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Show THE IMPORTANCE OF GAS The annual production of artificial artifi-cial gas for fuel and light todny In about eight hundred billion cubic , feet, tho gas traveling through 70,- ' 000 mllea of mains, or nearly enough to encircle tho o quator threo times, serving a population of nearly 55.-000.000. 55.-000.000. While gas for lighting dates back nenrly 100 years, It has been a standard dometslc fuel, particularly par-ticularly In the cities, fon less than forty years G.ib companies have I had dimcultles recently duo to tho ' exceptionally high costs of coal, labor la-bor and nmtcrlals entering Into production pro-duction of the product. |