Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-06
THE PIPE LINE,
.CS r.:oUHEsS THRUuGn This COUNT
e. Presentation at the stevens sspus.,a
irge Gathering OF Liuesmen An
ImportIuI inIercst-she Work
II This County

Impo.tanr inuercst-Ehs Work
This County
Very lew oI Gar citizens hayo any cuu-
| Ccp'Iru oI ,h: magnitude and Importance
| Of ,l,a wuIk ut the National Transit COM
| VLny. which ha> been for some time en-
! Ga-ri upon .nt IS HOW about completing
the construction OF q pipe line through,
the northeastern section OF this county.
From time IL time its progress has been
noted i'll the lNrELIlGENCEii and also tho
| &c. that iGs .sentS have beou prospect
| ing for :: branch l;uc down tho
IoDcStos;a aud ;llorg the SuS1uehaun.
~ = route To Baltimore. 1t seems that
| there Is At present l completed line Of
? pcs for the transportation ot oil from the
oil regions 70 LatshGw ON the Mahanoy
anu Trivertrn road OF the Reading sys-
tcm. The present line in this county
begins ~ Mi!way, on tue Reading l.
Columbia railroad. whence the connection
Is To be made with Latshaw. From this
LATER station the line runs across Lancas-
ter, Chester anu Delaware counties
to Philadelphia. and it is now
within two weeks Of completion.
From Midway tho route lies southeast,
c.os>ing tao ConesSosa in West Earl
township, the New Holland and Lancaster
Holland. running across the Welsh
mountain t. lllbcrn. ON tho Wilmington
y Northern railroad, within two miles of
Coatesvi'lo. pas; BrandywiIc summit and
Po2cpsin to Philadelphia. Over all of
this route, through pipes of six inches cal
lbre, crossing mountains and running
under tho bed Of streams, tho oil is to be
pumped from tho stations at Midway,
which will be tho only stations on tho line.
Two very large buildings, requiring i
half million brick i'll their construction,
will DO erected there for pumping stations,
and at no other point between there and
Philadelphia will there DO any sign of tho
work above ground.
Along this line rights of way were Sc
cured some time ago by purchase at tho
rate of from - cents 4 rod upward aud in
addition the company agreed to pay land
owners Il fair compensation for all damages
actually done. The amount of this
un;.or the agreement is fixed by arbitration,
tie comptny selecting one referee, tho
In downrr the other and these two tho
third
Wrought iron pipe of 4 inch bore is laid
several feet under ground, and in crossing
streams there is 4 rip-rap of stones laid
above it to protect it from flood or ice.
The joints are screw, and the pipe is tested
with 800 pounds pressure, the greatest
that it is expected to be subjected to be-
lug about 1000. Tho projectors of tho
local limo say there is little danger of
brcakase or leakage, the passage of tho
oil forming on the inside of
the pipe 4 CLASSY surface covering de-
fects and coating the interior with paraf-
fine. In the thirty miles of line from Pine
station to Milton there have not been 80
pints of oil lost. The line runs under
many streams which supply cities with
drinking wate-, and the company claims
that 10 complaints of vitiation are reported.
In one instance a freshet broke tho pipes
and 800 barrels OF oil were lost, but tho
same power carried off the oil on the siIr-
face of the water, and the citizens never
detected any taint.