The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-03-07
Natural Gas Notes.
Gas has been struck at Ashton, Oak.

Gas has been struck at Ashton, OAK.
The recently rebuilt Toledo rolling mills
have started up, burning natural-gas for
fuel throughout.
The second or "Friday" gas we'll at
Goshen has gone down LOGO feet and there
is no gas as yet. That is as far as the con-
tract calls for and ii remains to be seen
whether Goshenites have any more cash to
blow down in these holes.-South Bend
Times.
Conservative estimates made by ex perts
give the amount of coal that is now being
displaced in Pittsburg and Allegheny City
alone by the use of natural-gas at ever
SOC, 600 tons annually, and, IL account be
taken of the surrounding district, the
quantity is much larger.
For many years on a farm near Maris,
ILL.,, there has been q strong flow of gas.
at times water will be forced through the
pipe to an elevation Of fifteen feet above
the surface, and at such times the h0w OF
gas is proportionately great. At intervals
there is no water visible, when the pres
ence OF gas is not so marked.
The population of Pittsburg, including
Allegheny City, is over 200, 600. The num-
Der of houses is estimated at 80 900. in
about one-half of which natural gas is the
only fuel now used and the number is con-
stsntly incseasing. One gas company alone
added over 8, 900 customers to its list last
year. There is not q single manufacturing
establishment of any importance which
now uses coal or anything bat natural gas
for fuel.
A correspondent OF the New York Trib.
une writing from Pittsburg says: SIN the
use OF gas for cooking and heating dwell
ing houses the only modification OF the old
range and open crate, built for burning
coal, consists in filling up the old fire boxes
with broken stone, brick or other similar
material. The gas is admitted at the bot
tom OF the crate through an extension of
the pipe which enters the house, and 1t
distributes itself through the open stone
work. The heat is intense. The con-
venience to housekeepers in starting and
maintaining fires must be apparent"
Glass making is said to be Pittsburg's
oldes industry, and the annual product of
its glass factories is placed st $40 0O0, 900 In
value. The natural gas is peculiarly well
adapted for this work, and the gas produced
is superior in every respect to that manu-
featured in the old way. Both window
glass and plate glass are made of a quality
equal to or better than those obtained from
Europe; this is especially true Of plate
glass, and, as a consequences, the demand
exceeds the supply. Manufacturers attrib-
ute their success directly to the use of nat
ural gas. Not only is the gas better, but
it is more economically made than by the
use OF coal for fuel, the saving, it is claimed,
being equal to the cost of the gas.-Pitts-
burg letter.
The natursl-gas boom at Francisville,
lad, is, for the present at least. dead
letter. The last one of the six wells bored
in that town has come to grief in an at
tempt to increase the flow by a nitro
gly cerine explosion at the bottom, the
result of which was huge column of earth
and fragments thrown sixty feet into the
air, followed by flow of salt water. AL.
though this has been the outcome OF all
the attempts to obtain supply of natural
gas there, the Union Gas and Oil Company,
owners OF the lost fizzle, are not discour-
aged, and will in all probability make
another effort in short time, about three
miles north of their last work. They still
adhere to the belief that there is either gas
or oil to be found there.