Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-06-29
GAS COMPANY
in OPERATION
ARE PREPARED TO FURNISH
TONOPAH WITH LIGHT
AND FUEL.

The Nevada Gas company is now
in operation and gas has been made
for the last four days and during the
last two days it has been running
through the city mains. This project
of furnishing gas to the different
mining towns of Nevada was con-
ceived by San Francisco capitalists
and this plant at Tonopah is the
first m of a series that will event
ually connect all the large cities of
Nevada. Tonopah enjoys the distinc-
ton of being the first mining camp
in southern Nevada to have a gas
plant.
II. A. Burns, the Tonopah mana
ger of the Nevada Gas company,
in conversation with a Bonanza
representative says, Our plant,
which has only been in running oper-
alton four days, is very complete and
~up-to-date. We are prepared to fur
nish gas both for heating and light
ing purposes to every home and Of
flee in Tonopah. We have just re-
ceived a consignment of 200 stoves,
which can be had at the different
hardware stores. We expect by fall
the majority of the families of Tono-
pah will be using gas and as we are
building several large tanks for
storage purposes there will not be a
repetition of the fuel famine of last
winter. The largest of these tanks
Will hold 100, 600 gallons of oil and
we will see that they are filled be-
fore winter sets in. Many of the peo-
pie of Tonopah have a mistaken idea
about gas, they thinking that there
is much danger in it's use. Gas has
proved that it is the safest fuel
known"
In describing the manufacture of
o"9 -hA' DUNE says ludt Tue MANU-
facture of gas consists essentially in
breaking up oil by means of heat in
to permanent gases, which together
constitute the common fuel and light
ing gas. This conversion of oil into
gases or destructive d%istillation as it
is called is done within a fire brick
filler shell, the bricks OF which are
heated TO a dull white heat by means
of oil steam and air. When the
bricks have been heated sufficiently.
the heating is discontinued and oil
and steam are sprayed into the shell
or generator from the side opposite
TO that through which the genera
Tor was heated.
This oil as ii is sprayed against
the hot brick, which are so arranged
that the spray must travel past all
the bricks, is broken up by the heat
into the permanent gases. These
gases are then washed, that is they
are made to pass through water held
I'm a shell called the scrubber. which
water removes most of the SCOT of
the oil which remains as a residue
when the oil is passed over the brick.
The gases are further washed by be-
ing passed c%onsecutively through
towers from the bottom to the
Water is sprayed from the top
the towers continually and as it
falls meets the rising gases catching
he mechanically held SCOT that may
be still in the gas.
From the towers the gas is pass
I'd into the gas holders, which is a
steel tank of 1900 feet capacity,
working up and down in a tank of
water, which serves as a seal. From
he holder the gas is pumped through
purifying mixture of iron oxide and
ime which removes the sulphur, car
)olic acid, etc, that are not wanted
the gas. The gas is then stored
n large steel tanks under eighty
pressure. to be supplied to
he town when needed.
Our mains are laid so that gas
an be used in any part Of the town
nd we have already supplied several
with the new fuel