The Washtenaw Fuel Gas Co.

We live in the age of progresa. That which is new to-day, may be supplemented by something new, and become old tomorrow. He who succeeds in making two blades of grass grow where one grew before is counted a philosopher. Anything sought to be introduced to our citizens, that will reduce the cost of cooking our meals, warming our d welling?, churches and places of business, adding economy, clean - liness, convenienoe and comfort to our homes, should receive all the aid and encouragement within themeans of our citizens to give. Those who have not taken time to give the matter a thought, (and it is fair to assume that but few have) have not the faintest idea of the great saving to our citizens by the introduction of the greatest of modern ble3sings, "Fuel Gas." Basing the population of our city at 10,000, allowing five persons to each family, trould give two thcusanddwellings to be warmed dunng the year. Assnming that the average outlay annually for coal, and wood to cook the meals and warm the homes ol these two thousand families to reach the sum of $250,000, (aot taking into consideration the amount of labor required to get this fuel in position to obtain from it the best results) it is safe to say that fully 20 per cent, oí the above amount, ($50,000) can be saved to our citiaens by the introduction of fuel gas. This great saving is distributed among all classes in proportion to the cost of their fuel annually. It would be folly perhaps to assume that natural gss for fuel purposes will befound merchantable in quantities in all places, (it certaiDly will not until sought for) but this unfortunate circumstance need not discourage those who may be located ia placas remote fiom gas belts. We believe from information obtained from geologi6ts of Ohio and Pennsylvacia that our city lies on or very near a gas belt. Gas and oil are known to exist in paying quantities, at Port Huron ia tbis state, and at Bryan, Ohio. Draw a line from Port Huron to Bryan and this liue will run in a norLh-easterly and soüth-westerly direction, close to Ann Arbor. In Pennsylvania, those engaged in searching for gas or oil, when over on the belt, will drive in a northeast or south-weet direction orjly. Tho time ie rapidly approaohing when gas will be almost exclusively uaed as a nul, ar.d when that time arrivés onsumers will be astonished to know how they did so long without it. We have endeavored to show the great economical advantages of this new luel over that of anything else, no matter whether procured from the earth, or manufactured, if but introdcced, will at once spring into universal use, for by its discovery and use in Pennsylvania and Ohio it has long since passed the experimental stage, and been acsepted as the greatest of modern blessings. As an investment for surplus capital, nothing is more saté or more proütable than the stock of fuel gas companies. Thus our citizens have a tripple incentive to give aid and encouragement, to a home enterprise, viz: Reducing the cost of fuel, inviting manufacturers to lócate here, and having an opportunity for a safe, permanent and profltable investment in a company organized under Michigan laws, and composed of our well-known and enterprizing citizens in whom we have confidence, therefore, let us all subscribe in proportion toour means, not as acontributinn but for the stock of the company as a safe investment, to benefit ourselves as well as our neighbors, and the more profflptly we act in the matter, the sooner will the desired end be oblained, our meals cooked and our hornea warmed by fuel gas.