| Show WYOMING UTAH NATURAL GAS BENEFITS AGAIN BEING DISCUSSED utah must get its natural gas supply from baxter basin and the newly uncovered hiawatha dome structure all belonging to the rock springs geologic uplift utah especially in in the vicinity of ogden has vast fields of undeveloped glass sands that could be utilized in the manufacture ot of bottles and other forms of glassware said a utah oil man to the rock springs rocket a few days ago continuing he said A great commerce in the manufacture of glass products could be developed in utah its people are all primed for such a move the almost unlimited supply of live gas in your wonderful fields contiguous to rock springs makes this the objective point for cooperation an industrial trade that would count piping your gas reserves into utah would serve to link the resources of two great states utah needs your gas the outlet for it would mean tremendous new development plans for your immediate vicinity it will work good in two directions there is some gas in utah but n not ot enough and it is almost inaccessible for instance dagget county fields must be reached via rock springs its nearest railroad point which is one hundred miles distant and the new monte christo canyon cutoff cut off between ogden and evanston wyoming will reduce the distance from ogden to the wyoming line more than twelve miles thus the actual pipe line distance from ogden to rock springs should be approximately miles the thursday salt lake tribune carries a spread head news story reprinted in part as follows at salt lakes back door tremendous gas resources at salt lakes back door doo r great era of development seen for city and state when this vast natural wealth is used so ran the impressive headlines on the main news page of the tribune the body of the story follows if salt lakes natural beauty is to be disfigured each year by the smoke evil if salt lake does not become one of the cleanest cities in the world it will be because its citizens choose retrogression instead of progress and fail to take advantage of the enormous resources of gas being developed in utah and along its eastern and northern borders this statement was made wednesday by M P smith salt lake oil man who returned from a visit to drilling camps in in northeastern utah and northwestern colorado along the line separating these two states at baxter basin wyo enormous flows have been tapped in numerous fields said mr smith the latest and perhaps most interesting development has taken place on the hiawatha dome on vermillion creek in the wasatch formation of the tertiary age at a depth of 2200 feet a flow of highly inflammable gas measuring 60 cubic feet dai daily ly has been struck distance from supply is negligible miles of salt lake lak e all of these gassers are within piping g the gas to the city although expensive would not be pr prohibitive and involves no very great difficult engineering problems resources capable of supplying a city with almost at salt bait being developed for all purposes are b cas gas lakes back door and the time is ripe for the use of this natural wealth which will make salt lake on one e of bf great the cleanest and most beautiful cities in in the world |
