Show SEW GAS COMPANY J 1 H Watts and Other Real Estate Men at Its Head The Importance of further developing the gas field cannot be over estimated With the fine showing already made by the American Natural Gas company at Lake Shore there should be at least a half dozen companies with derricks up and drills going The field has only been touched and wells ought to be sunk in all parts of the county and valley The fact that gas was first discovered at a certain point at Lake Shore is no argument that there are not larger and bettor reservoirs at other places nor that this point is at the apex of the gasbearing rock I may be that the Lake Shore find great a it is in volume is hut a feeble expression of what may be struck at a lower strata of the rock Jt is gratifying to know that a company is oeing formed to further explore the field and that such an enterprising and influential influen-tial real estate man as J H Watts is at the head of it Let new companies be formed until a hundred derricks will show thoir heads over the valley Natural gas will revolutionize the fuel question and the more there is of ii exposed ex-posed the better it will be for nil concerned con-cerned There is plenty of room for all and it will take haifa dozen companies to supply a city of the size that Salt Lake will bo when the extent of the gas field is known The Stock Yards Receipts and shipments at the stockyards stock-yards for the week ending May 2 were Horses 450 received 400 shipped Cattle 717 received C50 shipped General Business Notes Business will be suspended at the recorders record-ers office tomorrow A B Lawrence is building a residence In the eastern portion of tho city to cOst > 000 Tho Brigham Young Trust company building third story on Commercial street is up to the Architect Klettiug delivered the plans yesterday for a 16000 school house for Springville Bids are now being received I M Wright secured the ccntract for building the H T Reynolds store building at Springville The building is to cost 17000 Devino Robinson have tho plans nearly completed for the new Richards block which will soon bo erected on Main street on the site of the recent fire Mr James Doyine will move into his now and elegant residence on Fifth street the beginning of the present week He has every reason to feel proud of his new and handsome home John Burts csidence will when finished be almost a counterpart of that of Mr Johnsons only that it will have a west and north front This adds one more handsome hand-some structure to the Twentyfirst ward The elegant and handsome residence of Mr J Jobuson which is rapidly nearing completion on Fourth street between G and H will when finished be one of the most handsome structures in the Twentieth ward wardI the street supervisor would have all those old electric light poles removed from some of the streets in the Eighteenth and Twentieth wards it would go a long way toward beautifying the streets in that locality lo-cality They have long ago been abandoned aban-doned by the company and not being used for anything perhaps it would be a good 1 t f thing for the residents to appropriate them toward replenishing their kindling boxes The action of the city council is being watched closely with respect to the levy ing of tho tax toward tho laying of water mains from the Thirteenth street line The erection of hundreds houses on the beautiful beau-tiful bench only awaits tho necessary acton ac-ton to be taken I is hoped by many that the opportunity will be afforded those who contemplate building the privilege of doing so before the season gets too late Some definite understanding is all that is required re-quired before tho song of the trowel and hammer will be heard in that locality from early morn till the setting of the sun |