Show t LOUISIANA WIL ILL CHECK GAS WASTE ASTE IO MONROE ROE La Xa April l IS The i T The e United States bureau of f mines Ines nes having hayIng hav hay ing declared ared that the tho natural gas In this ts country Is not ot Inexhaustible but that the supply is dwindling t ij T J f W S rapidly pe persons sol h. Interested rested In the conservation of Louisiana's s natural resources are launching a c campaign w with h. h e object of ot t either putting an end enci to the tho existence of carbon black plants In this state or at least curbing their operations The North Louisiana gas field Is the largest producing field In the world a and ard d the Veils In the Oua- Oua Morehouse chita-Morehouse district now nov are giving rg up the i enormous total of 1381 cu cubic lc feet of gas dally daily for the tho manufacture of or carbon black Ninety per cent of ot this gas gasIs gasIs gasis Is wasted It Is claimed and the conservationists have determined to todo do do something to put a stop to It If for no other reason than that Industries in search of or cheap fuel hesitate to locate In or near the field for or fear the gas will be ex- ex austed 1 In the near future LEGISLATURE BALKS The Texas legislature recently refused to enact a law which would have permitted the establishment or of carbon black plants in the gas fields now being developed In that state and it is expected the LouisIana Louisiana Louisiana Louis Louis- iana legislature at Its next session will bo be called upon to take tako steps to remedy the situation here Carbon black is used for many purposes the best known of which Is in the manufacture of printers printer's ink It is nothing more than what Is commonly known as sot and Its production Is is a a. simple process The natural gas flame Is permitted to burn against a metal plate across across which a mechanical scraper moves The carbon or soot is scraped off oft falls Into a n conveyor and is carried carried car car- ried ned to the the- packing room Profits from the business are enormous and any attempt to breal break it up is certain to meet with stiff opposition as was the case when the Question was vas considered at the 1 TH SALT L LJ st state te constitutional convention two to years ago ego WELLS COST The cost of drilling and piping a agas agas agas gas well which will produce from ten to twenty million feet of gas gasI I I daily dally Is placed at ConI Construction Construction Con Con- I of ot a carbon plant capable of producing 36 0 pounds of carDon carbon carbon car- car v bon Don dolly daily requires The cost which ii or a gasoline absorption plant win will produce from the gas Kas as a byproduct from 1500 HOO to 2000 I gallons of gasoline dail Is is' 50 50 The total Investment represents represents The Tho Pounds of carbon at 15 Iii cents a pound will brIng and 1500 gallons of gasoline at 15 IB cents a a. gallon i a gross dall dally daily operatIng operating ing income of Operating expenses expenses ex- ex 2 and supplies approximate KS dally daily daily leavIng a net pr profit lt of The Thenet net profit prom In Jn one a year ii y Is slightly less than on an Investment of The plants are virtually automatic In operation operation opera opera- tion and Governor Parker has de declared de- de dared that he knows s of one consuming consuming con con- suming ten million feet teet of ot gas daily dally with a force of only eleven men The plants operate night and da day seven days a tr week In Louisiana Produced 31 pounds of ot carbon black or 63 per Scent cent ent of the country's total output and to do BO so burned 81 0 cubic feet teet of gas |