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the georgetown hbrald wednesday evening january 18 1956 page 4 booth taxi your as- surance of prompt cour teous safe service from nuisance to wonder fuel cinderella story of natural gas photographs a lovely portrait of your child niakm a wonderful christmas gift for grandma j a goudy 1 mary street tr 73366 monuments brampton monument works designs submitted ctmtry uttering corner posts end markers a good display in stock wm c allan prop 68 queen st west brampton shop 1410-j- phones res 313 rep tom nicol phone brampton 603w are you a recent arrival in georgetown silvers welcomes you and respect fully solicits your patronage if you are accustomed to wide selections usually found in city stores you will enioy shopping at silvers establish ed over 29 years silvers is one of the largest stores in rural ontario devoted to selling quality clothing flowers for every occasion design work a specialty flowers by wire anywhere in the world norton floral triangle 73582 gtorgatown travel notes book now for easter in new york by air or train allexpense tours except meals from 3500 john r barber travel adviser john r barber aoency insurance travel triengle 74511 mill street lucky no 258 h hamw f hit number calls with 7 days htay will racotvo a return trip to london ontario or hs ant the time 1821 the place fredonia a sleepy nisw york village 40 miles from buffalo the event a mysterious flame spring ing directly from the ground along the banks of the canadaway creek here is how it happened a group of small boys playing indian braves built a fire beside the creek stamp ing and howling in their war dunce two of the more daring young brakes snatched burning faggots from the fire and hurled them as far as they could just like the nearby seneca indians did they got more than they bargained for instead of dying harmlessly the faggots flared up frightened the boys fled they told their parents a mysterious flame burned from the banks of the creek and the rumour spread canadaway creek is be witched one villager however did not ac cept the mysterious flame as evidence of the supernatural bill hart in vcstigatcd lie found bubbles on the surface of the creek bubbles he guessed correctly came from mtutl gas a phenomenon he had tcad abuut but bill hart was practical as well as curious he remembered that sev eral cities in europe and even balti more in the united states used man ufacturcd gas for street lighting the accidental lighting of this gas pravtd it would burn why not he re isnncd use this product for the sam purp ose bill hart experimented he tried t drill a hole thiough which moio of the gas could escape but failed in hii first two attempts as he struck lock he tried again and this time at thi 17 foot level the hiss of escaping gas signalling his success it was amer icas first natural gas well hart drilled another 10 feet ran a lead pipe into the hole and connected it to a crudcl constructed sheet iron measuring tank hollow logs joined together formed the first natural gas pipeline in america it led to iiart a first customer the fredunia inn where the now fuel caused a sensat ion as a source of light th names of bill hart and fredonia new york be came famous throughout north am erica and even in europe where the talc of the gas well was spread b ira vellcrs who had stopped it th fredo ma inn on the stagecoach run hot ween now york and buffalo new industry born bill harts venture walked the birth of an industry that has hocome the sixth largest in the i nited slates and a booming one in canada but it took the natural fas mdimi a quarter of a century o gnrn up not until 53 veils after marls disoiy was nitural gas used industrial in a fatoi in hast iivupioi ohio and another 51 years v nt in befote a lsirit scgnunl of the pujnila i m be gaii lo htm fit from th dial fuel it ins taken the in- m v ind c fort of thousands of p ipi drill the wcls build the pijx hii id the compiissor stations di siu hie ippli anccs and distribute na nral a- n the millions of canadians and amen cans who enjoy this pimnim fuel lo day only since the 1140 lias the industry become a major contributor to the fuel needs of the b s prcv lously the use of natural gas was confined to areas not too distant from the gas fields although a few 1000 mile or longer pipelines existed even during the 1930s it was during world war ii when german submarines were sinking tin oil tankers on a wholesale basis off our shores that the gas industry tcp ped in to fill a pressing fuel need the demand for natural gas fur home and industry has been skjtocki ting ever since it is a long way from the crude be ginning made by bill hart to the giant crosscountry pipelines some jo tn ches and more in diameter which bring natural gas directly from the producing fields to the local gas dis trihution companies throughout the country but while man has harncs sed natural gas and reaped the bn- efits of this wonder fuel it was moth er nature who produced it there are many scientific cxplana tions but no one knows exactly how nature accomplished this miracle conceivably decayed vegetation bur icd by earth movements decomposed to form natural gas and oil accord ing to less popular theory natural gas was formed ijy an instantaneous un derground reaction of carbon and hy drogen probably the most generally accep ted theory is that millions of years ago when the earths surface was lar gely covered hy the sea trillions of tiny marine plants and fish called plankton were deposited on the floor of the sea covered with sediment that eventually became rock and then ere left as part of the land as the sea receded as the years passed millions of years intense heil ex tremc pressure caused by movement of the earths surface and other for ces of nature distilled the plankton into oil and natural gas many byproducts people frequently think that gs and oil are found in huge suhtcrran can caverns on the contrary both gas and oil lie in the minute pores of rocks mch as sandstone er limestone they arc under great pressure held captive by surrounding rock format ions that arc impervious to seepage until shifting of the earths surface cracks the cap rock or the produc crs drilling bit penetrates it most people are familiar with the cleanliness and efficiency of natural gas u it comes from the burner tip of the gas range but it has other at- farm news 1 win featherstone heads halton jersey