Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-08-22

most pronounced in industrial connections of the pub
lie service order to which the activities comprising the
natural gas industry belong; and this particular sua-
ton bad enough from environment, is further aggra-
waited by characteristics inherent in the resource:
The public must look to remedying the situation or
within very few years lose the services OF the re-
already seriously impaired. The stimulus to ac-
On contributed in the form of technical discussions is
inadequate and equally so that afforded in appeals to
sentiment and sensatOnalism. . x
'The situation is too complex for any simple formula
of remedy. 1t is not only complex but acutey critical
WE'LL and needs all the light that be thrown on IL
from all sdes.'
Dr. l. c. White State Geoogist of West Virginia,
and one of the greatest living authorities the sub
ect in recent utterances numerically chasses the
natural gas wasters and notice that contnu-
of it's extravagant will result in complete fail
ure within comparatively short period He says:
'It is quite probable that not than one-fourth
of West Vrgnias original gaseous fuel resources yet
remain in their underground reservoirs. One of the
important questions that confronts the people OF
the state today is how best to conserve the remaining
supply of this matchless fuel that it's for do
mestc and other necessary purposes may be prolonged
to distant future
DR. John Adams Bownocker, State Geoogst of Ohio,
speaking the natural gas situation, the early dis
covery of natural gas in Ohio and of the productivity
of the field, calls attention to this fact:
"The demands on this territory have been very heavy
and while the yield has been extremely large has by
no means equalled the demand. For years Ohio has
consumed gas than she produced and in 1917 the
quantity consumed The average open flow of new
wells in Ohio, for 1918 $4,000 Gu. it,, the low
est in 10 years. Moreover it was decrease of 50
cent. the previous year.
"Condtons with reference to the present and prob
able future supply of natural gas in the Appalachian
field have been stated to the best Of my ability and
without bias. The situation is only fairly satisfac
tory for the present. while the future much more
uncertain. All depends on finding new territory IN
large area and for previously stated the
poets of such discovery are very poor At the best
the supply on the present enormous scale will last
for only few years..
DR.. Eugene Wesley Shaw, Natural Gas Expert, U.
S. Internal Revenue Bureau, and Geoogist, u S. Geo
logical Survey, thus summarizes the gas situation
"The country as a whole including the gas pro-
ducer is interested should be interested in caring
for the remaining supplies Of gas and in delivering
them to those consumers who need them most IN an
economic way.
'0The limited extent of remaining supplies has been
frequently referred to but it cannot be Overempha
sized The remarks that future generatiOnSyeS, the
next generation-w make about prodigacy
should already burn in our ears
1t will be seen by perusal of the foregoing that
agitation for conservation of natural does
not primarily from the natural gas companies
but rather that it inaugurated and is reit-
ated by geological authorities representing Federal
and State governments who have long realized the i'm
portance to the public of radical change of policy
toward this most valuable fuel True it is
that the question is also one of vital Importance
to those whose capital is invested in of market
ing natural gas but the great consuming public faces
situation more critical as the time approaches
when natural gas shall be more.
irng full and free discussion of this question invites
opinions on the question of failing supply and what
en-
red
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