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Show TALKS W IT 1 LJl'R A VELEESl. Last evening a party of gentlemen, seated in the comfortablo rotunda of the Kmitsford hotel, were discussing the weather, natural gas mid other interesting topics when the conversation drifted to aeronautics, lialloon stories were told, and tho whole subject of aerial navigation was argued at length. One of the gcnllemeu present related the story of a balloon voyage which was beyond doubt the most memorable ascension that has yet been made. Colonel William Hyde of this city, and for many years tho editor of the Mis. souri Itiyublinm at St. Louis, was one of the voyageurs. The ascension occurred at St. Louis on July 1, ISj'.I. The balloon was ; of silk aud one of the largest that had ever been constructed. Its cost was over iTooo. The party who made the trip to the cloud on'that occasion consisted of professor Wise, the famous icronaut, Colonel Wm. Hyde, then a reporter on the JiipubUraii, and two other gentlemen. When the balloon had reached a great height an easterly current of air was struck that carried it eastward at a rapid rate. Tweuty-ouc hours after the start the party lauded in a treetop in Jefferson couutv, in the eastern part of New Yorlt state." They struck terra finmi none tho worse oil for their thrilling trip through tbc clouds. Seventeen years later Professor Wise in 1VT6 made an ascension frem til. Louis with a couple of daring newspaper , men and landed safely In an Illiuois village seventy miles from the city. h William Bruford of Ogrtcn was a visitor to Salt Lake Sunday. He is a prominent young businessman of the Junction City aud is recognized as a hustler. "I am glad lo hear of the big natural gas strike near Salt Lake," said he to The Timksj reporter, ''it cannot fail to be a big thing for this section and will benefit Ogdcn as well as Salt Lake. M'e are satisfied that natural gas exists in paying commercial quantities close by Ogdeu, and the laud will soon be thoroughly pros-pectcd, pros-pectcd, many indications of natural gas are to be found in Ogdcn and vicinity, and several parlies have been using it for several years. Kvcn if gaa is not found closer to us than the present bi" well at Lake Shore, it can be piped to Ogdcn from there and laid down in our city as cheap as it can in Salt Lake. I have not visited nor examined the gas well, butam satislicd from what has bceu said that tho supply is an extensive ex-tensive one." |