Excerpt from Proceedings of the Western Gas Association: Nineteenth Annual Meeting, Lookout Mountain, Tenn., 1896; Twentieth Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1897; Twenty-First Annual Meeting, Detroit, Mich., 1808 Before proceeding with the address, I trust that you will pardon me if I say a few words in praise of the Western Gas Association for the subject is one which is dear to my heart, and grows dearer still as time rolls on and we both grow older. \ou have not forgotten that for twelve years you honored me with what I then deemed, and still consider, the highest gift that it lay within your power to bestow the Secretaryship of your Association. In accepting the Presidency, I feel that I have been well-nigh reduced to the ranks; but those were your orders, and there seemed nothing left for me to do but to obey them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.