Show i VAN PELT RELATES RElA TE 1 ir i ft NATURAL GAS GASs' GASs I. I EXPERIENCE I r U U. S. S Commissioner s' s Gives I I 4 History of First Develop- Develop Development ment meat Near Salt Lake i- i As bearing out the statement concerning con- con r the presence C natural gas as in M Vl- Vl 1 Yet quantities In the tho immediate of or Salt Lake c the tho following letter b by Henry V. V r Van Pelt no now United States and anti f forg for for- ri r- r H T commissioner for this district or- or the which president of company i g J marketed fas as in Salt alt c Lake Lako nearly thirty D. D O. O RideS Ride Ride- years ears ago and addressed to S out secretory secretary and amI treasurer treasurer of th the Union Oil on and nd Gas Gns company compan is given Iven Complying with your our request of tOOn today f T r I o gl you ou some da data ta with regard W to the New American Gas and Fuel como com com- o pan parry pany The rhe American Natural Gay Gas and Fuel 5 i or company was o organized in 1891 and reorganized reorganized ret re- re t organized as tho the New American G Gas s tf and null Fuel company Ip III the following yea year I B I In In 1596 or thereabouts thereabout I became president dent of th the company compan According to my mr recollections some som fc fifteen or twenty wells were sunk w Ith- Ith out a failure allure to encounter a large body hody t of gas from each well Our efforts were S somewhat crude an and the wells would fill flU if it up from time line to time Generally Generall wo we were rc ri r able to get them to flow again No o well 4 was ever sunk that was not a suc success if 1 Wo We Yo mark marketed ted the gas as by hy a a. contract with tho the Salt Lake Electric Light and 0 Gas pas company with tho gas s mains mains mams it throughout t Salt Lake City That coma com com- ft a pany marketed the gas gaa at a a. ver very large satis- satis satisfaction 5 profit and tho the gas as gave VO perfect sa satis satisfaction faction to consumers MAINS D DEFECTIVE Our company compan delivered the gas sas to Ute llie 1 latter falter company at the northern terminus of its mains at a point called Lake Lale S Vica Vic Yie lew n a or 01 Lake Shore In lit Davis county count The V W. W gas Jas was paid for or or rather agreed t to Do ho DoS S paid for according to meter readings s in In Salt alt Lake CIt City The mal mains leading from 2 r Lake Talo Shore where the wells were to toS to S Salt Lake Cil City Cily were so defective that 4 most of the Joints leaked and there was II IIan L an immense loss o of ga gas ga The Salt SaIl Lake Electric Light and anel Gas company refused basis and a to settle itt at any my reasonable J litigation became necessary Gas at LaJe Laie tJ inT in- in also being furni furnished by an Shore as sl was X T dependent concern managed h by II H. I. I L L. 1 Driver Drivel who was one of the or originators and he be also alo 5 of the Natural Gas company compan rt was forced to iu sue for fOl his share sharo of the 2 gas furnished 5 The two claims were united in in to a suit cult i against th the r Electric Light all an and Gas c com com- om- om f V and a judgment of a Tout out OOOO was obtained after long lone deb delay The latter latter lat lat- sold its Ils meantime ter company In ht the new nets coman com- com and amI franchise e to a properly refused to recognize its Its lIa- lIa pany tan an which refused to refused to Alit bUh to Ja pay th n judgment obtained company comp Another Another An- An 4 a against Its predecessor other vexatious delay occurred an and after fler I suit had been pending for or a long time i the