Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 10, 1882, Page 7

h— THH GmauA DAILY Bhl‘i Fi\lD;\ \ EjEBRUA Ry 10, 1882, eere & Comp'y. MANUFACTURERS OF PLOWS, MOLINE, ILL. Wholesale Dealers in ACRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, Council Bluffs, lowa. WESTERN AGENTS ¥FOXx Medne Wagon Co.----Farm and Spring Wagons, Dogre & Mansur Co.----Corn Planters, Stalk Cutters, &o., Moline Pump Co.----Wood and Iron Pumps, Wheel & Seeder Co,----Fountain ity Drills and Seeders, Mechanicsburg Mach, Co.----Baker Grain Dills, Shawnee Agricultural Co.----Advance Hay Rakes, Joliet Manufacturing Co.----Eureka Power and Hand Shellers, Whitman Agricultural Co,----Shellers, Road Scrapers, &c., Moline Scale Co.----Victor Standard Scales, A, 0. Fish----Racine Buggies, AND DEALERS IN All Articles Required to Make a Complete Stock. SEND FOX CATALOGURS. Address All Communications to DEERE & COMPANY, Council Bluffs, lowa. dec3me2m W. B. MILLARD. F. B. JOHNSON. MILLARD & JOHNSON, COMMISSION AND STORAGE! 1111 FARNHAM STREET, NEB. OMAHA, REFERENCES : OMAHA NATIONAL BANK, STEELE, JOHNSON & CO., TOOTLE, MAUL & CO. STEELE, JOHNSON & G0., - WHOLESALE GROCERS AND JOBBERS IN Flcur, Salt, Sugars, Canned Coods, and All Grocers’ Supplies. A Full Line of the Best Brapds of CIGARS AND MANUFACTURED TOBAGGO. Agents for BENW0OD NAILS AND LAFLIN & RAND POWDER CO THE JELM MOUNTAIN G-O1LLDD AND STT.V HER Mining and Milling Company. Worklay Capital Capital § ‘ock, Par Valuo ) 8TOCK FULLY PAID UP AND NON-ASSESSABLE Mines Located in BRAMEL MINING DISTRICT. OFFICERS: ny). J. L THOMAS, Peesid ent, Cummins, Wy oming. & WM. E. TILTON, Vice-Prosident, Cumming, Wyoming F,.IN, HAEWOOD, Socretary, Cumining, Wyou in, A G - - - - - - - - 830,000, A = - - - - - - 1,000,100 Shares, LUNN, Tscasuror, Qummins, Wyoming. TRUSTEERS: Louls dller W. 5. Bramel. Franois Leavens. Geo, 1. Falos, / Dr. J. C. Watkins, Or. J. I Thowas. A. G. Dunn, #&. N. Harwoed. Lewis Zolman, ne22mebm GEO. W. KENDALL, Authorized Agent for Sale of Btock; Br= 449 Nmaha Neb, FOSTER &CRAY, —~WHOLESALE— LUMBER, COAL & LIME, On River Bank, Bet. Farnham and Douglas Sts., OMAXEA - - - NNEB. P, BOYEHR & JO., ~——DEALERS IN— HALL'S SAFE AND LOCK CO. Fire and Burglar Proof 5 A EF E S VAULTS, LOCKS, &O0. 1020 Farnham Street, ONM.AEIA -~ - NEXB. 000, | to the cock, a lighted u CHEAPER THAN NATOHRS, Thé Ready-Made uas of Brad ford, Pa , Utilized by Smokers, An Abundant Supply of Illuminating Gas that Never Falls ~Hills that are Tipped With Fire Pittsburg Dispatch A stranger 1in Bradford once, see ing that, no matter where he went about the eity, he found the gas burn |ing at full Koad in_overy store and building in broad daylight, asked a citizen “Why do you keep your gas burn- ing in the day timel” ““To save matches,” ford man, The stranger believes the native was lying. Strictly speaking, he was; said the Brad- | but, figuratively, he was simply giv- the stranger an idea in an ey matic way of the chenpness of | Bradford. The st er didn't that the gas he saw every hand at noonday use from a natural reservoir thousand feet beneath the surface of the earth just beyond the city. He wasn't prepared for the statement that its cost was 8o small that overy- body thought the time consumed in turning it off at night and turning it on agnin the next night was worth more than the gas consumed by con- tinual burning. But that was what they told him, and it was true. NATURAL GAS, The drilling of oil wells is always at- tended by the appearanco of inflam- mable gas in larger or smaller quanti- ties, althhugh its presence does not necessarily argue the existence of pe- troleum. Thus natural gas has been used for many yeirs both for fuel and light in Liverpool, Ohio, but there is no petroleum there. The develop- ment of the Penusylvania oil regions has been accomplished with greater economy because of the easy adapta- bility and cheapness of natural gas as fuel. Bradford and most of the towns in the oil region are lighted and heated by natural gas. The places where gas is found unobstructed by any flow of oll are called ‘‘gns streaks.” They are cxtensive in the Bradford field. Gas is found in greater volume in the the third-oil sand, in the first fiftecn feet of that stratum, although it is present in aM three of the sands in some wells. Third-sand gas is dis- covered at a depth of fr 1,000 