The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-01

of ample capital are erecting large
plants below the Big Cottonwood plant,
each of which will use the same water
now employed by the Big Cottonwood
company. The aggregate of current
produced by these great plants will be
sufficient to enable Salt Lake to take
on no end of new manufacturing enter
prises, the raw material for which is
found all around it in limitless quanti-
ties. These power plants are regarded
as of the utmost Importance to the fu-
ture development of Salt Lake, which,
by their aid, will become, the manufac-
turing center of the intermountain
country. These electrical companies
propos to transmit power to Park City
and other mining camps, where it will
be utilized in operating pumps, mills,
hosting plants, and for numerous other
purposes.
NATURAL GAS.
Utah has ben frequently termed the
wonderland of America" by those who
were conversant with the great diversi-
ty of her possessions. And when one
realizes that the state actually contains
in greater or less quantity, almost
every known mineral, and has within
her boundaries so many evidences Of
the Creators partiality, he can not
characterize the term a miSnOmer. One
of the greatest which will have a
marked effect upon the advancement of
the state is thai of natural gas. This
wonderful natural fuel is now in gener-
al use for heating and lighting pur-
poses in Salt Lake City; in fact, it has
partly taken the place of artificial gas
as an illuminant and has partly dis
placed coa for heating and power
producing purposes. Aside from a small
supply in Stockton, Cal, natural gas
has not heretofore been discovered in
sufficient quantities for practical use
west OF the state of Indiana. For many
years indications of natural gas were
not wanting IN the vicinity of
rious attempt to reach the
reservoir was made until 1890, when
the first well was driven at Lake Point.
on the shore of the Great Salt Lake,
twelve miles west of Salt Lake City.
To the establishment of the promoters
this well, at a depth of about 500 feet,
Unexpectedly came in and came in
in such a way as TO leave no doubt of
its arrival. There was a sudden roar,
and the pumping machinery, engine
house and everything else around the
well went up in the air. together with
az mass of stones, dirt and sand vom-
tied from the we'll. Great excitement
followed it's discovery. Excursion trains
were run from Salt Lake over the
Union Pacific, and thousands of cur
ious visitors viewed with amazement
the great gas geyser. Surface leases
were at once secured by the
to a large surrounding area, and the
wsrk of putting down new wells COM
menced Immediately. The result is that
Salt LAX has now available many
million cubic feet of gas per day, a
portion of which is conveyed into the
city by a pipe line, and transmitted
throughout the business and residence
portion. BY ordinance the price of nat
ural gas was fixed at a nominal sum,
and the product is now used for light
ing and heating purposes. The saving
in cost of fuel brought about by the
natural gas lou to a vast sum
per annum, and the comfort of having
it for domestic purposes cannot be
measured in money.
MANUFACTURING INTERESTS.
Salt Lake has many manufacturing
establishments, such as boot and shoe
factories, clothing manufactures, silk
mandatory, Touring mills, breweries,
brick-making, cement walks, machine
shops and ~foundrieS, sawmills, lath and
planning mills. stone quarries. limekilns,
potteries, tanneries, knitting factories,
canneries, concerns which manufacture
brooms, brushes, vehicles, ice, confec-
tionery, mattresses. crackers, show
cases, vinegar, plaster of paris, steam
boilers, harness, paper boxes, chemi-
calls, iron fencing lead pipe and many
others.
Notwithstanding the great variety of
manufacturing concerns in operation,
opportunities. are open for still others,
which can undoubtedly be made to pay
good returns on the cost of plants.
Among them have been suggested cot
ton mills, carpet factory, paper mills,
agricultural implement works and
works for the manufacture of sewer
pipe, window glass and bottles, soda
ash, starch, paints and others. A bill
is pending in the senate and will un-
doubtedly pass for the establishment
of a branch mint in this city.
PLEASURE AND HEALTH RESORTS
Salt Lake has an abundance of
pleasure resorts in and around the city,
chief among which are Saltair and
Garfield beaches On the shores of the
Great Salt Lake. To appreciate the
grandeur of this salt sea, in which
thousands annually swim and float
upon it's buoyant waves, it must be
visited. Both Saltair and Garfield have
beautiful and extensive pavilions out
in the lake several hundred feet from
the shore, where, during the bathing
season, the finest music is furnished
for dancers. There are also restau
ants, drinking places and all the other
accompaniments of we'll conducted re-
sorts. In the pavilionS light operas
and other stage aL1usements are pre-
scented. Out beyond the paviiions the
luxury of deep sea bathing ma be
had, while closer in to the shore the
waters murmur over the shadows and
there the timid and the children may
enjoy themselves in perfect safety.
Much has been written descriptive of
the path in the Great Salt lake. but
pencil nor pen can adequately
describe it. Those who indulge in it
a sense of perfect security and
strange exhilaration. Strengthened by
the salt. the arms of the waves peal
the bather on their surface. While the
men lie prone upon their backs with
folded arms, and smoke as the waters
rock them, and h women grace the
bosom of the sea with their
floating forms, the happy children play
and paddle in the shadow of the piers.
But the pleasure of a visit to this de-
lightful resort does not cease with the
bath it affordS. The lover of nature
Behind the pavilions rise the
picturesque and cloud-festooned
mountain peaks. Stretching away in
the other direction are miles of the
island-dotted surface of the
AXE, beyond which, mellowed by dis
lance, are the far-off SUBMITS of the
mountains hat fringe its western
brink. To the south sweeps in graceful
circles the shore line. and to the north
les the many-hued n fertile valley
If the Great Salt lake. with the City
IF the Saints in the distance.
Hot springs, those curative n
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