The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-02-20

= fAoAAtoUAy low,
whereas formerly at least one and
a half gallons of gas was reouir-
3D. cost of oil and gasolene will
oe reduced to the public, owing
to ease of segregation of classes
ana lowering of cost of produc-
ton:
Heat, light, refrigeration and
power in cities reasonably accessi-
bic to oil territory will be obtain
able at much lower rates:
Power, or the material whence
power can be easily made, as
well as light, heat and refrigera-
ton, will become portable.
Briefly, Cutler chills the gas
and thus cheaply gets the valua-
bic gasoline and higher products.
Cutters plant is first a strictly
refrigerating plant. Other scien-
fists have been getting about 10
per cent of the gasoline from gas
by means of compression. They
have done valuable work along
these lines. Notable among them
is another southern California
man, j. E. Vordermark, secretary
to the Pacific Gasoline company
of Los Angeles, one of the fore
most experlmenters in America,
who is an expert on compression.
Cutters method, in brief, is to
chill the gas as it escapes from
the oil well, and thus obtain all
its valuable products. First he
caps the well completely, then by
the natural pressure of the gass
from the well it flows through a
pipe to a number of containers.
Each container is of different
temperature, gradually getting
lower.
For example, the first tank may
be Is degrees below zero, Fahren-
heit, the second, rs degrees below
and so on. In the first tank will
be precipitated the first product
the second will get the next pro
duct above 60 per cent gravity
gasoline; the third, a 70 per cent
gravity; the next an 80 per cent
grade, and so forth, until rhigo
lene ,cymogene, mathene and othel
extremely valuable products art
obtained. Rhigolene is worth
about SIS a gallon.
The Cutler plant has a daily
capacity of $4,000 cubic feet o.
gas which it gets direct from al
oil well. The gas is chilled by
containers supplied by the six-tol
making machine. The plan
is not large, but is sufficiently ex
tensive to prove or disprove tn
claims of the inventor.
Will P. Stevens, a constructing
and refrigerating engineer of 1853
Long Beach avenue, who was for
merly with the refrigerating de
partment of the Santa Fe railroa'
is a firm believer in the triumph
of Cutters process. He has bee
) engaged for days with Cutler a
the plant and assisted in tn
workings.
George 1. Leonard, mining'er
!, gineer and oil expert of Sout
| Pasadena, who is aiding Cutie
in his work, says that a tank c
a high product of gasoline place
: in an office building would do tn
, work of a gas engine in supply
ing power. The lighting woul
be done best by means of a mod
, fled sort of Welsbach burner. In
Gas could be used in a cookln
stove or CRATE, Of course. Storae
. tanks would do the cooling d
sired. He says that in rlvetln
S tools the portable power would I
= especially valuable.
E Stevens says that the averag
9 oil well is a small producer
: from twelve to twenty-four ba
= rels, as in the Whittier dlstrlc
: for example, and heestimates tn
the amount of gas escaping tro
t these small wells is worth abo'
e 40 per cent of the value Of the G
: obtained. Large wells flown
f strongly furnish less gas propo
f tionately than small ones. 1
? thinks all the gas can be save
9 by the new refrigerating process