The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1890-02-13
NATURAL GAS.

of pipe lines have been compiet
ed. including those supplying
the city of indianapolis from the
Hamilton county field. q! the
indianapolis lines The Consnm-
ers' Trust, with its recent pur
chase Of the Broad Ripple Plant,
has about "a miles ofplpe line,
and with lis 5000 connections.
supplies about $4,000 people. Its
pipe line includes 80 miles OF :
inch, IA miles of 10 inch, - miles
of 12 inch and Is miles of 16 inch
pipe, and it has about 1l5 miles
Of street mains, varying from 10
inches 10 3 inches in diameter.
The indianapolis Natural Gas
Company has IS miles of pipe
line, and, with 5000 connections,
supplies 10000 people. Its pipe
line includes 6 miles Of 6 inch, s
miles Of s inch and q miles OF
10 inch pipe, and ills street mains
extend over so miles. The two
companies combined supply 3d.
600 domestic consumers, at saw
ing over former coal bills OF
S25O,OO annually, and up TO a
comparatively, recent period
each supplied about $50 factories
and public buildings. with an
annual saving over former coal
bills of more than 100000. The
other completed pipe lines in
the state vary in length from 5
to As miles, and in. diameter 2
inch to 13 inch, the majority OF
them averaging 8 inches. Up
ward of 20 cities and towns Of
tthe state, with an average popuT
lat,on of 100000. are supplied
with pipe line selvics, and if the
fcities and towns of the state
supplied directly from the wells
are added. the list will be in
creased to II cities and towns.
with an aggregate population OF
All 900 in round numbers. Plac-
ling the calculation on the basis
that i of the population in cities
and towns supplied with natural
gas are consumers. il would give
the state upward OF 100000 mu.
nicipal consumers. with an ap-
Iproprite annul saving over for
mer fuel OF S3,0O0,000. The saw
ing to manufacturers in the four
cities of Muncie, Anderson. Mar
lion and KoLomo alone foois up
81, ,045, 900 year, and if the saw
ling of all The other state manu-
facturers using gas fuel did no!
.lexceed another million it would
make up total of IS 100000 a
year. as the amount of saving ef-
fccted by the new fuel 10 the
people of the state, saying moth
ling about the increased comfort
andincidental advantages which
attend its use. ).
In piping of natural gas is es
tlmated that new capital has
come into the state amounting
to 81, ,433 900. employing 7,7SS
new operators. Still this does
not begin 10 show the actual ben
eft in the way of employment
and The increase of population OF
the state. Then it is asserted
that "the area supplied with nat
ural gas IN Indiana by wells
within its boundaries and pipe
lines extending from the main
field now Includes portions of
thirty counties, containing a ter
ritory that measures more than
5000 squ are miles and populated
by more than 100000 residents
The main field of supply alone
includes more than 5000 square
miles and a population of 75O.-
coo. As compared with this, the
gas fields of other sections of the
coxntry seem very limited. This
state has less than 400 miles of
productive gas Tertiary. The
Ohio field. counting all territory
claimed as productive, measures
less than 1900 square miles. The
Indiana gas territory already de-
yeloped will will measure sever
al times as much as all the other
gas territories thus far developed
on this continent.
| What the future of the 1ndi
ana field will be is 10 some ex
tent a matter of conjecture, bnt
There is every reason TO believe
Its supply will outlast that Of
other sections. The big wells in
the upper portion of the Indiana
belt. like the Jumbo" at Fair
mount. ia Grant county, which
furnishes II 100000 feet daily
ana which has transformed that
town into a manufacturing cen
Ter with a doubled population,
show no appreciable dimlnutlon
of then flow since they were
struck more than two years ago.
The safeguards claimed 10 lie
thrown about The Indiana natur.
al gas, and which seems likely 10
nreserye supply for the use OF