Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-26 | Page 38 | Concrete Pipe to be Used in South for Natural Gas

Concrete Pipe loBe toBe to lo toBe Be Used in South For Natural Gas GasN GasN Y EW ORLEANS I Is anxious to N NEW obtain a supply of or natural gas gaa Ja from Terrebonne district hut but owing to reasons quite well wel understood difficulties arc are In irm obtaining steel teel pipe In Tn fact New ew Orleans finds It Impossible 0 to have ha pipe orders filled at this tune so it Is proposed er to use tise st concrete mains and Howard Boward Eggleston ston Industrial industrial indus Indus- trial en engineer of the New Orl Orleans an Association of or Commerce has ha been heen devoting special attention to the malt mat mal t ter r He lie states that a twelve Inch steel teel pipe with 3 0 pounds' pounds pressure would furnish feet of or gas cai Ja r c every cry four twenty foul hours and that the time same uno J pipe with 40 Joun pounds pounds' s' s pres pressure ure feet of oC J gas In twenty-four twenty hours A twenty-Inch twenty steel teel pipe with pounds' pounds pressure will wi furnish feet and with pounds pounds' pressure feet of or gas as in twenty four four hours he figures Models of a Inch thirty concrete pipe will wi bo lie constructed in the sewerage sew sew- ew- ew crage and water board bard yard arl The sewerage and water board will I cooperate coop- coop crate erate with wih Mr Ir Egleston In every way is-ay to make the tests but hut h he will wi supervise them He says that the Inch thirty pipe with a a. pound forty-pound pressure at tho the well In Terrebonne parish will wi furnish feet reet of gas bas in every twenty-four twenty hours to New Orleans and that this will wi be enough to supply the needs of oC man- man Industrial as well wel as other business houses and the different homes In New Orleans If I New Orleans should seriously undertake to supply Itself with gas sas through concrete pipe and the exper- exper ment should be successful the Innovation innovation Inno Inno- vaton would attract nationwide at attention at- at tenton Gas companies would bo be especially Interested