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Show NATURAL GAS SALE. The American Company Has an Offer Of-fer From an Eastern Syndicate for Its Holdings. A MEETING CALLED FOE MONDAY. Lucerne Land and Water Company IncorporatedDemand In-corporatedDemand for Houses Other Business Notes. The average citizen has for a long time wondered why the natural gas question should have been permitted to fall into a state of i nocuous desuetude, to quote an expression of the late chief magistrate. Nothing has been said on the subject for a long time and while the wells were kept burning to the delight of the passengers on incoming and outgoing trains, there has apparently been nothing done to place the advantages of the city before the outside world in connection with the matter spoken of. But the average citizen has been mistaken all this time. For like the damsel of old the natural gas matter was not dead but sleeping. sleep-ing. While the parties having the development develop-ment of this wonderful advantage were, to all outward appearance, reposing in blissful unconsciousness of the magnitude of the recent discoveries it appears that the public have been fooled and that instead of resting on their oars the interested people have been quietly but vigorously working to accomplish accom-plish a great work. There will be a meeting of the directors of the American Natural Gas company on Monday Mon-day next at which a proposition from eastern east-ern parties will be submitted. The aforesaid afore-said eastern comprise a syndicate of the most wealthy gentlemen of the middle states whose attention has been attracted by reports re-ports of the supply of natural gas sent out by the enterprising reporters of eastern papers here. Correspondence has been opened and maintained and recently a representa-tative representa-tative from the east came herend without consulting any one looked over the field. His visit was not even known by the officers of the various companies and when he had finished he quietly folded his tent and w ent back to report. That it was a most favorable favor-able one is evidenced by the fact that the proposition to be submitted on Monday is 6aid to be a most magnificent one. The interested ones' are very reticent reti-cent about details but Tin: Times with its usual persistency developed the fact that the American company can sell its entire holdings if its directory so chooses. The details of the meeting will he found in Monday's issue of this paper and in the morning papers the day following. WANTED, HOUSES. Real Kstate IVlen Claim That There is a .Scarcity of Desirable Tenements. A tour of the real estate offices this morning morn-ing developed the fact that Salt Lake is long on vacant property and short on houses. Seven dealers, who run a rental agency in connection with their business, reported that they did not have a house on their books that would meet the demands. The population of Salt Lake seems to be increasing increas-ing at a rapid rate, and the new-comers as a rule are workingmen with small families, who desire cottages or apartments of from five to six rooms. These are remarkably scarce. "I can rent fifty-four or live-room house-.'" remarked one man this morning "in two weeks provided rents are reasonable, say from J15 to per mouth. That is what Salt Lake needs. True there, are some vacant houses in town but the owners want a teuant to buy them as it were. I know one man who has four new bricks which have stood five months without a tenant. He wants $'25 per month. He has lost 400 in an effort to make f500. If The Times will agitate this question I am sure that in a short time conditions will be different I know of no better investment than the construction con-struction of tenement cottages for rent." The Lucerne Land & Water C ompany. A new aud important business enterprise has just been launched, and the articles of incorporation were filed with the clerk of the probate court this afternoon. The com pany is known a the Lucerne Land A: Water company, and it is to exist for a period of 50 years. The capital stock is fixed at $50,000, divided into 5000 shares of the denomination de-nomination of $10 each. The stock is subscribed sub-scribed for as follows: Xamt. Xo. Skfts. Adoiph Jensen 12 lame McGregor 13 Josiah South HS Benjamin Rich , fS'd Charles C. Dey 15 The company is organized to own land, construct aud maintain ditches, reservoirs and canals, and to construct and operate machine-. The officers are Adoiph .Jensen, president; Benjamin Rich, vice-president; and -farm s McGregor, secretary and treasurer. County Assessor's Office. County Assessor Will Lynch says the work in his department will be closed about June 10:h. The assessor's report should have been in on June 6th, but in the work of relaying old plats and revising the official maps, etc., the department is at least seventeen seven-teen days behind. The clerks, however, have made up ten days in the last two months, which is a pretty good showing. A new conundrum has just been sprung on the county assessor. The statute ro-vichte ro-vichte thai an assessment of not more than fivJweuts per colony, be charged the bee men of Salt Lake county. There is, however, how-ever, no provision by which the assessor can collect this by deputy, or find out the actual number of colonies in the county, except at his own expen-c, nor any iaw which provides for an inspector or the appointment of one. The bee keepers of the country want to sec to thia matter at once. World's Fair Notes. Morgan county has reported to the commission, com-mission, and intend to make as good a showing show-ing as the rest of them. Weber county has also sent in a re ort. which shows that they do not intend to be left. Weber county is sure to be in it. Vice-President Mcintosh, during the absence ab-sence of Secretary McDaniel and Commissioner Commis-sioner F.tnpy to Chicago, will have charge of the affairs of the commission. The relies received by the commission from Mr. Dan Maguire are attracting more attention than was expected. The relics are still on exhibition at the commission rooms. Secretary McDaniel and Commissioner N. A. Kmpy will leave for Chicago on the 27th of this month and not on the same day in June as stated before. The commissioners commis-sioners expect to do some good work before they come back. In a private letter Mr. Emanuel Jacobs of Washington county states that the country s-.uth is just underlaid with relics and curios of all kinds. He avers that the, ruins of the ancient city of Kullik is only one of many that can be found down south. |