Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1913-01-23
MAKES GASOLINE
FROM NATURAL GAS.
INVENTION THAT PROMISES TO
DEVELOP A GREAT INDUS r..
TRY IN UNITED STATES. j

The Los Angeles, Tribune of recent
!. date tells Of a process Of making
|sgagpiine from natural gas, which
has been invented by w. C.. Cutler
ot: b sawtelle. California, formerly
! we'll known to jamestown residents,
land da:readers of the Alert. Photo
graphs of the plant are given and 1t
J .ts <said that the plant is now making
!; gasoline for less than two cents a
gallon. Natural gas is caught from
.aaaataspil. we'll. it is chilled with an ice
mschine and changed into rhigolene
E4nd other valuable fluids far colder
h1han ice. The ice machine is dis
{caSded at this point and the same
Iltauids used to chill the rest of the
EEas and make more valuable liquids.
*The story reads like the perpetual
motion narrative, but such is said to
|:be practically what the Cutler plant
Eds doing. 1t is the first strictly re-
!frigerating plant for the reduction
!! pf gasoline from natural gas, SO far
las known.
f The waste of precious qualities
Tin natural gas has long been well
known, and no device has fully pre-
vented it. One billion cubic feet of
natural gas. is equal in heat and
power to one million bushels of coal
and is lost daily from the oil wells
of America. With single tank of
! the new gas product, housewives
will be able to do many household
services easily and cheaply. The
house can be lighted and heated and
| cooking done in the kitchen, and
when the tank is exhausted it can be
replaced by the company and the
empty tank removed like gasoline
tank. The Tribune says of some Of
the possibilities of the products of
this invention:
| Supplies of rhigolene could be
taken across the desert to mines and
other Industries where power is un-
lsabtalnsk1e. Al. camper ,or yaehtsman
could take along q small tank and
apparatus, and chill the drinkables
and cook the game, no matter where
he might wander.
Some of the other benefits of the
discovery are said to be these: In
trumerable poor oil wells now prac-
tically of no value, will become pro-
fitable properties, enriching thous-
ands of people; all good oil wells
will be greatly enhanced in value by
! the use of the process of saving the
natural gas now lost; gas containing
three-quarters of gallon of gaso-
line may be worked profitably now.
whereas formerly at least one and a
half gallons of gas was required;
cost Of oil and gasoline will be re-
duced to the public, owing to ease
of segregation Of classed and lower
ing of cost of production.
Heat, light, refrigeration and pow
er in cities reasonably accessible to
oil territory will be obtainable at
much lower rates.
Power. or tho material whence
power can be easily made. as we'll as
light, heat and refrigeration, will be-
come portable.
Cutters plant is, first strictly
refrigerating plant. Other scientists
have been getting about ten per cent
of the gasoline from gas by means Of
compression. They have done valu-
able work along these lines.
Cutters method, In brief, Is to
chill the gas as it escapes from the
oil well, and thus obtain all its val
liable products. First he caps the
we'll completely; then by the natur-
al pressure Of the gas from the we'll
1t flows through the pipe to a num-
ber Of containers. Each container
is Of a different temperature, grad
ually getting lower.
: For example. the first tank may
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