Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-06-05
MORE GAS.
A NEW COMPANY KNOCKING AT THE
DOORS OF COUNCIL FOR ADMISSION,
The Capital Secured, the Chartsr Granted, and
plsnty Of Good Territory Awaiting the Drill
Philadelphia People Interested.

A special meeting Of the City Council
has been called for this evening, at which
an ordinance will be presented granting to
q recently formed natural gas company the
right to run their pipes through the
streets, alleys and public places of the
city. For some time back the REaIsrER
has contained limitations, somewhat in
definite, it is true, of the formation Of a
new company, having for its objective
point the manufactures Of Wheeling and
vicinity, and as late as Sunday morning,
the announcement was made that Com
pany has commenced negotiations for the
purchase OF the big gas well at Amity,
Pa, and had q corps of men in the field
surveying its line towards Wheeling
These publications all referred to the cor
poration which is tonight to apply to
Council for the necessary right Of way.
The new company was organized in
Philadelphia, and its capital was very
largely, if not entirely, secured in that
city. At the head Of the concern is Mr..
W. P. Logan, well known in natural gas
circles as the President Of the Royal Gas
Company, now supplying Steubenville,
and a gentleman well qualified for the en-.
terprise to which he has lent his aid. Mr..
Logan is expected in the city to-day, and
will appear before Council this evening, to
outline the plans of his Company, so far as
that may be essential TO an understanding
Of the situation.
The Company has secured very large
area of the finest natural gas territory, in
the vicinity Of Amity, Pa, aud are in first
class shape in every particular. Lines |
have been surveyed toward the city, and |
everything is in readiness 20 commence
work with o large force as soon as Council
takes favorable action at this end Of the
line. The Company will supply its gas
exclusively to manufacturers, and is as
sured Of large patronage as soon as it gets
into operation.
That il will be welcomed by Council,
goes without saying. Almost from the
time of the first introduction Of the new
fuel into the city, our industries have been
more or less hsmpered by an inadequate
supply, and in some cases very precari.
Gus and unsatisfactory condition of affairs
has existed. Some factories have been
running along upon short supply, which
might cease at any moment, leaving them
badly tangled up on contracts, and others
have had short time contracts Of thirty
days, ETC., with no positive assurance they
would be renewed once they expired.
This state of affairs the new company
proposes to rectify, and there is perfect
between it and number of
Wheeling manufacturers In fact, some of
he latter have been unsparing in their
.xertions to get the corporation in shape,
md now that success has crowned their
forts they are dispos, d to rejoice witheI-
,eeding great joy. The coming Of the new
company will not be without it's advant-
yes 10 the domestic consumer, either, as \
{ will tend to increase the supply ofgas by
aking on from the existing lines the drain
f sundry manufacturing concerns, and
hus the whole community will be bene-
It'd.
Councilmen should be on hand promptly J
his evening q