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Show NATURAL GAS. What denial Henry Driver Has to Say About U Slllfl'. Since the passage of the ordinance granting grant-ing a franchise, to the American Natural Gas company to lay mains and pipe the city of Salt Lake for supplying natural gas to consumers, con-sumers, the company has received assurances assur-ances from the (east of all the money necessary neces-sary to successfully carry out the enterprise. Even Salt Lake capital has started, and the company lias sold a large number of shares at the islablished price 60 cents per share. The tirst property owner of this city .to subscribe, alter the passage of the franchise ordinance, was a lady who took a block of several hundred shares. H. L. Driver, treasurer of the company, said today, when talking of the expressions of alleged experts on natural gas, "I don't care whether wc tind Trenton rock, blue limestone, coal, gold, silver, soapstone, iron, granite or any other substance, or whether we have to go 500 feet or 600 miles down Into the earth. What 1 want is natural gas, and natural gas the American company has obtained. We are now drilling another well, and 1 would just as soon strike natural gas near the surface, if plenty is to be ob tained, as to go half way down toward tliji, realm of his Satanic majesty. "These experts make ine tired." |