The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-11-02

mounted and overcome. AS straight a
line as could be well maintained WAS
kept, but the pipes pass over very un-
even country and scale some very high
hills, and by strict attention and untiring
! diligence an almost perfect line has been
secured, regardless of the topography OF
/ the ground.
SALT WATER RECEIVER.
AS the gas flows from tho we'll il is sc-
companied by small quantity of salt
/ wster, and III order to prevent the same
from getting into the pipes and thence to
the pudding furnace, receiver has been
erected st the well, through which the
gas passes to the transporting pipes, the
salt water dropping into che receiver
aforementioned.
/ CAPACITY or THE WELL.
The flow OF gas at the well is so yOlu-
! minous that the Company has not as yet
determined accurately the capacity of
/ the Great American Gas Producer, for
such it seems to have been appropriately
named, A partial test has been made,
however, and q pressure of l40 pounds 10
| the square inch has been attained. The
gas was shut off at this junCture, as II
was evident that the receiver could not
withstand the full and complete power
| of the we'll The receiver is forty eight
inches in diameter and twenty feet long,
/ and is made Of heavy boiler iron, the
/ heads inside being stayed and thoroughly
secured by inch bolt, This test Of itself
was considered entirely satisfactory.
I 1t further appears that this gas has
been flowing for tour years aud that there
i, 10 signs Of ITS giving out yet, IT. force
being AS strong now ss when the well was
first tapped. Several tests of the heat
and strength Of the gas have been made,
the last one on Friday, the 22d inst.
when there WAS attached 10 the main
/ line four three inch pipes, the same being
allowed to flow open. The result WAS
that " hen lighted these made a fire 50 hot
that buildings forty yards Oft were IN
danger OF taking fire, and shutting Off
Of the force of tho gas was necessItsted.
The gas come. up from the well
through pipe sos inches in diameter,
and the projectors of the enterprise are
not in the least degree concerned about
the supply continuing. They have given
the matter the most careful and sCrutln-
iEing investigation. and state there never
mas been an instance Of gas well CIV
ing out unless the well had IN some way
been tampered with, and the How chang
Ell 10 some other quarter. The fact can
not he gsinsaid.
On "Wednesday last, the gas was intro
duced into one OF the pudding furnaces
3: the mill Of messrs. Spang, Chaltant
Il Co., through three-q quarters OF an inch
pipe. The furnace WAS perfectly cold,
but in twenty minutes after the gas be-
gan to fow into the furnace white heat
was obtained. That the reader may iul-
" understand the immense heating ca
pacity of the gas, il J. rmincnt!y proper
for us to state that with the ordinary
method Of heating with coal, five hours
would have been required to produce II
/ similar heat N the furnace.
/ a saving OF lOuI upulN anu A'i -
minutes is something OF value to man
ufscturers of iron. Both firms are now
| busilv engaged in changing their pud
ding furnaces so as TO receive the gas
as il is fed through the pipes, and in Il
short time the clouds of black smoke
which for years has been observed es
Gaping from the tall stacks on those mills
will be seen for the last time, and the
owners OF the mills will be able to pro-
duce better heat in much quicker time
and with less handling and annoyance
and no dirt whatever, than under the
old method when coal was used.
Not bushel of coal will be needed,
ard not bushel will be used in either
Of these mills after the gas has been in
Lroduaed.
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