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OIVJAJJLA DAILY BJ4E : FRIDAY FEBRUAilV 10 , 1882. Deere & Oomp'y. MANUFACTURERS OF PLOWS , MOLING , ILL , Wholesale Dealers in AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS , Council Bluffs , Iowa. Mtiino Wagon Co , Farm and Spring Wagons , Doerofc Mapsur OoOoru Planters , Stalk Gutters , &o , , Moliuo Pump Co , Wood and Iron Pumps , Wheel & Seeder Co"Fountain , City Drills and Seeders , Mechanicsburg Macli , Co , Baker Grain Drills , Shawnee Agricultural Co- Advance Hay Eakes , Mot Manufacturing OnEureka Power and Hand Shellers , Whitman Agricultural CoShellers , Road Scrapers , &o ' I . Mine Scale Co , Victor Standard Scales , A , 0 , Fisli- Racine Buggies , e AND DEALERS IN All Articles Required to Make a Complete Stock. Address All Communications to DEERE & COMPANY , Council Bluffs , Iowa. W. B. MILLARD. P. B. JOHNSON. MIlLARD & . JOHNSON , COMMISSION AND STORAGE ! 1111 FARNHAM STREET , OMAHA , - - - NEB. REFERENCES : OMAHA HATIONAL BANK , STEKLE , JOHNSON & CO. , TOOTLE , MAUL & CO. STEELE , JOHNSON & CO. , - WHOLESALE GROCERS AND JOBBERS IN Flcur , Salt , Sugars , Canned Goods , and All Grocers' Supplies. A Full Line of the Best Brands of AID lUUEACIUEED TOBACCO , Agents foi'BEHWOOD NAILS AND LAFLItl S EAND POWDER CO , THE JELM MOUNTAIN G-CXLID AND nr I i V Mining and ( Milling Company. Capital - fSW.OOO. . Capital Sock , 11.000,000 Par Valuool Shares. ? 2C,000 , NSTOCK. FULLY PAID UP AND NON-ASSESSABLE \ iMines Located in BRAMBL MINING DISTRICT. I ; | . ; J 'L THOMAS , 1'iouiduiit , Cummins , Wj-oiuliijr. . . . . . \ . K. T11.TO.V , Vloe.Prcwidont , Ounimliui , Wyoming. . HARWOOD , Socrrtary , Curoinlns , Wyou Ing. A. n LUNN , TfCMiiror , < 3inninin , Dr. J. I. Thoica . l.oula JSlllor \V. S. llroencl. A. O. Dunn. . . . . . . CC.N. Harwood. FranoU Lcavena. Ouo. II. Vtlon. Lewie Xolman. . . . . lr. J. C. Walking. nc22mom OEO. W. KENDALL , Atthorlzuil Afcnt for Sale of Stock ; llo- ' > nm.h Neb. FOSTER & CRAY , V HOLESALE LUMBER , COAL & LIME , On River Bank , Bet. Farnhara and Douglas fits. , -DEALERS IN- HALL'S SAFE AND LOCK CO , Fire and Burglar Proof "V-A-TJLTS - - , OOZCS , 4fc 1020 Farnham Street , CHEAPER THAN MATCHES , Thd Roady-Mndo i ± as of Brnd- ford , Pft , Utilleod by Ptnokera. Vn Abundant Supply of lllumlnuthig Gna Unit Never Falla-Hllla thtvt nro Tipped With Flro. \ stranger in Urnilfortl oncu , BOO- that , no mutter where ho went bout tlio city , lie found ilio gna burn- IIL' nt full hoiul in every store nml utlding in broad daylight , askud a iti/.on : "Why do you keep your ijan hurli ng in thu day tiniol" "To save matches , " said the Hrad- 'ord man. Thi ) stranger believes tlio native wna lying. . Strictly srtonking , ho waa ; but , tigurativoly , ho was simply giv- 'ho atraugor an idea in an epigram- uatio way of the clu'Jipneas of light in Jradford. The stranger didn't know hat the gas ho saw blazing on every ivory hand at noonday came ready for so from a natural reservoir two .housnnd foot beneath the surface of , ho earth just beyond the city. Ho wasn't prepared for the ntatcmcnt : lmt its cost was so small that ovory- l > ody thought the time consumed in burning it elf at night and turning it on agnin the next night was worth nero than the gas consumed by con- ; imml burning. But that was what they told him , and it was true. NATURAL ( JAM. The drilling of oil wells is always at tended by the appearance of inflam mable gas in larger or smaller quanti ties , altlnu 'h its presence docs not necessarily argue the existence of pe troleum. Thus natural gas has been used for many yeira both for fuel and light in Liverpool , Ohio , but there is no petroleum there. The develop ment of 'the' Pennsylvania oil regions has been aucomplishcd with greater economy because of the easy adapta bility and cheapness of natural gas as fuel. .Bradford and most of thu towns in thu oil region are limited and heated by natural gas. The places where gas is found unobstructed