Free Gas!
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This page, from an 1893 economic development pamphlet from the Kokomo Enterprise Company, promotes an offer of free natural gas to manufacturing companies in return for establishing their businesses in Kokomo. The gas supplies were already diminishing at the time this was published.
This file appears in: Natural Gas Well Drilled in Kokomo
Natural Gas Well Drilled in Kokomo
The use of natural gas as fuel goes back to the 1820s, but its real value didn’t become apparent until the 1880s. The discovery of a gas reserve in Pennsylvania revolutionized the steel and glass manufacturing industries there in the 1870s and…