Show XAl URAL GAS Whilst it will require time and more de vlopment to determine whether or not the gentlemen who have been operating in Davis Da-vis county during the past year or such a matter are boring in good natural gas territory terri-tory the indications aro such as to encourage en-courage both them and the public As a matter of fact gas has been flowing from wells there for three or four years and lately the newspapers hin o recorded some very vigorous flows Everybody here shoutS will wish the enterprise the greatest degree of success for everybody every-body must understand something of the benefit which would accrue to Salt Lake from a commercial supply of natural gas within a few miles of this city This cheap fuel has revolutionized manufacturing In i some parts of tho east and furthermore has built up large and thriving cities within with-in the gas belt It would do more for Salt Lake than for those places In the Pennsy mum Ohio and Indiana coal regions because be-cause here the high cost of fuel is the chief drawback to manufacturing If fuel at I half the present expense could bo obtained Salt Lake would speedily develop into a manufacturing city and the increase of population would be rapid and lasting Xhe owners of the wells recently bored are petitioning the council for the right to lay pipes and convey gas into the city and as the matter has been represented to use us-e think their request should be granted They propose to furnish gas only for fuel and say thoy can supply heat at a much lower cost than for coal If they can do this the public will certainly get the benefit bene-fit and if they fall only they will bo the I losers t |