to 2,200 feet, according tolocation. Gas terrirory is worth from $150 to $300 an acre, and the wells are drilled pro cisely as oil wells are. The gas supply of Bradford and vicinity is controlled principally by the Keystone Gas company and the Bradford Gaslight and Heating com pany. They are chartered by the state. The latter company supplies Bradford with light and fuel. It has six welle, three on what is known as the Rixford gas streak, seven miles southeast of the city, and three on the West Branch streak, two miles southwest of the city The gas from Rixford wells is collected 1 a large iron reservoir at the wells, and is forced to Bradford n iron pipes six inches in diameter for four miles of the distance, and eight inches diam- eter the rest of the way. The gas is turned into an eight-inch main as 1t comes from ,the West Branch wells. The gas reaches the city from these wells by its natural force. The Rix- ford gas is forced from the reservoir by pumps. At Bradford the West Branch gas has a pressure on the main of #ix pounds and a half to the inch; the Rixford gas forty pounds to the inch in the receivers. HOW IT 1S MANAGED. Natural gas is conducted through the streets and into the buildings by the usual gas distributing system, and 18 used for light by the ordinary gas fixtures. The distribwiing pipes for gas in the smaller towns are merely laid on the top of the ground. In Bradford they are buried. The ap- pliances by which the gas is utilized for fuel is simply an iron pipe which counects with the supply pipe, and runs into the stove, grate or range. The stove end of the pipe ‘is perfor- ated. A stop cock is attached to the pipe on the outside of the stove. When a fire is wanted a turn is given g chis thrown into the stove, and the fireis kindled. Nutural gas is more expensive now than when it first camo into use in Bradford. Tt 18 not measured, A uniform charge of 50 cents a month per burner is made.to all consumers for illuminating purposes, with a dis count of 20 per cent where twelve burners are in use. Hotels and other large consumers are given a discount from the rate per dozen burners. For au ordinary family cook or parlor stoye the charge. per month is $4. Large heaters and ranges are charged $6a month. The quantity of gas consumed for fuel is regulatad by the size of the holes in the end of the pipe. In the early f using natural gas in Bradford, Lie habit of certain consumers se their supply of fuel by enlarging the feed holes, This has been made a misdemeanor by law, punishable by heavy penalties, ~ Brad- ford consumes about 600,000 cubic feet of thisgas a day. Until recently an ordinary stove would consume about 300 feet per hour, A device to regulate and cconomize the supply, without affecting the result in huat- ing power, has come into use, and re- duced tho consumption to from sixty | i | to seventy-five feet an hour per stove, Itis simply a metallic globe, threo tnches in diameter, attached to the supply pipe outside the stove. The globe is perforated, and charzes the gao with airin such a manner as to prevent extraordinary combustion, THE NATURAL FLOW of ges in the Bradford ficld has do- creased very® perceptibly within the past year. "Until within half & year the natural pressure of the Rixford wells was suflicient to force near 1,000,000 cubic feet of gas to Iimt{- ford. Now it requires the artificial force that an engine of 400-horse power can furnish to drive gas that distance. The indicators at the wells show that where, one year ago, the pressure was 170 pounds, it is now but 26 pounds, ““Nearly 850,000 was expended in perfecting the machinery by which the puwping of the yas pfished. 1In spite of the decrease in | must decide upon that. Most physi- the jas supply, Bradfora still lets its| cians havo hitherto considered that gas burn night and day. It is not on | infection was probably most dircotly account of its cheapness now, but the | conveyed through the water, and the theory is that the gas which is burned [ so-called drinking-water theory has | ditferent qua'ities of the gas. | of it burns with more or less swiok in daytime would be consumed in the waste pipes and by other waste, and it | might as well bo burned in the bury ers. But it certainly looks ke wan ton waste to see half the buildings ablaze with gas at noonday. | Natu (a8 18 & most important fac tor in