Show Nes August 2004 18 Questar Celebrates 75 Years of Deli vering Natural Gas Service ivas extended to North Sevier Communitites in 1987 On Aug 17 1929 — 75 years ago — about 15000 people showed 'p for a street party on Salt Lake City’s east bench It was raining but that didn't scent to matter The cause lor the celebration? Well for the previous eight months they’d been reading about the exploits of crews in the mountains east of town as they battled the elements in a race against the calendar And it was time to see what all the fuss was about In a scene that anticipated the ceremony at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games a few miles and decades away the crowd watched in awe as officials ignited a huge flare at the end of a pipe “With a hissing roar that temporarily deafened the crowds surrounding the site the gas surged into the air and catching the flame boomed forth its challenge to the efficiency of the human mind which had imprisoned and shackled it to the needs of mankind" gushed one newspaper reporter Today we know “the gas” as natural gas And it’s just aboijt as Common — and taken for granted — in Utah homes as running water But its arrival in Salt Lake City in August 1929 was news In the words of another reporter the completion of the pipeline was "a construction task that has no Western It took plete the between the gas parallel” about 3000 men to com- pipeline system the Wasatch Front and fields of southwestern Wyoming and northwestern Colorado Crews talked about shoveling five feet of snow off the pipeline in Emigration Canyon at the start of construction in January and using dynamite to break up the frozen ground They described spring mud so deep that trucks had to be rescued by bulldozers or teams of horses In the past 75 years technology has brought a dizzying succession of changes to the lives of Americans Television jet planes computers and cell phones have burst onto the scene Many other products — and the companies that produced them — have come and gone Mergers and acquisitions have brought enormous changes to the US business landscape In that context consider what hasn 't changed: Natural gas is more popular than ever as a source of heat and power Questar — known 75 years ago as Western Public Service Corp — remains an independent company with subsidiaries dedicated techniques were still in their infancy and it to finding and producing natural showed Nevertheless crews fin- gas moving it to market and sellished the job in time to bring natuing it to retail customers The Pipeline of 1929 — enral gas to Salt Lake City and other larged and upgraded several times northern Utah towns by the winin the past 75 years — remains the ter of There were almost as many backbone of the company’s 17 that celebration system at people Aug Southwestern as there were customers on the Wyoming and Colorado continue northwestern In that those winter days system natural gas cost more than many to produce much of the natural gas other fuels It took another decade used by Questar’s retail customof that before it began to win over large ers A large percentage wells numbers of customers thanks to comes from its convenience cleanliness and at prices well below current marimproving economics And it took ket rates Questar has never had a major until 1987 for natural gas to arrive service disruption in 75 years of in Aurora Redmond and Salina service to the Utah community Gunnison and Ccntcrfieldl Will Questar — or whatever the The company recorded its 25000()'h customer in 1970 and its company is called — still be serv5(X)000h customer in 1990 Today ing natural gas to customers 75 Questar has more than 772000 years from now? If the past 75 years’ are any indication it’s not a customers in Utah southwestern — though most Wyoming and southeastern Idaho bad bet to make of us won’t be around to collect People TH celebrate O K l U the arrival of natural V K gas on Salt Lake City’s east bench on Aug 17 1929 KK1V V MARCH I -- 1 n' A! CLr i or mil r f 1° whiiop it t O' NATURAL GAS SYSTEM or s or WESTERN PUBLIC SERVICE CORR The Oil Weekly published this map of the company's new pipeline system in March 1930 Although the old pipe has since been replaced modern pipelines still follow most of the same routes today Annual Social Security Statements Help You Plan Your Financial Future by Corliss Neuber Social Security Public Affairs Specialist What do nearly all American workers now receive each year that they did not receive just live years ago? 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