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Show r oloiado Gas Fin ay Aid Utah's Kennecott Wins - King Winter 1 storroglitis--wim'A , - Unit No 1 at Hiawatha. That is the name of the latest natural gas well to make big news for Utahns. It represents a sigtificant !'strike" in Mouttaln Fuel Supply Corripany's,yigorous efforts to bring more low-cofuel to Utah And Unit No. 1 at Hiawatha mrkets. the may well be the key gates to an adequate natural gas s aPPIY in the near futurefor residential, commercial, and industrial users in thoteehive State's.heavy population areas. At abundance of natural gas would be a boon tci iltah's 'mush- - make a deep test as soon as posrooming industrial growth. It is sible, and then check other known thatsome new industry,' levels on the way back- - out of has paused in the Oast about lo-- - the hole. By the time, drilling eating in Utah because of the had reached 15,041 feet, it had lack of adequate low-cofuel, penetrated the Nugget sandstone Unit Nu. 1..at Hiawatha, ot 'I'he Jurassic age.-Bu- t before a whose discovery was announced- - test of this formation could be this month, has a story that is as made, tools were lost in- - the Interesting as it is significant depths. All "fishing" attempts The well is situated in Colorado, were unsuccessful. Also, atover the Wyoming border, tempts to sidgtrack tools bile& about 20 miles east of the north- - The hole was plueged back. All east corner- of Utah. His in roll- - formations below-493- 0 feetwere d country be- - found to be for ing, twien Powder Springs, historic production. ; frontier camp spot, and Brown's But in thi sands between 484 Park, famous MIS the rendezvous' and 4930 feet, natural gas was of Butch Cassidy, Robirt Hood founfl. These sands are of the of the Rockies.", Upper Cretaceous age,- - known DEEPEST WELL as the "Lance formation." It was Hiawatha's unit No. 1 is the the first time in the history of deepest well ever drilled in Colorado or Wyoming that It is the deepest yet mercial production has been drilledimy MPS. Its drilling bits found in this formation. have chewed into rock and earth On an open-flotest, Hiafarther below the surface of the watha's Untt No. 1 produced at earth than Mount Whitney, a rate of 20,000,000 cubic feet America's highest mountain, ex- - of gas a. day. That is not the lends above sea level. The well's largest flow of MFS wells. Some of the giants at Church Buttes actual depth is 15,041 feet. The well has been more than Produce much more.. But the two years in drillingnot new well is among the better through lack of effort, but be- - oil'es In the company's ' cause of drilling difficulties. "old field" area. Most Of them came below 14,000 NEW POOL? feet. There were provoking More significant, however, is "fishing" jobs, when tools jar the fact that UnitNo. 1 at Hialoose and have to be fished out watha may have struck a subnearly three miles below. Lost stantial newspool of tiatural gas circulation was another prob- for Utairhomes, --business and lem. It results from drilling industry. In an effort to deter'mud," seeping awayfrom the niine the reserves, MFS is now path of the bits. Tuck loads of drilling two "confirmation celophatie particles were poured wells." One is about a mile Into the hole to help seal off the northeast of Unit No. 1; the seepage. other, about a mile to the south, TOOLS LOST west. If they succeed, six more In pushing down so far in holet,will be drilled in' the imIllawatha's Unit No. 1, Moun- mediate Vicinity. tain Fuel's objective was to Mountain Fuel has for some t - 1 TEAM WORK , . ' -- " ; , , -, aaa 44.raaar,.......1,y 4 - I 1 I NEEDED for keeping production up during the past three.snow-fille- d months goes to-- the' men at the mine, on ore haulage, at the - a -- mIlls and In the refinery. ci Vs; , , ,4 Came As soon aa word through t that a storm was in 1he offing, crews started giant snow plows 1. rolling, bulldozers were readied r to help keep work areas cleared on the mine levels which have ,Ake. osoo.N.itiLoit apitQahodembilabiaL e.itaboadidilimAtpit standard- yirpe 160 miles DISCOVERS NEW OAS SANDUnit No liof the r,g,au.ie railroad tracks climbing t..e canyon walls, running Motintain Fuel Supply Company in the Hiawatha field of across the levels, and stretching of feet Colorado will furnish some 20,000.000 cubic gas out to the areas where over Is dumped. daily for Utah industrial, commercial and reajdential use 7 SLOWED DRILLING Powder men had layers of the white stuff to clear away before - - , SNOW SHOVELINd JOB SUPItkISMThe re's 160 mile s,of standard gauge railroad 'track in the Bingham Canyon mine of the Kennecott Copper- Corporation to keep clear of snow-anice in addition to the work of c leering group for drilling operations prepare. tory to blasting down the ore. ' ., sage-covere- Jaa'an:4,444 Big share oU the credit " - t seven-day-a-we- i ' ',-- ' 7; with sidewalks and driveways to clear, but think of the job keeping the Bingham Canyon Mine of the Kenifecot-tCoppe- r Corporation operating day and night on schedule. Despite more.than 100 inches of snow falling on the many mrOf', levels of the huge open-pi- t the company continued to- - produce 45,000.000 pounds of copper per month during,the winter. 1 s , 7 ter have been tough on people i st " ; 4'44-- st - r, 7 n 'Well-See- -- , Battle With Latest As Key To Adequate Supply For State - bait Lake Li , ,-- : n,dustrict! Glecivith, s urvo 21 d -L , they could set up for drilling operations. The big electric. powered shovels bite up the snow along with the ore but this makes trouble at the mills. It was a 'usual winte'r sight et the Magna and Arthur car dumpers to see 'crews of men with oil torches warming the sides of car$ newly arrived form the . mine.so that. the ore would fall out when the cars were Awned over for dumping. When a thaw came, the torches were put away btit another type of 'difficulty was encount- erkl. The wet ore ,gummed up crushers and screens and sometimes had to be flushed on its way with water or blown on its way with Compressed sir. Handling special winter prob4 lems is made possible by the equipment, but it takes tearq work and men determined ti maintain productfon of 30 pee cent of the nation's new copper to keep equipment functioning', and all elements of the giant ; operation going. , , time been taking, natural gas from the Hiawatha area. But it has been limited to the Tertiary formations. Present gas lines from Hiawatha are now operating to .capacity. If additional tests succeed', then MFS will apply for permission to construct the additions to its interstate transmission facilities necessary to bring the increased supply to Utah. -- In the exploratory fields himself, supervising the work. ''Unit No. 1 at Hiawatha is the first strike we have made of three wildcats completed mince the Utah Public Service Commission, in Its farsighted decision, gave us permission to increase rates to push tion," Mr. Nightingale observed. . i 'f7( fi excep- tional "batting average" for natexural one perienced observers-say-tha- t out of seven is considered good, and about one out of nine la average. "We shall start two more wildcatk in other areas within the next 45 days,", iNgale said Saturday. DIRECTS EXPLORATION -- - Meanwhile, Mountain Fuel continues its strenuous efforts to find more natural gas for Utah. Last week, MFS announced that it has gas alrallable for 6175 additional Utah homes. Almost every weekend, W. T. 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