'VE
inch pine, eighteen miles from Pittsburgh, and
uey We heating du2en iron retorts with
saturd gas from tho ModOc Well In Butler
county.
Afer had spent a half day watching the
nAking VI iron and steel by gas heat. I asked
enc " tho gray-hared partners Of the house II
he c,s was proving success M the rolling mill.
yes" he said. ave can make better iron.
better steel, and better wrought nails, and m ke
them ycry much cheaper With gas than with
coal. We and no sulphur in the gas, and II Is
equal to the hest charcoal to make iron with"
Are oth,r iron works usiag gas too?" a'lei.
"They Gre preparing to use 1t quite generally
In Pittsburgh. one gas company Is laying vi e.
sow. The rolling mills ~ NJ Erie use gas. One
axe factory "a using II here, and In Petroleum,
Vt. 10 and Mllcr.towu they are using 1t entirely
70 run steam engines with aud light their
streets also IN Frcdonia, N. Yves, and they
use gas stoves everywhere up the Allegheny
and on Greek valicys,'
durtns N p"si week have found q nj uttural
Fas is Icing generally utilized for heating and
hghtn- purposes.
N ruE GAS REGION
My engagement in Mulcrstown. Pa took me
int TIE very centre of Butter county ens ur0-
sbe nii a6oye N,tr.t"wn ' and eou m f
nine small burning wells. The whole he.S.n.
were oel9w win lirht. Tho clouds wer' silver
hired and Il ,tel back the urid q. re- FROM the
wells. lcnuli stand anywhere and Pc j n"ws-
pnrer The boiler. IT hlty oii-wrll en-'n-s
south glare Ike a city on IRE lighted ~ ia"
beavers From toward the h.hicd horizon
e.me q rIr nuug roar tn"t drowned the hubouu
wi q. in" asked Mr warmcas,e,
"That's the great nclcmat"r gas mill, Mr.. Per
kns, four miles away" he answered.
"I'honrht It was -FOUR hundred trains Of cars
All nisht long li.t'ne 10 thu roar ~ tina,
great l'elemater mili' aud the * woin'rc
muddy sulcnes. and past. SUPPOSE. nfN DUMP
ng III we'll. to see the - riliug wonder.
The noise grew louder and louder u- we nu-
preached. Then the rumble changed a. his
Ing rush like thousand locomotives blowing
At an eighth q milo tho noise changed again
70 the continuous rom Of Thousand cannon.
The human voice could not po heard. { M
punc ton was by partonine. The niiir
shoots into the mir seventy feet Ike asteeple 900
are. The hills were covered with snow. but Tor
two acres around HE well the grass Is green and
growing, except close to the well vlcre tine
ground iooks like burnt lava. Ala safe distance
calves and sneen stand warming thcwsnlNct Nud
eating the not-nOuse grass. This two scre- #
u-t.e ItunsNlyania looks like a section OF fer
Z" WHAT makes II sound like the continuous
report Of artlieryf" asked the engineer
NATURES ARTILLERY
Because 10 IL a iyc-inrh cannon constantly
exploGtn.. Luak," -aid he. va see thr dr.t
name twenty f.rt from the uu1zle-,rati - the
nash. the xilo-ion. II Is lik, "a cannon. only
this IA c0ntinaoG- milton cannons minute
IN fact, ne explosion and coneIssiun sJiu- on
IL /. w,n1erftlf ~ soc this volcann n,r.e ax-