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Show April 27. 1956 The Western Mineral Survey, Sail Lake City. Utah Pacific N W Pipeline Tells . . Page 5 . Salt Lake Will Be Operations' Site Houston, Texas April 24, Salt Lake City, Utah has been selected as the location for permanent operating headquarters for the Pacific Northwest Pipeline Corporation, C. R. Williams, President of Pacific, announced today. Present offices of the company are in Houston, Tex. Selection of Salt Lake City was made definite by the Board of directors of Pacific Northwest af- construction began last June. Pacific employees have been working out of these locations during preliminary operations. Williams, in reporting the selection of Salt Lake as the new home for Pacific, revealed that the firm has just completed arrangements for office space in the First Security Bank Building, the Darling Building and the Beenficial Life Building. ter considerable study and delibOfficials recently confirmed reWilliams added. eration, ports that options had been taken Salt Lake is near the geographic on ground in downtown Salt Lake center and easily accessible for in behalf of Pacific Northwest. operation of the new 2,200 mile natural gas pipeline system. During the coming months Salt Lake will become the nerve .ceng Pacific faciliter of the ties, extending from New Mexico to the Canadian Border. AdminThe appointment of Dwight H. istrative and operating activities Lewis of Denver as State Chairwill be directed from offices in man of the Colorado Oil Industhe Utah capital. try Information Committee was Field operating locations are announced today by D. R. McCal-lum- , now being set up at various points also of Denver, District on the line to supervise produc- Chairman for the OIIC program tion facilities, compressor and in the Rockies. metering stations, patrol and Lewis replaces W. S. Johnson maintenance activities and related of the Socony-Mob- il Oil Co., who services. to Chiwas transferred recently Fish Northwest Constructors, cago from Denver. Lewis appointment is for two Inc., builders of the pipeline, construction have had headquar- years, during which he will diters in the First Security Bank rect the oil industry's public reBuilding and the Pacific National lations program for more than Life Building in Salt Lake since 800 oil men and women in Colorado. Lewis was born and raised in Michigan, where he was graduated as an Aeronautical EngiIn neer from the University of Michigan in 1931. lie began his employment with the Standard Oil Company (InPublication of a new map show- diana) in 1933 as a service staing the geology of approximately tion attendant. 320 square miles in the Raton He has progressed with his comBasin of southeastern . Colorado pany while working in various was announced today by Secre- capacities in Michigan, Iowa, Illitary of the Interior Doulgas Mc- nois, Wyoming and Colorado. Kay. Lewis is now Assistant Division This area, which includes part Manager for Standard (Ind.) in of the Trinidad coal field, con- Denver. tains vast reserves of bituminous 1956 Colo. Oil Group Names Chairman far-flun- Geology Exposed By Govt. Raton Basin -- coking coal. Neither oil or gas has been produced there, but the stratigraphic A gross income of $43,786 for section contains promising source the first quarter of 1956 was earnand reservior rocks. The map ed by the Juniper Oil and Mining shows geologic boundaries, drain- Co., according to John E. Blixt, age, culture, and structural fea- president of the firm. tures which are depicted by Juniper officials expect to structure contours. maintain this rate of income from Also included are two strati- settled oil production for the next two quarters of this year. graphic sections and a brief text An increase in production and describing the oil and gas posincome area. pan be expected later in sibilities of the the year, however, through water Titled Geology of the area, Las Animas injection operations now underand Huerfano Counties, Colo- way on some of the Juniper proprado, by R. L. Harbour and G. H. erties in Illinois. map has Juniper officials point out, howDixon, the 38 by been issued as OM 174 of the Oil ever, that it may be as much as six months before production inand Gas Investigations series. It may be purchased at 50 creases are realized from the opcents from the Distribution Sec- eration. Progress is also reported in the tion, Geological Survey, Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colo., companys drilling campaign in and from the Chief of Distribu- the Illinois Basin and in the tion, Geological Survey, Wash- Rocky Mt. area. Juniper engineers are now testing the producington 25, D. C. Copies are also available for tive Aux Vases sands, where a sale (but not by well was drilled jointly by Junimail) at Geological Survey Of- per and Ashland Oil and Refining fices at 468 New Customhouse, Co. The well is in the Clay City Pool, Clay County, Denver, Colo., and 234 Federal Consolidated 111. Okla. Building, Tulsa, Jumper Reports Trini-dad-Aguil- ar 54-in- ch over-the-count- er It Pays Dividends When You DtiveInto TUCKER'S AUTO SERVICE JESS TUCKER, Manager Complete Automotive Repeirs, Automatic Transmissions, Carburetors, Ignition Work - ALL WORK GUARANTEED -- 21 East 13th South Phone HU SALT LAKE CITT. 0TAH 4-79- 61 Pacific Northwest personnel will soon be transferring from the Houston offices, according to Williams. Plans have been developed for the orderly transfer of equipment and personnel to cover several months. The Salt Lake City offices will be operated by an estimated 225 employees during the initial stages of