by any How ol oil are called "gas streaks. " They are extensive in the Bradford tiold. Gas is found in greater volume in the the third-oil sand , in the first ( iftuon feet of that stratum , although it is present , in all three of thu sands it : some wells. Third-aand gas is dis covered at a depth of from 1,000 to 2,200 feet , according to location. Gas tornrory is woith from § 150 to S30 ( an aen > , and the wells are drilled pro ciaely as oil wells aro. The gas supply of Bradford am vicinity is controlled principally by the Ivoyatono Gas company and the Bradford Gaslight and llcatiiu ; com nany. They are chartered by tin state. The latter company supplies Bradford with light and fuel. It has six wells , three on what is known as the Itixford gas streak , seven miloe southeast of the city , and three 01 the West Branch streak , two miles southwest of the city The gas fron llixford wells is collected in < i larg iron reservoir at the wells , and i forced to Bradford in iron pipea six inches in diameter for four miles o thu distance , and eight inches diameter otor the rest of the way. The gas i turned into u eight-inch main as 1 comes from . .theVest Branch wells The as reaches the city from thes wellfl by its natural forco. The Kix ford gas is forced from the reservoi by pumps. At Bradford the Wen Branch gas has a pressure on the mail of six pounds and n half ( o the inch the Itixford gas forty pounds to th inch in the receivers. UOAV IT IS Natural gas is conducted through the Htreots and into the buildings by the usual gas distributing system , and is used for light by the ordinary gas fixtures. The distributing pipes for gas in the smaller towns are merely laid on the top of the ground. In Bradford they are buried. The ap pliances by which the gas is utilized for fuul is simply an iron pipe which counecte with the supply pipe , and runs into the. stove , grate or range. Tlio atovo end of the pipe is perfor ated. A stop cook is attached to the pipe on thu outside of the stove. When a lire is wanted a turn is given to the cock , a lighted match is thrown into the stove , and the firois kindled. Natural gas ia more expensive now thtui when it first came into use in Bradford. It is not measured , A uniform charge of HO cunts a month per burner ia mado.to all cotiBumora for illuminating purposes , with a dis count of JJO per cunt whore t 'olvo burners are in uso. Hotels and other largo consumers are given a discount from the rate pur do/on burners. For ML ordinary family cooker or parlor stoyo thu charge. per month ia § 4. Largu hcatora and ranges are charged ? ( > a month. The quantity of gas consumed for fuel is regulatw by the size of the holes in the end of the pipe. In the early days of lining natural gas in Bradford , it was the habit of certain consumers to incroiisu their supply of fuel by enlarging the feed hojes. This has buen made a misdemeanor by law , punishable by heavy penalties , Bradford - ford consumes about ( iOO.OOO cubic feet pf this gas a day. Until recently an ordinary otovu would consume about . ' 100 feet per hour. A dovicu to regulate and economize the supply , without aliecting thu roault in heat ing power , him coiiiu into use , and ro- duccd the consumption to from mxty to Buventy-fivu feet an hour per stiivti. It is simply a. metallic globo/ three inches in diamuter , attached to the tt'jpply pipe outaidu the atovo. Tlo | globe is perforated , and clmriroa the gan with air in such a manner as to prevent extraordinary combustion. TJIK NATUUAL KJXJW of gta in the Bradford Jiold has decreased - creased very * perceptibly within thu past yoar. Until within half n year the natural pressure of thu Rhford wolla wus Bii/liciont / to force nearly 1,000,000 cubic foot of gas to Urad- ford. Now it requires the artificial force that an engine of 400-Jiwso power can furnish to drive gas that distance. The indicators at the weh ) how that where , 0110 year ago , the pressure was 170 pounds , it in now but 2C pounds , "Ktarly 850,000 was expended in perfecting the machinery by which the pumping of the gas from llixford to Brauf6rd waa acooin- 1 pnshed. In spite of the doorcase in the tots supl'ty ) Itradforn still lots its gas burn night and day , It is nut on account of its cheapness now , but the theory is that the gas which is burned in daytime would bo consumed in the waste pipe * and by other waste , ami it mightas well bo burned in the burn ers. Hut it certainly looks hko wan ton waste to see half the buildings ablnxu with gas at noonday. Natural gas is a most important fac- 01in lessening the co t of drilling an n'l well. It UkeB twenty-three to wonty-llvo days to drill a well. The ; ns companies furnish gas for fuel for lie boilers. The charge by the Itrail- ord Gas Comp.uiy is § 1.25 n day for jach well. Tlio KuyMono Comp.uiy uakoa a charge of 0 7-10 cents per out drilled for thu use of gas to lire a toiler. One dollar per day nor w ell is ho charge for pumping wells. The vcystono Company have several him- Irod wells connected with their a < inca-225 in the now Allegheny field done. The companies require mouth y pay in tulvanco lor stoves and Injht- ng. Well drillers pay at the end of each month The gas is used just in 't comes from thu earth , no refining iroccss being necessary. There are lilForent qualities of the gaa. Sonic if it burns \ \ ith nioro or 1 The Bradford gas is especially chau. I'hog.is ha the odor of petroleum. IHII KKL1.0WS. Some of iho tvvs wells in the llrad- ord tiold liavo been romarkublp for the great force of tlio pa. The 1'ickett well was remarkable in this respect. This well is situated on the Hixford ; as streak , seven miles from Bradford. It waa drilled as an oil well in the spring of ISliO by 11. E.J'ickctt. Ho cached thu third sand at n depth of 1,725 foot. At 1,724 feet the gaa vein was struck. The rush of gaa was so Tomondous that drilling had to bu suspended. Thu roar of gas as it rushed from the well is said to have been like that of Niagara. The sup ply was controlled and had a pressure ! > f 140 pounds to the square inch. It furnished fuel to thirty-livo drilling wells in the ainmner of 18711 , be- sido.i running hundreds of thou sands of cubic feet to wanto. An engine at the well was run by this ias instead of steam , BO great jwim it power. A peculiarity of this well was that when the gas was in opcia- turn in the engine ice would form on the outside ot the cylinder , sometimes an inch in thickness , in the hottest days of summer. The shrubbery for rods about thu well was killed by thu action of the gas. When the well was drilling four feet in the Band , all moisture was evaporated in thu well by the'gas , and a column ol line , white dust was thrown out many feet high in thu air. Thu well ia still a good gas-producer , and is on thu Bradford Gas company's lino. Its pressure , if confined , would have registered 500 pounds to the square inch in 187 ! ) . Natural gas ia a fruitful sourcu ol accidents in the oil regions , in the drilling of wella especially. When heavy vein of gas ia suddenly struck in the first or second sand , it is liable to to ignited by the lamp in the der rick , tlio forgo , or the fire-box of the boiler. This is frequently followed by los" of life and property. The ru- moval of the boiloi ; and lamp fron proximity to the well is ottuii no pro tection against ti iia ; explosionThu gas will settle to the ground under certain conditions of thu atmosphere or bo blown along until it comes 'n contact with the lamp or tiro. ( IKKKN llANim Working about the wells occasional ! ) inspect oil wells with lanterns , line generally pay for their rashness will their lives. Besides its use for warmth am light , natural gas husbconsuccessfully utilized in the manufacture of a an porior quality of carbon lampblack Professor Edison ia now experiment ing with this lampblack for use ii connection with his electric light. Most of the oil towns are rondoroc as light as day thu year round by thu burning of