The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-17
ORIGINAL Gas TOWN
RETURNING TO COAL
AFTER FORTY YEARS
Pittsburg Company Shuts Off
Supply From East Liverpool
co., Factories.
POTTERIES TO BE IDLE
Action Is but Temporary, Com
pany Says, but Manufactur-
ers Are Skeptical.
PoTTER1Es TO BE IDLE

Asssciated Press to The FsvenlnE Times.
Philadelphia. Penn. Oct. 16.-For the
first time In 80 years the potteries of
the great Ohio valley earthenware and
china district. centering ut East Liv-
erpoOl and Wellsville, O.. will operate
today without the use OF natural gas.
The peculiar coincidence in the situ-
alton lies in the fact that the same
city of East Liverpool holds the rec
ord of having been the first commun-
ity in the United States to utilize the
natural product for manufacturing
purposes-the initial use having been
in 1870 years before it was util-
lied elsewhere for other than lighting
THE announcement that all gas
would be shut off from the factories
OF the East Liverpool district begin
ming with today was made yesterday
morning by the Manufacturers Light
& Heat company of Pittsburg, which
operates throughout Western Pennsyl-
vania and Eastern Ohio. The gas, the
company states, is shut off temporar-
lily. since It is hoped to get new
supply into the region by the middle
OF December. Until then, the an
nouncement states, all manufacturers
must revert to the use of coal. The
manufacturing interests of that Sec
ton view the promises of renewal OF
supply for the factories with doubt,
and believe natural gas will never
again be used in the two cities of
East Liverpool and Wellsville for
other than domestic purposes.
Loss Of Thousands to Peters.
The Manufacturers Light & Heat
company absorbed the companies
operating in the Ohio valley field-the
FIT. Pitt, Tri-State and Ohio valley
companies-four years ago. Since
then they have been in exclusive pos
session of what was formerly COM
petitive territory. For ten years the
supply has been failing in the East
Liverpool and Wellsville district and
yesterday the company announced that
the fluid would be entirely shut off
from all factories, beginning with to-
day.
The manufacturers are making pre-
parations for the substituting of coal
as fuel under the kilns for the burn
ing of the ware. 1t will take weeks,
however, to perfect the system of
burning coal. The output of the East
Liverpool potterfes is valued at $14,-
100000 a year, and the loss from the
likeness and damage to product in
cidental to the change will run into
the hundreds of thousands. More than
half the capacity of the district will be
idle today on account of the stoppage
of the fuel supply.
l.. B. Beatty of Pittsburg, assistant
secretary of the company. said last
night that the company had new pipe
lines building into the territory con-
Meeting with West Virginia supply
estimated at 30.00O,0OO cubic feet a
day, which the concern had acquired
a few weeks ago by purchase.
Other Territory Net Affected.
pfeted by November L." said Mr..
Beatty, "but we fear now that the mid
die of December will be nearer the
the district compelled today's action.
Beaver valley cities and the country
tributary to steubenville. will not be
affected, for the reason that the pot
teries are the most prodigal users of
gas We have"
East Liverpool was lighted and heat
ed by natural gas long before 1877,
in which year a famous gusher was
struck in the town that turned the at
tention of the whole country to gas
as fuel. Fifteen years ago, however,
the gas wells of that section gave out
and the companies were compelled to
pipe fuel from the Pennsylvania and
West Virginia fields.
A telegram from East Liverpool last
night stated that many of the manu-
facturarS were nranarinp tn oOufn
their plants permanently for the use
of coal. This new equipment will