Show A NEW SOURCE OF POWER E ECONOMY conomy in the production of motive power tor lor machinery is an object to the attainment of which the greatest effort is made by inventors manufacturers and capitalists A new source of power for such purposes is to be developed in illinois A company has lately been beba organized in chicago for the purpose of utilizing the product of the natural gas fields of that state for f uel fuel purposes the plan is to first bore for the gas and when a current is thus ihus obtained to conduct it in pipes to the place of consumption A large main can be laid from the place where the gas as is obtained to some town or city fa an fn which there is a demand for cheap fuel service pipes will then taio the mains and convey the gao to consumers in that such a plan should be resorted to in the state of illinois which has such numerous and extensive coal fields and produces coal so cheaply shows show 8 what as an immense item of expense fuel becomes when used in large quantities in this territory where the abst of coal Is much great erthe necessity f fer or a cheap f uel fuel will rapidly increase from now on this suggests the advisability of ascertaining to what extent the natural gas that has been several times struck in and near this city might be utilized A heavy current of natural gas disc discovered vered in or conducted into this city would be an independent fortune to its owner |