Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1892 — OHIO GAS IS GOING OUT. [ARTICLE]

OHIO GAS IS GOING OUT.

grew aretes 4r*nt JtoM JTm Peeresiefl from 400 to E'ghty Pounds. it - -- ' • — 7 " - ' - -All of Ohio using natural gas Is greatly aroused over the uumistakable evidences that the supply is slowly failing. The pressure in the great Mercer county fields has-decreased from four hundred pound s to seventy-five and eighty pounds, and new welfare being constantly drilled in what has been a discouraging effort to fulfill contracts to supply natural gas to cities on the big pipe lines, such as Dayton, Sidney, Springfield, Troy. Piqua. etc, To facilitate the distribution of gas a now fangled force pump is being use 1 to hurry the gas through the mains, All manufacturers have been cu‘, off, and nothing larger than a hotel is now snppliol with the convient fuel. The pressure is getting so unreliable and variable that hotels are taking out their burners. The local officials of tho company are discouraged over the prospect, and consumers fear they will have to return to the use of coal. Some aro inclined to think that tho larg, flow from the big wells in Indlaua, and the largely increased use of It there have something to do with the pressure here. The local consumption ordinarily rejuires a four ounco prossuro all the tiino. This woek it has been below that most of the lime. ~