The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-30

weeks ago, and since then there has not been the suspicion of an odor or smoke from 1t, which shows the purity of the gas. In the other room there IS an ordinary, old fashioned stove com nected with the pipe at cost of prob ably seventy-Ave cents. We have thrown few bricks into the stove and the gas plays around these bricks, which spread the flames. The stove warns that room with gas much better than 1t did when coal was used in it.
 "I look for the time when gas will be used as fuel in number of the Hunts vile industries. We used it for while in the boiler of our mills, but for the lack of suitable burner. have suspend ed its use until we can get what we want from the North. There Is every reason in the world why there should be gas in this section of the State It has not been discovered before, because nobody has looked for it. believe that in quantity and quality. 1t will compare favorably with the natural gas helds or Kentucky and Indiana.
 The Huntsville gas wells have been given a thorough investigation py sev- eral experts. some of whom came there unknown and made their lnVesusaslon.s o,.
 Mir. Bailey, the Indiana expert glves
 unhesitating approval to the Huntsville
 natural gas.
 As he was showing them to the vis-
 iting newspaper man, turning screws
 and bolts that the gas could rush screaming out into the frame house that covered the well, he said:
 They are good wells, good wells.
 I have spent my life among the gas
 wells in Indiana and I know what am ], talking about. There is plenty of gas here. Right now, If the pipes were laid, l we could supply the city with a million 1 feet of gas. if 1t would take that much.
 I know that we can give Huntsville as
 much gas as 1t needs
 What makes the gas down there un- l der the ground? Now that is a hard
 CT question that you think: l have the natural gas wells and cant give a definite and conclusive answer to the question, and I don't believe anybody else can. What I do know Is how to sink these wells between four and five hundred feet and strike the deposit or natural gas. And know how to con- tr0l it as 1t comes rushing from the we'll I know how to reduce the pres sure on it so that it can be easily sent through the pipes. l know how the pipes should be laid and all that, but as to what makes the gas under the ground, well, that's another question. About as definite a reply to the ques- ton as any other, is the opinion of Pro- | lessor Orton, who says, that 1t is made by water percolating through a mum
 Der of ores allied to iron ores. It IS l reasonable to see therefore, that there should be gas in this portion of Ala bama."
 If the confident hopes of the promot' CTS are realized the full benefit of the discovery of natural gas to the indus l tries of Huntsville cannot be fully ap- preciated. For one thing, Huntsville 1 Is the biggest cotton manufacturing | town of Alabama. It has more mills and more, spindles than any other city | of the State. It has, too. the largest | cotton mill In Alabama.
 Cotton sHilI Investment. There are nine of these cotton mills.
 They represent an investment of s4,- | 500, 900. They have over 100000 spin l dles, and over 5000 looms. They con
 sume annually over 50,000 bales of cot l ton. Madison County is perhaps the | only county in Alabama in which the cotton mills demand more cotton than | is raised in the county.
 | The Huntsville cotton mills are the | Merrimack, which includes two big mills. the Dallas, the West Huntsville, l the Abingdon, the Lowe Manufacturing | Company, the Eastern Manufacturing 1 Company and the Rowe Manufacturing | Company and the Huntsville Cotton l Mills.
 President Frank Thompson, who Is at the head of the Huntsville Chambef of Commerce, and who is at the head