Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-08-29

| so familiar years ago iii the cities about
the falls, met me, and without sere-
monv, escorted me through the town 81
/ Creighton. I Will MSS his expla NATION
without quotation marks Three years
! ago, believeing that q natural flow Of
gas could be obtained in the valley CT
| the Allegheny north Of Pittsbnrg suf-
!. felent TO serve the purpose of fuel and
hight for any nnanufact tory, two hundred
acres were purchased and q well was
| sunk a we'll defined coal vein was on
the property, but coal was. not wanted ;
gas was, and gas was struck at 1900
/ feet, III five inch bore. a stream, q
torrent Of pure hydrogen gas, burst out
with force OF $50 pounds to the square
inch, and the tablshnent Of plate
glass works on an economical basis boz
came a fixed fact. Last November the
| Pittsbnrg Plate Glass Company was
! organized 5..a - HI < ,z $
/ What / saw is what ( wish to speak
| about. No coal, no wood, no cindsrs,
no ashes, no smoke (thilk OF that), no
debris Of q factory to be seen anywhere.
| In the furnaces a larid, steady heat,
regulates Like clock work. Overhead,
in the vast works, were gas burners
| ablaze in the broad day, because, as
| Captain Fozl said, sit was not worth
while to turn the burners off and on,
as there was plenty Of gas, and to spare.
| All through this vast establishment,
with it's great whit1ing tables loaded
with plate glass undergoing the several
processes of polishing. was observable
the supreme power Of the fve~inch pipe
of natural gas. The great engine
throbbed and moved in perfect regular
ity all the mechanism of the establish
ment, actuated by the same simple,
natural power. No coal, no ashes, no
cinders, no smoked
"Come to the house and I'll show
you how we get along without coal, y
said Captain Fsrd.
Wonderingly I followed.
In q charming cottage residence Of
large capacity, with CRATE and gaslights
in every room and hall, and in the
kitchen stove, even, were nothing but
fringes Of gas jets.
s'Iast winter, rs cold as the winter
was we didn't know what cold was, y
! said lady in this delightful home.
Why should they? A thumbscrew on
a gas pipe regulated the temperature
to absolute perfection. We live in q
fast age. To primitive people, depend
ent upon coal and wood for heating
purposes, whether we get it through
cheap stoves, CRATES, or costly furna-
ces, what revelation this ma
lures gas company is. I ana in
clined to have q mighty poor opinion 0
our local gas companies with their mil
lions of capital, when I think of Cap
tain Ford's fve~inch pipe stuck in the
hills, just beyond the town Of Creighton,
on the Allegheny river. Nature has
quietly been pressed into the most prac-
tical and ntillitarian methods for man 8
profit and luxury. The only cloud that
arises from this community is formed
from steam.
Eve don't need to use this steam at
ALL said Captain Ford. 1.-THE natural
pressure Of The gas, $50 pounds to the
square inch, will drive our engines, end
we can use the escaping gas just as well
for fuel and light. They are doing it
below us, and We will soon adopt the
same method. "--Pittsburg, Pa, Cor
respondence Of Louisville Courier Jour-
! nal.