Gas Industry Enjoys Banner Year ear o of of Activity Pennsylvanian Pennsylvania Cites Man Many Ne New Lines Inaugurated na gurat rated rat rat- ed Throughout Country Country Country Coun Coun- try During Year I. I The yc year r 1928 was wasa a sv banner year for the natural gas Industry a and be because of tremendous activity In Inlaying inlaying laying pipe lines 1929 bids bids' fair to eclipse eclipse It t according cc to to Samuel lW V. W. Meals Meals' of ot P Pittsburg Pa chairman of ot the natural gas department of af the American Gas association I I Many long distance distan e natural gas lines have be been n c completed and and placed d din 1 In service during the past t ear 3 year Mr Meals states tates Among ong the theman man many additional cities clUes now b being served d with natural gas ga's are arc c Los Angeles New Neve Orleans Denver Den Salt Lake L. Pu Pueblo Mc Memphis l Gal veston and Muskegon It looks now as It If 1929 1029 will far fars s 's surpass 1928 inthe In Inthe the construction of new high p pies pres pressure es- es sure sure long distance gas gns mains Mr Meals eals said enid that at th the present pres pres present ent time th there r arc being being- constructed pres I I more more- than 2500 oo mlles miles of such mains amon among them being being- b the following A. A i main maln J from m Louisiana to St St St. L Louis is Mo A A mile O main nain In California to San Francisco co and Oakland 4 A mlle mile lino no from Lee county count Texas t to El EI Paso Tc Tex Meals Mr Mr Meals calls attention to the theta ta fact t that In 1906 Kansas s City Mo was wan the western outskirt of the natural gas gas gas' Industry while today the same elt city isi hi practically the cener center center cen cen- ter er of ota a. a natural gas gag Industry reaching from Galveston T Tex x to Great Grent F Falls lIs Mont r nt and from Maryland Maryland Mary Mary- land on on the Atlantic c seaboard to the abores snores s of th the Pacific ocean Mr tr Meals sa says s 's that sales of nat na natural natural nat nat- ural gas Kasha haye e a increased as d per per cent in twenty twenty-t yo o years