Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-05
ONE MORE ELD0RAD0.
The Natural Gas at Coraopolis Said
to Be Most Permanent,
INVITING MANY MILLS TO BUILD
And Run Forever on Low Pressure That
Need Never Give Out.
WILL 1T BE ANOTHER M'KEESPORT CITY?

Some people who have hitherto sat in
great darkness, so far as their material in
terests were concerned, have at last seen a
great light, and it is astonishing what q
stimulating effect the Councilmanic fiat,
'Let there be light"-natural gas light
has had on people who have known for
years that they had under their broad acres
more than the wealth of Ormus and the Ind,
but hadn't the nerve to e1pend few OF their
rusty dollars in its development.
The territory between Moon run and Lashell
station is in the center of the best gas field in
Pennsylvania; but, had it not been for two or
three determined Councilmen the fact might
not have been appreciated by the citizens OF
Coraopolis for years to come. The gas
sand is not a great distance below
the surface. The wells are not large, but e1-
perts have examined them, and some of the
heaviest gas operators in the country state that
the rock pressure is very great, and that if the
territory is properly handled the supply is
practically inexhaustible.
Mr.. A. W. Mcdonald is giving advice, which,
if followed, will make the village another Nc
Keesport or Braddock. He advises the owners
of the territory not to allow Tom, Dick and
Harry to punch the ground full of holes and
sell the gas where they can, as under
THAT wAsTEFUL METHOD
good territories have been ruined, but to
have it developed as fast as needed by factories
to be built there. There are fuel and grounds
adapted to building purposes sufficient to sup
ply manufacturing plants equal to those Of all
Pittsburg if monopoly's paw Is kept off, and it
is expected that if another plate glass factory
is organized it will locate there, and in few
years all the ground will be built up between
CHARTERS and Stoop's Ferry.
The magic wand that enlightened much old
fogyism was the lighting of the gas few nights
since by Howard Burns. Since then people
their eyes on Pittsburg's pillar of cloud (smoke)
by day and its pillar of fire by night, as the
glare of its thousands of forges illumined the
skies, but who, like the Egyptians found it
cloud and darkness to them, dwarfing all hopes
of ever getting out of the wilderness 1.-THE
talk gas by day and dream of it by night, and
some who have stood in the way Of progress all
their lives, now begin to think
ABOUT wooING ENTERPRISE
instead of rotting while awaiting for time to
WOO them. 1t is true some are grumbling about
the price asked but it is as cheap as coal and
infinitely cleaner and less troublesome. A
plumber has established himself in the bor-
ough and several more are looking around for
locations, so that it is not remote possibility,
that the village may sometime own the Kohl
moor, or Star of the South, or the Nassuck, or
the Orloff, or some other famous stone. It
seems that only by testing it do people learn
that great is gas.
1t is more on account of its fuel and its nat
ural advantages that this section has advanced
with unwonted stride the past four years than
to its enterprise and there are thousands of
comparatively insignificant cities in the West,
as to size, that are reaching for
trade, and since they too possess nat
ural gas and have Lima oil to fall back upon,
are nearer the markets of the Northwest 1t
will not do for Pittsburg to rely too much on
Its natural advantages, and it is to the interest
of the general public that this fuel should be
taken care of jealousy, and not wasted by those
who wish to realize fortunes in year without
care for the future.
Had we not discovered that we could keep
house with natural gas, in few years from
now, under our wasteful methods Of mining
coal and making coke, we should have had
coal selling at higher rates here thanh Cincin-
natl, and with fair prospects of her again be-
coming the Queen City of the West" as to
as she once was as to hogs and
whisky and the scepter would have slipped
from Pittsburg's grasp, as 1t has already done
IN nail making.