The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 4, 1930, Page 13

f s ane | Special Natural ‘amount of gas used over “Gas Edition Beware of Trifles, Londoner Advises London, Aug. 4— tga ligt gti Pedic 000000 YANKEE ‘400,000 More Converted to Gas London police, magia a i, Way This Year; Expansion | yreak “ot life comer sut of trifles dust Starting * Grn little personal differences putes that at first annoy divide — us/” he says, And of these trifles By CLIFFORD E. PAIGE Vice President Brooklyn Union try Ges Company and pride cause the most up- Foor hendred thousand more cus- roars, he believes. whe et gueeet ex ct PRODUCTION OF {AS iene meee Neos, Seton (S MAJOR INDUSTRY persons as are living Fifty- Association Report Deplores it is. feo aallicn “people tn’ the United Fact Natural Fuel in Indiana Was Wasted States use gas for lighting, heating sate ge industry is not new, the first gas company in this country being establis! in Baltimore in At th f 111) years, it is eo - age 0: > still in health’ and:is in fact : a 0 t-| The production and distribution of oat friiacavn screed obesity tage natural gas now constitute one of Lest any one doubt its virility, it] the largest of the great utility enter- should be said that the gain in the/Prises that have made America the the amount |Tival of the world, according to a re- previous year is greater in| Port just issued by the American Gas than the total used in’ any |#Ssociation of New York. ‘uted yolume In its statement commenting on ear when gas was used entirely for Tent oh tron mt Serious jortage faced in tory, the gas industry: has risen-to| Points out that for many years nat- new ‘of accomplishment and|Ural gas was shamefully wasted and ted what might easily have de-|Tates were ridiculousl; into national calamity. . i Has Relieved Misery Gas fuel has relieved misery and which, without this re- would have been inevitable. Bt eh accom- y 0 field by what is Da wept a ea “eae “ be om moet rock Rlosaly ex- in jon in justry’s FB ie alan Napier i wp favaeant ners the last time he felt | history,’ jon 1 et opelled the end of an Fraga le san industry: is « ural in Today he knows that if it were and not for gas he could not live with modern standards of comfort. The two features of the gas in- dustry which insure its future are in the nature of recent acquisitions. ‘The business rests on a sound eco- nomic foundation and the industry is P ging from Babson’s reports: ABreeett indications F ares bie ~ omifés and advantages of gas for ing will for an indefinite time tend to gas preference over all other ity of the industry, the association vag were discovered in Indiana e whole state was ablare with burning gas. Free gas uncontrolled wells and leaky lines allowed untold millions of cubic feet of gas to blow into the air. Meters were unthought of. Not until 1907, when the supply was nearly exhaust- ed, was any thought given to liepoesas at $20 to $30 per stove per year and $13.75 per cocking range per year. SULPHURIC ACID IN SMOKE 1S HARMFUL Bureau of Standards Reports _ Percentage of Acid Is High for industrial and ially in homes? Yet C. P. Stei snes, the Clectriecal wizard, said his that gas fuel used in the absorption process would be the ulti- mate answer to the domestic refriger- ~ Today the ‘Teal estate man snes th ly See ee ators: he’ can make a After a Survey ready sale. Demand Is Increasing “Industry requires more’and more every: year. Cleanliness, relia- Siity arid quality without storage sppeal to the manufacturer and make him realize that it isn’t-the cost of tuel, it in the cost of the result, which determines his‘ success. - “The present widespread popular- ity of gad for fuel isnot an accident. It didn’ 4 happen. ; The bureau of standards at Was! ington has completed a comprehen. sive study of conditions in the United States and Europe, and has announced some startling facts on the dangers of unabated smoke nuisance. : An. annual precipitation of sul- huric acid, falling like rain, of ‘rom 11 tons to 190 tons per 1 mile, is inflicted om by the smoke nuisance, hip. |e the bureau of standards. Faslty 7 ition. raw fuels creat the atti of the invest-|combus sulphur dioxide in the at toward gas company s¢-| SPENT, chemical combines with nat. ural moisture to form sulphuric acid. This powerful acid has a. bitingly. stone, mctalé and vegetation, aot to stone, met mention the havoc it plays with the eoaltire.