Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-05-07
NATURAL GAS NOTES.
Rumor That a New Company will
Enter This City.
Pipe Laying in the River to Commence
To-0ay---The New Field Near
Farmingtoa.

The progress of the various natural gas
companies is being watched with deep In
terest by the merchants and manufacturers,
ofthis city, who are pretty unanimous in
the belief that the introduction of the fuel
will r~ejuvensts the old town
and put new life into its sluggish veins.
They reason that with the advent Of natural
gas will come capitalists from a distance
seeking locations where q share Of the ben
eits arising from the use of natures fdel
can be obtained, that the simple laying and
maintenance of the pipe lines
will give employment to hundreds If
workmsn now idle, that our W manutac-
turers, being put in a position to compete
with Pittsburg, will increase their plants
and outputs, and that large amounts of
home capital, now lying idle, will be put
into investments yielding a substantial re-
turn-all of which will augment the bust
ness of the community and tend to build
up the city and give it a decided impetus
forward ia the direction Of increased pop
ulation and wealth. Already the effects OF
the coming change are to be seen-busi'
ness is slowly picking up, people who were
respondent and disheartened a few months
ago, are looking to the future with al
ever increasing hop that better things are
in store for us, and there is a general re
turn of confidence among all classts.
Meanwhile the gas companies are push,
ing for ward their work with all the speed
which energy ard capital can command.
The Natural Gas Company Of West Vir'
GINA ia receiving a steady stream of pipe
from the Pittsburg manufacturers, and
Yesterday sub. Contractor Myles left over
the Pittsburg division of the B. & o. with
the first instsllment Of forty Wheeling Ia
borers to aid in the work of constructing
the line. Other workmen will follow in a
few days.
Just above the city, the Wheeling Nat
ural Gas Company has O force at work GA
each side of the river preparing the
trenches for the reception of pipe, and to
day the work of laying the main across the
river to Martins Ferry will commence.
Work will be pushed forward rapidly. Next
week, it is hoped, the Manufacturers Com
pany will break ground inside the city
limits for their pipe line leading to the
manufactures of those gentls men interest.
ed in the company.
Ii seems we are to have still anoth. r
gas company knocking at our doors. The
Pennsylvania Secretary Of State has issued
a charter to the Western Pennsylvania
Natural Gas Company, which proposes to
drill for gas in Washington and Greene
counties, and pipe the gas to this city This
company is composed of j. NJ. Gu6y, R.
C. Elliott, I. Fl Given, L. Fl Williams
and William Finn.
Regarding the gas field recently located
in Green county, Pa, and MonoDgsl'a ard
Marion counties, this State, Z. NJ. HukilI,
who OWES large leases in the country men
toned, says:
Il began only fifteen months ago to as
certain the possibilities of the Greene
county field. Since that eight wells have
been begun, the last one near Pennington,
on the B,liimere and Ohio road. The
first Of the Va lis attempted was a fortunate
adventure, and o good flow was obtained
were drilled into what ia apparently the
same sand with no good results We
have been drilling in one wei and sus'
pending operation in the others until the
determination of the outcome Of the first
one. Some lime ago we dropped the tools
into the we'll 500 feet, together with several
hundred feet OF cable. The cable was de-
fective and as often as it has been caught
it broke, and it will bs some little time yet
before we get the tools out. The Geld, in
the opinion Of many, 70 raost promising
one"