Show gasoline basoli ne from f rom natural gas the he unprecedented demand for gasoline aused by the ever increasing use of auto and government demands has bobiles i vio biles greatly stimulated the production of this commodity from natural gas and as a consequence more and more attention is being given to this source of an increased gasoline supply in this connection it might be well to call attention to the fact that an undoubted supply of natural gas exists on the shores of the great salt lake that is said to be rich in its gasoline content twenty years ago Z wells were driven on the lake shore not far from bountiful and several gas spotters spout ers were brought in excursions were run to the gas field from salt lake city and one of the big wells was ignited the flames from the burning reaching from one to two hundred feet skyward later on the gas was piped to this city for commercial and doi domestic use the pipeline pipe line was faulty however and possibly intentionally so because of the desire to kill competition on the part of those engaged in the manufacture of artificial gas and although albough no satisfactory reason has ever been made public for the failure of the natural gas company to make good the field has been abandoned for years just now an effort is being made to resurrect this apparently defunct industry and a company is now engaged in putting down new wells near the old with the intention of bringing into successful and commercial use the natural gas resources of that locality statistics just completed under the supervision per vision of john D northrup of the U S geological survey show that the year 1916 was one of 0 marked expanse a in th the en natural at aira 1 gas gasoline industry in ile united I 1 states the quantity of raw ga gasoline clipp extrac extracted te d from natural gas including that produced by the compression and absorption methods as well as that obtained by the use of vacuum pumps and recovered as drips from gas transmission lines and sold in that year was gallons a gain of gallons or 59 per cent over the output in 1915 the quantity of commercial gasoline represented by this output of raw casing head product though not susceptible of actual determination was probably more inore than gallons the average price received in 1916 for the unblended product at the sources of production was 14 cents a gallon and the market value of the entire output was a gain of 6 cents in average unit price and of or per cent in total value compared with 1915 the volume of natural gas from which this quantity of gasoline was recovered is estimated at more than cubic feet the average recovery of gasoline per thousand cubic feet by all methods being about half a gallon I 1 the number of plants for extracting gasoline from natural gas increased from at the beginning of 1916 1616 to at the end of the year a gain of 43 per cent whereas the combined daily capacity of all plants increased from to gallons or about per cent the following table shows the sources of casing head gasoline produced in the united elates in 1916 gasoline extracted front from natural na tural gas and som sold in 1910 1916 av recovery number numb er gas gasoline ioline per STATE of quantity 1000 1 i cu ft plants Ls gallons value alue gauw gallons oklahoma 1968 west virginia 3 california ag pennsylvania 5 ohio 53 5 asa illinois 32 2 1688 louisiana 7 3 2329 texas 4 1363 X kentucky 5 kansas 3 new york colorado 6 2422 |