| Show Nfl 011AL L GAS ALL GONE Mr Driver Admits thai the Supply Is Entirely Cut Off I HE ISI HOWEVER BORING NEW WELLS But I Is 01 Certtn el8 loont Flatur FIlo II 1 huld trlOe An other strata or npor I 10 The supply of natural gas for this city has ceased to be a supply altogther and lien become on unsatisfactory un certAin and Indefinite quantity Mr II L Driver of the Natural Gas ompnny In on Interview with n News representative I today Bald Yes tile llow at the wells has stopped that Is I no far us turning any gas Into the mains Is I COlIcel ned llm little that Is I finding Its way Into the pipes IB I so little ns to amount to nothing 1 of course feel as badly about It as anybody any-body and perhaps worse but I dont Intend to commit suicide I am driving moro wells and expect 10 strike n new flow of an today I know the gas It I there I thereUut you expected to strike It yesterday yester-day dldn you Interrupted the inter viewer Vesi I did JAnitithe day before Yera I And for the past ten day or two weeks 1 lea I know but well get to I after money u ivhll 1 Vie ned lis J time and In l the meantime the distributing company Is I being put to great expense i and the consumers to much nnIlOllllce The company Is however endeavor to the best of Its ability to supply tho dellclencj and la I supplying the mixed and manufactured article at the natural natur-al product price which Is I about four times less How long I can afford to do this or will do I Is I not known General Manager Campbell of the Union Light anal Power company In discussing the matter today said In the presence of Mr Driver who assented to the correctness of the statement that for the past nlntey days there had been I no difference of opinion between l his company and Mr Drivers company com-pany as to the amount of gas supplied Sometimes the natural product had reached ISO 000 cubic feet In twenty four hours Then again It would be reduced until the flow would cease Ill together tho condition that obtains I now This fluctuation has been so i marked Its 10 make the average for the whole period only about Ooo fet a dy hr the urnlee called for the delivery of from 00000 to 300000 feet I In canceler to the question no to whether there was 11 leakage In the Maine or distributing lalrls Mr Driver Dri-ver declared that there was not that he himself was getting tired not that sort of talk and It was sucflllent 10 say hat his own meter nt the well nnd hat of the company In this city had for the past three months price tlcnll registered the same amount The trouble Mr Driver continued was In his wells clogging up 1 they did not do so he could guarantee all the gas necessary But no sooner Is I a good now truck than the pip fill uP goo rendering I necessary to drive nw wells all of the time This work too ha been more frequent and xpnhe or late than ever before Still Mr Driver thlllk that hod he got lllrled to driving new dllng hw wells earlier In I the fall conditions would have ee different from i what they now are The excessive cold weather he thinks ban had something to do with the Stopp age too From tour 10 Ove open and fre flowing wells wel are requ I red constantly 10 supply the milin for this city Now all are cloned or practically so Producing scarcely enough gila 10 run the engine used In bring new wells Manager Campbell In speaking fur ther UPOII the matter said that for thre monlhs they had ben oprntllls mainly on their own prouct and mlnl rfrivers bpl1 that nw noun woUld to Irlver but the flows were not found and Mr rivers belief did not possso sufficient Illu motion and hat pp prdeln power to IlUy their pnrn This tact is I good nlurerlly admitted by Mr Driver who says ho ban been getting Dlvr nicely with the Union Light nrld power People ollly lie has been unable < 10 sop ply them all the gas they want UJ |
