The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-15
A WONDERFUL INVENTION,
Gas and Electricity EeIipsed and at
a Nominal Cost

A gus that will take the place of
electricity for lighting and heating
purposes, that promises to take the
place of coal mine itself, that will
make wood for the stove bother
and luxury, that will drive kero-
sene from the market for ordinary
purposes and light up your residence
for about one tenth the sum you
now pay-this in brief is a part of
the many things new gas, discover
ed by Nevada people promises to do.
And yet promise is hardly the
word. Practical tests have shown
that it will do it and the whole mat
ter is far beyond the experimental
stage. 1t is owned by Hon. Evan
Williams AID the inventor, who
does not care for notoriety, and pre-
fers that his name be left out of all
mention of the wonderful discovery.
The plant is now at Mr.. Williams
residence in Empire and many Car
son and neighboring people have
been privileged to see it.
The discovery is simply a carbure-
tant and the medium to be enriched
is common air, which is certainly in
quantities sufficient.
The visitor to Mr.. Williams yard
sees a generator patterned after the
ordinary gas tank, only this one is
perhaps three feet in diameter and
when extended, five feet in height.
And yet this plant. diminutive as
it seems, is said to be capable of
generating $4,000 feet of gas in a
day, that is if it is taken away as
fast as used. A News reporter judg-
ed that the inside was simply partly
filled with water, while from the
top cylinder is probably suspended
the solid that liberates gas upon
coming in contact with the water.
A uniform pressure would seem to
be assured, for as the substance de-
scends more gas is generated and
the cylinder is forced upward and
of course as the material is with
drawn from the water the manufac-
ture of gas decreases in the ratio.
From the top OF the generator is
a common garden hose that connects
with what appears, and doubtless is,
a common four burner outdoor gas
lamp encased in globe to protect
it from the wind.
1t is all simple enough but here
it's similarity to the ordinary gai
plant ceases. The inventor turn!
on the gas very slightly and the
tips show flame about the size o
a pea, but it is very intense anc
when it is enlarged to the size of {
silver quarter the flame is almost al
intense as that of the street arr
lamp, only peculiar thing is tha
while the observer realizes that the
flame is wonderfully intense h
wonders why he can bear to look a
it at all and his eyes feel no pain il
the operation.
There are four of these littl
burners as said before, and each on,
consumes a quarter of foot of ga
per hour and gives an illuminating
power of nearly 100 candle power
By way of comparison it might b
| stated that the ordinary gas burne
consumes six feet of coal gas pc
hour and is supposed to have
, power of twenty candle power.
, Thus these four little jets, usinI
, in the aggregate one foot of gas pc
hour, give out nearly 400 candl
power and in this quantity the cos
] is too small to be estimated.
/ Besides the four flames mentione
3 two bicycle lamps have been itte
y up and are being given a practices
, trial, but this, like the other, is bt
yond the realm of experiment. Th
{ bicycle lamp contains its own ger
n orator and is no larger than th
/ ordinary lamp used for the sam
q purpose, and while giving a 3
candle power light it will bur
s eighty hours without rechargine
r 1t has been placed on two whee
Q and will make its appearance on tn
r streets of Carson almost every ever
.~~ G.,rc1,n Naxuc