lessening the cost of drilling an | oil well takes twonty-three (o J s to drill a well. The | s furnish gas for fuel for The charge by the Brad ford Gas Company is 81.26 a day for| onch well. The Keystone Company makes a charge of G 7-10 oents per | foot drilled for the use of gas to fire a| boiler, One dollar per day per wollis | the ¢ for pumping wells, The Keystone Company have several T dred wells connected with their lines - 225 in the now Allegheny i alone, The companies require mon ly pay in advanco tor stoves and light ing. Well drillers pay at the end of ach month The gas is used just as comes from the earth, no retloing process being necessary. There Sone The Bradford gas is vnpceirlll?' clean The gas has the odor of potroleum [ ’ Some of the vas wells in the Brad ford tield have been remarkable for tho great force of the gas. The Pickett well was remarkable in this respect This well is situated on the Rixford a8 streak, seven miles from Bradford. It was drilled as an oil well in the spring of 1860 by H. E. Pickett. Ho re od the third sand at a depth of 1,726 foet. At 1,724 foet the gas vein was struck. The rush of gas was so tremendous that drilling had to be suspended. The roar of gas as it rushed from the well is said to have been like that of Niagara, The sup ply was controlled and had a pressure of 140 pounds to the square inch. It furmshed fuel to thirty-five drilling wells in the summer of 1879, be sides running hundreds of thou- sands of cubic feet to waste. An engine at the well was run by this gas instead of steam, so great was ita power. A peculiarity of this well was that when the gas was in opera tion in the engine ice would form on the outside ot the inder, sometimes an inch in thick , in the hottest days of summer. The shrubbery for rods about the well was killed by the action of the gas. When the well was drilling four feet in the sand, all moisture was evaporated in the well by the gas, and a column of fine, white dust was thrown cut many feet high in the air. The well is still a good gas-producer, and is on the Bradford Gas company's line. Its pressure, if confined, would have rogistered 500 pounds to the square inch in 1879, Natural gas is a fruitful source of accidents in the oil regions, in the drilling of wells especially. When a heavy vein of gas is_suddenly struck in the first or second sand, it is liable to ke ignited by the lamp in the der- rick, the forge, or the fire-box of the boiler. This is frequently followed by loss of life and property. The re- moval of the boiley and lamp from proximity to the well is otten no pro- tection against a sas explosion- The gas will settle to the ground unde cortain conditions of the atmosphere, or be blown along until it comes ‘1 contact with the lamp or fire. GREEN HANDS Working about the wells occasionally inspect o1l wells with lanterns, and generally pay for their rashness with their lives. Besides its use for warmth and light, natural gas hasbeensuccessfully utilized in the manufacture of a su- perior quality of carbon lampblack. Professor Edison is new experiment- ing with this lampblack for use in connection with his electric light. —Most of the oil towns are rendered as light as day the year round by the burning of huge gas jets in thestreots. It is a common thing to sce people sitting at night on their piazzas in warm weather and reading or sewing by the light of one of these jets two blocks away. These jets are seen glaring on the summits of high hills and deep in the ravines and valleys. The hills around Bradford are crowned with a circlo of these pillars of fire. ‘The depths of many a wilderness are clothed with perpetual light by scores of these great torches of nature, In the immediate vicinity of many of these gas jots the grass grows green all the year round. The many narrow gauge ‘railroads which have found thoroughfares by devious and dizzy ways to every nook and corner of the Bradford field, carry the traveler through the heart of this strangely illuminated region. The scene that greots the stranger coming into the ro- gion at night is extremely wierd and awe-inspiring. FELLOWS, e DYING BY INCHES, Very often we see aperson suffering from some form of kidney complaint, and is gradually dying by inch This no longer need be so, for Electric Bitters will positively cure Bright's discase, or any diseases of