Show MORE USE OF NATURAL GAS government to conduct experiments experiment with a view of determining the possibilities the government has at last seen the wonderful possibilities in the uso use of natural gas in many industries and has established a bureau at pittsburgh tor for tho the purpose ot of making experiments in the more efficient use of the fuel in industry says the wall street journal one of the lines along which the bureau Is working Is in the use of natural gas in firing porcelain our manufacturers have learned the secret of fashioning boning porcelain but the firing has been so expensive that the american ware cannot compete with that from europe and japan the latter country since the outbreak of the war furnishing practically all the porcelain shipped to the united states the experimental work at pittsburgh Is something the government has often been asked to do which it has declined until the pr present es 0 nt said ld ic t natural gas man the other i lay day with ith a th thorough brough federal investigation into the possibilities of natural gas as a manufacturing medium many investments which have been transitory in character can bo be made permanent with increased efficiency it will bo profitable to pipe natural gas from long distances to the field of utilization and an increase in the price would not bs be resented by these consumers there ther are many manufacturing towns in pennsylvania and other states that have been partially abandoned because of the decrease in their natural gas supply the federal investigation opens the possibility of such places being made permanent investments |