hugo gas juts in thuatreuts It is a common tiling to see people sitting at night on their piazzas ii warm weather and reading or sowing , by thu light of ouu of those jota tw ( blocks away. Thuso juts are seei glaring on thu snnimitn of high hills and deep in Miu ravinca and valleys The hills around Jiradford are crownui with a circle of tlimo pillars of lire The depths of many a wilderness are clothed with perpetual light by scores of thcBo great torches of nature. It the immediate vicinity of many o 'thoBo gas jutH thu grasa grows greoi all the year round. The many narrow gauge railroads which hnvo fount thoroughfares by devious and dizzy ways to qvery nook and corner of the Bradford field , carry the travulu through thu heart ot this atranguly illuminated region. The sccnu tha greota tlmatrangor coming into the region gion at night ia extremely wiurd um awe-inspiring. DYING BV 1NCJIKK. Very often wo BCO upenmtiHUlToriiip , from sumo form of kidney complaint mid ia gradually dying Hy inchea This no longer need bo HO , for Electric Bittora will positively euro Bright'H diseaBu , or any diseases of thu kidney or urinary organs. Thuy are especiall ; adapted to this chiss of diseases , uctint , directly on the stomach and liver a the same time , and will speedily euro where uvory other remedy has failed Sold at fifty conta a bottle by loll it MeMahon. (5) ( ) DrlnklnK-Wutor u a Source of'SfiT OI18O , Popular Science tor February. I cannot go further into thu conaid erutioii of thesecircumbUncuu ; I only uito them as uyidonco of the inlluuncu of moisturein the soil HO far as it is measurable by the proportion o ground-water present. Wo are nioro nearly concerned with the relation o thu soil to thu water which wo apply to our UBO , which wo draw from wells und apringa , to water as a vohiclocon voying matters out from the aoil When typhus or cholera rages oni duinically in any place , two parties immediately aot up a contention as to whether thu epidemic inlhiuncu pro cueda from thu water or thu air , II must bu admitted henceforth thai either is pooaiblu , that u flo-callei sickly soil can impart ita noxious properties equally to thu water and to the air it contains , but it may also bu that only ono pf thuao ways in possi ble us to certain muttem and lower or ganism. Observation and experiment must decide upon tliixt. Moat physi cians have hitherto considered that infection was probably most directly conveyed through the water , and the so-called drinking-water theory has been developed from this view , It has , however , been ascertained that the best known infectious ngent in thu soil , the bacillus malaria' , which Klobs nnd T tnuinssl'Crudolli have discovered ai > < . I'o' ' in Human fev er districts , c .it I M ) without air. These invesn . , u > ra found that the malarial poison was not communicated to the water that stood over a richly malarious mud. Tommassi says , in his latest work on the Roman malaria and the ancient drainnge of the Ho- man hills , that "thu b.tcillus malarint is pre-eminently an air-liyiug organ ism. " Among the conditions favora- bio to its propagation in a malarial anil which noud ml bo a swamp soil 'IVmiiwn pi > cilicN a temperature > about UO dog C. ( ttS I'oi ; . Knlir. ) , a m ulerute drgioo of Mi'udy moisture , mul tlin duvet action of the oxygen of ilio nil1 mi all parts of the mass. Hon -n fuithor : "Tho luck of one of 1'iH'si ) conditions in enough to eaure a aujpuiiaiou of the development of thoR R | > ere ami of MIC increase of the mu- ) i\ri l ferment. " Tf anyone , hinvovur , believes thiil thin organism must also remain inoperative when it passes in to our' blood because that ia a fluid , ho should bo reminded that it makes a great diUcronco whether we put Biich organism * , t.ikun from their miry nests in moist soil , into cold water , or into warm blood where air is supplied 3 them from the corpuscles. Wo cannotindeedansworwith the csults of experiment and microscopical nvostigationquestions