The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-09-13
"A NEW GAS PROPOSITION
Representative of Nebraska Company
is Visiting Mitchell Men for a
Short Time.

operated successfully at Beatrice,
Neb. 1t is sold at a cheap rate and
wherever used it has been found to
be quite economical. Parties at the
head of the company are now work.
ing in this state to introduce the
system in the cities and towns. The
representative has been at Yankton
for a week or two and he has got the
citizens thoroughly interested in the
proposition. The Commercial Club
has received a communication from
the representative stating that he
expected to come to Mitchell with
in a short time and try and interest
the citizens on the project.
In order that our people may have
some idea of the BUSINESS we give the
proceedings of a public meeting,
held at Yankton last week on this
matter. The meeting was held to
hear the report of two citizens who
went down to Beatrice to make a per-
sonal investigation of the system.
The following report from the Yank-
ton Herald gives a clear idea of what
the committee had to say:
The public meeting held in the
court room of the new court house
last evening for the purpose of hear
ing the report of Messrs. Fred
S%chnauber and John Holman on the
new process gas plant as they found
1T at Beatrice, Nebraska, was we'll
attended by representative business
men and an interest was manifested
seldom shown in meetings of it's char
acter. From street talk today it is
evident that many who went to scott
or were at least little interested are
now concerned in having the plant
built here.
Crank VanTassel called the meet
ing to order and after stating the OBJ
ject for it's calling without further
preliminaries called on Mr.. Schnau-
Der. The latter went into details in
the description of the Beatrice plant
and the process of manufacturing
gas from straw and corn cobs, also
remarking on the satisfaction of ev-
'eryone with whom they held converse
at Beatrice with the plant. After
consulting with the manager, chem
list and others in authority at the
plant, and thoroughly examining the
plant to satisfy themselves that the
gas was actually a product of straw
and such material as purported, the
speaker said that he and Mr.. Holman
did some Independent investigating,
visiting, for hat purpose, both men
who were interested financially in the
plant and innumerable consumers of
its product.
cat this piont Mr.. Holman took up
the report and gave the committees
experiences in comparing the quality
and price of the new process gas with
the product of another gas plant and
an electric light plant in Beatrice,
Visits were made to numerous bust
ness houses, some of which were us,
ing gas from both plants either fol-
heating or lighting purposes or both
Invariably the proprietors were en-
{ thusiastic as to the superior quality
and the cheapness of the gas. The
} figures quoted by them in every In
stance showed the price Of the new
, process gas to be but one-third OF the
: LESS in some instances. The price a
Beatrice for the new process is $l.2s
3 per 1000 cubic feet.
"Mr. Holman said the Information
al company wanted $4,000 of tn
100000 stock held by local business
men because of the present publ
feeling against outside corporations
Q that he was satisfied that the com
pany did not mean to furnish it
: part of the 100000 in water" blu
would put in two dollars for ever,
one furnished by Yankton bushes
men to satisfy stockholders of thi
: the books would be open at all time
: to their inspection. The speaker di
not think from his knowledge of tn
II business that a plant coud be bull
e for Yankton for a penny less tina
h 100000. He said some of the bes
II. business men and gas men in tn
country. were behind the Information
al company, which, together wit
n the unquestioned virtues Of the pro
cess, guaranteed that the propos
ton would not only be a safe bl
h a very profitable investment as vel
IF MIR. Eaton, who is western man;
ger of the company, was present an
made a short and impressive tall
emphasizing the Importance of has
in closing up the deal at this poll
by as his compay was negotiating vii
We scores of larger towns and could n
he afford longer time here. Because IL
k company owns the local gas pla,
I'd and desires to make Yankton a poi
re which will demonstrate to 9th