The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-02-20
Anderson Litigation is Fight for
Life Of the Pipe Lines.
Gas SUPPLY In DRNGER
The Evidence Adduced Shows the Big Gas
Pumps Are Drawing the Life Out of
Indisna's s Great Gas Belt.

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and Newcastle gas companies
goes on at Anderson, and each
day brings out interesting points
in testimony as against the pump
ing station. Attorney Bert Car
yer, of Alexandria. who is for the
Newcastle people, says the only
difficult point now at issue is that
the plaintiffs will be required, by
a ruling of court, to show that
the operation of the pumping sta
ton is contrary to law, and that
it will pull gas from the wells at
more than we'll pressure. AS the
pumping station at issue has not
yet started. this will be a difficult
problem. A. G. Carver, of this
city, however, has volumes of
evidence to show what the same
station did while in operation at
Daleville. One of the mOSt.dam-
aging witnesses so far has been
farmer George Hurley, whose
farm was crossed by the compa
ny's line from the wells to the
pumps. near Daleville. and. who.
when he applied his cap to the
open eud of a three inch line, tapp-
ed in the main, and thirty feet
distant, had it drawn in until on
ly the bill saved it from being
wholly lost. Another witness
from near Dalevil,e testified that
while cleaning out connection.
which was blocked with rust, as
it was loosened it disappeared IN
the line. This man could also
hear every stroke of the pumps,
although over a mile away, by
applying his ear to the hole.
Farmers whose lands had wells
four miles away, but connected
with the main, back of the pumps,
swore they could hear the action
of the pump at every point where
the ten-inch line was exposed.
Another man swore that the ac-
tion of the pumps could be heard
in an abandoned but connected
well seven miles distant, the sue
tion being easily discernible.
Three men will be put on the
stand next Monday, when the
plaintiff takes the rebuttal, who
will testify that the action of the
pumps at the old Daleville sta
tion created a tremor of the cas-
ing on wells half mile away, two
of the witnesses being John T..
Dobson and John Harris, than
whom there are no better nor
more reliable citizens IN the coun-
ty. Expert Addington's testimo-
ny is very damaging to the pipe
lines and shows that they are de.
stroying all local gas wells. Sam
uel Cowgirl, who conducts the
largest tile factory in the world,
three-quarters of mile north
east of Summitville and about a
mile east from the recently-es-
tablished pumping station, testi-
fed that he had in common with
the remainder Of the local field
about seventy pounds pressure at
his wells when the Indianapolis
Manufacturers pumping station
started at that place two months
ago, and January Is, about a
month after the pumps started,
he had twenty-five pounds, and
on February 13 had no pressure
whatever back of the regulator.
He will have to shut down his big
mill unless the pumping stations
are stopped. This will put In
this one instance 200 men out of
work and be great damage to
the town of Summityille.
Mr.. Strange, who runs a brick
factory near Cowgllls tile-mills,
and who turns out over 25, 900
bricks dav, is one half mile
from the Manufacturers Summit
vile pump station. He had two
good wells, which supplied am
pie fuel for his brick kilns, and
two weeks after the pumps COM
menced pulling he had no gas,
nor has he any in his wells. He
has closed shop. Experts and