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Show We believe that that company is working work-ing in good faith, but the more companies compa-nies there are working in good faith the sooner we shall have the gas, the cheaper the people will buy it, and the better the service that will be rendered them. Does anybody want to protect a monopoly mo-nopoly in the natural gas supply of this city? We hope not. It is a little early in the day to hold up the people of Salt Lake on this proposition. Wo see no valid objection to the granting of a franchise to the Indiana men. If they succeed in their plan of i development the people will be benefited, bene-fited, and if they fail the people will not be injured. NATURAL CAS FRANCHISES. Gentlemen from Indiana have been here for several weeks trying to persuade per-suade the city council to grant them a franchise which would enable them to pipe natural gas into this city this fall. Thus far the council has not acted favorably upon their application. The reasons given for the opposition are, first, that the Indiana parties have not yet demonstrated that they have a supply sup-ply of natural gas, and, second, that the American Natural Gas company has already been granted a franchise and ought to be given a fair chance to prosecute the business. Wo see no force in these objections. If it should turn out that the Indiana men cannot get a supply of natural gas, then certainly they will not pipe it into the city and no possible harm can be done. On the other hand, they show every evidence of meaning business, and have already spent several thousand thou-sand dollars for preliminary . work. They evidently believe they have the supply. If they have, and if they are disposed to go straight ahead in the development de-velopment of it, then the people of Salt Lake would be mighty glad to have them do it. - Piping natural gas into this city means cheaper and better fuel for domestic do-mestic and commercial purposes. It means a splendid impulse to our growth. We have had, therefore, nothing but talk. If anybody shows a disposition to give us real natural gas, why should he not have a chance to do so? There is still less force in the second; objection. It is true that the American Natural Gas company has bad a franchise fran-chise for several months, and has made earnest efforts to develep tho business, j |