The Frostburg spirit., October 23, 1913, Image 8

About The Frostburg spirit. (Frostburg, Md.) 1913-1915

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Interesting Information
About Natural Gas
Half Trillion Cubic Feet Pro
duction Breaks All Records
—Value of Product Over
$84,000,000.00.
Where the Most of It is Found aad
Consumed.
Natural gas production has become
one of the leading industries of the
United States, and to this country be
longs the credit of making natural gas
a commercial product. It is the best
of fuels—cleaner, more convenient,
and more efficient for almost any pur
pose than any other fuel Were it
possible to transport natural gas as
coal, petroleum, or other fuels n(%w in
use are transported, it would be the
leading fuel of the world and its value
would probably exceed that of any
other commodity. As it is, enormous
quantities are wasted annually, quant
ities too great even to be estimated, and
it is with the greatest difficulty that in
terest can be aroused in the import
ance of conserving this valuable fuel
and in preventing the exhaustion of
the fields. Although steps have been
taken in some localities to prevent
waste, it still goes on.
The utilization of waste gas from
the oil wells in different parts of the
United States has been an important
means of conserving this fuel, and the
increasing number of plants erected
and being erected for the extraction
of gasoline from this “casing-head
gas” was one of the most important
features of the natural gas industry
in the year 1912.
The year was one of greatest pros
perity to the natural gas producer,
and a record breaker for output. The
total estimated consumption of natu
ral-gas in the United States in 1912
was 562,203,452,000 cubic feet, valued
at $84,563,957, an average price of 15.-
04 cents a thousand cubic feet, com
pared with 512,993,051,000 cubic feet,
valued at $74,621,534, an average
price of 14.55 cents, in 1911. The num
ber of domestic consumers supplied
with gas in the United States in 1912
was 1,621,557, and the value of gas
consumed for domestic purposes
amounted to $50,960,883, while the
number of industrial consumers was
15,936, and the value of gas consumed
for industrial purposes was $33,603,074.
On the assumption that 28,000 cubic
feet of gas equals in heating power
one ton of coal, the fuel displaced by
gas consumed in 1912 was equivalent
to approximately 20,000,000 tons of
coal.
Probable Increase in Production.
In the latter part of 1911 and
throughout 1912 the price of petroleum
continued to advance. This stimulus
of higher prices made drilling .more
active in every district, and resulted
in the discovery of some new oil and
gas pools, as well as in the extension
of older fields. So long as present
prices prevail, the search for oil and
gas will continue, and it is probable
that the year 1913 will show still
greater results than 1912.
One feature of particular interest in
the year 1912 was the completion of
the pipe line which is to convey natu
ral gas from the Buena Vista Hills, of
Kern County, Cal., to consumers in
the city of Los Angeles and the sur
rounding towns. This pipe line was
built under great difficulties and at
tremendous cost. It is expected that
on the completion of the compressor
which is being built in' the Midway
field, this line will be put into opera
tion.
West Virginia the Greatest
Producer.
West Virginia was the greatest pro
ducer of natural gas in 1912, the fig
ures being 215,785,027,000 cubic feet,
valued at $29,064,968. Pennsylvania
was the largest consumer of gas, her
self producing to the value of $22,-
823,725, but consuming $26,486,302
worth of gas./-West.Virginia, on the
other hand, consumed only about one
fourth of her output, the balance be
ing piped into other states.
Pennsylvania the Greatest
Consumer.
The natural gas industry of Penn
sylvania surpassed in 1912 that of any
previous year from almost every point
of view. Except in 1908, which was a
year of business depression, the quan
tity of gas consumed in Pennsylvania
has continued to increase steadily,
until in 1912 the enormous total of 173,-
656,003,000 cubic feet was consumed.
The gas was used largely for manu
facturing and other industrial pur
poses, the quantity consumed for these
purposes being 124,324,911,000 cubic
feet, valued at $14,333,048, an average
price of 11.53 cents per thousand cubic
feet. The consumption of gas in that
state in 1911 was 159,104,376,000 cubic
feet, valued at $23,940,001, an average
of 15.05 cents a thousand cubic feet.
Pennsylvania leads all other states in
the quantity of gas consumed.
In the industrial world the year 1912
was one of great prosperty, and nat
ural gas is one of the fuels most need
ed and sought for. It is the ideal
fuel for the manufacture of iron,
steel, and glass, for which the State
of Pennsylvania is noted, and it is the
presence of this gas in the fields of
that state that has helped to make it
the leading manufacturing state in
the country. Since the introduction
of natural gas into the industrial es
tablishments of Pittsburg in 1883, that
district has continued to grow until it
has become the greatest industrial
center in the United States. lUis es
timated that more fuel is consumed in
that city and its immediate vicinity,
and more coal and coke are shipped
into and through the Pittsburg dis
trict than in any other district in the
woi?d.
A Kansas Compliment.
Capt. J. W. Farrell, of Weir City,
Kan., under date of Oct. 14th, writes
i as follows:
I “I am receiving The Spirit regular
ly, and just as regularly I am pleased.
. You are surely making it an excellent
paper, and I am impressed with the
great loss we sustained in not secur
ing you here. There are several
Frostburgers here—Garry Rowan,
Matt Reed and James Bates.
[ “How would a letter on the Kansas
political situation fit in with your other
„ reading matter? Of course, I cannot
a tell how your readers took my ‘ram
bler’ in the first issue, or whether an
-3 other would aggravate them to the
t danger point, but if you think the
kind of letter suggested will assist you
any, I will send one.
t “Fine weather now, just the prop
er temperature for morning fires and
j coat-wearing. Finest season in the
deck for outings, automobile trips and
„ gathering nuts. Squirrel hunting ex-
T cellent, and, where water can be
5 found, good fishing.”
[Come right along with your letter,
j : Captain, for The Spirit’s readers are
always eager to hear from former
Frostburgers, and especially from so
j versatile a writer as you are Ed.]
f Don’t Be a Sponger. Subscribe for
i The Spirit instead of borrowing your
t neighbor’s copy. - tf.
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111 the Hands of His Friends.
We often hear candidates proclaim
ing that they are in the hands of their
friends, but seldom are any of them
more safe in the hands of their friends
than was the tramp in the following
narrative:
The conductor of a Western freight
train saw a tramp stealing a ride on
one of the forward cars. He told a
brakeman in the caboose to go up and
put the man off at the first stop.
1 When the brakeman approached,
1 the tramp waved a big revolver, and
; told him to get away.
“Did you get rid of him?” the con
■ ductor asked, when the train was in
motion again.
“I hadn’t the heart,” was the re
ply. “He turned out to be an old
school friend of mine.”
“I’ll take care of him said the con
ductor, as he started over the top of
! the cars.
When he came back the brakeman
• asked.
‘ “Well, is he off?”
“No, he turned out to be an old
school friend of mine, too,” replied
: the conductor.
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