RESULT OF TESTS OF "A" METERS, 1905 TO

SEPTEMBER, 1906.

Number of "A" meters in service..

Number of "A" meters removed and tested

6255

518

Error between 4% and 1% fast or 12% slow.... 190

35-7%

THE PRESIDENT: I think we can hear from you now, Mr. Williams. Are you ready with your report on Novelty Advertising and New Business Methods?

MR. GEORGE WILLIAMS: Mr. President and Gentlemen :

The program calls for a description of the new business methods department conducted by the Ohio Gas Light Association. As a great many of you are familiar with the work of that department in the Ohio Association, which was for several years in charge of and developed by our president, you remember how it has grown from year to year. Five or six years ago Mr. Perkins had considerable labor to induce thirty or forty contributions, but the contributions have increased and developed from that to several hundred.

Last year it was decided by some of those interested in the Ohio Gas Light Association to collect these contributions on new business methods from various managers all over the country, and publish them in book form so that they would be accessible to commercial men, solicitors, representatives of gas companies, and others who are interested in the gas business other than in a technical way.

It was decided to again publish contributions for the American Gas Institute, and within ninety days it has been possible to get together this excellent collection of contributions which represents the experience of about three hundred gas companies, who are interested in the promotion of gas sales. (American Gas Institute New Business Methods Report distributed.)

The title of "editor" of this department is somewhat of a myth. The editorials, you will note, were written by men who are well known to you, and many of them by gentlemen who are present.

Following these are the examples of newspaper advertising and magazine advertising, of booklets and circulars, etc., which are reproduced with the idea of assisting many who desire to get up such literature, examples of circular letters are also given. Another feature of the work is the illustration of several up-to-date salesrooms, something that we consider very necessary nowadays.

The last section of the book is that "undignified" portion

The published report of the Novelty Advertising and New Business Methods as presented by Mr. Williams was a contribution from the Ohio Association and on account of its length it is not included in the Institute Proceedings. A copy can be obtained from the Cantwell Printing Co., Madison, Wis.

which was under discussion yesterday morning, to-wit:-the advertising section, but which you will find very interesting.

I want to take this occasion, Mr. President, to heartily thank the contributors to this report, many of whom are present, for their kindly support in getting out this volume.

THE PRESIDENT: Gentlemen, you have heard the report submitted by Mr. Williams. Are there any comments or questions to ask in relation to this? If so, we would be glad to hear them. I think that Mr. Williams deserves great credit for the work that he has done in this direction, and for the very efficient way in which he has compiled this book. It has been put in a form so that it will be very easy to refer to hereafter. It is a text-book practically on advertising, and he certainly deserves a vote of thanks from the Institute for the work which he has done. I would be pleased to entertain such a motion.

MR. HORTON : Mr. President, I move that a hearty vote of thanks be extended to Mr. Williams for the preparation of this report.

Motion seconded.

THE PRESIDENT: Gentlemen, it is moved and seconded that Mr. Williams be accorded a vote of thanks for his very efficient work on new business methods.

MR. SHELTON: Mr. President, I suppose that in connection with that the question comes up as to the continuance of the New Business Department.

THE PRESIDENT: I think it is understood that it is to be continued.

MR. SHELTON: I think it ought to be left in a little more definite way than merely understood. I think the sense of this meeting ought to be expressed in such a way that it will amount to something. I am heartily in sympathy with the work of this Progress Department. It is a work of great practical use, and something that will be constantly referred to, and I would suggest that the matter of its continuance be referred to the Directors with power to act, in much the same way that the question of the continuance of the Question Box

was left to them. I think it ought to be specifically put in the hands of the Board of Directors with power to control it and yet push it.

THE PRESIDENT: I will ask the original mover of the vote of thanks to incorporate that in his motion with the consent of the second.

MR. HORTON: I shall be very glad to do so, Mr. President.

THE PRESIDENT : It is moved and seconded that Mr. Williams receive a vote of thanks, and that the matter be referred to the Board of Control with power to act, with a recommendation for the continuance of the work. All in favor of the motion as stated will say "Aye." Contrary minds, "No." The motion is carried. Mr. Williams you have the thanks of the Institute for your very efficient work. Is Mr. Welch in the room? If so, we will hear from Mr. Welch.

In connection with the reading of the paper Mr. Welch gave a series of very interesting and instructive lantern slide pictures illustrating the work.

EXTINGUISHING THE FLAME OF A 600 POUND PRESSURE, MILLION FEET HOURLY ' CAPACITY NATURAL GAS WELL.

The Vanderpool Well No. 1, of the New York Oil and Gas Company, was drilled into the gas bearing sand on the 19th of February last, at a depth of 1,430 feet. The Bartlesville sand. had been passed through at a depth of 1,260 feet and had been dry. The well had been drilled for oil and when none was found in the Bartlesville sand the drilling had been continued, in the hope of striking either gas or oil at a lower level. It was expected to strike the Mississippi Lime sand at 1,500 feet. As the well was, in a measure, a wild cat one, there had been no thought of getting such a large volume of gas at the depth at which it was found. It had been decided to case the hole with 64 casing and continue with a six inch hole for the

The illustrations in this paper are used by permission of Harry Talbott, Independence, Kas., Photographer.

balance. The last

screw was being run before pulling out

for this purpose when the gas sand was reached.

There was

in the hole, at the time operations were abruptly terminated, about 360 feet of 8% casing and one or two joints of ten inch. At the top of the 84 was the customary drilling nipple or pipe with its top belled out to prevent the drilling cable cutting on the rough edges.

Casing with 64 had been decided upon as a contingency against the walls of the hole caving and filling it up or burying the tools. Before the remaining two or three feet necessary to run out the "screw" had been drilled, the gas was found. The drilling was immediately stopped, the tools taken from the hole, and preparations made for closing in the well. account of the gas being unexpected the necessary fittings were not on hand. Instead of using the 64 casing it was now decided to tube the well with 6 inch pipe and set a "packer."

What material is put in a well depends upon the local conditions, as to water and nature of dirt drilled through. In this case if the 64 casing had been set there probably would have been no further difficulty with the well, as it could have been easily tubed with a 3 or 4 inch tubing. Tubing with the 6 inch was a more difficult matter, and several packers were destroyed in making the effort to set them.

Finally, on the afternoon of February 23rd, when the successful closing in of the well seemed to be assured, with eleven hundred feet of 6 inch tubing already in the well and only a couple of hours work ahead, a very severe electrical storm came up, almost the first of the season.

The flashes of lightning kept playing closer and closer, until finally Mr. J. M. Landon, field manager in charge, who was at the well at the time, ordered the men' to leave the derrick and seek a safe place. As was soon demonstrated, with momentary danger of fire, and gas coming from the well at the rate of more than a million cubic feet per hour, the spot was not a safe one.

Within five minutes of the time the two men who were working forty feet up the derrick came down, and all left, almost before they had got under the shelter of some nearby