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Newspaper
Murray Eagle
Location
Murray, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1928
Page
5
Applications filed with Murray City Commissioners seek permission to lay natural gas lines in streets for residential and industrial use. The notice asks residents to know the applicants' identities, experience in gas business, financial stability, and ability to meet promises.
Mr. McFadyen, vice president of The Ohio Oil Company, is introduced as a prominent figure in Utah and the Intermountain West with extensive oil and natural gas production experience. L. B. Denning, president of Lone Star Gas Company, is described as a veteran in the natural gas industry serving Dallas, Fort Worth, and 150 other northern Texas and southern Oklahoma communities, supplying over a million customers.
These men represent the Ohio Oil Company the Prairie Oil and Gas Company the Producers and Refiners Corporation which own large acreage of tested natural gas lands in North Baxter Basin Field Wyoming Hiawatha Field in Colorado and Wyoming and Clay Basin in Utah. There is now developed enough natural gas to supply at least two and a half times the winter demand of Murray City and nearby territory. George W Crawford Fred W Crawford and T B Gregory of Pittsburgh and Columbus have forty years in the gas business. Banks and trust companies in New York Pittsburgh Cincinnati Dallas or Fort Worth can provide information. ADVANTAGES This is the first in a series showing how natural gas brings better living lower fuel costs and prosperity.
Nature s Clean Smokeless Fuel is claimed to have twice the heating content of manufactured gas and will cook heat water or warm a home in half the time or with half the quantity needed for the same work.
A historical note states that 1,000 feet of natural gas equates to 2,000 feet of manufactured gas in volume terms, illustrating a conversion concept used in gas industry discussions.
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