Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-03
READY.MADE GAS.
Burned Night and Day-A Land Where tn
BHEs are Tipped scith Fire.

Burned Night and Day-A Land Where the
BHts are Tipped scith Fire.
Bradford (Pa.) Correspondence n. Y. SUM-
A stranger in Bradford once. seeing that,
no matter where he went about the city, he
found the gas burning at full head IN every
store and building In broad daylight, asked q
citizen:
''Why do you keep your gas burning in the
daytime?"
ITO save Matches" said the Bradform man.
The stranger believed the native was living.
Strictly speaking, he was. But. hguratively,
he was simply giving the stranger an idea in
an epigrammatic way Of the cheapness of
light in Bradford. The stranger didn't know
that the gas he saw blazing
on every hand at MONDAY came ready
for use ,e1 som III. ra natural o Il. S .
beyond the city. He wasn't prepared for the
statement that its cost was so small that
everybody thought the time consumed in
turning it out at night and turning it on
again the next night was worth more than The
gas consumed by continual burning. But that
| was what they told him, and it was true.
The drilling of oil wells is always attended
larger or smaller quantities, although its pres
| snce does not necessarily argue the existence
of petroleum. Thus natural gas has been
used for many years both for fuel
and light in Liverpool, O.. but there
is no petroleum there. The develop
ment of the Pennsylvania oil re-
gion has been accomplished with greater
economy because of the easy adaptability and
cheapness of natural gas as fuel. Bradford
lighted and heated by gas. The places where
gas is found unobstructed by any flow of oil
are called 'sgas streaks." They are extensive
| in the Bradford field. Gas is found in the
greatest volume in the third oil sand, in the
first fifteen feet OF that stratum, although it is
present in all three of the sands in some wells.
Third-sand gas is discovered at depth of
| ton. Gas territory is worth from $50 to
$500 an acre, and the wells are drilled pre-
cisely the same as oil wells are.
Besides use for warmth and light, natural
gas has been successfully utilized in the manu-
| facture of superior quality of carbon lamp
black. Prof. Edison is now experimenting
with this lamp black for use in connection
with his electric light.
| Most of the oil towns are rendered as light
as day the year round by the burning of huge
gas-jets in their streets. 1t is common
thing to see people sitting at night on their
piazZas in warm weather, and reading or sew
| ing by the light of one of these gasjets two
! blocks away. ejets are seen glazing on the
| SUBMITS of high hills, and deep in the "a
| vines and valleys. The hills around Bradford
are crowned with circle of these pillars of
fire. The depths of many a wilderness are
clothed with perpetual light by scores of
these great torches of nature. In the imms-
diate vicinity of many gas-jets the grass
grows green the year round. The many mar
w-gauge railroads which have found thor
oughfare by devious and dizzy ways to every
nook and corner of the Bradford field carry the
| traveller through the heart OF this strangely
| Illuminated region. The scene that greets the
stranger coming into the region at night lie
extremely weird and awe-inspiring.