The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-01-16
GAS Of STATE
MAY Be P|PED
TO BALTIMORE
Matter is under Consideration
by the Columbia Gas
Company.

Company.
The possibility that gas might be
piped 10 Washington and Balumolc
from the great productive belts ol
West Virginia, Us pointed out O Few
months ago and recently revived as
one Of the big elements In the eco,
nomic developments OF the state, INV
looks more ike near certainty than
at any tune past, since tho Columbia
Gas and Electric Company has nego-
tiations under way with two EASTERN
cities for bringing natural gas TO Tue
city limits.
baltimore artificial gas interests do
not seem to relish the threatened NJ
yasion OF a field that has been thot:
own. Artificial gas costs eighty cents
a thousand cube feet In the monu-
mental city. The Columbia Gas aud
Electric Company offers to deliver tle
gas to the city limits for twenty-elght
cents, and few who know the gas pus-
mess in this state believe that II
would cost the additional tifty-rwo
cents q thousand feet to distribute the
supply to the Baltimore consumers.
The piping Of natural gas TO Bal
timore interests West Virginians for
more reasons than one. 1t means an
additional market for the gas supply
Of the state and ut the same time may
give a pipe line advantage to terri
tory not now supplied with an out
let, especially that Territory which
may prove to be contiguous to the
proposed new trans-state system and
not now under lease to one or the
other big companies operating IN West
Virginia. Many West virginians are
holders Of Columbia Gas and Electric
stock aud bonds, and few OF them,
| /; is said, have sold on the recent rise
from IS to S15 a share.
Not Visionary Scheme.
The building of a pipe system from
the heart Of the Columbia gas dis
trict In West Virginia to Baltimore
is not the relative dream some seem
10 think 1t is when measured either
by relative distances or topography
Of the country to be trayersed by the
pipe line, The company makes Hum
tington the geographical center Of its
operations. Since 1t consolidated with
the United Fuel Gas Company us ter
rltory and lines extend from Glendale
north Of Cincinna, to Koontz and
Ashley in this state, east and west,
and from Rayenswood to point near
Canada in Kentucky, while Its gas is
through other lines as extensions as
far as Ashland aud Wooster In Ohio.
to the north, and Columbus and
Springfield in the West. aA
The system carrying gas to Gin
cinnati comprises 1888 miles OF pipe
line. Northeast from Huntington the
company's lines at present are ex-
tended to Otto and Nicola in tbs state,
In a direction that is almost an airline
from Huntington to Baltimore. Nicola
Is only few miles from Chenille,
the county seat Of Gilmer county, IT
self rich and only partially devel-
oped gas territory. Chenille is well
toward the eastern border OF the West
Virginia gas belts as developed, and
IA about 100 miles from Huntington.
Washington is only 300 miles from
Huntington In q radio line, so that
Washington is in reality not farther
from the eastern boundaries OF the
West Virginia gas belt than this gas
boundaryis to Huntington.
Washington Is Nearest.
Counting In territory to the east OF
Clarksburg. where recently some
promising wells have come in. Wash
ington Is closer to the great gas sup
ply than Is Cincinnati.
Gas lines can be laid to conform
nearer to straight lines tnan ellner
pipe Is required to go over q noun
tain than would be required to so
through 1t on the level. Pressure en-
.ters into liquid transmission, accord