Show THE NEW GAS WELL I It Proves to be Hie 1 Best Yet Bored Eight Hundred People Visited It Last Night and Cheered to the Echo When it Was Lighted Natural gas excursions havo become the fashionable fad Notwithstanding the fact that there have been three of them within as many weeks at 7 oclock last evening fully 800 people had boarded the cars at the Union Pacific depot for another visit to the latest of Salt Lakes resources and attractions attrac-tions Owing to the unlookeafor rush the train was a little behind time in starting but a quick and pleasant run was made to tile wells On alighting at Lake Shore one of the smaller wells was ignited and shot out red white and blue fire while a number of whistles attached to u gas pipe shrieked out their rather discordant dis-cordant notes of welcome After this per lormanca had been enjoyed for a snort y time the signal was given to turn on the new spouter There was a rushing noise that might easily have been heard a mile awny A Roman candle was shot into the pipe near the ground there was a loud explosion ex-plosion and amid the cheers of SOJ people the flames shot into the air to the height of at least fifty feet Those who bed I crowded close to the pipe were driven back by the roar Jand heat while the blaze shot athwart the heavens lighting up the surrounding country for miles in each direction di-rection To those who had not heretofore witnessed a natural gas display it was a sort of revelation to such as had only seen the exhibits made on the recent excursions it was a surprise such as they could hardly have been expected to be prepared for and all returned more than eyer satisfied that natural gas was here and hero to stay In addition to the Salt LaUers there were several hundred people from the surrounding surround-ing villages THE NEW SPOUTER is now down 715 feet and the pipe has passed through various formations most encouragincr in their character The latest was a strata of sand rock which was encountered en-countered on Wednesday night Asked as to what sand rock indicated sn export said It indicates everything we could wish for it is the formation we have been seeking The indications are daily growing more favorable that ttiero aro inexhaustible stores of gas in he Salt Lake basin |