The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-10-20
WITH NATURAL GAS
Factories Will Thrive and Every
Industry Flourish.
TO BE THE BURNING QUESTION
The Pillar of Fire that Will Lead TO the
Promised Land Of successWill Earn
the Electric Light Works 10 Fer
Cent. on 100000.

The benefits which will accrue to this
city from the utilization of natural gas as
a fuel caunot be realized by persons unfa-
miliar with what it has done for other
places.
Natural gas fields were discovered at
much farther distances from Toledo, o.,
and Indianapolis Ind, at time when
these cities, in the matter of commercial
growth and increase of population had
come to stand still. The mere knowl-
edge that gas had been found was sufficient
to give new impetus to enterprises that
had been slumbering for the need of some
new energy to awaken them into activity
and year prior to the piping of the new
fuel to their corporate limits speculation
took hold of real estate and property ad-
vanced sometimes 100 per cent. on the pros
pective advantages to be enjoyed by the
introduction of cheap fuel
If such results could be produced in cities
where bituminous coal sold for 50 and an
thracite could be had for So ton, what
may be expected here where the people
must pay $3.50 for soft coal and where the
consumers are taxed S12 for hard coall
There is also the advantage here OF having
the gas fields located near the city, thus
greatly cheapening the cost of piping it TO
the city. The gas SO far discovered here is
within twelve miles of the business centre
OF the city, while the gas which supplies
Toledo requires thirty-four miles of pipe to
deliver it at the city limits, and the gas
field that furnishes Indianapolis with fuel
is twenty-three miles out. 1t can readily
be seen that q gas plant to furnish either OF
the cities named would require the invest
ment OF twice as much capital in their con-
struction. Then there is the loss in pres
sure ir piping gas long distances. necessi-
tating larger tubes to deliver the same
amount Of gas which smaller pipes will de-
liver on the "short haul"
These are important factors which
capitalists are not slow to take into con-
sideration before investing IN natural gas
plants. While 1t cost 81, $50, 600 to build an
eight-inch pipe line to Toledo it is esti-
mated that line can be constructed to this
city for 1850 600. While the gas companies
at Toledo had to sell their gas at prices to
compete with 81 coal the gas companies
here have but TO arrange their schedule to
compete with S. coal.
This large margin of profits on fuel
that mines itself, transports itself and
feeds itself will have the effect OF bringing
in competition that ought TO make natural
gas cheaper here than in any other city in
the United States and it is not unreason-
able to predict that natural gas will be sold
TO the consumers here as low as 81 ton
for coal
The one obstacle which has stood in the
way OF the establishment of manufacturing
enterprises in this city has been the price
of coal. While there are enormous coal
beds within easy haul Of this city the great
railroad corporations have monopolize them
and by refusing TO make living rates to in
dependent coal companies they have in this
way checked of legitimate competition and
compelled consumers to pay whatever
prices they saw fit TO exact. This mono
poly of the fuel Of the territory by the
railroads has made it impossible for such
factories to thrive in this valley as re-
quired the consumption of large quantities
of fuel. All such factories where the fuel
figured largely in the percentage of cost of
production could not compete with fac
tories in the East where coal could be had
as low as 81 per ton and slack at rs cents.
With the Introduction of natural gas
this discrimination will be wiped out, and
factories located here will have the ad-
vantage of the cheap raw materials which
exist in such boundless abundance in the
mountains surrounding the city.
Nearly every town located in the tn
diana natural gas belt doubled 10 popula-
ton and quadrupled in wealth within a
few years after the Introduction of cheap
fuel. Paper mills that had been paying
as high as $50, 600 year for fuel were sup
piled with gas at $3.50 year, and some
new factories, as an inducement to locate,
were given land and gas free for long
term of years. One glass factory at
Anderson, Ind, gives employment to
"A, GOO hands.
A great portion OF the expense of oper-
atlng electric light companies is the fuel
and with natural gas, which costs nom-
nally nothing to the producers it is no
wonder that the same persons who own
the controlling interest in the American
company have purchased the electric light
plant They see that in this one item alone
they can save 1000 year, and this means
10 per cent. on capital of $4,000. 1t is
this prospect of these enormous profits
that is causing such d rush of outside CAPT
tai TO secure a share of the gaeat rosperity
that Is bound to come from cheap fuel
Already the asphaltum works promise to
increase their business 400 per cent, and
this is based on the prospect of cheap fuel
A number of capitalists who have con-
templated building smelter in this city
have given assurances that they will erect
a large smelling works as soon as the gas
is plpsd into North Salt Lake.
There are dozens of kinds OF factories
which cannot thrive only where gas is
cheap and it will not be many months I'M
til these will be attracted here, and once
they have familiarized themselves with the
other natural advantages of cheap raw
materials they viii flock and hive in this
valley.
The future of Salt Lake city never
looked brighter than it does today, and
1.-THE burning question year hence will
not be changed conditions in wearing APP
parel, but the burning question will be nat.
ural gas.
In the halcyon days that are already
dawning the grum5lers and fault finders
will be SO busy In attending to their own
affairs that they will find no loose moments
for peeping at the skeleton in their neigh
boris closet.
Natural gas will be the pillar Of fire that
will lead this distracted people into the
Promised land and make every man happy
and well to do. Turn on the gas.
The Clearings House.
Yesterdays clearings show a decided
increase. The figures were $3.50, el2; same
day last year, $204.6l2