The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1890-03-27

eter. The indianapolis Natura
Gas Company has 35 miles O
pipe line, aud, with 5000 con-
neciions, supplies 10000 people
Its pipe line includes 6 miles o.
6 in. S miles of s in, and 81 miles
Of IL in. pipe. and IFS street nam.
extend over 60 miles. The two
companies combined supply IS.
600 domestic consumers. at a
saving over former coal bills oi
$3.50. 600 annually, and up to a
comparatively recent period each
supplied about $50 factories and
public buildings, with an annual
saving over former coal bills ol
more than 100000.
The other completed pipe lines
in the State vary in length from
5 10 48 miles and in. diameter 9
in. 10 II in, The majority of them
averaging 8 in. Upward of 20
cities and towns in the State,
with an average population OF
100000, are supplied with pipe
line service, and if the cities and
towns of the State supplied d.
rectly from the wells are added,
the list will be increased 10 II
cities and towns, with an aggre.
gate population of 1,C00, in
round numbers. Placing the
calculation on The basis that one
fourth of the population in cities
and towns supplied with natural
gas are consumers, it would give
the State upward of 100000 mu
nicipal consumers, with an ap
proximate annual saving over
former fuel of of $3,OOO,OO0. The
saving to manufacturers i'm the
four cities of Muncie, Anderson,
Marion and Kokomo alone foots
up 81, ,045,000 year, and if the
of all the other State
manufacturers using gas fuel did
not exceed another million, il
would make up q total of SIS, 900,
900 a year as the amount of saw
ing effected by the new fuel 70
the people of the State, saying
nothing about the increased com
fort and incidental, advantages
which attend It's use.
In piping of natural gas it is |
estimated that capital has come |
nto the State amounting TO ST.
I33, 900, employing 1873 new
operators. Still this does not
,egin 10 show tie actual benefit
n the way Of employment and
ne increase of population to the
tale. Then 1t is asserted that
The area supplied with natural
as in Indiana by wells within
Is boundaries and pipe lines ex
from the main now in
ludes portions of 80 counties,
obtaining a territory that meas
res more than 5000 square m lies
nd populated by more than L.
10000 residents. The man
eld of supply alone includes
he greater portion OF 81 coun.
les, containing more than 5000
quare miles and a population of
50,050. AS compared with this,
he gas fields of other sections of
he country seem very limited.
his State has less than 400 so.
niles of productive gas territory.
he Ohio field. counting all ter
ltory claimed as productive,
measures less than 1900 square
niles. The Indiana gas territory
lready developed will measure
everal times as much as all the
Their gas territories thus far de-
eloped ON this continent.
What the future OF he Indiana \
eld will be is 10 some extent a &
onjecture, but there is everv $
eason 10 believe its supply will
ltlast that of other sections.
he big wells in the upper por
on of the Indiana belt, like the
Jumbo" al Paramount, In Grant a
,unty, which furnishes II 500, 2
10 1t. daily, and which has a
that town into a u
anufacturing center with e
,ubleG population, show no ap u
,eciable diminution of their u
Nv since they were struck, 4
ore than two years ago. The Il
leguards claimed to be thrown u
,out the Indiana natural gas, L
ID which seems likely TO pre- Ii
rye a supply for the use OF the
'ople of that State long after
e supply of its neiahbors has
en exhausted, is lis low initial p"
essure and geological location u
the belt. Tie latter makes ii VI
possible 10 convey the gas TO o
ints outside the State wiil,ou! 's
2 use OF extended pipe lines.
d the low rock pressure makes
if not practicable, 10 :, :,