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Show BOWMAN PUSHING WORK 0a . the Big Joint City and County Building. THE AINSLEY LUMBER COMPANY. Mr. Smith Has Something to Say About IU Affairs A Tintic Alining Deal-Meeting Deal-Meeting of Property Owners. Contractor Bowmau and his able assistants re making things hum around the joint City and county building, and the preparations prepara-tions for the ceremonies attending the laying lay-ing of the corner stone are being rapidly completed. Two immense steam derricks, towering 115 feet above ground, are already la position and two more will be up by tomorrow to-morrow night. The foundation is finished ftnd the inside walls are up some ten or fifteen fif-teen feet. Today the workmen are engaged In laying the superstructure of hand-Borne hand-Borne gray Kytine stone on the northeast corner where the corner stone Is to go, and ky Juiy25 the basement story will be fifteen fif-teen feet abeve the' foundation wall at this point. The stone is uow dressed and will be placed in position with imposing cere-nionies. cere-nionies. The following is the inscription Ob the stone. CORNER STONE , ) Lnid by the Masonic Fraternity, Wat- eon Newton Shilling, grand mas- ' j ter, July 2 5, Wtti. I THE KXPKKt'S REPORT. Salt Lake's Natural Oat Shows Cp in Fine Shape. John Wolfe, the natural gas expert from Findlay, O., who has been here for some tiuie quietly looking over the gas wells, yesterday yes-terday made his report on those owned by the American Natural Gas company as follows fol-lows : "This is to certify that after a careful examination ex-amination of your gas tield, situated some twelve miles north of Salt Lake Citv, Utah, ai:d made by me within the last few days, and measurements of the volume or quantity quan-tity of irns blowing from two of your wells, called No. 3 and No. 4, I have to report that Nn. measures 807,200 cubic feet in twenty-four twenty-four hours; No. 4 measures 4,901,700 cubic feet in twenty-four hours. The flow of teas in No. 4 well is kept baclt in part from Uie fact that the pipe-in the well is only two inches iu diameter. The quality of the gas i uood and in mv opinion is permanent. In tact I do not know of another gas field thf t shows so strong and has better indications indica-tions of permanency and so large as this tlo.'s from the bame amount of development." develop-ment." y The results of the measurements are very satisfactory. No. 4 is a "Jumbo" well aud would be considered a big producer of "the i natural" in any gas tield. While it is true 'that wells have been discovered that yield as hitfh as 14,000,000 feet, yet, these, are the exception, ex-ception, and 4,000,000 feet is above the average aver-age in the best producing fields of Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania. The Knrg well at Findlay, O., for years j enjoyed the distinction of being the largest . well eve r discovered. It was estimated at Ix'.OOO.OOJ. But with the discovery of the Indiana tield some niouster wells were brought out. The Granger in the Indiaua- polls held, was estimated at 12,800,000 feet, and the first fourteen wells drilled by the Consumers Gas company ut Noblesville, Ind., were rated at 5,000.000 each, a very large average. One of the famous wells iu the Hoosicr stat that c reated a great deal of ;.-. talk x'.a the McCullough well at Anderson, owned by Major Ooxey. ThU well, as measured meas-ured by (iirard, au Indiana authority, was retorted as yielding 14, 63 1,000. Nine wells in the Anderson district were estimated esti-mated at from 3,000,oiK) to 14,000,000. This Is in the most productive jras territory in that state, and is phenominally large. Eleven of the best wells at Marion were taid to average av-erage 5, O0,000 feet. At Hartford, Indiaua, three wells averaged 5,000,000 feet, the max-liiiuin max-liiiuin being 9,000,000 feet. A well at Fairmont, Fair-mont, Indians, measured by Prof. Orton of Ohio.bhowcd 11,500,000 feet. But the average of the Indiana wells, taken as a whole, is not more than 2,0(0,000 feet, aud this is above the average in Ohio. The geological formation as exposed by drilling the great McCullough mill at Anderson An-derson was as follows: Drift f'ft Niapaia limestone Itil V Niacara shnle . . 35 I linton limestone 5) lfciloTi rivor .. .... 210 I'tica fhale . 254 Trenton 1 1 ! ". . ! ! . . 21 Total The Trenton rock at this well was faund to be rid feet above sea level. At Auburn, Indiana, gas was found in small quantities at l'.)3( feet below the surface sur-face of the ground, aud 1000 feet below the sea level. At Portland, Ind., fifteen wells averaged but 1,000,000, and yet it proved to be adequate, ade-quate, for a permanent supply. Wells with half a million feet capacity are valuable for commercial purposes. At Greensburir, Ind., eleven wells did not average more than 200,-000 200,-000 feet, but this was on the edire of the ta's field. In Ohio the average is much smaller than iu Indiana, and a 400,000 well is considered a "jumbo." The measurement of the Utah wells is much larger than gas men had reason to expect, and demonstrates to a certaiuty the existence of a lnrg- aud valuable reservoir .v of natural fuel that is of inestimable value. The existence of the Lake Shore gas at a' distance of but twelve miles from ' the city! makes it clossible to utilize much smaller wells than where the gas fields are located twenty-five and thirty miles from the cities where the gas is marketed, as is the case at Indianapolis, Toledo and other cities. |