Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1890 — NATURAL GAS AT PITTSBURG. [ARTICLE]

NATURAL GAS AT PITTSBURG.

Manufacturers Supply Cut Off—A Boom for the Cool Dealers. The order of the Philadelphia Naturals Gas Company at Pittsburg withdrawing fuel from puddling furnaoes, which wentinto effect on the 29th, is a. hard blow to the iron manufacturers. It is estimated 1 that five hundred furnaces will undergo enforced idleness by the order until they can be prepaid for the use of coal. It is rumored that the gas supply may be again furnished, but the opinion expressed by the manufacturers is that unless they can secure their gas supply from other souroes * they must return to the use of coal perma neutly. Several manufacturers have already commenced to arrange their furnaces for the use of coal. The shortage of gas was general throughout Pittsburg an Allegheny to-day. A large proportion- of the people who use gas fires were compelled to burn wood or coal. In some parts of the city there was no gas supply. The mills and furnaces consume about twofifths of the gas furnished. When this supply is cut off from the mills the gas will be turned into the mains for domestic purposes, and, it is believed, will furnish a sufficient supply for all requirements. The coal operators are greatly pleased over the prospect that mill operators will return to the use of coal. The demand will be heavy, and a revival of business and in creased prices are expected.