San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-27
krying Out Of Threat
Will Inconvenience
Clevelanders. /
R0UBLE OVER RATES
|dustry Leaders Discour-
age Substitution Of
Coal Stoves. 81
BY j. G. ROYLE.

3yrlgnt, by Inc Sdn Antohio heHS
New York, March 27.-Residents
Cleveland today are facing a
eat by the East Ohio Gas con-
BIZ that the natural gas supply will
cut off from the city May ], en-
hs,<ssious inconvenience TO house
ders.
The gas company has proposed q
Iedule of prices providing a mini
m rate of 81 thousand cubic feet,
cents a thousand for. the next 3D..
b feet; 60 cents for the next 10000
/ and IS cents for all over 1000
bic feet. The city council. ON its
1t, adopted schedule of rates max
so cents the minimum rate with
|ces ranging from 40 TO 70 cents per
Iusand for additional amounts.
A citizens committee is attempting
mediate. between the council and
company so that the threatened
| ting off of supplies may be avoid,
All the city's suburbs have signed
Stracts with the company at rates
her than those proposed by the
lncil.
Coal Stove Sales Increase.
Purchase of coal heating and cook
equipment, especially i'll new
mes being built where natural gas
hsed as a fuel, have been so extra
1inary that seine leaders in the
! industry now are in favor of call
halt in the campaign to persuade
hsumers to supplement gas equip
hit with coal heating apparatus.
lis is especially true of the Pitts
tg district. :,
Makers of coal burning stoves and
Aters are enjoying an unprecedented
Illness. Back of the situation is the
)uction in gas production per well
h lower pressure together with an
|rease in possible customers.
Seek Deeper Sands.
1T is in only extreme weather that
domestic consumers in Pennsyl-
|hia suffer and it was to meet these
h days of extreme cold that gas
|npanies urged installation OF emer-
hey heating apparatus, but the ten
hey to resort TO coal or oil for use
J year round is inducing gas COM
hies to test all fields for deeper pro-
hing sands.
Formerly production from the open
Nv gas wells in Pennsylvania and
Iasu,y1arginia was about 3,OoO,UD0
sd fese q day. Now the maximum
about 600,00O cubic feet. The
erage roch pressure is now only 10
binds as compared with former
assure of 500 pounds.
Some of the larger distributing
hpanies are operating subsidiary ar
Ecial gas plants and mixing their
bducts with the natural gas. lt Is
edicted this practice in the Pitts
Eg district will apply for permission
Increase their selling prices.
New Supplies Developed.
There is no immediate prospect of
bausting the natural gas supply OF
|ssouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and
|xaa so long as its use is confined
domestic cooking and lighting pur-
SEES, Its use for domestic heating
b practically been eliminated by the
Adjustment of rates which make 1t
eaper to use coal Or oil. Develop
Int of new fields is keeping pace
th the exhaustion of oil wells.
when the natural gas first began
be used in that section in 1906,
was believed the supply was ade-
ate for all purposes. Nearly every
me was equipped TO burn it in fur
Ices, cook stoves and CRATES. With
n few years. however, winter
bught acute shortages and or
hances were passed restricting its
E. These We're not entirely effective,
weyer, until prices were increased.
AT present there is an adequate sup
y in the Middle West for lighting
u cooking and prices are such that
tural gas is cheaper than the arti-
tial product for those purposes when
Z relative heat units of the two are
nsidered.
Measures Against Initiation.
Decision of the Fall River textile
orators to defer action on possible
rihe until after a discussion with
,ployers, April 20 had stabilizing
Eect in both manufacturing and mer-
nt;ls-si~1es today. Measures advo-
ted py the special committee on UNI
Enjoyment appointed by Secretary ct
,mmerce Hoover. it is expected. will
. discussed by governors of the II
deral reserve banks now meeting in
'ashington. The meeting is expected
determine whether the federal re-
rye banks will take measures to slow
wr borrowing as a means to prevent
flation in husiness.