The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-12-27
NATURAL GAS THEORY.
WHICH sEnMs yHRY RlAgsIRLE,
No Danger Of the Fluid Fuel Giving out,
thopghl II II should this sspaopls SIM
unapProashabls in Cheap and Per-
feet Fasl-Whssllps'ss strength
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feet Fusl-Whssllps's strength.
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! must give credit to the nail trade, ]
hayepot been allow to And fault wiEhthem,
and ! am Just Is well disposed 70 pat them
on the back, to use 9 late Beesherism,
when they exhibit proofs Of regeneration,
They are holding firmly to the recent ad-
vance to s. 10 and are getting II, ! be-
lieYe they are somewhat surprised at their
own Adelity-but sinners do not jump
into grace headlong without experiencing
some confused feeling Of uniamiliAIity
with the ways Of the sancifed.
The reluctance OF capital and its stmuV
lator, enterprise, 70 expand the production
Of Beasemer steel blooms, tlllels and
slabs, Is peculiar. Capital has been made
unnAturslly tnid by the Aggressive and
selfish spirit manifested by labor, but the
influence Of that upwlss sentiment Is
passing Of, organised labor Ia in danger
Of disintegration from its own pondeEons
gravity and II Is becoming more concil-
iatory, better disposed towards reciprocity
as II learns that capital ia not seeking 70
impose upon It,
There Ia an actual scSntiness Ia the sup
ply OF BessemeT blooms and slabs, and I'M,
less figures deceive, Shere Ia an extra good
margin in the business Of manufacturing,
Good sites In advantageous proximity to
the center Of the trade, Pittsburgh, are
not plenty, as the space requirements OF
BesaemeT plants are materially greater
than Tor mills and factories, or even fur
nRces.
Wheeling, though sluggish in responds
ing TO the voice Of progress, has at last
come to the front with her acres Of unoc'
cupied localities; and investing enterprise
will tlud choice sites In her envlrons In
any proximity desirable to both rail- and
river transportation, just sixsy.6ve miles
from Pittsburgh, with three lines Of rail-
way connecting them aud Q fourth in pro-
cess OF organization,
Wheeling has closer and more direct
connection than Pittsburgh with the Elat,
West and South by the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad, and her nearly completed Ohio
River railroad. Then another feature IN
favor OF Wheeling, not being 50 thorough
| " built up and developed as Pittsburgh
her possibilities for future development
and advancement, aided and embellished
| BY all the improved accessories and go
complishmsnts Of modern progress, are far
greater. She is now almost crude, un-
formed, awaiting the sharpening, proper
tioning, refining hand oil modern progress
am not the trumpeter oil Wheeling, but
| | fret to see such grand opportunities go.
ing to seed and her own people either M
willing or unable to develop them-while
know that enterprise extsts-whiCh
would be only too well satisfied to have
the chance, were they sufficiently adyer.
tised go they could learn Of them,
Buffalo has natural gas, conveyed to her
through en- S.inOh pipe over distance oil
eighty miles. The mere accomplishment
| OF getting the gas there will avail nothing
1T Ia practically impotent when 1t Is
there. It,would require q large number
| OF even 10.inch pipe lines to convey the
gas to Buffalo In practicable or profitable
Volume, besides, In order TO accomplish
this, Pittsburgh would have to submit to
plain robbery Of her own base OIL supplies
the Pennsylvania Geld, which she will
never do. Another taunt, dictated by
enyious malignanCy, 10 flung at this dis
krict-the subject selected Is the decllna-
lion OF the wells In the Tarentum, the
Oldest field. "0ne swallow don't make o
summer,n neither does one ialter make q
wholesale downfall.
The region from whence Pittsburgh
draws her support ig as replete with
heavily charged gas veins as o sponge Is
Of pores. Some, 1t has been SAID, are ex-
haustible in time by heavy draughtage
and waste, whiloiothers arc inexhahsHble,
because maintained by nature In constant
supply. The weaker veins were the first
tapped. Pittsburgh controls the great
base OF the natural gas supply aud she is
not alarmed. Suppose 1t should fail, the
upper Ohio Valley has, as ] have dilated
on in former letters, sole inheritance in
the best and only substitute Tor natural
gRs-her immense deposits Of biLuminous
coal. And In the meantime her manu-
iacturets have taught the industrial
world that the only fuel that can be used
with profit Is gas fuel, whether natural or
artificial.
But this 10 Oil lule. InlH natural gas ID
being continually generated by the quiet
consumption d oarbonifeIous deposits
which underlie this gas region In Penu-
Bylyania and West Virginia, covering
some 5000 tquare miles. This combus-
ton, cut of as 1t Is from exposure to &C.
tive oxygen, must be allow. Nature Ia
scarcely ever niggardly with her glits; on
the contrary, she 10 generally lavish, II
not prodigal. She hiss hettowed coal and
iron in certain localities. the deposits are,
when at all worth working, very gener.
Gus; 80 II is with silver, so with gold
there Is Of all ever plenty for mans best
uses. II can surely be claimed, "pari
passp," that these caibonilerous deposits
have been given with an equally bene6-
cent hand. It 10 but natural that aome
Of the ramiHcations Of these deposits from
the main bed are weak when near their
outer limit, and easily exhausted, but the
main bed will certainly outlast the uses
Of present generations. The intermittent
nature Of the flow Of gas, more noticeable
at timea than others, 10 also due TO the
quiet character Of the process Of genera.
ton going on; II tiickefs, 90 II were, and
anon brishtens up.
"CoNsrIRAotEs no sooner should be
formed than executed and Q cold should
no aooner be taken, than bottle OF Dr..