Show NATURAL GAS an lute resting account ae aunt of its I 1 etc AtLE AiLE GHANT CITY pa dec decma ibi 1887 editor deseret news natural sas gas delights every visitor to our cities pittsburg Pitts Darg and allegheny alleghany Alleg hany aud and possibly would interest your readers I 1 first remember it I 1 was quite a buy boy seeing it used in the oil country in this state it was then con of very little value great volumes of it going to waste and had bad bee been lor for years the boutas moutas of what hat were termed dry holes in wells from which no oil could be got I 1 have seeto these dry holes belching forth enough gas to hilve have supplied cities and yet only used by a lew few families in the immediate vicinity they conveying it into their homes through one inch pipe laid on OIL top of the ground and entering through a hole made in the wall ot ol the hoube then along the floor door to the stove the end of the pipe being I 1 the only burner used ale A lew w bicks bricks laid in the graw completed the arrangement no valve being used and gas was alcied to burn without interruption night and day about ten years ago a party of capitalists ita lists visited a gas well in butler county with a view to conveying the gas into the cities they founds found a large well which had been burning tor for years with no perceptible decrease in the flow of the gas I 1 remember seeing this well it threw a gi gibat eat volume of gas feet in tile the air coming so rapidly from the pipe as to drive the flame completely away from the pipe and leave a space of fifty feet between it and the flame and by yd drilling rilling the stand pipe at the base and attaching a one inch pipe they supplied a stand ot of letters made ot of perforated pipe which when lit read save me 1 am wasting war t shortly after this the rolling mills at etna live five miles north of Alleg allegheny alleghany hany were supplied as a test and the saving in fuel and labor was so great as to show to capitalists a fine investment and in a lew few weeks all the idle men were biging ditches all the iron mills and foundries were makin makings pipe and pipe iron all the s at is reasonable distance from the bwy were sold to companies tile the owners selling before they could realize the value of holding tor for a while murraysville westmoreland moreland county being the centre of gas attraction here beret the rival companies each representing several millions of capital and each claiming certain sas gas property took the men out of the ditches and hurried them to murrayville Mur rayville gave them rifles and told them to tight the he result was several men were killed however the gas came to pittsburg and then some more people were killed every day explosions occurred till they became quite common the mains were hurried into the ground no care being taken to make tight joints the only object be being ing to get et into tile the city first toe the result was t the e gase gas escaped scaled into cellars and the first light taken into them caused an explosion of often tell very severe we get the gas by high and low pressure the high pressure assure mains are ten inch wro wrought ug chiv hiv t iron on P pipes pes the low being cast iron f from rom five inch to thirty six inch the company is now compelled compe llad to take great pains to make the joints perfectly secure they are not allowed to open the streets f from rom dec lot till april lat ast unless in case of a leak the cost of the gas to consumers is less than one half of coal in my family we consumed about tons of coal per year the average cost being two dollars per ton we get the gas for twenty dollars per year I 1 and as we have no kindling wood to buy or ashes to haul away we find it conal considerable derance de ranle cheaper the fittings cost about se seven segen gen dollars per fire this being paid by the owner of the house bouse as he cannot rent the house without it has the gas lt it is also used for illuminating in workshops not very successfully however as the body of the gas is so light that the slightest draught causes it to flicker it is put to some queer uses the market gardners gardeners gard ners in toe vicinity run a a perforated pipe the length of the beds of early vegetables which when lit keeps the frost aw away and we get these delicacies vera very early tile the bakers use it in their ovens and the mains that cross the rivers often are strained at the joints by the rising of the water and cause extensive leaks which are alej ignited by s passing steamboat steam boat and we have bave the novelty of the river being on fire the blaze being of often ten III fifty ty feet long and twenty feet high it is a line fine thing for a lazy man as he can caa lie in bed till the breakfast is ready in cold weather we let it burn slightly lightly all all that is necessary is a slight turn of the valve and you have a not stove in a few minutes it is also necessary to keep a thermometer in the bouse as the beat to is so steady that the furniture often suffers it toe the temperature is kept above seventy it if this Is acceptable I 1 will give you some more of the attraction of our twin cities we had bad a united lation lof last census we have a small mad branch here small in numbers but rich in the spirit and wears we are looking forward to the time when we can go u up to zion andt bere worship god with Vs his saints yours to ID christ JOHN W householder HOUSEHOLD EB |