Show Gas Co Announces Announces Intention To Extend Gas Lines to Idaho Of outstanding interest is the ad- ad adent adient advent i ent of the Natural Gas industry to toI I Utah with its attendant expansion and huge increase in m business Utah residents and communities have accepted natural gas in m acry a cry ery gratifying ay way stated Mr L Fitz- Fitz Fitzpatrick Fitz patrick general manager of Utah I Gas tC Coke Ogden Gas and Wasatch Gas companies We We Ve are now servI serving serving Utah cIties ing mg natural gas to fifteen extend extend- extending extending I and towns and contemplate ing mg our service north from Ogden to Northern Utah and Southern Idaho towns as far as 25 Pocatello and south from Salt Like Lake L he as far as Provo early m in the spring of 1931 This will mean the employment at that tIme of four or five hundred I men as well ell as a heavy helVY of money c for ifor or equipment and mater- mater I Prior to the arrival of natural gas sixteen months ago there were ere sIxteen thousand manufactured gas meters on our lines There are more than t tw twenty enty thousand actIve meters at the present time The peak delivery per month of manu manu- manufactured manu manu- manufactured manufactured gas was two to million sev sev- seventy sev- sev seventy seventy enty five thousand cubic f feet t The peak delivery of natural gas ha has has already reached twenty million cubic feet It is 15 expected the con con- consumption con consumption at peak this winter Inter will be thirty five million Formerly there were one hundred fifteen customers using gas for heating their homes There are now ow more than four thousand and natural gas cheating I house customers accounts for forI forthe forthe forthe the large cubic foot increase for It I must be remembered tha that natural gas as cont contains uns mOle amore I of the thel value B u us ua u s 's or heating l ormer manufactured gas as and hence Jess s would be used to produce a given amount of heating service serce ser ce It has been demonstrated by actual performance in Utah homes and m- m industry in industry during the past year that Natural Gas has reduced the cot cost of water uter heating and cooking over the former gas by more than half and It has been found to be competitive in price with all aU other fuel in additIon ot of having the advantage of automatIc control convenience COn and cleanliness Continued on page 4 I GAS CO ANNOUNCES TION INTENTION TO EXTEND I GAS LINES TO IDAHO Continued ont nu from page y 1 I I PrIor to the of natural gas one hundred fifteen were ere employed in I Ithe the gas industry in m Salt Lake and I Ifor Ogden Our average employment andI t I for 1930 has been one thousand three II hundred ninety Ax and an attendant I increase in m pa pay payroll roll roU |