breeders j e w marketing of jersey milk was the theme of the seventeenth annual meeting of the halton jersey club held in connection with a dinner mee ting in the slewarttown- llall tues day of last week mac alexander president of the club presided over what many considered to be one of the best annual meetings held by the halton club in some years j w paw ley of brampton who was introduced by john holtby president of th- pul county club delivered a most inter esting and encouraging address on the results of the special progiammc sponsored by ontario jersey breeders in expanding the market for jeisey milk starting with one of the smal lor dairies in london the sales of jer sey milk by this dairy in the london market jumped from 25000 quarts for the month of september 1954 lo 84000 quarts for the same month in 1955 as a result of the public dein and for a low fat milk emphasib is being placed on a 2 per cent all j i sey milk which sells at two cents per quart below the price of regular milk mention was also made of anothi r dairy in the biantford market wlmli without an assistance from the ici sey milk maikcling committee wui already selling 2110 quails per day the month of tcbruary will scv a tuionto elairv marketing 200 can- ol tins special i per cent bf jersi milk on the streets ol 1mnu as a result of the activities of the spee i leisov matkctni- cinniniltu siu il of those pic suit u pui ltd that sal s uf jersov catth hid pipped up and ill demand fn jiimv milk had also mi proved others who spoke hntilv at this meeting included col baitlev hull uf brampton james bicmner sccrctaiy of the canadian jersey cattle club and m l ilcaly 1st vice president if tributes as well natural gas is not only a perfect fuel hut a rich mrxluie of hvdro carbons many of which cm bo separated or stripped from the gas before it is sent on its long journey to the consumer methane is the hydro earhon that corns the hulk of the natural gas we burn in our homes the other hydrocarbons such s propane and butane are used for m nid puiposes as raw matetidls in the manufucliiic of plastics fertilizers and svnthetic labitcs such as oilon or as different tvpo of fuel such as liquid piopano gas bottle gas not all natural gas is ft a for fuel whin it comes out of the ground a small percentile contains watir sulphur or othei extraneous mate lal hut even this can be procts srd b the industry so lint th in purities do not inter the is pipe lines natural gas has not alvavs bun valiild so highlv it once was the stepchild of the oil industry i on ly aluo t nuisance value in ancient hina thousands of cars ago natural gas was used industnalk as fuel to evaporate salt brine and it was reported by early travellers to china that the women in certain vil lages cooked their food over flame which shot from holes in the groun i undoublc hy naluial gas seepage but in this country gas occurim- with oil as it frequently does mad life miserable for the pioneer i il producers the first oil well was drilled in tituivillc pennsylvania in 105 by colonel e l drake a former iail road conductor he struck oil an initial flow of 25 barrels a day at 69 feet below the surface overnight titusvillc a village of 125 persons mushroomed the pnpula tion leapt to 15000 hundreds of wells some yielding as much as 3000 barjels a day soon dotted the nearby countryside the pennsylvania discovery started a vertitablc oil rush west virginia and kentucky were producing oil within a year kansas opened up in 1860 and by 1b66 black gold was found in ohio and illinois in 1901 spindlctop in southeast texas famed as one of the greatest producing fields of all time came in the producers joy was not uudilu ted however natural gas was a bug aboo for it frequently was found with oil even worse wells drilled for oil sometimes turned out to be gassem producing nothing but gas to those early oil producers a gasscr was on a par with a dry hole there was no way to transport nat ural gas to market and almost no market for it anyway so untold billions of cubic feet or the miracle fuel were flared both m canada and the c s ignited at the well head and left to burn off but as methods for building dependable pipelines and efficient appliances were developed and more homeowners and industries learned the value of this clean effi ctcnt easily controlled fuel flanng declined conservation commissions in gas producing states wth the co- operation of the oil and gas industry now are doing excitant work in con serving natural gas for the benefit of the entire country compnfatvely little commercially usnble gas is flar ed today a gasser is no longer a bugaboo producers spend millions of dollars each year searching just for nitural gas in order to fill the ever increasing demand the can jersey cattle club who in cidentally was the recipient of the special awards won at the halton par ish show lost september the presen tations were made by a b corless manager of the milton branch of the bank of montreal harold smellle manager of the halton coop supplies and george swann of the milton milting co a report of this outstand ing meeting would not be complete without some mention of the very sumptuous dinner served by the lad ies of the ashgrove w a the appre- cfatlon of the gathering was extended to the ladies by jack featherstone halton director on the ontario jersey club executive following the busi ness session a film depicting scenic highlights of the british isles was screened and art bennett associate agricultural representative for halton and peel counties presented a brief but interesting report on 4h jersey calf club in halton in 1955 the election uf officers for 1956 resulted as follows president wm featherstone oilc- ville 1st vice president stanley mat thews acton 2nd vice president geo hewer moffat secretary treasurer j e whitelock milton directors mac alexander m c beaty w h devlin ernest davies ken ella g r graham duncan mof fat and fred moore if murt allison expert machinery repairs specialists in ferguson and ford tractors tr 73291 building sand concrete gravel road gravel fill top soil tom haines glen willmms triangle 73302 hamilton construction 160 guelph street tr 73480 homes industrial requirements garages renovations concrete work building supplies 4 every building need herald advertising brings results ask about the convenient fuel oil payment plans mw i ty 5m ppffftr bill bailey the oil man georgetown tr 72888 brampton 1215