Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-10-23
NATURAL GAS

Addresses From Pittsburghers GaslIghi
Associations Meeting.
PHILADELPHIA, October 22.-W. II.
DenistOn, Secretary of the East End Gas
Company, of Pittsburgh, read paper on
Natural Gas, at yesterdays convention
Of the American Gaslight Association.
His remarks were chiefly directed to the
effect which the development of the gas
wells will have on the manufacture ofcoal
gas in those localities situated upon the
natural gas belts In the speakers opin-
ion the effect Of the discovery and deyel-
ment of the uses of natural gas will not
be so great upon the manufactured
article. Its chief eneroachment on
the use of the latter will be in its utility
Is a fuel. 1t cannot be used very well as
an illuminant in its natural state, as the
hight which it furnishes is not up to the
standard of the manufactured article, and
il also carries with it dirty smoke, which
leaves its marks ON ceilings and walls
wherever used. 1t can, however, be en-
riched by passing it through incandeseent
coal, and by combining with it coal gas,
wa ter gas or nahtha. Coal gas men, he
said. are in better position to utilize
natural gas for Illuminating purposes than
are the natural gas companies themselves,
because il is so abundantth that the pressure on
natural gas supply pipes must be so strong
that il il were used in illuminating pipes
uneOnsumed gas would be forced into the
houses where it is in use.
Several Iof the delegates followed Mr..
DenniSOn's paper with remarks on the same
subject. Robert Young, engineer and
Superintendent of the Allegheny Gaslight
Company, Of Allegheny, Pa, said that
there were from six to seven hundred
millions cubic feet of natural gas used in
Pittsburgh for fuel beside the amount
wasted, and the price received per thOus-
and feet averages from two TO five cents.
Mr.. A. &. Wood, the chairman of the
association, asked could natural gas be
piped from Pittsburg to Buffalo, and he
distributed for domestic purposes ut a
price TO compete with coal rs fuel.
Emerson Mcmillan, engineer and super
intendent of the Columbus Gaslight Com
| pany, who, by reason OF his beng State
| Geologist OF Ohio. has made himself tamil-
lar with the natural gas question, said that
| he did not hesitate To state that within u
short while scientific research would make
10 per cent. of natural gas ft for illumiu-
| ting purposes
In answer to Chairman Woods question
in regard TO piping gas to distance for
domestic purposes, the cost OF laying pipes
/ in the first place would be too great to al
low it to be a competitor with coal gas.
| Ii is, he said, far superior fuel, and
If it could be piped to Buffalo it would
be success, hut it would require
from fifty to seventy-tiye millions feet
day, and to lay the pipes necessary to
carry it the distance, which is about two
hundred miles, it would cost ten millions
of dollars. The necessary pressure would
be two hundred and fifty pounds, and 1t Is
not known whether that pressure could be
maintained through that distance
e.. Z. HequembOurg, President and
Superintendent of the Bradford GaSlight
and Heating Company, stated that from
% to so per cent of the natural gas supply
goes to waste In his opinion natural gas
can be transported thousand miles with
| but little cost to the consumer in advance
of that paid in the gas district, and further
| that from 40 to % per cent Oft can be
used rs a basis for an Illuminating gas.