Show I More Gas Mr Geo B Sherwood of Chicago a gentleman thoroughly versed it chemistry and a writer of note oc natural history and ethnology was n this city yesterday and visited the t Museum While there he examined a piece of paraffin or mineral wax and stated hat he had made a chemical chem-ical analysis of it with a view to ascertaining as-certaining whether it could be utilized for manuacturing gas The experiment experi-ment he stated proved highly satisfactory satis-factory as he found that an excellent quality of ga could be obtained with but very little expense while the resi dum could be bleached as white as the driven snow and when thus bleached resembles alabaster and could be made into ornaments such as are now made of celluloid while it was of the same bnrdnees In the coarse of his remarks Mr Sherwood stated that it would giva much more gas than resin which hitter substance returned about 1000 feet of gas to five pounds of resin The discovery that this wax GO abundant here can ba used to manu acturo an excellent quality of clear gas at very trifling expense is quite I I important and may prove of great value while it adds another to the many uses to wbich this mineral is already put As it waR with the Utah mineral wax that Mr Sherwood made his experiment all doubt as to the practicability of the plan is done away with He made rough draught of a retort in whioh the gas could been be-en era ted and stated that its cost would not be over 75 after which every person could manufacture his own gas The draught is on exhibition exhibi-tion at tho Museum Thus another important feature is added to the minerals of Utah |