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Show hesitation if this will even insure !a thorough testing of Brigham's natural gas prospects. We cannot depend on home capital capi-tal lor this work intact, we would not ml vise them to attempt the expensive ex-pensive experiment. Therefore let us open our gates wide and willingly willing-ly to those proposed benefactor of our city. . If the scheme fails, the franchise dies with it; if it succeeds the Council controls the prices and this gas will keep at least $:,000 cash in the city every year that now goes out for high-priced fuel. What more can we ask? Capital Heady to lWolop lirisr-luuu's lirisr-luuu's Natural tins. fill KF.lUl'Ml FROM $U TO $150. All the Company Asks Is a 10-years" Franchise-City Council Controls Con-trols Pricea. lirigham City lias an opportunity i ol having her fuel hill reduced just one half. It will save the town over ;f0iXl ech year. Will she unbrace this opportunity? "Greedily," "Greed-ily," you all shout at onee,hut such is not the case. There are about ."00 families in Brigham. At a very low estimate eaeb of these families consumes $20 fuel each year coal and wood. This gives us a total city annual fuel bill of 10,000. I Should not Brigham's heads of familhs bail with delight any movement that will reduce their yearly fuel bill from $20 to 10 and the city's total fuel from $10,000 to Now what will the people think of anyone who would place even the slightest obstacle in the way of this immense fuel reduction? Can such obstructors of the city's welfare and progress be looked upon up-on as lien (factors and pal riots of the city? We do not say such obstrticters exist, but we do say there is a slight very slight, we hope likelihood of their arising. T. d.iy men with capital are knock). - g at the gates of our city. They ask for the privilege ol laying pipes through the streets of Brig-ham, Brig-ham, for the purpose of furnishing the citizens with natural gas for fuel from the gas beds on the western west-ern outskirts of the town. They agree to furnish this fuel to the people at such a low rate that $2.50 in gas would go as far as $5.50 worth of coal. This is more than a 50 per cent, reduction of the excessive prices of our fuel that today are almost eating poor men nut of house and home. The harnessing of our natural gas -woaiil result in the springing into existence exis-tence of numerous new industries in our city, furnishing employment for hundred hun-dred of haads,and the town would prosper pros-per a it never did iMMore. With such r I leap fuel, brick eon Id be burnt here hy the millions great lime kilns would start up our pottery could be operated on iim extensive scale a glass factory and numerous, other industries would in all probability follow on the heels of the aid vent of our natural gas into Brigham. In consideration for this inestimable inesti-mable benefit to our city, this company com-pany makes a reasonable business request that they be granted an exclusive right for the term of only ' ten years. This is not asking too much it is mighty little considering consider-ing the risk and large cash outlay required of the gas projectors. The City Council will always retain power to prevent any excessive charges for the gas. The gas company com-pany should be accorded some pro- lection. This gas proposition is no snap. ( t is by no means a sure t hing. We know we have surlaee gas. But to a fuel system such as would bo put into Brigham, our surfate gas would be to the system only what kindling wood is to tho permanent per-manent lire. We have sunk only ;;0() or bH) iVrt; litis company must go down 1000 feet before t hey can exic'ct to secure-, a steady, permanent supply. They may lay out hundreds hun-dreds of dollar! in reaching this 1000 food tb pth. Even then it imiv prove a miserable failure. T1..-T may have to sink pipes jo a dozen places before they M-eun; an (infailing (low. The investment in-vestment is a risky one not a cure go by any nutans. Their demand of an exclusive franchise of only ten years should be granted without a moment |