Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-05-05
PIPE LINE LOCATED.
The wheeling Natural Gas Com
pany
Submit a Sketch of a Route Through the
City to the Board Of Public
Works.

Last evening a number Of gentleman in
10 the Wheeling Natural Gas Com
ANY. including Contractor William Finn
Engineer Merritt, and Mr.. L 81 Williams,
Of the COmpsuy, came down
rom Pittsburg, and about 8 o'clock, in
company with N. E. Whitaker and G. ".
3rockunier, two of the incorporates OF the
Wheeling Company, repaired to the City
Hall for the purpose of laying before the
Board of Public Works a plan OF a route
the city for the company's line.
Che members Of the Board we're oil on
hand, and being joined by aessrs. w: d
aud Alfred Caldwell, Solicitors
for the Natural Gas Company of West Viz,
sinis. the party scjourned to the chamber
the First Branch of Council, where Q
plat of the city. was spread out and
the attention Of those present attracted
TO it.
SIR. Williams. the Secretary of the Com
pany, had roughly sketched the route OF
pips line through the city, and it was ex-
D aimed to the Board by Mr.. Merritt as
follows:
The line from the gas wells, composed
of twelve inch pipe, strikes the river at o
Ioint about opposite the Lsughlin nail
mil, AID three gGsrrers of q mills TO a mile
north of the Top mill. Coming down the
river q short distance, the line divides, ano
while one branch crosses the river 10 Msr
Tins Ferry, the other, ten inches In
diameter, on down past the
Top Mill, and over the stone bridge across
Jonsthsn's RaVIne into Main street. This
thoroughlare is followed south until TWen-
ty-six,h street is reached n branch ieaV-
log the main line at the intersection Of
Sixteenth street, running along South
street, past the old Hubbard saw mill prop.
erty. TO Market street, up Eighteenth street
to Eoff, down Eof to Nineteenth street,
and thence out that street to and beyond
the Hinge Factory, possibly following the
creek bank as far as the Central Glass
Works. Another branch will leave the
main line at the corner of Main aud
Twentieth streets, and will ran east on
Twentieth to the Whitaker sMill, and
thence along the creek bank to
Reymsnn's Brewery. From Main street, a.
Twenty-sixth, the main line will run east
on Twenty-sixth to Chspline street, south
on Chspliue to Thirty first street, east on
Thirty first street to Wood, south on Wood
10 Thir,y,second streef, east on Thirty
second 10 McCulloch, south on McCullocb
to Thirtythird, up Thirty-third to Wetzel,
aud thence south on Wetzel street to
Hobbs, B~rockunier 4 Co g glass works.
When Mr.. Merritt had finished this ex,
PLANTATION, Mr.. Finn, one Of the firm Of
contractors proposing to lay the line, ad
dressed the Board he said that inside
the city toe pipe line would be constructed
in the most thorough manner, with screw
Joints, each joint having in addition a cas-
IRON collar loaded OF go as 10 afford u
double safeguard ag.iHs} danger from
leakage. The gas would enter The mains
at the north end of the city with a pressure
of about twenty pounds TO the square inch,
said pressure being regulated atIhe station
where the pipe line bcanChsd 10 cross to-
river. At this station g man would De
placed az all hours, having telephone con
necrion with subscribers IN the city, and
also with other stations at intervals along
the line to the gas wells, 30 that the
amount of gas could bs regulated at pleas
ure. Above The station at the Top mil
the pressure would probably be forty
pounds About seven pounds o: pressure
would ba lost for eysry mile OF pipe iine,
80 that BIZ the time the gas got TO Hobbs
there would be out three or four pounds
pressure 10 the pipe Doe pound OF pres
sure was enough to run the largest concern
IN the city. The great iron works OF Jones
i Laughlin, 10 P~ltisourg, was rua on one
pound, and some of the large glass works
had u pressure of but six or eight ounces
The lover the pressure me better the gas
burned. The first pipe would probably ar.
rive on Monday next, aud 1t was hoped the
WORK of laying The mains in the city could
be starred in ten days. he hoped the
Board would examine the plat submitted
and give the company o speedy answer.
President Hobbs asked 70 what depth 1t
vas proposed to sink the pipe, and what
course would be pursued with regard to
water and gas pipe, sewers, etc, encoun
tered. to which Nj. Finn replied that the
TOD of ,he pipe would ordinarily be four feet
below the grade o! the street and that when
sewers, etc were met tee gas pipe would
be sunk 80 as 10 ruu under them.
Mr.. Hearne. representing toe Natural
Gas Company OF West Virginia, said he
would ike the Wheeling Company to SUB,
nit q plat showing the exact location Of
the proposed main on the streets sought 10
be trRversed. His company proposed run
ming mans along some oil the streets which
had been named aud it would naturally
like 20 have tae route asked for properly
defined.
Replying to this. Mr.. FINN stated that
the company could not locate the pipe line
Or the ~stEeeis. Tha' was for thu Board OF
Public Works. The most the mpany
could do wa3 to indicate to the Board tbs
streets it desired to traverse, and leave the
location of the line 10 the Board. That
bad been the custom az Pitisbnrg and
elsewhere.
Mr.. Eyerter, of The Board, asked whether
or not Market street would not serve The
company as we'll as Main, as the laying Of
the mains en- Main street might possibly
interfere with the new pavement TO be put
down this spring.
Mr. Finn aaid Market slreet would do,
from Fifth down to T~wsnty-sixth, juSt IS
we'll as Main; his company was not at ell
particular Us to that.
after some further discussion of the
matter, the papers were left With the Board
for action, and the meeting IVES dissolved.
WANTED A SURE THING.