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Show CHEAP FUEL WANTED. Natural fiaa Furnished in Ohio for Six Tents Per Thousand ruble Feet. Eneouragment on every hand was met hy the subscription committee of tho new Cili-rens Cili-rens Natural tias company yesterday as they canvassed tho town for subscriptions for atock. The company met lust evening at the oftlce ol C. E. Wantland and considered tho ways and means for pushing the sub-acription sub-acription list. It was decided to prosocu'.e a vigorous canvas. Already $2500 worth 0f atock has been taken. There Is a great deal of quiet discussion polng on about tho natural gas question and aevernl eastern men aro now in the city in. vestigatlng the gas tields here. After tho holidays, it is expected that there will bo a frroat many arrivuls to investigate tho situ, ation. Ex-Marshal K. H. Dyer, president of tho Salt Lake Power, Light and Heating company, com-pany, is heartily in favorof tho development of natural gas and thinks it cau be supplied cheap enough to effect a great saving In the cost of fuel. In conversation conversa-tion with a Times reporter today he expressed himself In favor of the granting of a franchise to tho American Natural tias company for Ihe piping of gas into the city for fuel purposes, providing they confine themselves to their original re-quest re-quest and purposes. Mr. Dyer thought that the price of Jl per lOOi) feet for natural gas was excessive and that the company could well afford to lower its limit considerably. consider-ably. In Pittsburg natural gas is supplied to consumers at 15 cents per It Km, and in Buffalo at '-'" cents per 1000 meter rates. In Titlin, Ohio, the natural gas companies com-panies have notitied all consumers that after present contracts have expired all gas will tie charged for at the rate of t cents per loot) feet meter measurement. This is an advance ad-vance on the rates that Tiffin manufacturers fcjve. been paying. Natural gas can be furnished at rates that oal or wood cannot possibly compete with and vast profits lie realized, but no manufacturing manu-facturing establishments can substitute it for coal at $1 per 1000 feet, or even til 50 cents. One ton of coal has the capacity to produce us much heat u about (looit cubic feet of gas, and ill Snlt Luke the large coal consumers obtain their fuel at t'l per ton. It can be readily seen that gas will havo to be offered ut a reasonable price, and that a limit of one dollar per thousand is too much. It is not thought, however, that the American Natural tins company, or any other company that may in the future obtain natural gas entertain any idea of charging any such price as that for the article. The well at Lake Shore is being allowed to rest and reservoir itself and nothing will be done to it at present owing to the weather. Work on the new well is progressing, and nt present pres-ent a two-inch pipe is being driven for tho purpose of obtaining gas for fuel to sink the big ten-inch well that will be put down. |