| Show 1 MEANS MUCH FOR i iI I PROVOS FUTURE i Plant Will Bring Large Pay Roll Boll I ff HOW GAS WILL BE MADE MANUFACTURED FROM VEIN VIN V IN OF CRUSHED COAL AND Provo Sept 8 IThe granting of Uti th gas sas ga franchise by b the Salt Lake City council to George A Snow and nd Wil VII William liam Darst It Is 1 believed here will mean the expenditure of ot in the state In the tha completion of the th slant lant a ft large payroll for operating the plant when completed advantages advantage to man manufacturers manufacturers manUfacturer in the substitution sub of gas at reduced cost coat for tor other power pOwel pro producing producing agencies and economy and con convenience for householder hou through the tho use Ue of or gas for fol heating and cooking purposes That is jg if It the expectations of tho the promoters of or the enterprise are realized For some months month past Dast as has ha been boon reported in The Herald numerous ben loca locations of or limestone lIme tone glacer claims have been made in the mountains east of pt Provo and these have all aU passed f l into the hands of Mr Snow and are bald hald by him for the company which will wUl construct the gas plant The claims In number of acres each extend from Slate canyon on the south to Provo canyon can on on the north a dis distance distance tance of about ten miles mlle The claims are in the second elevation of ot the range of mountains east of or Provo and andare andare andare are about four miles from the city Coal and Limestone The ledge is 18 dol mitic lime and through it are several veins yein of carbon carboniferous carboniferous carbonIferous material Four of these thea veins have been opened up and prospected for tor coal conI Fifty thousand dollars have ha VI probably probably probably ably been expended expanded by local people in inthe Inthe Inthe the last fifteen years to coal and some very ver line fine specimens of an anthracite ant anthracite t coal have been found But tho the thoA A A veins eIns are mixed with IUt limestone tone and andt v t other material which Is III ground up with the coal and for fOl this reason rea on coal in commercial quantity has not been found sound Whether future development will open payIng p veins YelM of coal COllI remains to tobe tobe tObe be seen but the success or 01 failure W I Ithe the gas project does doea not depend dOlend upon this It Is the tho intention of the tha com corn company compan pany pan to the gas gu from th the vein eln matter which con contains contains contains a 8 large percentage of ot free carbon the percentage of or caroon In places where there is Iii the least le lit admixture of ot lime limo and dirt being from 85 to 90 There are eleven J veins in the range so far fat din dis discovered covered and the four which have been baan opened vary In thickness from nine to 10 four feet and as there Is an Inexhaustible quantity of the material the only question of ot Its successful re rt reduction to gas It is l claimed this thin cap c be ue successfully done by the d Loomis process and tests tenta which suP sum sufficiently satisfy SItUs the promoters have been made before the expense of f locating the ground round making a geological survey and examination etc was wu Incurred Works Near Provo The works will probably be erected In the mountains near the ba hue base of sup cup supply cupply ply pi and from there re the product will be bo piped to Salt Lake City where here It will willbe Willbe be stored in tanks tank and distributed to the consumers Two pipe lines linen will III b bused be used one for fOl manufacturing power voer purposes e and the other for domestic us s and Provo Prove and Intermediate points can an of course be supplied from the same males mains Another nother method has been considered and may be adopted That Thatis is to haul the material from the mines to Salt Lake and produce the gas there thet The rhe advantages and disadvantages of or orah ah method will m b be looked into before a decision is Ii reached The byproduct of ut the coal when consumed for fOl gas is in sulphate of ammonia valuable for fol fer fey fertilising purposes and aM this is Ii expected to tobe tobe tobe be quite a s revenue producer for the company The credit ere Ut for fot thu enterprise e is ie due flue dueI I m In the Pint first place pla e to Dr C B Snyder of or orthis this city Years ago when there was considerable excitement nt here bere on the an anthracite n coal proposition and much work ork was q done to develop coal mines Dr Snyder commenced fd a chemical and Ind nd geological c investigation of or the forma formation formation formation tion and its It possible commercial value His HI investigation Uon led him to the th con conJ J 1 elusion that gas ii could be produced at prices which would make it valuable v in manufactures q and for tor domestic pur purposes purposes poses pORes He learned that gas Ea was being made in England and the United States from coal of ot no commercial value and he reasoned that the mate material material material rial found here containing such a large per pel cent of or carbon would ouM prove equally h valuable for the production of ol gas Dr DrS DrI S I Snyder was under the th disadvantage of having more mOle on this subject than money mODe and the local capitalists to whom he referred his project were not inclined to favor faor it at least not to the extent of backing it financially and some of ot them then though not having in investigated its ita merits meriu treated it rather rattier contemptuously Dr Snyder however bow was not discouraged to the point of ot giving givIng Ing It up He finally presented the t e proposition to Allan Alias G Lamson and the time latter Interested Interacted Mr Snow and Mr Ir f Darst C D Sword of Toledo 0 O aid ad adother other othor capitalists In the project |