operation. Pacific will recruit a large portion of its personnel from Salt Lake and the surrounding area. Some applications from Salt Lake residents have already been received by Pacific, with the personnel department epected to announce requirements and policies in the near future. Over 600 employees will be required to operate the widespread pipeline facilities. As construction work nears completion Pacific will take advantage of the experience of Fish Northwest personel by transferring some men in key positions to operation of the line. Many of the Fish Northwest employees are resident of .Utah. DIGGING IN Cat is instrumental in Blue Diamond operations. Estimated annual payroll for Salt Lake City alone will be close to $1,500,000.00 Expenditures by Blue Pacific and its personnel for supplies and services are expected to Mining with the aid of an aerial the mountains, at a 1500 feet elecontribute substantially to the tramway is being succesfully ac- vation above the mill. economy of the region. complished in a western mine Here, Blue Diamond has enCompany officials expressed The Blue Diamond Corp., Blue gaged the Eachus Equipment pleasure at the move to Salt Lake Diamond, Nev., Rental Co., Las Vegas, to strip The company is using the tram- overburden and clean up around and forecast that the impact of the Pacific Northwest pipeline way as a convenient method for the shovels with their Caterpillar will be felt not only in the busi- bringing gypsum material from a D9 ness and economic areas but also crusher, down the mountain, to After being crushed into two in the civic, social and religious its mill. the material inch Trucks haul the gypsum from travels particles, life of the communities. via the aerial in buckets, Chairman of the Board, Ray C. the .quarry to the crusher at the tramway to the mill at the foot edge of the mountain. The quarry of the mountain. Here it is stockFish, also president of Fish is located about a mile back in Corp., will remain in piled. A Cat D8 Tractor dozes Ilouston. the stockpiled material, as needAmong top officials who will ed, into a hopper, where a conestablish offices in Salt Lake are To the oil producer, conserva- veyor belt picks it up and carries C. R. Williams, President; R. C. tion means using the most effi- it to overhead storage bins. Frederick, Vice President; Allen cient methods to get the maxiFrom the storage bins, the gypB. Hiatt, Vice President; A. B. mum amount of oil and gas from sum is, then, ground from 74 Allyne, Vice President; J. M. natures reservoirs. to 92 fine. From other overhead Clark; Vice President; and C. A. Giant steps have been taken to- bins, it is fed to calcining kettles. Watson, Treasurer.ward good management by pre- These kettles, holding about 20 Construction of the natural gas testing field conditions in the tons of fresh material and kept pipeline began in June, 1955, and research laboratory. at a 300 degree temperature, reis expected to be completed by tons of moisture One oil company, for instance, move about 3 the end of 1956. waste. This blows out the and is experimenting with a scale Construction of the pipeline, model mill. of the stacks on of a typical top compressor installation and pro- information. The model helps deThe board plant is located in duction facilities is proceeding at termine the exact number of a separate building. As the powa near record pace. wells which can best recover the dered gypsum is brought over, Nearly 975 miles of the 22 and optimum amount of petroleum it is mixed with starch and fiber. 26 inch diameter line and 25( from a field without waste of ma- On the board machines, the mixmiles of sales and supply laterals terials or ture is bound between paper manpower. have been completed. The gas is By stock then cut and kiln dried. methods using progressive now in the line from the San like this to The men able final are oil steps in the process one, Juan Basin to the Idaho border. include as oil from much twice inspection, sorting and Construction in the State of produce a pool as they did in the early stacking. Shipment of the finishWashington got under way in years, and research is going on to ed product from Blue Diamonds March with 15 in boost the oil recovery figure even spacious shipping and receiving the field. This phase of construc- higher. docks completes the routing. tion got under way following a favorable decision of the Federal Power Commission to import Diamond Quarries Gypsum Tractor-bulldoze- r. En-gineeri- ng Medern Oil Find - sub-contracto- rs Canadian gas for the Pacific system. Facilities were enlarged on the northern end of the line to accommodate the new load following approval on November 25, 1955. Pacific Northwest Pipeline will deliver the first natural gas to Idaho, Oregon and Washington beginning in August, 1956. This is the last major area in the United States which does not now have natural gas service. Pacific will draw on gas reserves in New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Wyoming during initial operation to serve the principal markets in Idaho, Oregon and Washington. These production facilities will provide 343 million cubic feet of gas per day for sale throughout the system. Pacific Northwest will also receive 300 million cubic feet of sales gas per day from the Peace River area of Canada during 1958 with delivery to be made at Sumas, Washington on the Canadian border. GILA URANIUM CORPORATION Wishes to thank their Stockholders for their splendid response in the offering of GILA URANIUM. The public offering was closed April 30, 1956 and will begin trading in the near future. s DICK BROWN President |