Show Utah Gas Company Purchases Ogden Plant Salt Lake Mains Another nother step toward acquisition of franchises and control of the he gas business in major Utah towns townsand townsand and nd cities was consummated Thursday by the Utah Gas and Coke Colee company with the purchase of the Ogden plant llant and thirty-one thirty miles of gas mains In Salt Luke Lake from the Ut Utah h Light and Power company The transaction was I Interpreted Inter by some as as' as asa a preliminary move on the part of the Samuel Insull Insult interests which own the Utah Gas and Coke Colee company to gain gainS sufficient territory to justify the expense of a mile pipe line to bring in natural gas from the Baxter basin oil field In Wyoming This however was not confirmed by officials of the local company E. E A. A Angley vice president and general manager of the Utah Gas and Co Coke e company said that so far as known here the deal has lias no significance regarding the poss of natural gas being bro brought here Purchase of the properties was wal consummated through the Mississippi Mississippi sippi Valley Utilities Investment compan company of which the Utah Gas and Coke company Is a subsidiary The Mississippi l Valley cO company ny Isa Isa is isa a subsidiary of the l I concern concern con con- Utilities company compan an Insull cern and one of the the Jar largest cst public utilities combines I lit n the United States The Ogden plant will be he taken over by the purchasing company company July 1 1 and for the present service will be continued under present policies according to Mr 1 An Ansley Angley ley San Sal The Ogden plant Ilant and the acquire bythe uy by j Lake gas tas mains were the Utah Light and Power company was first or or- or when that company I Disposal al of of the Ole P property vice according to D. D C. C Green president and general manager of the Utah Light and rower Power company corn cOn pany puny was prompted b by a desire to specialize exclusively on light and power service |