New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-17
N5TCRAL GAS IN PLENTY.
p1rrs,uRc puDDLERs CUT OFF TO STOP THEIR
WASTE OF FUEL-NEw WELLS AND
NEW FIELDS.

p1rrs.URG pUDDLERs CUT OFF TO STOP THEIR
WASTE OF FUEL-YEw WELLS AND
NEW FIELDS.
pittsbure. Penn. Now Is Tsp 'cial'.-Therc 10 no
shortage of natural gas The fuel mas been OUTRAGE
ousy wasted By the manufacturers ana the suppHns
comuaniss have determined to put stop TO IT. Inc
ao.n, announcement that the gas had been cut oil
rom 500 pudding furnaces is true bat the faire
IN Gym ain the reason why In newspaper dispatches
from this city Is calculated to injure l1ttsourg'
The Old pudding furnaces are not properly con-
structed Tiers has been consump lon oil rom
a, 600 TO $4,000 cube feet in tho ordinary furnace.
ee the same results obtained In one OF Andrew
earn ges especially adapted furnace with con-
-nmn ion of only $4,000 feet. Pudding furnaces have
o hem in use for hours at time, yet the gas flowed
IN burn ng without int rruption The iron manu-
f,c,urrs can have gas for their pudding furnaces
thew will use meters. II they will not. then the sup
pyIng con pa les prefer private consumers, for 1t
means greater revenue.
The gas companies all tell the same story. Thee
will be plenty OF gas bat the drill must be kept con-
SANITY In operation New wells brought in every
day big one was brought In nine mics back OF
(ireensburg on Thursday. 1t Is In an entirely new
Fl ID This week the Duquesne Company turned two
new wells into their mains, and as consequence the
MIllvale Iron WORKS started up double turn. WIN
enough gas Ping to operate an additional factory
new gas belt has been discovered within twenty
miles OF Petroia. 1t exhibits tremendous pressure
and one ators are ne to the field to secure leases
% far two wells have been sunk, and preparations are
being made to drill ten In the WILDWOOD heid'
twelve miles from Pttsburg, several comp irauveH
new wells have each several bundled pounds pressure
In Butler County, FreepJrt, the pies'ue at one
wal-sO0 pounds-is strong that the easing would
lot hold 1t. The third gas well in the New-H mbnrg
Mercer County, field, was finished few days ago.
The gas was struck at the shallow depth OF 600 feet
wn In the Coraopolis field, this county, flhngan
Downing undertook to ascertain the pressure Oh
hig "gasser' on the Wilson farm. When al 40
rounds and still rising. the valve broke. and tiie
gauge was blown out OF sight. NO farther attempt
was made to shut the well in, and the gas was allowed
u escape freely. The can be heard FOR several
miles. At Semple station. few days ago, Tinker
W.ll,ce struck gas only twenty. rods distant from
well brought In several months ago, ana from which
the gas has been constantly flowing mo the Beaver
Falls line. spng, Chalfant Co.. the PittsburS
iron manufacturers, have had their own supply
Of natural gas without interruption for nine
teen years. They supply the Etna
ronworas and the Allegheny salt Company. The Phila
deIphia Ma utal Gas Company, of which George West
inghouse president, has purchased 5000 ares of
.as lands In the Amity field midway between Belle
vernon and Washington, Pehn. There two wells alone
supply Carnegie, Phpps d Co.'s works, at Homestead,
field registers pressure Of SIS pounds and there is
one at $50.
II is pretty generally believed that the cries Of
shortage originally emanated from the OIice Of the
gas companies with the double purpose OF forcing the
manuiac. urers to meters and also 10 furnish
preiext for advancing the rates 10 private consumes
| About year ago George Given drilled well on 'ne
J. Huffman farm about one and half mills east oi
vanceve, which proved TO be very strong gaSser'
he
Though tha well stands at 700 pounds pressure II a'
een shut in ever since II finished and its produc'
mas never been utilized. Later on the same compa'
brought in a good well mile and nan distant no,
a she 10 main Idle although there was cry
| shor age In Pit;sDurg. 49, ooo,,,,
Fcut IRON oOO puddle iyrndees, tit sup isd In,
inconvenience TO nrms supplied by tlis bis @ pIn
instance the Equitable. owned by manufacturers, sup
plies ory plants along the Alleghen, RIVER iionS r o
ras is transp,rt.d in 3o-lnch main These forty
arms principally manufacturers OF iron and steel nay.
" ln full time. The black DIAMOND sIeel wcrAs OF
IarK bros. Co. has Its own line. so nave Ia hi
sons the Carnegie corporations, Jones ~ Laaehis'
oliver Bros. nllpps and other hiinS: Sm n,e
| outside the Philadelphia Company supply nianui"o'
The buSaboo Of low pressure at the wells has a
last been overcome An experiment applea 70 sup sup
posed exhausted wells belonging TO the te0pg Ma
President Joseph n. Pew has been working on pump
the pipe s9 anG o. ga1 G to zero The
pump was ared last Iaursda, ana mao ~l'h,n Yen ~
pump was put to work twenty miles from Pit sturg
and at 40 the pressure In this ely had increas
mad 10 lower their fires. The pump increased the
| pressure its line from 60 to 10 pounds dne
experiments establish the f ;Ssv a si 10 Ps S
supp for an indefinite period With Mr. Pew pun Is
pressure will again be brought into service and musn
gas that Is allowed 10 escape In the ar VIII DC
utilized. is estimated that al least as muoh gas l.
The Philadelphia company is now drilling twenty t
Monday 't the f padephia Company Popehe PEG
pies and Charters under lease obtained the enu
Then its thirty inch main from the Beevernon FayettC
Co., field first put In operation ana the result wa
sa s sa for ipR
consumption is at Its height At the same time tn
a peSpii there %as general sa' rejoicing ali around Within
one month the demand for private consumption mas III
e eas the ANNUAL psa business
has increased from 81 600 900 to $1,000 600 yet tat
amounting to - per cent. They have since been re
S Sasen e The Reg cent Of s debts ' INC
An official of a natural gas company said TO-DAY ,,.
business basis. There is more money In supplying
private consumers than the manufacturers Their
aa e us see o co a Was aSsndonad and half the gas
wasted. Until the Eelevcrnon line was completed las
Monday
to @ D. M or during the hours when the private con
sumption Is the greatest couple Of mills were stu
off entirely but they were operating under OH an'
low-prsed contracts. II Is almost impossible To con
strict meters Of sufficient size for the nills so tn
| contracts have been made by the limp. and grea
waste resulted. Some iron firms VIII allow naura
cas- torch Intended for the night to barn a day. there
| hy consuming enough gas 10 heat a block of dwell
jnetouses The rates private consumers have bes
increased 50 per cent or from ten to fifteen cent,
December T. bnt this need not Brighten anybody int
rctnrn 70 coal for II rassavng appliances are put I
the crates people will pay less for gas than they III
under the old rates. II s fact that the ordlnar
J crate fire consumes ten times as much gas as on
eninpod with gas saving appliances. In the ortirar
yte The heat escapes through the chimney ';as-say
Ing appliances imprson the heat and spread u abou
The room where Il properly belongs. II he som
e"nsolaton 10 PiftShurgcrs to know that the people
n,soio nav twcr. c"nts thousand cubic feet an