Show BASIN GAS BENEFITS BOUNTIFUL CIT CITY V fl 7 Probably in no human humm undertaking i is modern machiner machinery and modern mc- mc me hods more outstanding than in th installing of a modern modem gas system Think Chink of it Inside of three weeks week t to cover a large large town town large in area ar pipelines like Bountiful WI witha with 1 a system of pip pipe lines that a few years n ago o with n r good man many more men would have hac re- re required re required a years year's time It took sever sever- several several sc cr al months to install our city water wa system U S Porterfield with a n force of of about five fifty-five men men- men three tractors one ne air compressor and two ditching machines s comprise the force that is 5 performing such wonders Already between 2 and r feet f et of pipe line has b been en completed fed about town and there is only from to feet more to put in so it is expected that b by the end of this week eek or 01 the first of next the entire distributing 1 system will be bc completed et- et ed d d and the force will move camp ca over to Centerville A trenching machine digs from 2 2000 S to 2500 feet of ditch thirty in- in inches ches h deep under normal conditions ms and good digging in a da day It would 1 require thirty men to dig a like num- num number number nuber ber of or feet of trench in the same sa time After the pipe which in Bountiful Bount ul j is three and four in inc has hns been deposited de- de i i posited in the bottom of the trench trena h a tractor and a n force of four foul men menth with th a n scraper six test feet wide put the dirt hack in the trench at the rate of about feet per day dar Tractors actors rs Me fire also used to s snake ake the pipe md and lower it in the trenches The pipe pipe is conveyed from the car or 01 storage place on specially constructed trucks and strung out where it is needed No o lift lifting 1 g no drudgery everything done ly jy y gasoline eng engine About Al out the only hand work thel there is connected with i it is to dig clos close to to to drain irain and irrigation pipe cement walks etc that the trencher cannot t get t close to A very scientific method is is employ employ- employed rd ld in joining the pipe together every connection is welded which makes the entire system one unit besides be- be sides the welded portion is as strong strong as any other part of the pipe This ThI Tl method absolutely insures against Joss Josses s from leaks which was imposible impossible imp the old method sible ible under The pipe is all carefully tested be- be before before lore fore the thc backfilling takes place Wo We fully appreciate what wha what has been be Achieved 1 in this new process of join join- joining joining ing pipe both in economy Conom and md the t t as when we wn r recall call Mr 1 Drivers Driver's cr's experiences many years ears ago when natural gas was discovered near Lake Lale Shore in this county and I he tried to pipe it into Salt Lake City but it all escaped before reach reach- reaching rca shing ing the city mains Boys who herd herd- herded herded the thel ed cows used to cook eggs with wito l escaping capin gas feel Porterfield that they Mr says grateful for the way the they have been the th received in this cit city and for very ery operative co-operative spirit that has been beci shown hom This company evidently places we have 5 good will wm as great reat value on corporation oration that we w never known k a thought made greater effort to please everyone and avoided giving offense to anybody |