The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1888-03-02
NATURAL GAS!
why Don't Jasper Have It7
The Revelation which it Hal
Wrought IN Pennsylvania.

IA Rsvlsv q whas Hse rake. PIses si.es
Years Ago.
The Pitsburg Times publishes = com.
lpIete review Of the revolution which has
taken place In western Pennsy lvanis. bul
more especially In Allegheny county,
since the introduction OF natural gas three
years ago. The industrial development
has been something wonderful. and the
! facts and figures given arss sufficiently y
IstsrtIing to appear Almost incredable.
| But one branch Of trade, the beer bot
ltling industry. has failed 10 increase
since January !, 1855, and thin
has decreased shout 10 per cent, sttribu-
table 10 the Murphy temperance move.
lmcnt, which has : strong i0othold here
| The steel capacity in twelve
iron and steel mills has been increased
,l64 tons per day. In several mile the
has been increased up
wards Of 100 per cent. and In one nearly
400 per cent.
| Great headway has been made in the
manufacture Of wrought iron pipe. In
1854 the capacity OF local mills wss 174.-
200 tons per snnum; now IL IL .20U pet
Idsy, or 800. 600 tons per ear. the great.
lest In the world. The product OF one
lestabIishment In 1857, exceeded the total
Ioutput Of 1855. The iron steel wire
mills have also branched out. and from
1851 700 tons per annum they have In.
lcreassd to los 600 tons.
\ In the blast furnace business, an In
crease Of $50 tons per day or. rs. .O00
tons year, has been attained, while the
coke 6cId product il being enlarged
twenty-five per cent. aud twenty per
cent. Of On increase hss taken place IN
1.-The capacity OF fcundries engaged ex-
IcIusiveIy In the manufacture Of mill ma.
chinery and the same increase IL noted
10 the boiler and tank industry.
| In the manufacture Ct railroad loco
motives there has been an increase Of q
!per cent. The glass trade generally hss
Ihad an immense boom. in the window
glass trade an increase OF 5.076.CU0 feel
lper year has taken place; IN the table
glassware branch the increase wss about
10 per cent. In the manufacture Of plate
lglass the increase has been fully Loo POI
Icens. the monthly capacity now being
$50 600 square feet
Similar Improvement has taken pIac'
'iu the manufaclure or Gue brnes WaTe
l6re-br and sewcr-pipe; in electric
isighting; In tobacco aud spirits: Ieathel
land shoes; lumber; paper sacks. corks
| The growth Of the natural Ras inter.
iests, 10 which The magnificent develop
meut OF the country snd western por'
.iion OF the state IL attributed. hiss beer
simply enormous, aud u among the nsosl
Iremaf kable things Of the age. There arr
leugaged in The enterprise twenty -sil
Icom psnies with nominsl investment O
lea, sos 600. OF which tle.3OO OO0 Il iu
vested In Pitsburg c0mpanies.
i Experts Estimate the total difplace
lment % coal by gss In Allegheny conn
Ity At 2OOOO tons daily. which 10 eQuivs
lent to 5OO,000O00 cubic feet of Gas ev
Iery twenty -four hours. The Phila
IdeIphia 4 CHARTERS Consolidated com
ipany estimated daily capacity u nov
1854 100000 cubic feet, or more thar
enough to supply the county withou
the assistance Of any Of the other nu
|merous companies. There are upward
lof one thousand miles OF pipe used il
1.-THE conveying Of natural gas throughou
1.-The district. OF which the Philadelphia
IChartiers control 665 miles, with sixteeI
Imains from their gas fieIds- The Phi.a
!delphia 4 Charters supplies upwarde o
I19,5OO dwellings and 524 manufacturing
'Ieslsb sbIishments. The largely extendes
loIl territory 10 also = cause for genera
comment - indeed IL every imaginable
branch cf trade in aIl the various coun
tiles west OF the Allegheny mountains