Show 7r I NATURAL GAS FIGURES VALUE OF PRODUCT FOR 1905 SHOWS DIG INCREASE Indiana Kentucky and Tennessee Fields on the DeclineIncrease in 011 Output Alaskas Gold r1 Story Romantic j Washington Statistic prepared by lie geological survey of the natural gas Industry show that In the calendar calen-dar year 1905 time value or natural BUS Produced and Bold exceeded tbat of any previous year by fllOGtiOSl The total value of thin gas produced I amid sold was 1 11502850 rime great ost Increase was III West Virginia C 1101055 moro than the previous rear Pennsylvania shows an Increase t In-crease of 1057441 r Louisiana appeared for time first limo I as a producing stub and notable no-table Increases over previous produc lions were shown by Kansas Okla loina and Indian Territory Kansas showed an Increaso of 49 per cont over Its previous production and the combined production of Oklahoma and Indian Territory was 101 per cent over lOOt The great gas fields of Indiana have steadily declined elnco 1902 and tit value of tho output last year was considerably loss than half of the maximum production Kentucky Ken-tucky and Tennessee also report a do I1l1nl TIll statistics show that U1H9 tier sons prams and corporations reported a report-ed to thu geological survey their HBO of natural gas during 1905 rte number of domestic consumers sup piled was 770018 A total of 8009 en tabllshments Including lion mtllH steel works glass works brick giants etc made list of natural gas During the year 1005 time oil fields of tho United States produced 134 717580 barrels of petroleum an against 117080000 barrels In 104 according ac-cording to a report Issued by tho United States geological survey This i was greater by 170110020 barrels than tho production of any previous year although the value of tho oil produced pro-duced was 17018050 less than that of 1004 j During 1905 thoro was u notable lack of development In the mldcontl nental oil Melds and tho completion I of n pipe Hue from HninlmUH Kan to Whiting Ind marked an Important Impor-tant step In the transportation of oil No iqmanco has keener l Interest than tho story of the development ot the mining Industry In Alaska during dur-ing the past decade also Issued by the geological survey It Is attested roughly by the increase In the value of Its annual output from 2000000 In 1895 to over 15000000 In 1905 The gold production of 1905 Increased piobnbly 00 per centovcr 1904r An Important fact In the advancement advance-ment of Alaskas mineral Industry during tho last decade says tho report re-port Is the great reduction iu mining companies which has taken place during dur-ing this period Tho pioneer nilnuro of tho Yukon could not afford to bain die gravel averaging less than 10 or 15 to tho cubic yard In tho sauut llsti let good wages can now bo made even by crude methods In extracting gold from pay streaks averaging lens than five dollors to tho cub yard I |