- aepebianes of human noses, throats, jungs. ‘The war against smoke and the harmful products.of faulty combus- tion must be waged for generations Much has been , which means more'the utility is coming to be owned.by the people it serves.” SHOKE MENACE IRKS CHARLESTON, W.VA Public. Demonstration Made in Effort ta Compe! Consump- tion of Gas , ition pany of Chicago, contractors. decided to Too Tough for a Machine ths * THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ; ‘BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1930 Commemorating of Bismarck’s New Fuel | Entrance Men Active in Bringing. Natural Gas to Bismarck In the| | imately 10 years to | of nat-| if W. L. Hayes Here are some of the mien instru- mental in bringing natural gas to Bismarck and other parts of the Missouri Slope country. R. M. Heskett is vice president and treasurer ‘of the Montana-Dakota Power company. He became associ- ated with the men controlling the company in 1913, when he was oper- ating the Minnesota Utilities com- pany on. the Mesaba Iron Range in Northern Minnesota. In 1922 these interests were sold and in 1924 the Minnesota Northern Power company, parent c@ncern of the Montana-Da- kota was organized. As executive head of this eoncern, Mr. : Heskett has made'it one of the Northwest’s mpanies and its 1 ible is manager Bismarck division of the Mon’ F. R. Gamble Mandan and Valley City. Dakota company. For years he was manager of the company which dis- tributed artificial gas in Bismarck, When this preety was sold to the Montana-| tl akots company, Mr. Trimble joined the new organization. He always has been active in Bismarck. civic affairs.and is one of the most widely known utility men in J. W. Lewis sa company for ; sion. oung man in peoteee i ly. ie has forged ahe: North Dakota. jles-manager for jismarck divi- the utilit; ad rapid- iviston For two years he was di salesmanager for the company at Kenmare and later salesmanager of the Lead division, Later he was shes charge of sales in the entire lack Hills district of South Dakota He was brought here M: gas. the| with headquarters at Rapid City. y 1 to -super- Natural Gas Just Another Big Step C. W. Smith vise sales of gas equipment in con- nection with the North Dakota de-/ ta: velopment. 9 Ed Moore .is widely known throughout the section traversed by pipe line from the Montana ields as the man in charge of work, As su itendent of Hope Engineering company which had the contract, he gave a fine demonstration of modern methods of laying pipe through all kinds-of ter- ritory. . L. Hayes, basiness manager of the Montana-Dakota company, has been ‘associated with Mr. Heskett for 16 years,’ joining the Minnesota Northern Power company soon after it was nized. As business man- ager ie believed to have made more contacts with the company’s by ara than any other of its offi- c In Inevitable Development of City Bismarck Haa Made Rapid Pro-| gressive Steps. Since Its Founding in 1872 GROWTH LARGE IN DECADE; Missouri River, Together. With|s New Fuel, Gives Capital Big Advantages The addition of natural gas serv- ics is only one of the steps which|i8 trading area, of Bismarck had the advantage of both rail and water transportation for the On June 3, 1883, the received its next ‘one which was to have a fect. It was made the Dakota territory. With the comin, there was a be’ placed but th e marck were s0 of iy all Is Centrally Located of ion as North Dakota should advantages of Bis- obvious from the location and accessi- parts of North Dakota that the decision favored Bismarck. young city it impetus and lasting ef- capital of statehood, | ja: to where Farmers followed the railroad and plowshares first pioneers came in by boat and the water route was a natural trail for all to follow it. .* ui With the Wisecart river crossed by the railroad bridge, iron horse. made ,: however, the inroads on the volume of river traffic and Bismarck no longer had ing at “the end of rail”. pered, however, fy as its commercial the-distinction of be- The town sf manner in which it as advanced in recent years more clearly than the census returns. 3 In 1920, the official count gave Bismarck By 1925 150 and the vibes bad grown (9 9 n grown last ‘completed ” summer, showed 11,081. of the city grew in $8,000,000. early this The wealth ‘ion Service Show Growth The. services which provide con- venience for the city dweller and Shee ee a city’s ros rive similar marck’s future. the tele; growth in as well as in numbers, indications of Bis- On Dec, 31, 1920, phone company listed 2,197 the} North proportion and with, hysical ills. the assessed valuation in 1929 was Between ! telephones in service. At the end of [lest July the number was 8,0 increase of almost 1,000 10 years. : is peryed by The ci electric plant and distribu 8} it show a si residents tem and its records demand by Bismarc! the conveniences of life. - From the~ standpoint ment, Bismarck is hay record buildi in 1 new