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Show OUR GAS AND OIL. ALL DOUBT AS TO THE "NATIVES'' Of THE JORDAN REMOVED. The Latest Disclosure by Saturill ;. Company Com-pany :i Marvelous One - Petroleum flow ing in the Wake of the Noisy Flames. CTuc Salt Lake Improvement and Natural j tias company who have been quietly but industriously piercing the oil and gas belt al a point near Hot Springs and within stone's throw of the city limits were rewarded re-warded on Saturday by a powerful How, the gas bursting forth at an enormous pressure. .Manager Middleiniss was visited by the reporter this morning but the gentleman who has all the while been very reticent declined de-clined to say more than to confirm the report re-port that a phenomenal metre had been tapped. It lias been known for some time that the company had secured irrcfragible proof of the presence of a big well, for already al-ready had an order gone east for three car loads of driving pipe of a diameter of three, six and ten inches which are now routed anil in transit. At Ihe same time it was learned that in exploring for gas they had tapped an oil tank and that petroleum, however light the volume, was flowing to the surface. An effort was made to authenticate this through the officials of the company, who had ordered the stock in "out of the wet," but they declined to be interviewed, and the strike was left iu .su.'( quo. Recant investigations through an indirect in-direct course have developed, however, that there is no longer any doubt about the disclosure dis-closure of oil in connection with the strike of gas, and if somebody is not prevaricating tanks have already been ordered, dust what the magnitude of the oil strike is could not be ascertained. Manager Middlemiss was seen, but w ith his usual cloverness dodged the question. "We'll have something startling to give you In the course of a few shifts," said he, 'but until that time the policy of the com-pany com-pany i to say nothing." "Have you gauged the pressure of your gas How ?" "Yes; it's enormous." "The figures?" "There are three of them, with a big numeral for a starter." The point at which the gas How was tapped is said to have been 'dMI feet from the surface, sur-face, thus demonstrating beyond paradven-ture paradven-ture that it is simply a maitcr of depth at any point within a horizon of several miles that gas and oil are to be found. Following Open the late disclosure the company li ne cloned a deal with R. (1. Shaetfer of Carwin City, Colo., for the purchase of HoO'aeres of ground in the locality, thus giving it a total acreage of lOStl acres. " This," said Captain Middleiniss, "is essentially es-sentially a Salt Lake enterprise hacked by Salt, Lake capital and supported by local confluence. We have had no occasion occa-sion to call upon foreign support, feel that we have a good tiling and are disposed to keep tin- good things :,t nutate." Other members of the company are jubilant. jubi-lant. Th' office, at No. 11 West Second South street, was packed to its utmost when tho reporter called this afternoon, and it was impossible to get within its glossy confines. The feeling has also spread to the thoroughfares thorough-fares and resorts and oil and gas is tiie absorbing ab-sorbing topic on ail sides., Bui a little over three miles from the city there is every probability that the company will be knocking for admission iu a short time, and that the people of Zloo will be consuming the native product. a . |