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Show THE (5 AS EXCURSION CITY OFFICIALS AND EUSINESS MEN VISIT THE 13IC WELL. I'roof I'oiiltlttt Tliat a Vast Supjily lint Ui'ttll Tupiieil ut I.liko Slium Tll 1-tur 1-tur I.iiiliusoil at tlio Teirlllti I ono , k xliililti'it l,y tlio IVonilnr. Four lititidn-J rcpri'..i'iit:Uro im-n vUitml ' tie tmUs i a...,ti rtlay iiftt iu ion. The party was ooiiijused in .Mayor Si'utl and Urn city coitiii'll anil liniiiy uf tho nm.-t iionil-nt'iil iionil-nt'iil iuisint'st tut ti of tlio idly, 'i'lii io Wert) al.-n ninny lailii in the arty, wiiir li l. ft tho lib' (iiniidi! Wt'stoTii ilt; ol a low inliiiiti'i aftiT 11 o'olock on n rji.'i'ial train uf hi: couch". ILL. Diivcr ninl H. C. Con.-lanl, r.f tho ct.itipaiiy, aiid ixiliorul A't'tits Pi'iint'tt anil l'.ro'.vn of til,: railway i'oin i.:iy, a,'i-oniianii.il tin: parly, l'oli, u tlitin r 'I'om S.'ailii wi, also wan iiv-i'nt but bin sfrvi.'Cs tii'te not ralitil iii!i rcfiitirilion and ho 'lo- : votial lihiHtdf to sd-ht tfoirn Ki.c tlio ImU ' Eiii'o of tin: i.'.i'i;iti,ini-ts. When Hie train leu 'hi'il l lie bii; wril tl.,. par'y ilisi iiiliarUeil ttiid wori! tiioii lui ati d at ttUvuv'.at'uUK niil..s w lien: l!i' "Mil-bin" e 'iibl In.' tsei'ii unj ii a'.id.ctl .Mipi riiiti'iidi'iit. I'. 1.. Ci huiiilU .ivo tin: si-nai to i,'ic of the uieii anil tho v.,!to w as' ojit'in tl. lii.-'ian!!y l!n: ifrr.tt vnl-unio vnl-unio nf pi .it-Up :is sh d 'uio llii1 ait. aeeuin. j.airetl bt a nut-s of thale nn 1 mini tbuL was n-.it ti;'"i'!'. fully 'J'1!) fe.-t. Tin; w.'ll wm I v- llon-'.'il Ui .Mir.ahi i.pi n n ;, niiuu!t', and the Ul. lon l' i,l wiii.dl i'. did bilsiln -a toil-viiieeil toil-viiieeil every one in the jurty timt, us a llrnt cla4 liuiuiai i'.i etdalnisiniii'ii:, it was : a complete ni"ee,-s. iiu: -u.i was Hot I'k'hU'J beeaip-u of tin; lea!:-' lea!:-' . " 0k' ali about tiiu 'null. ll. was feared bv the ''eutli im-ii connect, 'il ivilli the tllf well at Ltiko Shore lias Idiiwn out ho itiueli irray sain.l, iteMunipaiiieii by tho over-Syiny over-Syiny shale, in i.r mf 'Hifitiuo' that it Ii ill tills B ltlil. Much lias be! n salil about tin; forilintbilin ill tins vifit.iity, anil ilonbt hn been ex. prosa-eil as- to their coni at tuess, iiwiii" lo tho ".rent elevation here. Kvcry iiUiieatiuii, liowevor, shows that this basin In soliil ami i-otnpaet. If tin-formation was broken 'up there wmihl not be any irai here nknll. Tii-i ifn- that has beoti obtained at the l.aku Shun' well is frotn the tnuin body, ami ts alino.-t wiiliout limit as to fjttanttty. It is the ireii-uini: ireii-uini: arlli'le, initl no more valuable or pu'-feet pu'-feet natural fjas has evet been obtained anywhere. any-where. ( If course, there arc skeptics w ho will not lie convinced that wo have natural (fiii until this valley is dotted witli great inaniilaetiirlnL' plants, whose boilers are fed w itli the flow frotn the eh' wells. It ehotihl l,c remeiiiiiered, however, that the tlrst iniiu iv ho bored for oil was considered a crank, ami win u the irns tields of Ohio nnd Indiana, were tlrst opi'iiitl thev were ridiculed by pr-opl,: everywhere. This day is nt Lu;; 1 w lien the entire ba-n'n will bo dotted w ith trns well.-, and fuel bills of the future will be rally " per cent cheaper than at present. I bi this at count Blow ll will bu Impossible for other points to cotnpetejwltli Salt Lake." ias .IlltH. The West Side nnsiichiM.in will orunnl.e n citizens' tin company tin I bore a well. A tneoliii!.' will be liol'i hi tl.e Federal cnu"t rooin Momlav evenlu';, to wbitdi till inicr-e-teil ere invited. .More than three years a'o Oovernor We t and otht r onllt uiVii ortianizt d a tai coin-pnny coin-pnny to In re for natural i;as. Oilier businesi nintli'ts int. rv'i o 1 and the or'i nidation was allowed to slnni'iiT. The Knuttfonl hotel rotunda is the scene of an animated discussion on tlio subifitof natural :rm every evening. There will In' a lueetiii 1 In I o tii.night to corsider the niitt-tcr. niitt-tcr. News of the hlir well lins ln sent liroml-ri-i over the country throuli the A -sot iuted 1'i'ess and i'K i':a; reports. Jinny inquiries for all obti'.lnal.le news of the iliscovt ry nru veeelycd by bu du -ss men every day. Kast'Tii inanulai'lurors are watch- j intj dctchu uii'uts. luterprise ti.ai it would bo too t.-oub'ei-otiie toiontrol. 