Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-10-17
NE|llNE or NATURAL GAS.
ltU>NUr& Is Again Che Smoky CITY Vt
Fifteen Wears Awo.

Fifteen Wears Ago.
The FIRST rolling mill that used nat !
uml Gl> exclusively was tho Ejua !
iron works nr Spang, Chaltuut \ CO.. /
IL Alrghrny county, few mtrS |
alloy" rtuShnrg; aud this establish |
mrut has heru one Of The last to
abandon thus turl IN tie riuShurg /
district, After twenty years Of dc ,
! pcndcnrr upon natural gas the pro- |
| prIrtorS OF this plant have removed |
the pipes and am now returning to
! the us" Of coal, long after most VI |
! the other mills had surrendered to the |
| cheap Mtumin0uS fuel which has al |
| ways been the chief foundation OF /
riEShurg'S great industrial prosper
! ity. TIE diminished supply and the ,
consequent increase IN cost have me-
! CcSsitatrl the abandonment Of nat |
ural %AS hy most OF the large manu- !
| Occurring establishments IN the littS- !
! burg district, aud its use Is being /
more and more INSTRUCTED to domestic |
purposes rittShurg has again become
allcviatrd in some measure Ivy the use /
of fuel oil and manufactured gas.
which have assumed Importance with |
! the decline of natural gas In the last !
four or five years,
) Natural gas was not n factor Of very
great importance In plttshurg district
until early In the SOS, and the point
, II
/ In 1SSS, after which the decline began. |
/ 1t has never boon feasible TO asccr !
tain with accuracy the quantity Of
natural gas consumed each year, hut
! Mr. Joseph D. Weeks, Of pIltaburE,
! has prepared for the United states
geological survey nm estimate ot the
value Of the coal displaced 10y natural
ga, wMrh' has hcca accepted aS th"
most pi,ln lo,a ninsalre IF the CON
sumptioplREnagls. thnnthn psot"d Of It's
largest NJ" lhY A2pRlrElf san3Anfdy
! IA Pennsylvania, mcaSufcd on this
basis. WAS ANirG4f At fbffdw4ih rags
$l.5Oo,o 600; 1856. So,oohOm,t hsS7i Splel
7o.7"obnLssSi Slib9mDl'aohSH AMI %
sa at",1n 4S52 y4{SAlaa29SsS11 sS5?S $Ellsd%e
In pdio Tue bnr,siu oh matural prta
has raitAEErn .Jqnre1FarslSl th@aidp
" "" Az %ifc E3t s1Jtsy, 5% WIEN
amounted ln1taHHl 6naoa.e1 t,,RNo! SHf
in 1893 it had fallen 10 $L5lo,ooo.
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fence and observation-disclosures "srr
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