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Show THE LIME BUSINESS. A Mountain of Fine Lime Rock With Gas Wells at Its Foot. It. looks as if nothing mundane lean prevent the opening up of a j huge lime making industry in this ; vicinity within the next few years. J l'"our miles north of town is a j great mountain of a 1 most pure lime-I lime-I stone. There are millions of tons ofil; the supply is practically in-' in-' exhaustible. A few hundred feet immediately below this mammoth pile of line lime rock, wells of natural gas have been lately discovered. dis-covered. The gas at one of these wells, on C. Olson's place, has been lighted several times. Without With-out any developments whatever there is sullicient gas bubbling up out of this sprinu to light his resi- 'deuce 200 feet away. By properly I developing this flow and piping it to the great deposits of lime rock on the bench above, the cheapest lime in the country could lie manufactured. manu-factured. This industry could be carried on on a large scale, giving employment to many and furnishing furnish-ing this city and surrounding country for miles with an ample supply of cheap, pure lime. Everything is there hut the capital to take the industry in hand. There is an inviting held (hero for moneyed men. |