Show GAS fiAS COMPANY WILL ILL EXTEND ITS MAINS I I ITo To Lay 75 Instead of 55 Miles I of Pipe Before April 1 Is New Plan BIG INDUSTRY PROGRESSES I I Work Vork ork on Plant Pushed Rapidly lo to Completion Purifier I IA II I A total of or 7 75 miles of or mains will he be laid In III Salt Sall Lake before April 1 J by bythe y the Utah Gas Ons and Col Coke o company In Instead In stead stend of only K 3 mules miles as os wo was vies tho the first intention of or the tho company This decision lon on Oil the part of the iho new now company wa was mall made yesterday lay an and active preparations are aro being made mod to continue the worK worl as us soon as aEl weather conditions will vIll nermit per ner permit mit m so IO that the tho work on th the streets will wilt be he completed by hy the tune time the plant plantIs I Is ready for operation The orl original Intention of the time company was to Jay lay only 5 Ki miles of mains atthe atthe at atthe the start and anil to 10 make extensions at later Inter limes after service had lund been heen started started started start start- ed and as ns growing patronage p warranted warrant warrant- ed 11 41 the Investment of more moze capital I In Inthe time the enterprise rite Tho decision lon to add adt nearly one t third one more to lO the outlay II in the mains came In line lin with the general feeling o of certainty that Salt SaIl Lake is In for a tt L period o of growth such uch as has hashen been hen seen In few w cities cHINI o of the tIme country countr III In recent years lr DelUcry hr I IN I.- 1011 The additional 0 miles of ct mains maIn to tobe tolue be lue laid will be he In the tIme south southeast and amul southwest parts of the tho city ansi and materials for fOI the lie remainder of the tilt j To miles are 1 assured for Cor delivery earl early in ut inthe the iii spring The rIte recent rains have re- re larded tIme tho work voik of laying mains in Iii the r residence di district of tIt the tho city hut butt there are alC already snore more than titan fi M miles of oC pipe pip underground Work on en the gas Is progressing rapidly and ut mit a n rate that tint will set see it ly completed In April On the lie retort building the last of the roof was placed yesterday and amI a a. lar large e force urr is now new working on the retorts and other furnishings of the hull building ding This building Is lS feet foet and the building In which h the engines enInes and anti purifying pun puri apparatus will vIll bo be installed Is the tho same size rh The steel o of the Imm immense storage tan tank 1 that will have a fL capacity of cu cubic eubie eu- eu bic lile feet tet of gums gas Is now up to a a. height of about 2 20 I n PrU Cr The rime company compan is erecting some som of the latest Improved in Its new plant seine sorno of which are entirely different different dif dif- dif dif- ferent In design n from any In uso use In large largo plants in the tho United d States These ore being wat watched hed with interest by hy gas gns manufacturers all nil over tho the country and anda andl a l large delegation from th the Ea East Cast t will visit Salt alc Lake to lo inspect the plant a as soon as it il is in operation Tho The management mana man man- a f of or the company says tho the capacity en- en of the plant will be he enough at athe atthe the he start to supply a ell city of four limes times the size of Silt Salt Lake and the property at nt First South and Ninth V West Vest st streets l lIs Is large lange enough h to allow for doubling it its present capacity Work Worl on the th immense im immense irn- irn mense gas g-as tank and a smaller steel tank to be hI used for or holding tar Is beung hein be he- in ing ung done un under er special con contract and the work wort on the other parts of tho the plant is being done by the tho com company pan |