Missouri Gas for Rich Hill
Taken from the Nevada Daily Mail Thursday February the 18th 1909.
The Nevada Daily Mail Thursday February the 18th 1909.
Missouri Gas for Rich Hill
The citizens of this town held a jubilee in advance today on account of the fact that tonight Missouri natural gas was turned into the city gas mains. For 20 years this city Has paid $1.50 per thousand cubic feet for artificial gas, Which is five times the price they will pay to use the natural article. a franchise was voted a year ago to business men Of this city who Incorporated the Rich Hill Natural Gas Company with a paid up capital of $12,000. They have grilled in five big wells in the Elgort field five miles west of Town ,laid the pipe line and attached to mains
Yesterday.
