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Book Title: Historical And Descriptive Sketch Of Sonoma County, California

GAS WORKS.

   The Maxim Gas Company was incorporated April, 1872, the citizens of Santa
Rosa taking one-half the stock, and Maxim Gas Company, of San San [sic]
Francisco, holding the balance. They erected a brick building on Fifth street
near Mendocino, and laid about four thousand feet of mains. The citizens
subsequently bought all the stock and ran the Maxim works until the spring of
1876, when they were sold to the new company, formed under the name of the Santa
Rosa Gas Light Company, incorporated March 9, 1876, under L. A. Kelly's
supervision. The company put up, at an expense of thirty thousand dollars, one
of the finest and most complete set of coal-gas works on this coast. The new
works are located on First street, just below Main, and consist of a large brick
retort house, with iron roof, brick purifying house in the rear, office and
workshop, with large holder, twenty thousand cubic feet capacity, with brick
cistern. They have six-inch pipe running from their retorts all through the
works, and up First and Main streets to the plaza, about two thousand feet, when
it connects with four-inch pipe. The new company have laid about eight thousand
feet of mains the last year, and expect to lay fifteen thousand feet this year,
and as much main as is necessary to keep pace with the rapid growth of the town.
Mr. Kelly said, when building the works, that he would build with capacity for
supplying a town of fifteen thousand inhabitants without having to make any
change, and expected to live and see them run to their complete and full
capacity. The officers of the company are: John C Paxton, president; E. T.
Farmer, vice president; John Ager, secretary; L. A. Kelly, superintendent.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORICAL
AND
DESCRIPTIVE SKETCH
OF
SONOMA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
BY
ROBERT A. THOMPSON,
EDITOR OF "THE SONOMA DEMOCRAT."
PHILADELPHIA:
L. H. EVERTS & CO. 
1877.


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