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TO GAS FIELDLogansport May Possibly Have aLittle More Gas After the NewWells are Connected and Better44Pumping Facilities are Added.Will Logansport have gad this win-■ter?” is the question that a Journal reporter put to a member of the council committee that yesterday investigated the gas field and visited the pumping stations of the Logansport Wabash Valley Gas company.“We will likely have more than during the past few days, but hardly enough to heat the city properly/' was the response. This is not encouraging, but it Is the confirmation of the fears of nearly every citizen in Logansport, who has kept himself warm thus far with the hopes of an increase in thefuel gas when the new well3 wereAturned on.Yesterday morning at 5:30 o'clock Messrs. Smith, Giffe and Austin, the committee appointed by Mayor McKee to investigate the gas situation, boarded the train for Kokomo, and spent the entire of yesterday looking after the prospects. They left the train at Windfall, a small station, near the gas field, and engaging a .carriage, drove about forty miles over the district. They stopped first at the big stations of the local company, about 8ix miles out of Windfall. Tbere they were greeted as ordinary strangers, for the councilmen had not revealed theiridentity, and with the courtesy shown any visitor, they were shown about theplant andwelli/ ;:At W^ndfall they learned that theI and will soon be in place. Already the company has 900 horse power engines at work and a 1,500 horse power boiler. The present equipment is pumping the flow from 75 wells to Wfc-bash, Peru, Logansport and Lafayette.With the addition of twenty-five dew wells and nearly two-thirds more more power it is believed that Logansport ought to have at least a thirdmore gas. This, however, will fallshort of enough to warm the efty.One point of interest in the discoveries of the committee is that the gas of the local company is not being piped to Chicago. One of the committeemen stated that he did not believe that the local company was selling any gas out of Indiana. He stated that4the Indiana Illinois Gas company%has a large number of wells in the local company’s district, and that they had superior pumping facilities. This probably accounts for the lack of gas here and the abundance in Chicago. By pumping the Chicago pipe line gets the gas that should rightfully pour through the lines to Logansport. When, however, the local company puts on its new pumps this may be different and the. gas may be forcedthis way.There is great reluctance among Logansport people to go back to coal and wood* if they can help it and they would go to almost any limit to retain the luxury, which gas certainly is.i ^One of the committee stated that be believed that if tbe gas company would Put in a pumping station; at Galveston, which is about half-way from: the fields to this city that Lo-ganafort would have gas. This point may be considered at tbe meeting of the council on Wednesday night At this meeting the committee will'submit a written report y. fif
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Logansport Morning Journal
Logansport, Indiana, US
Sun, Nov 17, 1901
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Thelma C.
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