Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-09-08
WILL OPERATE
BIG GAS PLANT.
Snow Darst Franchise Means
Much for Development Of In
dustry in This State,
OWN RICH LIMESTONE PLACERS


Special Correspondence,
Provo, Utah Coo Sept S--Tha grant |
Ing Of The gas franchise TO George \.
Snow and VIM Dmst by tho salt Lake
city council means The Inauguration |
Of a biz industry n this state, Il the
plans Of the incorporalors Of the gas
company are carried out and the has
Of operations win be in Provo. It has
been reported In the "NcNs' from time
TO time for several months that cX
tcnsiyc locations Of lime stone placer
claims have been made in the noun
talns east Of Provo and that these lo-
cations have been transferred by the
locators TO George A. Snow oC Chica-
SO. This has been preliminary to
launching the gas company which will
take over the holdings Of Mr. Snow
when the organization rs completed, He
now holds 81 placer claims Of lJO acres
each in the mountains east Of the
citH extending 10 miles from Provo
canyon ON the north TO Slate canyon
on the south, and about four miles east
Of Provo. The formation is dolomiuC
limestone IN which are found veins ot'a
carbouferoUs substance This is mixed
with limestone and slate ground and
pressed together through geological
disturbances On such a form that it ia
not recognized as coal although some
OF II contains from S. to 90 per cent free
carbon and In places some very fine
specimens Of anthracite coal have neen
al lsN In
on up into minute chunks For the
past ~ years number of Provo peo-
pie have expended considerable money
In opening these veins with the eN-
pectation Of striking anthracite coal In
quantities that would pay II Is cs-
ttuated that $4,000 have been spent In
this kind Of development work. with
ont any other result than TO demon
strate that there iq an almost mex
haustihle quantity Of the material or
late years but little work has been
/ done on the claims, If being deCid ID
! that If there Is anthracite coal I'm the
mountains I'm quantities that would
| Justify mining II. II would take am Inn
mense amount Of development work 90
reach n. while the prospecting was
| going on and after mr. g. b. snyder
! of thlC city has been investigating the
/
view 10 determining its commercial
| value being Of the opinion that a sub
stance containing carbon In the guam
! tity that It does could b. profitably UTE
, lized. lie learned that gas was manu-
| featured from inferior non commercial
! coal I'm England and in the United
| States. and he decided that the material
! could be- used 10 advantage for this
| purpOse. and tests were made which
| proved the correctness NJ this theory,
| But Dr. Snyder SIS 40 capitalist, ana
| local capitalists whom he sought 10 In
tprest IN the project did not consider
Il fayorably Certainly not fayorahly
enough 10 invest money I'm g. and, DR..
Snyder claims. not favorable enough Ia
J refrain from GiecouraBinc others from
investigating It's merits, However thls
may he. Dr Snyder quietly sought
outside assistance, he succeeded I'M get
ting 4 g. Lawson Interested Mr.
| lawson had investigated similar pro-
! jects In other parts OF the state
and was soon convinced that lhC
Provo field offered better opportunities
than any other Through his efforts
MIR SNOW. VIM Darst Of Chicago, q
~ Sword of Toledo o., and othei
capitalists were interested, ana thl'
summer. after a thorough investigation
Of the quantity and quality Of the ma
terial aud It's adaptahiity for produo
ing gas. surveys and geological map
we're made and the country located
Eleven veins have been discovered
and four Of them have been Opened
up ~ different points lsume are the oi'
workings of the anthracite coal prop
erics. varying I'm thickness from fou
to nine feet
ria, pettIhore-T oofnls method n