'iin ;;as was lurtied on and oil' several times uolii tiio big crowd were sjti.,-Ii, sjti.,-Ii, d at tin; dh-pi-'y. Te-rc was one si.cntie nt the well who watched Lie terrific force of the gas for a few minutes when it was liist turned loose. iii;:l 111 n turned to tic gentl.'tu in at his bn'e and remarked: "That ain't ga;." "What is it?" a-!ted tint pa'ly addressed. " Well, I don't know. Hot air, 1 ex:, a t. It is not gas, beeaii.-e it don't suie'.l." The iguoraii 'c of the, speaker was excusable excus-able beeau-e he couldn't help liiiii.'Clf. Tinti: ir.:; two kiau- of imiural g;n, one that is pnisessi'd of a.i odor ami one that is absolutely abso-lutely f'.!': fi'oiii any suieil. The latter i con5 iLt'-J the linest gas, and is tiio aiticle that has been di .covcred here. On the r-ttiru trip everybody dis-cus-cd natural gas and mai.y prediction. predic-tion. Were mad; for the future. '1 ho excursion was a big success and will d more to establish the fact that there Is a big sup-ply sup-ply of natural gas to be obtained right til Suit Lake's doors, than anything that lias yet 'ic. lined. Among those iu the party yesterday afternoon were: Mayor S-oU, t 'ouiieilnian Anderson and wife, Mrs. Knapp, JIis. Sloan, Mr mid Mr... Lwiti, Judge linr-ri.-, I'. Kobiuson, lit v. l!.' F. tiay. II. V. Jit dot-, Mr. and -Mrs. Faust, (.'. 1". Wiintiand, '.V. li. Irvine, Judge Hiair, Frank (iroeslieok, Dr. JIuss'T. J. F.. Ii,ini! er,i r, A. itot diofsiiy, J. K. tiille-pi", !'. A. So. t n.-on, Dr. Jiaeh an, J. P. (iarduei-. W. C. ili-giii", (. F. i'onhe.li:, A. Fisher, Mr. nnd Mrs. Siniondi, Mr. and Mrs. Pendleton, .Mr. and Mrs. Rogers, Mr. mnl Mrs. i'attersou, Ji. D. (irav, Mr. nnd Mrs. Mosher, J. J. O'Leilley, C ii. Taylor, ('. K. llat,ib"i';;ei-, 1!. 11. liarri'., II. M. McCartney, T. A. U ickersham, C. P. Mason, ..Linns (iieiideuiiing, A. A. Hice, Dr. Benedict, Bene-dict, T. 1'. Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Sharp, .Mrs. Johnson, Mi l'u-hes, llcniv Kippev, M. Ji. Mclinativ, II. II. ilea, t. . L hrlaub, Jutlge Colburn, K. ii. Iliatt. Mr. and Mrs. Siriiieer, O. II- Hardy, Fred Lentim!. Mr. end Mrs. Adams and si.-ter, F. Dieckcrl, li. '. Wilson, o. N. lioglc and many others. The pressure now obtained nt the big well Is lot) pounds to the square inch, which Is nmnly siillieient to pine I lie gas a distant c of 'many miles. The lirst gas piped into Toledo, ()., from u well nineteen miles had a pressure of but. sixty-tlve. pounds to tin; eiUure hit h, and the pressure in but few pipe, lines of natural gas exceed or equal that ot flic L..ke Shore well. As to the. supply, sup-ply, tlio yield of tlie present well will run any sixty bidlers in the city, and more wells n iil be sunk as rapidly as men and money can put tle-iu down. The next well will be Lured in the spat e between the tracks of the Vnion Pacilic nnd those of the Itio tirando Western railways, and the preliminary work wns commenced tlii.s morning. One of the interested visitors to the well yesterday was Mr. George 1. J'eiihale, who resided for iiiiiny years ill the oil and gas regions re-gions of Pennsylvania, and who has given close attention lo the subject of natural gas lie lias watched the progress of tl' Volop-lii.-i'.t at Luiio Sin re and some months ago made- an examination of I he formation in that vicinity in the Interest of a big gas syndicate syn-dicate at Pittsburg. Ills report at tlio time was favorable, and Mr. l'enliule lias, all aiong, been conlidciit of the existence of natural gas in that locality. Willie coming in from the well on tho train last evening, ho slated positively ilia! natural gas in large quantities existed in the vicinity vicin-ity where the big well is located, and that tin' present slriko was ono of tlio greatest that he hud ever known. -it is thn linest kind of natural gas," said Mr. Pcnhnle. "it is carboniferous ill its character, nnd is us pure and us valuable, an article of natural gits ns li.t-t ever been obtained ob-tained anywhere. The formations in which gss is found are sand and rock that tire found In strains bcloiv the tttrfaei! of the earth, t.t depths ranging from So') to StiiK) feet .mil are usually Irom live to 100 feet in tlii-kiu ss. The Iii st send l't'lmi- the surface iu which natural gas is obtained is a gray sand, and it is this that is obtained here. The stiiitl lias been reached hen- at much less distance than it is tisua'ly found ill the ea. tern gas tb Ids. Jt is tin: saiiie 'and. and anyone that knows anything about natural gas will teil you that it intarialdy contains , va.st quantifies of that article. The fact that t |