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Show To Measure Natural Gas. When naUral gas was first brought into uso In America thero scorned to bo a general idea that tho supply was InoxhaiiBtlblc. It was sold at low rules und usually without measurement. measure-ment. "This method encouraged wnBto In tho consumption of gas, and was shortly abandoned by tho lnrger companies. com-panies. To-day nearly all consumption consump-tion Is sold by measurement. It .is believed that tho tlmo has now come when It Is possible, to procuro statistics statis-tics of tho quantity of gas consumed, and next year this will bo undertaken. The method will glvo such figures In tho future that a moro direct knowl-edgo knowl-edgo will bo obtained of tho capacity of gas arcaB to maintain a commercial commer-cial supply of gas for a cortaln number num-ber of years. Iron Age. |