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Show furnished gas free. The Kokomo Indiana In-diana l'late Glass works have an annual ! saving from the use of gas of a quarter of a million dollars while their product is worth 85 per cent more than the same would bo worth if coal was used for fuel." natcralTgas wells. A Practical Man Says the Indications in Salt Lake County Are Exceedingly Pavoiable for Succesr. THE MATTES WILL BE PUSHED And the Work of Development is to be Commenced as Soon as the Machinery is on the Grouni Natural gas is one of the chief subjects sub-jects of commercial conversation in Salt Lako City these days. Not a few people believe that gas does exist near tho city and can be developed for practical prac-tical purposes. This matter is being quietly worked on by a number of citizens citi-zens and they intend to go ahead and investigate for themselves. J. T. Stringer of tho firm of Messrs Davis & Stringer of West Second South street has had practical experience in natural gas business. He was secretary secre-tary of the lirst company that put down a gas well and a plant in Indiana to supply the town of Kokomo. Tho result of the enterprise in that town was wonderful. During the first year the board of trade was the means cf having twenty-two f.tctories located in the town, all of which are in active operation today. "Mr. Stringer, what do you think of the possibilities of discovering natural gas in large quantities near Salt Lake City?" asked a Times man. "The geological formations in the vicinity vi-cinity of Salt Lake are somewhat similar simi-lar to the conditions in Ohio nnd Indiana In-diana where natural gas is found in abundance. In regard to the formations forma-tions where natural gas has been found limestone has generally been pass ed through. There is already escaping from driven wells in Salt Lake county more gas than ever showed on tho surfaco in Indiana and Ohio combined. com-bined. "One pound pressure of any gas would distribute the same over the city. The various points where gas is now escaping shows a pressure when confined varying from live to sixty pounds. At no point in Indiana and Ohio where gas was originally found escaping could a pressure exceeding six pounds bo obtained. The pressure of the various wells iu Salt Lako county where gas is now escaping would indicate that the most, favorable locality lies along a line drawn from the east side of the Bountiful valley to a point about a mile east of Gartield beach. "The dip of the limestone as it shows w here it crops out would indicate that the Trenton rock where gas is found would be struck at a depth of about1 .200 feet." I "What effect would the discovery of 'as have upon the city?" was asked. "It would secure the location here of ilmost all tho factories necessary to upply this entire iuter-mountain region There" is no question but that the popu-ation popu-ation of Salt Lake city would be loubled in two or three years time ns las been the case where gas has been .'riund. 'Throughout the gas territory of the i United States where wells are situated n the immediate vicinity of the con-timers con-timers gas is now being lurnished at hoot one-fourth tbo cost of coal, while ; aust manufacturing establishments are |