respecting the nfoctious diseases whith the apecilio ; erms of which we are not acquainted , uit wo may bo guided in the matter jy other facta. Nacgolli says : "Coa agion fungi can keep up their pocu iar activity in the water only for a iliort time. Thu purer it is the less 'ood thuy iiud in it Jthoy are verysoon removed by exhaustion in clear spring- vatur ; and , oven in water that contains 'nod for them and where they can null iply fust , degeneration quickly seta Inand , they are changed into common 'ormonta. " Incredible. K. A. Scratch , druggist , Uuthvon , Out. , writes ; "I have the greatest ciinfulciicu in your lUntito , 'K JJi.oui UiTTEiis. In ono case with which I iini personally acquainted Ihoir success was almost incredible. Ono lady told inu that half a bottle did liur nioro good thnn hundreds of dollars' wortl of medicine shu hud previously taken. " Price St.CO , trial R/.O ! 10 cunts. Jw-oud. WILLIAM GENTLEMAN 16th Street GrocerS , -S IIKAI QIUKTKIIS I'Oll STAPLE & FANOY GROCERIES Lemons and Oranges , Choice Butter and Egg ? A Sl'KOIAIJTV. GIVE HIM A CALL. JmillMlm EUROPEAN RESTAURANT 1106 Farnham Street. MEALS AND LUNCH Served at all Hours. GEORGE HOUGH , feb4-i.ii . Prop. J. L WILKIE , ilANUFACTUHKU OK P APEE . BOXES 218 and 22O S. 14th St. JanflilOin Geo. P. Bemis REAL ESTATE AGENCY , IGth n < 1 Dntlgq M * . , Omnhn , Neb I'ttib K " 'u ) noun nrkiutM > I < r0linriuii iiiulniMa. n * < nt iriilivtn ami tlicrofcir ImrKUlm - H | nj , , . , , . , , . ' f t \ * i.r. > t " ' ii.ti > t ) COUNSELOR - AT - LAW J. H. McOCJULOOH , llo.ni 4 , Crulnhton Iliock , Flltviiith Htrcot. JiinlO-'Jiu * BOCG8 &llLL SEAL ESTATE BROKERS No. irtOUFnruhum Struct. John G. Jacobs , .Korinuily jl ( Jlaht Jicolja/ UNDERTAKER MraskaLandAgGB DAVIS & SNYDER. IDOBFwrnlum 81. , . . . Omaho , Nebr 0:00,000 ACJJEtJElfa Uaru.ulli tujituixi itiud in fctutorti Nuliroiika fui lalo. Oruat llnrt'ulrm In linirDti | > < l 'arms , arid Omaha city provcrty. 0. K . IMVIb WKJOTITI' ' > TI > Kll InMlCrir'r | ? t > Eeal Estate 5,000 PIECES OF PROPERTY I For Sale By JOHN I , CLARKE , S , W , oor , Douglas and 14th Sts. J.P.ENGLISH , ATTORNEY - AT - LAW , 610 ( Jouth Thirteenth Street , with - ' ATTENTION ! BUSINESS N.ME We have in Stock 0 VER 200,000 EN VELOPES A Large Invoice of Flat Paper , Finest and Most Complete Line of Blank and Account Books in Omaha. All at Prices that Cannot be Met in this Market. Give us a Call. OILMAN R. DAVIS & CO. , ( Successors to Wooloy * D.ivis. ) 105 S nith Fifteenth Street Opposite HostoflUe. INVITATION TO ALL WHO HAVE WATCHES AND CLOCKS TO BIS REPAIRED , IB IN" Gr IB .A. "V"11ST Gr -TO RE DONE OR JEWELRY MANUFACTURED. While our Work is better , our Prices are Lower than all others IF . & _ I IR I received all of the SIX FIRST PREMIUMS offered for Competition in our line Over All Competitors. For the Best Watch Work , For the Best Jewelry , ( own make. ) For the Best Engraving , For the Best Diamonds ( own importation ) FOR THE BEST DISPLAYED , ETC. Having lately enlarged my workshops und putting In now . .nd improve * , 'o chinury , I hopu to ntill nioro iniprovo the quality mul finish f our ork and till ordure with nioro promptness than is usual. CLA.TJTIO3ST I My Motto ban always boon and always will bo : "First to gain superior tice mid thun advertise the fact not before -110 wilil advertisements Semi : nnpriiioiplud doalora being in the habit of copying my iiiMiouncomentB , T would bog you , the ruador of this , to draw a line botwuoii such copied advertisements and thimo of Youra very truly , A. B. HUBERMANN , The Reliable Jeweler , Omaha , Neb. , , Sign of. thfi StrikingTovr 7\oc \ * PILLSBURY'S B EST ! Buy the PATENT PROCESS MINNESOTA FLOUR It , always gives satisfaction , because it superior article of Bread , and is the Chear est Flour in the market. Every sack warranted to run alike or money refunded , j VM. \ , . YATES , Cash Grocer GUILD & McINNIS GREAT STOCK TAKING SALE ! 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