judgment was was was' collected in m part sr Our company compan during the HU litigation found Itself without an any me means ns of marketing marS mar- mar I j and ft gas to any Jl re responsible party part S ceased its operations altogether aHo ether A stan Inaugurated and the hie out plan was Ness Ness' e American Gas and Fuel company compan I Ie ha had to cease operations DECLARES SUPPLY ADEQUATE S s There was never a doubt as to an ades ade- ade quate supply of gas after the first years ears operations In tho the case se of 1 0 every well I. I wo we sunk the gas was accompanied by some light oils gasoline as I now rew re remember re- re w member It In some cases the tho amount p of oil was so great that the gas had h to tobe WI be passed through separators to prevent present ty it from no flowing Into the pipe line and carried to the point of distribution for it 1 was discovered ered that the oils would carbonate car car- 1 j bonate senate t the he mantels and cause tic the gas Jas to toS toi S smoke Our w ns were sunk to a depth exceeding eight or nine hundred fi of not i v feet or thereabouts except that w ve We e att attempted at- at t tempted one deep boring intending to go JO godown gow w down 2000 feet to bedrock The equipment equipment equip equip- ment was insufficient and the I piping Dining t or buckled so badly that we abandoned fOll for fOl f l' the time lime being our effort to go to a great depth V 1 Our company compan demonstrated demonstrate d the gas gasfield gasi 3 field In Davis county and proved that 9 i there was apparently an Inexhaustible supply of or gas Jas I believe the company j would be operating OI today if we had had V means to market the products or if the Electric Light flight ami and Gas as concern had lived JIved up to Its Us contract Jt lt t is certainly no fault of the Davis county cO oil on fields that Salt Lake Cit City Is 1 w 2 1 not now being illuminated b by natural I T t t gas You ma may call can upon me again ln for such 5 nish Information q n as I ma may bo be able to furnish fur- fur r. I y E NEW YORK CURB CLOSE J. J A. A Hogle fc Co 16 South Main T street furnish tho following quota quotations lions 5 9 received over their private ate wires yester- yester Sy day afternoon 1 is I Bid 81 I Asked it r Industrials Industrials- I I. I I. I r Air Reduction Reduction 0 75 a h p Explosives 9 9 sv Chevrolet Che 11 i 1 10 0 g Curtis Aero Acro 3 3 Jl Holly common 3 45 er do preferred 95 9 99 I Lake Torpedo 3 3 31 s Maxim HI 9 31 16 I w- w 4 j Submarino float Boat 1 1 United o 25 5 1 U. U S S. Steamship 5 4 Wright Martin 7 7 H. H ta Oils Oils- Barnett 1 1 1 Wyoming Boston 2 21 5 25 s Cosden 7 y S 8 Folk B Hin 61 G r Fed Federal I Oil Oil 7 3 3 3 3 arm Metro Pet fete 16 11 16 13 16 Merritt Oil 9 2 O r. r V N. Refining 10 04 r Midwest on Oil t r do do preferred 1 3 14 1 r Northwest t SO sl 81 I Okla 64 7 Ci 6 Sapulpa s i 8 h Sequoyah nh 6 11 16 16 13 Amerl American n 0 3 3 Minine- Minine 1 Big BI Le gc Ledge Hi 1 7 16 iG I Buffo Hut c N. N a. a 1 a Butte Cat Cal Jerome 1 5 16 16 1 i 16 Ar Caledonia 50 O 52 2 Ca Canada Cop Copper 2 2 2 Consolidated Arizona 16 2 16 1 Con Copper 05 O 3 I 06 Davis Dal p 05 Copper e r 1 i 16 1 6 16 11 r Hecla Hda 04 04 0 He Howe Sound Soun J 0 rn Iron Blossom 7 16 tIron Terome Verde Ver e 16 11 err Kerr Lake 5 i G Cil t Magna Copper 3 c 38 8 Mason Ia n Valle 5 5 old 30 31 4 new 2 2 a 8 8 Ohio Ohio Copper U f Ray s 4 4 a 4 S e 01 1 1 a Scratch Gravel l Success R 9 10 Extension 1 z p United d Verde 3 39 S-erington S 10 12 1 Copp Copper r I 1 11 Vilbert 8 10 CIl City ServIce common do preferred H i 4 75 |