Show Natural Gas in Abundance D T McNeil for many years superintendent superin-tendent of the Kokomo Ind tndent natural gasworks gas-works is in the city and to a HERALD reporter re-porter said Thera is every indication that you have an abundance of natural gas in this territory terri-tory It is pretty well settled that natural gas is produced at a temperature of from 2200 to 2500 degrees and having a basis of sulphur The thermal heat of the earth in the region of the hot springs is quite favorable favor-able for generating gases It is my theory that the volcanic forces which threw up your mountain ranges was nothing but natural gas as volcanic pas is very similar to natural gas in its sulphuric qualities if not identical 1 believe natural gas exists in every state in the union in sufficient quantities to be utilized for commercial purposes They have found it at Port Huron Hu-ron in the north Texas in the south while the states of Kentucky Indiana Ohio Pennsylvania and New York are loaded with it There is a good well at Kansas City and the discovery of large productive petroleum fields in the territories terri-tories is the strongest evidence in the world that gas exists as it is always found alongside the petroleum belts There is an old colored man in my town that is as afraid as death of natural gas and If he was to see your hot springs ho would say that they wore within ten feet of the infernal infer-nal regions |