world Rely buildi and the new Burle’ 11, an in less than a@ modern for of-invest- a near- The ing county court house sre Seepertasl factors in this contribute the major share CPi investment roll. A homes also -fecord rot’ new year homes, 87 are be- for the were built and the total value of building in Bismarck for that year was $758,525. With the passing of the boom days, Bismarck settled down to the business of merchandising the g needed by residents. in the "8 rR le tory and of provid) ing a market or aiding in the market- ing of products raised.on farms. The result was to make it the leadi distributing center of Cen a Western North Dakota and na- tural trade territory extends well into Montana. Ri ition of this fact is seen in the selection of Bis- marck as headquarters..of ap- proximately 350 traveling men, mez. of whom have brought their famil- here and all of whom contribute te the advancement of the com- munity, An idea of the business done in Bismarck may be obtained from a few bald statistics. They tell better than words the story of Bismarck’s Place:in North Dakota economic scheme. -- . Year's Business $12,000,000 The Loggia qusietes ¢ bere from Bismarck in }12,000,- 0005. penta receipts were $211,064.82 and its to bank accounts were Cad ag oe exclusive of the of orth Dakota, which is a stat ti- tution not engaged.in the commercial banking peace ‘i come to the: front in eine yours. a the inedbeiseaea hospital, aviation and radio center of Dakota. Two fine hospitals and highly-trained staffs of* physi- cians and surgeons have made Bis- k a haven for those afflicted eight. and 10 airplanes make this their headquarters and the city has a ine municipal air- port which will be second to none in the state when completed. Bismarck has the most popular radio station in the stgte and this soon will be converted into one of the most powerful when a new trans- mission station goes into operation.| : Its daily newspaper the do- ings of the world each day to thous- ands of readers in Bismarck, Bur- leigh county ‘and throughout the state ' Mi provements have key pace vith private enterprise. marck has more paved streets than any other city of its size in the state. ting’ system which helps’ to:keep i ing wi ips the cleanest and best-looking city if the entire northwest. Has Plenty of Water And ‘added to these developme; are those things’ which nature has given to. Bismarck and which it has iron i Taeti a thet to.no other inexhaustible supply of the W. J. McDonald F. R. Gamble is secretary of Mon- a-Dakota company, having been assqciated with it since 1925. He has charge of the accounting de- partment and often represents the company in its negotiations with public regulatory lies. . W. Smith is chief engineer and been with the company. only three years, coming to it from Chi- cago in 1927. Since then he has supervised the construction of three electrie plants and has had general siperveeiae of gas developments. . J. MeDo: is local ‘manager for the ‘company at Dickinson, and has charge of the Dickinson office. He became associated with the com- pany in 1927 and since then his ad- vance has been rapid. He was man- ager of the Sturgis, S.-D., division of the carrey before being trans- ickinson. step. This fact alone puts Bismarck head and shoulders above any other North Dakota city from the stand- point of prospective industrial de- velopment. Industry needs water and Bismarck ‘has it and to spare. When other cities were ‘complaining of water shortages and asking citi- zens to curtail the sprinkling of ‘their lawns, there was no complaint from Bismarck. ‘The Mighty Missouri carries in its bed ngnoagh water to meet the needs of millions of people. fi aeaihiad. Bistianck hey at a strategic point in one of the great est. undeveloped coal fields in the world. Billions of tons of lignite coal -lie beneath the soil of North Dakota within a.comparatively short distance of Bismarck, Lying close beside the coal beds are great deposits of the finest brick, tile and pottery clay in the world, waiting only for industry and capi- tal to develop them. The agricultural advancement of the country near Bismarck has been steady, though not sensational. The city’s nat and man-made ad- vantages are so pronounced that its development as an industrial center seems inevitable. NATIONAL JEWISH HOME London, Sept. 4.—Lord Passfield, British secretary of state for the colonies, has announced to a delega- tion of Jews that Great Britain’s mandate over Palestine did not con- template a Jewish state there. It does gontemplate a national Jewish home, however, he says. AWARD GAS FRANCHISE Lamar, Okla., Sept. 4.