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Show a NATURE'S BAD BREATH, A PROPOSITION S1BMITTED TO THE GAS COMPANY TO UTILIZE IT. Eastern Capital Wants to Pipe the Gas Into the City The Proposition a Good One. The gas company held a meeting last night to consider a proposition submitted by an eastern party to pipe the gas from the wells into this city. The proposition is the best one yet submitted, and will probably be accepted. The bonds have not yet been issued, is-sued, but when they are, lhere is no doubt but that they will be taken up with alacrity. A Times reporter had a little talk this morning with J. F. Woodman on natural gas matters. Mr. Woodman stated that few people had any idea of the amount that could be saved in the cost of fuel in this city by the use of natural gas, and gave the reporter a few figures. The Salt Lake Railroad company uses annually 5,S40 tons of coal, the Lnion Pacific hotel 300, Margetts Brewery 300, Salt Lake Brewing company, -'400; '.. C. M. I. shoe and leather department, 350. The Davis-Howe Davis-Howe company spends $500, Utah university univer-sity $700, Salt Lake Mill and Elevator company com-pany $1440, Dcseret Woolen mills $2480, Templeton hotel $3000, Knutsford $5"20O. These are only a trw of the firms consuming large quantities ? coal perhaps 25 per eent. But with coal averagiug $3 per ton, the total amounts to $53,000 annually, which, if gas were substituted, would be reduced at least two-thirds, two-thirds, say $:-$6,000. And if it is a fair esti mate to say that the various industries and business concerns in this city use, $200,000 worth of coal per year, the saving by the use of gas would be over $140,000. Mr. Woodman says that the business men here, however, are waking up to the importance impor-tance of the matter, and it is probable that for once they will have sense enough to keep a good thing at home, and not let outsiders out-siders get the first whack at it, as is generally gener-ally the case. , r |