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Show AN EMPIRE OF GAS. AN ANALYTICAL PEEP INTO THE VAST TANKS OF UTAH. Material Enough Upon Which to Foil ml the Industries of a Dosea Commonwealths- Councilman Karrlck mid Others in Hie Field. Reports from the gas fields continue buoy aut, the flow steady and undiminished and the outlook for "cheaper" if not "cheap" fuel more favorable than at any time since the tapping of the subterranean metres. Notwithstanding these favorable condi lions, however, there is still a manifest disposition dis-position of local capital to hang back aud to throw the burden of responsibility on men of ordinary resources. Perhaps prospecting for gas, however, is like prospecting for the precious metal. With the latter it has devolved de-volved upon the man with a bare grub-stake to unlock the treasure while the rich man robbed it. His architecture may have been slow but it finally commanded the recognition of nations. The gilded heirs of .Mammon may have exacted the same thing from him in the development of the gas regions. re-gions. If so he is plodding along. All the while the railroad is feathering its nest from the peasantry while P:ilt Lake Is reaping some advertisement. Within the horizon of the mineral belt he has 1414 "the foundation for thrifty thousands and the flickering light of a tallow caudle has lit the way for vast armies of fortune hunters. In this matchless valley he has kindled a torch that cannot much longer be ignored. It may not thrill the hearts of the local bar n but it is bound to cut its way into others. It is now demonstrated, beyond peradventun , that underlying this great basin is at least one exhaustless tank. Five miles this side of Lehi Junction it was pierced, and going north to Brigham City the brickmakcrs have been for the past two years burning their kilns with it. Continuing Con-tinuing even further to Logan it is found. It is now definitely known that the belt extends ex-tends twenty-four miles north and south its width can only be determined by prai.ti-cul prai.ti-cul researches and development. Disclosures such as have been made by the American Natural gal com-pauy com-pauy would have set the denizens of Pennsylvania, Indiana or any of the older countries whose prosperity since the sluggish era of the plow ablaze with excitement. Local eanital would have forced itself upon the discoverers. Here local capital seems to express the belief that its own "vocal" gas metres are cx-baustloss. cx-baustloss. Perhaps some, of them are. No. 1, the first vc,)l that, pierced Ihe deep-laid deep-laid lank, and from which the first permanent perma-nent How was obtained, has been a wonder as an infant. At a distance of SOU feel from the lake arfd at a depth of 535 feet from the surface it touched tho magic sand. The work was experimental, as jl w ere, and to get a flow the easing was put in hastily. Thcretahwaa leaks within and leaks without with-out Yet, with this crude work, the fiann-shot fiann-shot forth like a giant torch from the fab I inferno, and Manager Smith stated but evening that when the easing was perfected, Xo. 1 would surprise the natives, Ho proposes pro-poses to light up again at this Weil next week, and promises on his integrity as a bona fide gas man a blaze as powerful as as that which now spits forth from No. J. The latter has been a marvel aud was the second pipe through which to touch Ihe samL It reveals a stronger pressure than M No. 1, the register showing a maximum of IliHI pounds. "Either well," piped an old gas man today, to-day, "would be. recognized as an A 1 pro dueer in the old districts and set their inhabitant- wild with excitement." "What are the two wells eapablo of?" "Jointly," replied the patriarch, "they! are capable of producing over 14,000,001) cubic feet every twenty four hours." The touch in the second well which is lo-. rated 3000 feet from tin- hike and to the i-of i-of No. I. was made at a depth of 715 feet the flrsl sand struck being at a depth corresponding corre-sponding with that at which it is found in all the we lls of western Pennsylvania. The structure of the belt is identically the latnt while the gas Itself is Ihe genuine carbon tterout. The success of the tint two project has lid to othcrt one of which is leu by Councilman. L. C. Karrlck, whoso syndicate syn-dicate are now actively boring at the mouth of the Jordan some nine milei distant from .ion. And, while the) maynol tap th.1 mammoth tank at the same depth u did 111 others they are prepared to go to '.lul haunt i of the element before abandonlnji theaeirch. 7 The e is nothing that so clearly symbol, izes tin' prosperity of the immediate future than do the results of these exploit and tin sooner Hie work is done just that mucl sooner will the era of manufacture be nah ered in In Zion and throughout this valley. The nanufacturer himself is waiting lui pallet tly for new fields and as soou as in learnt that bis enterprise can be sustainei in Sail Lake, that here he can obtain fin- I that w ill justify his plant just so soon will the gr ind march ot capital and its hu e hosts '.e heard. There is abundant raw nn; . terial provided in these valleys and in th hills, while witli a a sisterhood of town I and camps dally drawing upon its produ ft there i ould be no speculation as tbe hapuj-fate hapuj-fate .if the enterprise. Give Zion 'i .. great manufacturing industry that has bet n founded on gas in tbe old countries an d Utah becomes a self-sustaining empire. The gentlemen who have done the wor k thus I n- are entitled lo most generous ,., ,. couragemcut, and pity 'tis that local cap j is no: now plunging among the golden u" portuiiittes. Secretary Sears of the chamber of con merce, commenting on the new strike ; . evenint, said it should bo worth 1,000 uMh to the city. I |