Show NATURAL GAS OCCURRENCE Features as They Exist in This Val Vai Valley Icy ley Described During Ute the summer of 1904 natural gas was found escaping from a a num berof bet of water vater wells in the valley of Jor or dan river Utah says one of the sheets Issued by the geological survey Ex by G B Richardson of the United States geological survey re alOO the fact that natural gas was of common occurrence In the vicinity of Salt SaIt Lake City eight YEars years ago this field Was extensively pros prospected PE ted and for over a year Jear the city was supplied with natural gas Though the quantity obtained proved cleat gas is still found in greater or less abundance and sporadIc attempts ha have e been made to further develop the field fideL It seemed to Mr de desirable desirable therefore to record In III the sur surveys veys year book Contributions to Eco Economic Economic Geology 1904 the little that is known of natural gas In this vicinity Natural gas occurs at a number of localities along the eastern shore or of Great Salt Lake notably In the vIcin Ity or of Brigham and CorInne near the mouth of Bear rIver and in the vIcin Ity of Salt Lake City adjacent to the I mouth gJ Jordan river Near Salt SaIt Lake City gas has been In an area extending at leant feast ten miles west of the city anti and fifteen miles north all as far as Farmington This area was formerly occupied by Lake Bon Bonneville neville the PleIstocene predecessor or ot of Great Salt Lake I Though gas has been found In num numerous numerous erous wells thIs area the great greatest greatest est development has oc occurred about twelve mUes north of Salt Lake City In the Ule marshy tract near the shore or of Great Salt Lake Gas Is reported to have been discovered In thIs region in I and in the winter or of a six Inch pipe line Was vas laid to Salt Lake City In an area o only one square mile about twenty wells were unk 4 Gas occurs at different depths In the area dev developed loped but mostly between and feet In one well veIl three gas gag horizons were struck at und feet in III another well feet teet deep nine good strong flows of gas are reported The gas is saId to occur In sand which is s underlaIn and overlain S b by clay the beds ranging from three to twenty feet In thickness The Pro ro sands are reported generally free from water although small smaIl arte artesian artesian sian flows were found In overlYing beds The re ure or of Ute the gas In the wells is said l to ha hate e averaged about pounds pound anda a mx maximum mum pressure of poun has hos been ed For months Snit Salt Lake City was from thIs source but the amount produced Is not definitely known Fon oo the trouble was caused b by the gas cOming spaS The supply finally tie de decreased creased until it bc me Insufficient for forthe forthe the eity needs need the field was aban onu 1 1 J or of gas In quantity Is dep nb duly on a sufficient supply or of organic matter but also on th the presence of porous reservoirs ef effectively r capped by Impervious mater materIal tat Ial to collect and retaIn the bons in the B Bonneville area the presence of such conditions can not be predicted It t may be stated though that prospectIng for tor gas not be undertaken in the vIcinity ot of the base ot or the mountains where recent faulting has taken place Actual oc occurrence currence of gas ip 10 this region can be J disc discovered ered only by the drill |