Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-19
NATURAL GAS.
Satisfactory Results of Thorough Test
of the Well Near San Antonio.
The Flow has Largely Increased-The Gas to be
Piped Into the City at an Early Day for
Manufacturing Purposes.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
SAN ANTONIO, Tx, Sept. 16.-Sat-
urday evening Mr.. George Dulling, MIR.
Lewis Berg of the Electric hight and
power company AID Mr.. F. A. West,
superintendent and gas engineer of the
works of the San Antonio gas company,
drove out TO Mr.. Dulling's ranch, SIX
and half miles be low the city on the
Goliad road, to make further tests of the
quantity and quality of the natural gas
at Mr.. Dulling's well, OF which THE
-sgfiAzETTE has already told something.
West was seen to-day and said
tkEa5 since his visit TO the well a week
a86the gas has Increased instead of de-
creaAed in flow, while the pressure gauge
sho#s almost what it did at that time
100pounds The volume has greatly in
crossed, as it required as long on
Saturday tarSaeduce the pressure
inches in diameterAs if did week ago
through one but tb gee eigths of an inch
in diameter. Its hEW as measured yes
terday by observatBn of the decreasing
pressure $50 600 satffhic feet daily, equal
to or a littleAbos the yearlEs average
daily suaFTy oh the gas compaHg A
large tin metRr was taken out to
measure thesEas Out it pya6Fesi Sin e Hec-
tive, q Rpon lighting lfhe gassat sthe
escape HE whole meteEwas surFPgnded
by flames. This peculISEity aftsafural
gas was early noticed iIsstsss S2tlnq
Pennsylvania regions aid cast ir0as
meters are now used in thefe regions and
prove effective The test of candlel
power was made by the standard glycer-
me candle test burner and it registered
ten candle power flame, the
burner being protected from the
wind by being placed in a room some
distance from the well with which pipe
connection was made. The gas manu-
featured here is what is known as twen-
ty-two to twenty i've candle gas, regis
tered by the same burner.
''The gas viii not affect our company,
said Mr.. West, 'as ours is an iIluminat-
ing gas, while the natural gas with its
low candle power and great heat is es-
pecially adapted for use as fuel. 1 am
greatly pleased with the results of the
tests, and l believe we will have the gas
in the city in a very short time. To
have found so heavy a flow at the COM
paratively small depth of $50 feet is to
he III luOiCdIlOu Oh d ldIS0 HOW D6lOW
that depth In the old natural gas
regions a flow of 90 ,O0O feet per
day has rarely been found at a
less depth thar 1000 feet, and in all cases
a larger flow has been found by deeper
boring, or by shooting. 1t seems that
the first flow is the gas which has perco-
lated through the light stratum immedl-
ately above the main storage chambers
of the gas l don't known whether Mr..
DulIing will continue boring the present
we'll, or whether he will Immediately pipe
from that well to the city and bore an
other deeper one along side of the first.
I can t see why, from the present indca-
tions, flow equal to 1000 600 feet
should not be found. If such a well is
opened it viii make San Antonio a manu-
featuring city of the first Importance,
and will solve the question of how to
handle all the Llano iron.