Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1893 — BIG DEAL CLOSED. [ARTICLE]

BIG DEAL CLOSED.

A deal, that has been pending since last summer, was closed Saturday by a Cincinnati brokerage firm. It> Is the first move of a largely capitalized syndicate to gain control of the natural gas fields of Indiana. Among the syndicate ore many Pittsburg capitalists, who now become controllers of forty thousand acres of natural gas territory. It Is their intention to immediately enter into competition with the Chicago Pipe-line Company and tho Indiana Natural gas Company. They havo plenty of capital, it is said. Thomas Llggot.t, the gns man of Pittsburg, will remain on the ground to conduct the bus! ness.