Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-17
NATURAL GAS.
Satisfactory Results OF a 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, TEX, Sept. 16.-Sat-
urday evening Mr.. George DuIling, Mr..
Lewis Berg of the Electric hight and
power company and Mr.. E. 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
GAZETTE has already told something.
Mr.. West was seen to-day and said
that since his visit TO the well a week
ago the gas has increased instead of de-
creased in flow, while the pressure gauge
shows almost what it did at that time
100 pounds. The volume has greatly in
creased, as it required as long on
Saturday to reduce the pressure
by means of a pipe one and one-half
inches in diameter as it did a week ago
through one but three-eigths of an inch
in diameter. It's flow as measured yes
terday by observation of the decreasing
pressure is 80 900 cubic feet daily, equal
to or little above the yearly average
daily supply of the gas company. A
large tin meter was taken out to
measure the gas, but it proved ineffec-
tive, as upon lighting the gas at the
escape the whole meter was surrounded
by flames. This popularity of natural
gas was early noticed in the Ohio and
Pennsylvania regions and cast iron
meters are now used in thefe regions and
prove effective The test of candle
power was made by the standard glycer-
Inc candle test burner and it registered
a 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 TWEEN
ty-two to twenty-d five candle gas, regis
tered by the same burner.
''The gas viii not affect our company -
said Mr.. West, "as ours is an illuminat-
ing gas, while the natural gas with it's
low candle power and great heat is es-
pecially adapted for use as fuel. L am
greatly pleased with the results Of the
tests, and / believe we will have the gas
in the city in a very short time. To
have found so heavy flow at the COM
paratively small depth of $50 feet is to
me an indication of a large flow below
that depth. In the old natural gas
regions flow OF 80 900 feet per
day has rarely been found at
less depth than 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. don t known whether Mr..
Duliing will continue boring the present
well, 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 indica-
tons, flow equal to Z, 900 ZOO feet
should not be found. If such a well is
opened it will make San Antonio manu-
featuring city of the first importance.
and will solve the question of how to
handle all the Llano iron.