—A gas franchise was recently granted to A. J. Hardendorf, of Dodge City. Gas will be supplied to Lamar from the Hugoton field. The project will require construction. of 91 miles of pipe line. as To Speed City Developme }¥Y JAMES | light plant there. ‘This year has seen the completion of Bowman, N. Dak. Serves Large Territory The Montana Dakota Power com- pany is supplying electricity to over 16,000 electric consumers in Montana and North Dakota and has over 10,000 natural gas consumers in the two Dakotas, Montana, and Wyom- ing. ‘ A preliminary survey of the Bis- marck line was made in the fall of 1928, fuel surveys were made that winter, franchises obtained, rights of way purchased and town distribution systems laid out so that contracts were let before the announcement were let early last spring that the Bismarck line would be completed this summer. Material was on the ground about May 16 when actual construction work started on the 200 mile 12 inch high pressure line to Bis- marck, The line is built for a pres- sure of 400 pounds to the square inch, is electrically welded through- out and expansion joints are placed about every 300 feet. ‘ The line is divided into sections with valves spaced about 10 miles apart, and by isolating any section by closing two valves, repairs can be made if necessary without in- terference to the service as suf- ficient gas is under pressure in the balance of the line to supply normal requirements for a day. The main line is patrolled daily by line walkers throughout its entire length pie rat report any conditions which might lead to a possible interruption in the service later if-not remedied. This company is proud of its record of Continuous service without inter- tuption on the other properties for the last four or five years. , The Hope Engineering company of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, is one of the larg- est pipe line construction companies in the U. S. and has been in business for the last 25 years building gas and oil pipe lines throughout the country. This company has built all of the lines throughout the country. This company has built all of the lines for the Montana-Dakota Power company in the last five years under the direct supervision of Mr, Edward F. Moore, field construction superintendent. The Hope Engineering company com- pleted in March of this year the last end of a 900 mile natural gas running from Louisiana to Birming- ham, Ala., and Atlanta, Ga. The experience of the Hope Engineering company and their engineerin; knowledge of hundreds of miles pipe line they have built under every condition of soil and terrain gives assurance that the Bismarck line will give service at all times over a period of a lifetime. Supply Is Plentiful There are four known methods used by engineers for checking and proving the capacity and life of gas ields as natural gas has been us in the U. 8, for a great many years and the knowledge has been obtained from actual. conditions over that period. With what has already been developed by this company in the Baker-Glendive structure, this gives every assurance of a continuous sup- ply of gas for many years to come. With more favorable freight rates from the East in North Dakota to the Montana line, there is no reason why Bismarck and Mandan cannot develop some small industries which can meet competition in supplying the undeveloped territory west of us. With the only real good water in the state, cheap electric paver and cheap flexible and adaptable gas fuel, Bis- marck and Mandan will have more to offer prospective industries than any other city or town in North Da- kota. There are some 22,000 differ- ent applications of gas heat used in the industries. To cite one instance, the Insull interests which is one of the largest operators of electric | How the Workers Lived Housing and feeding more than 1,000 men at a time while they were engaged in Jaying the natural gas pipeline was no small item. The above picture shows how this contract. Esch shacks where-the man who hollered “come and get it” did his stuff. » nt Industrial ‘ Expansion In Bismarck District Predicted by Trimble Great Amount of Fuel at Small Cost Will Be Attractive to Capital, Manager Believes; Declares Natural Fuel Will Save City Money and Bring Comfort TRIMBLE District Manager for Montana-Dakota Power Company The Minnesota Northern Power company, of which the Montana- Dakota Power company is a subsidiary, was a strictly electric utility until five years ago when they developed the Cabin Creek gas fields 40 miles south of Glendive, Mont., to supply Glendive with natural gas service and also to use natural gas under the electric light piant boilers at that point. They continued to develop