the kidneys or urinary organs, They are especially adapted to this class of discases, acting directly on the stomach and liver at the same time, and will speedily cure where every other remedy has failed Sold at fifty cents a bottie by Ish & McMahon, (5) —_— Drinking-Water as a Source of ‘DIs- oaso, Popular Sclence for February I cannot go further into the consid- eration of theso circumstances; T only cite them as evidence of the influence of moisture in the soil 8o far as 1t is measurable by the proportion of ground-water present. Wo are more nearly concerned with the relation of the soil to the water which we apply to our use, which we draw from wells und springs, to water as a vehicle con- veying matters out from the soil, When typhus or cholera rages opi: demically in any place, two parties immediately sot up a contention as to whether the epidemic fluence pro- ceeds from the water or the air, It must be admitted henceforth that either is possible, that a so-called sickly soil can impart 1ts noxious properties equally to the water and to the air it containe, but it may also be that only one of these ways is possi- b m from Rixford to an&lord Was aco omm- | ganism, ble as to certain matters and lower or- Observation and experiment | spores and of the increa |n great differenco whether wo put | nests in moist soil, into cold water, or been doveloped from this view. It has, however, been ascertainod that the best known infectious agent in tho soil, the bacillus malarix, which Klebs and T wimassi-Crudelli have discovered a o1 in Roman fev er districts, « Ive without air I'hese inves ors found that the malarial poison was not communicated to the water that stood over a richly walarious mud, Tommassi says, in his latest work on the Roman malaria | and the ancient drainage of the Ro man hills, that “‘the bacillus malarien is pre-eminently an air-living organ ism.” Among the conditions favora blo to its propagation in a malarial soil —which need not bo a swamp soil o fies & tomperature Tog, Fahr.), a y moisture, d the diveet action of the oxyeen of o the mass, Ho| lack of ono of | conditions is enough to canse a | wispension of the development of che | of the ma W0 ferment, I anyone, howover, believes thut this organism must also remain inoperative when it passes in to our blood beeause that is a fluid, ho should be reminded that it makes sy such organisms, takon from their sury into warm blood wheroe air is supplied 5 them from the corpuscles. Wo cannot,indeed answer,with the results of experiment and microscopical investigation,questions respecting the infectious diseases whith the specitic germs of which we are not acquainted, but we may be guided in the matter by other facts. Naegelli says: ‘‘Con- tagion fungi can keep up their pecu- liar activity in the water only for a short time:. The purer it is the less food they ftiud in it jthey are verysoon {and Account Books in Omabha. removed by exhaustionin clear spring- water ;and, even inwater that contains food for them and whero they can multiply fast, degeneration quickly sots in,and they are changedinto common ferments.” Incredible. I, A. Scratch, druggist, Ruthven, Ont., writes: “I have the greatest confidence in your Burnoek Broon Brrrers. In one case with which Tam personally acquainted their success was almost incredible. One lady told me that half a bottle did her more good than hundreds of dollars’ worth of medicine she had previously taken.” Price §1.00, (riul izo 10 cents. Iw WILLIAM GENTLEMAN T ENIE Street Grocer, 8 HFALQUARTERS FOR STAPLE & FANCY GROCERIES, Lemons and Oranges, Choice Butter and Eggs A SPECIALTY. GIVE HIM A CALL. jan i 1m EUROPEAN RESTAURANT. 1106 Farnham Street, MEALS AND LUNCH terved at all Hours, GEORGE HOUGH, Prop. " J. L. WILKIE, MANUFACTURER OF PAPEMR: . BOXES. 218 and 220 S, 14th St. OMVIAELA, NBEER. Janddom 16th febd-1m Geo. P. Bemis 'COUNSELOR - AT - LAW J. H. McCU LLOCH, ATTENTION! BUSINESS N.ME O0VER200,000ENVELOPES A Large Invoice of Flat Paper, Finest and Most Complete Line of Blank All at Prices that Cannot be Met in this Market. Give us a Call. GILMAN R. DAVIS & 0., Successors to Wooley & Davis. ) 105 S uth Fitteenth Street Opposite Postoffice. fobt-1m-eod INVITATION TO ALL WHO HAVE WATCHES AND CLOCKS TO BE REPAIRED, EINGRAVING —TO BE DONE OR— JEWELRY *.. 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