The story of Pittsburgh: Petroleum and natural gas : in two parts

Petroleum and natural gas : in two parts (Vol. 1, nr. 10)

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Identifikator:: 1831622599

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Title:: The story of Pittsburgh

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1919-1930

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831623455

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-239811

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Title:: Petroleum and natural gas : in two parts

Volume count:: Vol. 1, nr. 10

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1923

Scope:: [ca. 24] Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Philadelphia Company

Collection:: Economics Books

were taken on the lines of the gas companies. This increase was incident to the building of homes, which was carried on to a greater extent than for a number of years past. The total sales of gas were more than 32 billion cubic feet, an increase of over 9 billion cubic feet, or 419, over the previous year. Gross earnings from the sale of gas amounted to $13,662,351, an increase of $3,452,787, or 38.89,.” The following is the official roster of the Philadelphia Company: Board of Directors: James D. Callery, chairman, James H. Reed, Gerhard M. Dahl, George S. Davison, Benjamin S. Guinness, Charles Hayden, George E. McCague, Moritz Rosenthal, Mason B. Starring, Everett B. Sweezy, Eugene V. R. Thayer, Arthur W. Thompson. Officers: President, Arthur W. Thompson; Senior Vice President, James H. Reed; Vice President, Andrew W. Rob- ertson; Controller, Curtis S. Mitchell; Secretary, Winfield B. Carson; Assistant Secretaries, Edison W. Washabaugh, Alex- ander W. Stevenson; Treasurer, Carl J. Braun, Jr.; Assistant Treasurers, James W. Murray, Hugh W. Annett, R. Elton Hanna. AMERICAN NATURAL GAS COMPANY The American Natural Gas Company was incorporated ander the laws of Pennsylvania in July, 1889, and began business with one well. Other wells were soon drilled and acquired, all of them in Allegheny County, but the property had reached only modest proportions when in 1898 the com- pany purchased the property of the Pioneer Gas Company, which is believed to have been the first company to pipe gas into the Pittsburgh district, which was about the year 1878. Its lines extended from Etna, Pa., to the Lardintown district in Clinton township, Butler county. This purchase was followed during the next 10 or 11 years by numerous other purchases of like properties, including the following: 1898. [Etna Natural Gas Company, owned by Spang, Chalfant & Co., and supplying their mills at Etna, Pa. 1899. West Penn Gas Company, supplying Apollo, Pa., and vicinity.

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