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Show EXPERT BOYLE? RED I CULOUS STATEMENTS REGARD INC NATURAL CAS AND TRENTON ROCK. Salt l ake Business Men Who are Con-HM Con-HM in the Gas Fields, Put I p Their Money and Drill for the Product. The greatest recognized authority in the world on natural gas and petroleum products, pro-ducts, is Prof. Lay, and so accurate is his knowledge and so rarely i bis judgement at fault that the great Standard Oil syndicate depends upon hi reports and has the most implicit faith in them. That syndicate sent him to Kusstn to examine the petroleum fields of that empire and "ii his sole recommendation secured the coulrol of them afler an investment of over sixteen millions of dollars. Professor Lay-has Lay-has thoroughly examined the basin of this region and has predicted that great quantities quanti-ties of gas and oil wouid be obtained here, and it was after careful examinations by him and upon his advice that Messrs, uriver. Woodman and their associates in the AmerieanNaUir.il lias company commenced to drill for natural iras at Lake Lhore. They have been successful and the theories ad vauced and prediction made by the eminent emi-nent Pennsylvania authority, arc now clearly established. Fvcry man of experience with natural gas in the eastern fields, who lias examined the matter, is salisticd and has expressed himself him-self on the extent and value of Salt Lake's supply . natural gas, wl cb la RMOttBOtd to be practically inexhaustible. No less than five regularly incorporated conipanie.-w conipanie.-w ith abundant capital are at work, or will soon be, drilling gas wells. The American Natural Gas company is drilling a ten-inch Well about hall a mile cast of its present "gusher." Tin: Salt Lake Natural Gas c om. pan has a' reliable flow of gas from a two-inch two-inch well, ami are now hard at work on a ten-inch hole that will soon be drilled. The Halt Lake Improvement A Natural Natu-ral Gas company has purchased and leased several ih 'usand acres of laud, and will soon have a drill at work. The contract lias been let to an experienced gas well driller from the east, and machinery is now on the way here. The Citizens' Natural Gas company has completed its organization and is about to close a contract for the driving ot a ten-Inch ten-Inch well a depth of from 1000 to 1500 feet, and hist, hut not least, a well known engineer who has, for twenty-seven years been engaged in drilling gas and oil wells in Pennsylvania has b ased lands he is positive contain gas, and has ordered machinery shipped here with all haste. He repreienti a prominent natural gas and oil company in the east. There has not been an adverse opinion regarding re-garding the. natural gas discoveries from any expert, or alleged expert, except one, P. C. Boy le, of the Toledo t'uiniiten'ial, and opinions that he rendered to every gentleman gentle-man to whom or in whose presence he spoke while at the gas wells and later at the Knutsford hotel were most complimentary and assuring. After Mr. Boyle's departure, an interview appeared in a morning eontein-porary eontein-porary that represented him as peaking epiile severely on Salt Lake's gas find, and ridiculing its pressure and supply. Many of the opinions alleged to have been ex-pressed ex-pressed by Boyle, especially regarding the I'renton rock and pressure, are ridiculous. S. C. Constant, to w hom Boyle talked at the gas well and afterwards, said tliut his remarks quoted in .In morning paper wari directly opposite to his opinion expressed in several conversations. "What is an expert, anyhow" asked Mr. Constant. "I know many newspaper w riters of experience in eastern natural gas towns that write intelligently 011 the subject and describe ac urately the gas wells of their vicinity. Still, they are not experts and cannot be called such. The experl is' the man who has stood beside the derricks, watched every progress ..f the drill, noted i bisrly the character of each geological formation for-mation gone through; who has seen the wells allot and watched them reservoir themselves; who has noticed Ihe pic -sure and Watched everything that has occurred. When a man has received lots of that kind of practical experience then he may pose as an expert, but not until tin n. "Mr. Boyh in conversation with me, last Monday evening at the gas wells and in town after the excursion, expressed himself just as he did in the interview between himself him-self and a Tim BS reporter and published in , TBS TIMES last Wednesday. His view s and experience as theu expressed were directly contrary to the alleged interview with him published subsequently in a morning newspaper. All experts of every kind who theorize differ materially in their theories and deductions. Look at these great mining suits in the' courts for instance. Twenty experts on one side testify testi-fy positively to one thing, and twenty experts ex-perts on the other side swear to exac tly the contrary. So it is with all experts. Natural gas is a comparatively new substance. II has of course been known for years, but it was not known how to haudlc it. Of comparatively com-paratively recent years mac hinery has been devised to handle and control it. "Now a great deal is said about the pressure press-ure obtained, in Pennsylvania where wells are drilled to great depths the pressure appears ap-pears enormous. It is a rock pressure, so called because it comes from the rock. Out here in this basin we, It seems, do 'not have. to go so far' for natural gas, and It is natural that the pressure would not bec so great, or required to be, as from a greater depth. Another thing is the! formations. All gas is from a salt shale and that formation is encountered Wherever natural gas is found. Here we. iind it before the Trenton rock is reached, and in Indiana and Ohio it is found immediately imme-diately overlying the rock. The How of natural gas here is much greater and very much stronger than from eastern wells of the same: depth ami there Is no reason to doubt its permanency. It still gushes forth with undiminished pressure in vast quantities. "As to the Trenton rock it is never found below granite. After the latter formation Ii encountered there is no use to go any further down because nothing will be found below it. In this region Ihe granite Is found at a depth varying from 2000 to 24IKI feet, to that Mr. Boyle's statement as to the depth necessary to go to reach Trenton rock, is rank nonsense. "Salt Lake has plenty of natural gas. All that is necessary now Is investment and development. The more gushers drilled the heller it will be for natural gas investors anil for the community, because it will put in derision the statements of would-be experts." ex-perts." A Pittsburg Opinion. The Pittsburg f 'irunii-lr-Trlyraph says: "The natural gas Hud at Suit Lake City is destined to make it the leading city of the far west." |