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Show The. Selling Sun Wednesday. Sept. ? The Gunnison Valiev News 1 . 1 Ofta o Wed..Sopt.9i iora o msm At 2,345 pounds, the hippopotamus at Hogle Zoo may be our biggest customer. He uses natural gas to keep his living quarters close to the same temperature as an African jungle. Hes an unusual customer. But its not unusual for natural gas to help Utah work in some unexpected places. For example, Maxfield Candy Comn chocopany makes its lates with natural gas. And Utah Roses Inc., whose products sometimes accompany those chocolates, relies on natural gas to grow more than 7 million roses annually. Besides melting hearts, natural gas is used to melt and smelt steel at Nucor Steel in Plymouth, and at Geneva in Orem. Kennecott Copper uses it in concentrat ing, refining, and smelting operations. Pepperidge Farm bakes cookies in a 100-fogas oven in Richmond. Sweets Candy peanut brittle is made in large copper kettles heated by natural gas. ot Interstate Brick uses 3,245-degre- temperatures in a natural d kiln to cook the well-know- Then theres the Clover Club Potato Chip plant in Kaysville that uses a gas cooker to turn out more than 25 millionjK pounds of snack foods for 1 1 western states each year. Or Country Crisp Foods, which also uses natural gas to cook snack foods in its Salt Lake City plant. e gas-fire- bricks used in buildings all over America. And nights will be bright for the Utah Shakespearean Center for the Performing Arts in Cedar City which opens in 1989, thanks to natural lamps. You might say that natural gas is also for the birds. brooders in Sanpete County produce more than 4 million mid-summ- gas-burni- Gas-heat- er g states in one of the top America. Natural gas is also a big part of Utahs agricultural industry, powering irrigation systems on farms across the M LJ state. JO From hotels and motels JplL turkey-producin- to restaurants, shopping malls, and even hospitals, natural gas helps Utah ppf work. Which is one more reason Utah is a pretty, sf great state. So the next time you fu hear about a product or service from Utah, dont beNi 1! surprised if theres an unex- pected use of natural gas behind it. nf ng ed turkeys every year, helping keep Utah V jSit, jkr- i '.v, j-- v |