Show LARGE LARtiE i A r GAS c A P PLANT FOR I IS TO BE BUILT Nine Miles of Gas Mains Will Bo Be Constructed Through Which to Supply the City With Gas for Light and Fuel Purposes Manager Decker D Outlines an Active Campaign for His Company Will Require Largo Large Outlay of Money I I Ogden O IB la to have a now no gas system S tem Immediately Manager Danville Deck Decker er of oC the Utah Light Railway Co stated officially yesterday that his hla company compan would commence Immediate operations for enlarging the present gas gns system Increasing Its capacity extending the tho gas mains and preparing preparIng ing to supply to a n growing demand gas gm for Cor light and fuel purposes There Thero was w considerable talk a few months ago of or the Utah Gas Gna Coke company compan of Salt Lake entering tho the lo 10 local local cal field with a now gas plant and It ItIs ItIs Itis Is understood that negotiations wore Instituted to a certain extent toward the absorption of tho the local system by bythe bythe bythe the Salt Lake people Tho Ogden Ogdon concern however has haG decided to take tako takoon on the proposition and a decision was vas as reached today toda to start Immediate op operations The plant will be Installed In the tho old power house adjacent to the present gas works The wall will be ho raised and a now new roof loof constructed and In other ollor ways tho the building which Is 85 i foot feet will be bo reconstructed to ac C an up to date plant Four lour new now will m be Installed I be besides I f I sides shIes now new scrubbers condensers condo coon tar tal extractors a large largo motor meter and var various vars ar I ious sous other pieces peces of modem modern equip equipment equipment equipment ment The coal conI available In this region lo Is lorich rich enough for the tho production of j I standard gas gaa heat heM I units without the addition of oil As Asis Asis s sis is generally known somo some coal Is BO so BOlow BOlow low In hydrocarbons as a to necessitate the use of oil to bring the gas sas up to the standard of 20 Man agor Decker stated that before oil was discovered on tho Pacific coast tho the gas gna manufacturers Imported Aus Aua Australian shale n a formation very rich richIn richIn richin In oils to bring their available coal up liP to tho the proper standard Since tho the discovery of oil that material Is 15 used exclusively as 33 all nil the requisite prop properties for tor the production of gas are I contained therein I The Tho present gasholder which has hns hasa a capacity of f foot feet of gas will willbo willI willbe I be bo used for a time until the demand for gas gus necessitates the construction of a n larger one The Tho company con contemplates conI contemplates I templates however the tho erection of aslant a aj aI j I I giant slant gasholder In tho the near future futuro which will have hae a capacity o of cubic feet The first work worle to bo ho commenced will be the tho relaying of the old gas mains maiM about the tho city which have be become become become come badly hadl out of or repair having been In use now some 21 years There Thoro am aro aroI I about 4 12 miles of gas gns mains now I In commission and nearly twice that length will he be constructed to supply tho the residence section of Ogden Ogdon with gas gaB I I mado made a canvas of a Il portion of ot tho the residence section somo some time ago said Enid Manager Decker and tho the results result I wore were very satisfactory as ns I found round within a n very or brief time Ume more than I 3 6 families that would use URe gas for fuel pui purposes poses If It tho the enlarged plant were constructed Perhaps your our read road readers I ers era would ho he Interested to know tho the exact location of some somo of our proposed propos ed od extensions of gas mains and I will give gle you tho following Jefferson between and Madison between and Monroe between and Adams between and Adams between and Washington between and Grant between and Jefferson between and antI Madison between and street oon Madi Madl Madison son and Jackson street treet between Lin Lincoln Lincola cola coIn and Madison street between Grant and Adams street between Grant and Adams Adama Twenty eighth street between Grant and Adams Orchard between and I Fowler between th and |