. Pittsburgh and Allegheny in the centennial year . ents, is without a peer. Some of thelargest veins that have been struck, are within a comparatively short distance ofPittsburgh, and pipes from one of these wells has been laid a distance of someseventeen miles, to the iron works of Spang, Chalfant & Co., the Isabella Fur-nace and the iron mills of Graff, Bennett & Co., in all three of which the gas isused as a fuel in the place of coal. At the iron works of Rodgers & Burchfield,a gas well within a quarter of a mile of the mill, was utilized a year or moreago, and its success fully demonstrat
. Pittsburgh and Allegheny in the centennial year . ents, is without a peer. Some of thelargest veins that have been struck, are within a comparatively short distance ofPittsburgh, and pipes from one of these wells has been laid a distance of someseventeen miles, to the iron works of Spang, Chalfant & Co., the Isabella Fur-nace and the iron mills of Graff, Bennett & Co., in all three of which the gas isused as a fuel in the place of coal. At the iron works of Rodgers & Burchfield,a gas well within a quarter of a mile of the mill, was utilized a year or moreago, and its success fully demonstrated. But upon that point there is no ques-tion. The quality of iron made by it is greatly superior to that treated withcoal. Increased quality combined with decreased cost of fuel, is the result wherethis new fuel is used. Such a combination creates a manufacturing advan-tage that seems to set at defiance any competition, and opens to Pittsburgh, in o W H 02 i 02 EQ^ ?^ 02 o ^ o ® W v; J^ ^ e^ B Q z 0 K • „ GO w s B !^ S ^ a; ^ -.
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