Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
FUEL. PERHAPS.
Crude Oil to be Piped From Lima to Cleve-
land, Detroit, Toledo and Other
Cities-A Statement Giving

land, Detroit, Toledo and Other
Cities-A Statement Giving
Complete Details.
In the current issue of the Journal Of Oil
and Gas, published at Fremont, O., is the
following on the subject of utilizing Ohio
oil for fuel purposes. 1t goes to show
that the Standard Company are going to
Law pipe lines from the Lima field to CIeve-
land, Detroit, Toledo and other cities. The
fact that the pipe mills of this city are ship
ping car loads of eight-inch pipe to points
on the route of the proposed oil line is con-
elusive evidence that the lines will be laid
according to the following. The Journal
says:
Cleveland is to be furnished with petroleum
for fuel to which the Journal adds the cities
of Toledo and Detroit with the probability of
including other large cities in the future. That
Toledo, Detroit and Cleveland would be fur
nished with crude oil pipe lines is certain,
although the exact line to be followed is to
some extent conjectured. 1t has been ascer-
tanned by the Journal that the merging Of the
two natural gas lines at Toledo, the North
western and the Toledo Natural Gas Company,
will soon be accomplished if not already a fact
The absorption of the latter by the Northwest
ing controlling interest in both lines), would
give them an opportunity of using the Toledo
line for crude petroleum.
With this object attained it remains an easy
task to continue the line to Detroit an adapta-
BILE franchise having already bean secured for
that city in the interest of the Standard. The
order given Pittsburg firm a few days ago for
100 miles of eightinch pipe, indicating that per
haps continuous line would be laid from
Cynget through Toledo to Detroit with one
pumping station midway, might be nearer the
case than the use of the line already built to
Toledo but it is the opinion of many conVer-
SAINT with the facts that the latter proposition
will prevail.
The course to be taken by the Cleveland line
Is, no doubt' settled by the engineers OIL tne
company. Commencing at North Baltimore it
Will then occupy the Northwestern Natural
Gas Company's right of way, in any event. to a
point directly west of Beltsville, Seneca coun-
", from whence it will either be continued to
Fremont or, what is more probable, diVerge
west of Beltsville. and leaving Fremont to the
north, follow the line of the Nickle Plate Rail
way to Bellevue, from which point the massive
iron pipes will run straight as the crow flies
through Wakemap to Cleveland.
The Standard has purchased five acres of
ground near Wakeman for a pumping station,
and have ordered their wire to be cut and an
office put in the village, and being about the
proper distance from Cleveland for pumping
station ga miles, there is no conjecture as to
what other use may be made of the land. 1t is
thought that but one pumping station will be
needed between Cynget and Cleveland, and the
order for construction material to be delivered
within 80 days indicates that before the coming
fall the cities mentioned will be enjoying the
benefits of the new fuel
That the Cleveland line was contemplated "a
months previous is proven by the fact that the
Nandergrifts, in the interest of the Standard,
prospected the territory near Wakeman with
3, 3,OO0foot well in 1887, pursuing the same course
as at Warren, O., where is built the pumping
station for the Pennsylvania product between
Hilyard and Cleveland.
To ho h,,4% %1,,%% %1,a
fuel of the future, outside of the natural gas
cities, is to be petroleum, and that the Stand
ard will cease its maledictions against the
'savory" stuff, unless as outlined by New
York correspondents, the issuing of certificates
will not be considered.
Ohio crude has before it great future, and
It's use will extend to every branch of manu-
facture and do service in all Industries ere half
a dozen years pass by.