Show Gas Co Announces Announces I Intention To Extend I Gas Lines to Idaho I Of outstanding interest is the advent ad advent ad- ad adent vent ent of the Natural Gas industry to Utah with aith its attendant expansion e and huge increase in m business Utah residents and communities have accepted natural gas as in m a very gratifying way wiy stated Mr L Fitz- Fitz Fitzpatrick Fitz patrick general manager of Utah I Gas 8 SL Coke Ogden Gas and Wasatch Gas companies We Ve are now seV v se-v-ing I mg ing natural gas as to fifteen Utah cItIes and towns and contemplate extend extending mg our service e north from Ogden to Northern Utah and Southern Idaho towns as far as Pocatello and south I from Salt Lake as far Car as Prove Pro earl I Im m in the spring sprang of 1931 This will mean the employment at that time of four or five hundred i imen men as well ell as a hea heavy e of money for or equipment and mater mater-I material mater mater- ial PrIor to the arrival of natural gas sl sixteen teen months ago there were teen sixteen thousand manufactured gas meters on our lines Imes There are more than twenty thousand acts e meters at the p present res time The peak delivery per month of manu manu- manufactured manu manu- manufactured manufactured gas was aas as two t 0 million sev- sev seventy sev seventy enty five thousand cubic feet The peak delivery of natural gas ha has has already reached t twenty enty million cubIc feet It is expected the con con- consumption con consumption at peak this winter will be thIrty five fi million Formerly there sere ere one hundred fifteen customers uSing gas for heatIng their homes There are now more than four thou thousand and natural gas heating house heating customers accounts for forthe forthe forthe the large cubic foot increase for It must be remembered that natural gas as contains more than twice the B u us u's or heating value alue of the thel former l manufactured gas gasp and hence less ess would be used to produce a given amount of heating It has been demonstrated by actual performance in m Utah homes and m- m industry in industry during the Past year ear that Natural Gas has reduced the cost of water heating and cooking over oer the former gas by more than half and md It at athas has been found to be competitive in price with nth all other fuel in m addItIon ot of having the advantage of automatIc control convenience and cleanliness Continued on page 1 I I I GAS GALS CO ANNOUNCES INTE INTENTION TO EXTEND E TEND GAS LINES TO IDAHO Continued from page 1 Prior to the of natural gas lone one hundred fifteen n were sere employed In inthe I Ithe the tho gas industry ui m Salt Lake laid Ogden Our average employment for 1930 1030 has been n one thousand three hundred six ninety and ind an attendant I in m payroll |