Show NOT ENTIRELY NEW Natural Gas Used at lake Shore Ten Years Ago Natural gas is not newly discovered in this section said E E Rich manager of the Peoples Forwarding company yesterday yes-terday Why it has been used at LakeShore Lake-Shore for cooking and heating purposes for at least ten years the pioneer being Ephraim Game who separated the gas from tho water by means of a couple of barrels and then conveyed the gas into his house by meD of a common garden hoe Of course there was never anything like the present now the largest coming from a twoinch pipe but it i at least lire years since we used natural gas to boil salt with only I few rods from whore the big spouter I located It worked admirably at that time both for domestic purposes and the boiling of salt The only drawback then was the lack of quantity which deeper boring seems to have remedied reme-died Natural gal is not a new thing in Suit Lake valley nor Salt Lake city Years ago Alex Burt struck a flow of gas at his residence in the Sixth ward of sufficient volume to light and heat his house and there were noveral other important strikes in the same vicinity I gas is found at Lake Shore in paying quantities it can be found within tho limits lim-its of the city said an expert yesterday Let her come 1 |