Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-05-20
NATURAL GAS.
The West Virginia Company Push
ing Things theoretically.
An Outline of the Mains to Be Laid Within
This Cib-About Twenty Miles
of Pipe Required.

The Natural Gas Company of West Viz
GINA is continuing to boom things in the
most energetic way and it will not now be
long until the work of pipe lsy ,ng will be
commenced in this city. The officials of
the Company have almost completed the
mapping out of the routes the pipe lines
will follow through the streets and alleys
Of the city, and at an early date spplica-
ton will be formally made to the Board OF
Public Works for permission to break
ground. About $4,000 or 10000 feet OF
the main pipe to be put down inside the
city has been ordered, and additional
orders will follow from time to time. AS
giving an idea of the amount of pipe re-
CURED to properly pipe the streets of this
city, We will give an outline of the routes
so far laid down on the map of the engineer
in charge, it being understood that they
are yet subject to change.
As is quite we'll known by this time, the
pipe lines of the company enter town at,
the head Of Twenty. ninth street and also at
the extreme northern end OF the city
Starting from the north end OF Main
street, the pipe line branches, one branch
crossing the river diagopslly to the north
point OF the Island, whence it runs to the
north end of North Huron street. The
line follows that thoroughtsre south until
Zane street is reached. The line then
runs east on Zane street to South Front,
and thence down that street to its lower
end. Another branch runs east on New
Jersey street from North Huron to North
Front down North Front to North Broad
way and down that street to Zane. Sill
another branch runs from New Jersey
street to North York. and down that street
to Zane. From Zane street the line runs
down South PENN and South Huron streets
to the alleys running east and west, north
and south of Virginia street, thus avoiding
tearing up the paved street. while the
main continues on down Penn street to its
lower end, with numerous other branches.
Coming back to the east side of the
river, the main pipe line runs south on
Main street to Fifth, up that street to Mar.
ket, down Market TO Twelfth, up Twelfth
to Eoff, down Eoff to Fourteenth, and out
Fourteenth to McCulloch street. Another
branch starts at the corner OF Eotf and
Fourteenth streets and runs down Eotf to
Eighteenth, and thence out that street 10
the creek. Another branch st0rts at the
corner of Eof and Fifteenth streets and
runs east on Fifteenth TO the creek. From
Twelfth street, on Market, the pipe line
runs south to the Market street bridge,
where another branch runs out Eighteenth
street TO the creek. Going back to the
corner of Main and Fifth streets
the main line runs on down Main
10 the creek, branch rdnning down
Eleventh to Water, south on Water to
Fourteenth, and up Fourteenth TO Eoh.
Crossing the creek at Main street, the pipe
line runs on down that thoroughtGre 10
TWenty.siyth street, where the line coming
down Market street is pet At the corner
of Market and 7 Senlieth strests o branch Of
the pipe line runG out TO Eoit street and then
down the alleys east and west of that street,
70 avoid displacing the brick pavement. On
TWenty-sixrh street the pipe line runs east
TO Jacob, down Jacob to Thirty.frst street,
west on Thirty first street to Eof, down
Eot to Thirty Ge.enth styeet. where the
line meets the high pressure line from
Twenty.ninth street. The line then runs
on down Eoff street to Thirty. ninth, east
on Thirty.ninth to Jacob street, and thence
south on that street to Forty eighth. There
are, in addition to- tue ta4in lines here emu
uerated, considerable number of small
lateral branches not worthy of detailed refer
epoa. The lines thus referred to in detail
are generally and Ii inches in diameter,
and are "loT pressure" The company
proposes to locate four gssometers within
the city as follows; One at the extreme
north end of Main street, one on the Island,
not vet exactly located, QUE at the corner
of Sixteenth aud McCulloch streets, and
one at the corner of Wood and Twenty
ninth streets. Already msnY applications
tor gas have been received at the Office OF
the company, and from this time on the
number of applicants may be expected to
rapidly increase. As stated several days
ago. several citizens have piped their
houses for gaS already, and others are max
ing arrangements to do so.