the Glendive-Baker gas structure, extending | @ line to Miles City in 1927 for city distribution and fuel for their electric In 1928 a line was installed to the Black Hills and in 1929 Havre, Chinook, Malta, Glasgow, Conrad, and Choteau, Mont., were added to the holdings. gas lines to Bistparck, Williston, and manufactured and natural gas prop- erties in the U. S., is building a line direct frofr the Amarillo, Tex., gas fields to Chicago next year at a cost of one hundred million dollars as it was discovered that St. Louis with natural gas service, had more to offer a prospective industry, seeking a location than Chicago had although it has a very cheap industrial manu- factured gas rate. Chicago's growth can be measured by the number of industries it can obtain yearly and the gas and electric utilities in Chi- cago will continue to grow and ex- pand in that same proportion as the new industries furnish the additional population. Fuel cost is one of the larger items in production costs of manufacturing articles and industrial gas rates for natural gas here will be undoubtedly much lower than Chicago. The gas industry ranks as one of the largest in the U. S. with over 13 million gas consumers using gas for cooking and water heating and its use for house heating jis about doubling every year. Gas for cook- ing alone is used by over 60 million people in the U. S. Thomas A. Edi- son’s prophecy of a few years ago that gas heat would be used for homes and buildings is coming true and it is only a question of a few years until the same gas which now eats your homes will cool them for you in the summer by gas refrigera- tion as the late Dr. Charles Stein- metz, the great electrical genius, stated a few years ago that mechan- ical refrigeration would have. to be done in a large measure by gas, us- ing it as a heating agent. Gas Popularity Proved Discussion of the merits of na- tural gas will be a live topic here this year and we think the best evi- dence of cleanliness, reasonable cost in comparison to coal, adaptability and control of temperature within two degrees by thermostatic control is the fact that in less than two years from the time that gas was intro- duced into any community which we Now serve, we obtained from 80 per cent to 90 per cent of all the avail- line | ble heating and are able to hold this business in competition with other fuels. This is ample evidence that,” the cost must be within the reach of” everyone, and that the service is de- pendable and satisfactory. We feel Bismarck has a brighter future than ever before with the ad- vantage of natural gas service, that it will stimulate home building, make it possible to obtain small industries, reduce manufactured gas cooking bills about 80 per cent or a saving of roughly $40,000 a year to our resent gas consumers, make a spot- less town and above all eliminate the ed | Winter drudgery and make it a better lace in which to live. Bodily com- forts to old people such as even heat in the home mean a great deal and gas service with thermostatic gas supplies this want automatic- ally. | ible. Bismarck is to be congratulated on having this service and if it Proves’ out here as in every one of our other properties, natural gas service will be one of the test, assets and conveniences. Bismarck has to offer the prospective new- comer. y Carolina Farmers Find Credit Unions Relief Raleigh, N. C., Sept. 4.—North Carolina farmers are not depending om te government for ther” farm relief. They are setting up individual financial organizations under a law passed 15 years ago by the state leg- islature, providing for the establish- ment of savings and loan associa- tions or credit unions, similar to those in operation in Europe for nearly a century. _. Fifty-eight credit unions are now in operation in 26 counties, and more applications have been received for permits to o: ize in the last 60 days, than in the history of the credit union in America. The credit union is operated un- der the supervision of the depart- ment of agriculture and imilar to the building and loan association. Members control and operate the union themselves. OCEAN AIR SERVICE Berlin, Sept. 4.— A transatlantic air service between Berlin, Seville and South America has been pro- posed by the Deutsche Luft Hansa and the Compania de Navigazion Aerea Espanola Colon. It would be a combined airplane-dirigible norte and would trans: from Berlin to Seville by Viens and free there across the Atlantie by dirig- -Tennes: hi growers are pro- by the Hope Engineering company which had the| viding their floc! with pasebred contained sleeping tents and one or more large cook ress. 10 increase quality of ‘spring va o