Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-07-13
WHOOPING THINGS UP.
BOTH NATURAL GAS COMPANIES DOING
THEIR UTMOST
To Bring About a Speedy Introduction Of the
New Fuel--The Record Of YeSter-
day--General Oil
News.

been a notable revival Of activity among
the officials of both the Manufacturers and
| West Virginia Natural Gas Companies,
and even better things are promised in the
immediate future. Below we give the
events OF yesterday in oil and gas circles:
The Natural Gas Company of West Vir-
GINA fairly made things hum along Main
street yesterday. The contractors, Healy
| Bros, had about one hundred and twenty
men at work, and the ditch was pushed
south to Tenth street, and by tonight will
probably be nearly 10 Eleventh. Joint
rings were distributed along the sidewalk
as far south as Sixteenth street,
and pipe will be on hands
in n day or two. This company has done
some filling on the extreme north end of
the Main street line, but have been de-
layed a good deal owing to the non-arrival
of q boiler and pump -or testing purposes.
This will be here to-day, however, and
with it in operation the ditch will be
speedily filled up. The thOroughiare,
with a ditch open oil each side of 1t, pre-
sents anything but an inviting appearance,
! but our citizens are willing to put up with
the inconvenience in view of the great
benefits to be derived from natural gas.
The Manufacturers Company is also
working like beavers, and last night the
laying of the pipe under the b. X q. rail-
road track at South street, on Sixteenth,
was about completed, while the ditch was
being pushed ~diagonally across Main street
To the continuation of South street, run
ming out towards the b. q o. passenger
depot. The piece of ground across Six
tecnth street was very ugly, owing to the
presence of the railroad and innumerable
gas and water pipes, while to make things
worse, the earth showed n decided DISPOSE
ton to slip and had to be shOred up every
foot of the way. Several sharp bends had
to be made in the pipe line, also, and to do
this, large fires had to he kindled in the
ditch, after the pipe was down, and the
mains bent to the proper angle after they
had become red hot.
This morning the W est Virginia company
will commence running their ditch up
Thirty-ninth street from Eotf to Jacob.
Yesterday Contractor Kimberly's men
passed Point Mills, working eastward to-
ward the Pennsylvania line.
Officials OF the West Virginia company
sly the condemnation proceedings at Major
LOring's place will delay the advent OF gas
into the city several weeks, and think it is
a matter OF SO much public Importance
that the Board of County Commissioners
ought to unbend Il little and allow q prac-
ticable route through the Poor House
farm.
A man named Isaac Sanders employed
as calker on the Wheeling Natural Gas
Company'S line in Bridgeport, met with an
accident, yesterday, which fortunately did
not result seriously. He was at work in
the ditch near the tunnel under the rail
road tracks where the cmbankment on
| either side is twelve or fifteen feet high,
when without warning one side cayed in
covering him almost entirely, but tortu-
nately not breaking any bones.
4 telegram from Little Washington last
evening said:
An ingenious young man with an eN-
citable brain wa the parent of Il senSa-
tional rumor yesterday that the CanOns-
burg guy was doing twenty barrels an
hour. Nobody believed the story, and
consequently nobody was surprised when
the scouts paid their early morning calls
to-day that they found the whole matter a
canard. The well was doing nothing at
that time, but later to-day one OF the drill
crs gives out what he claims is q pointer,
that the production is not short of one hun
drcd barrels per day. This story does not
meet with general crcdcncc. Several par
ties started for C%anonsburg about noon,
and their report this afternoon will make
interesting reading. TIylOrstOwn enjoys
dignified leisure doing nothing. The Guf-
fey well, on the Miller farm, will get the
Gordon sand Wednesday. The Curry lot
well expects to tap the same rock this
afternoon. No change from the rest Of
the field"
All the news from the TaylorStown
mystery for the last few days point to the
fact that it is plugged and will 50 remain
awaiting the royal pleasure of its owners.
They have leased all the available territory
in that vicinity and of course cannot he
postponing the opening of the well for the
purpose of making land deals. Another
fact that should not he lost sight of is that
tankage has not yet been provided.