Show NATURAL GAS REACHED SALT LAKE JULY 3 3 31 Natural gas as arrived at the Sum t station h or city gate in Salt Lake Cit Ci at t G 6 0 p m Wednesday J Jt July uly a 31 a 31 31 a month ahead of ald and and will be turned into the distri- distri dist distribution system in another twelve o or f ft t thirteen days I J V We gyc give some of the details of construction and progress to to-dat and md of th time the successful completion or oro I o one c more important chapter in th thI tl giant task of brin bringing ing this fuel t Utah I The he last section of 18 inch pipe pip which forms an und underground stee steel d I girded gink-d natural gas highway to Utah i I communities was hauled into pos position tion a few days ago near Old ASp Aspe Wyoming Over O mountains thru thi 1 can canyons O g and valleys v S 'S across rivers following 1 rivers rivers- following similar trails to those I blaz-I bla blaz blazed I I ed tI by the old Oregon explorers and andI an fur l f trappers and the Mormon pion pione pione- pioneers his ers ers huge steel tube tiAc s its ts way war from Wyoming W oming and into Utah I Ir At At the pre present ent time ti-me all of the 12 12 C r- r line from Green Gree miles les of 18 inch RIVer to o Coalville and the 34 GreenI miles mile miles miles- I Coalville junc June junction line from of of IG 10 inch mch l Lion tion to Salt Lake City is com cam completed I the GG 66 mile miles of 16 inch line lira from Hiawatha Dome to Green Gree GreenI I I River is completed the 8 inch lin from Baxter basin to Green Ri er RiverIS I I 18 13 miles is completed competed while 80 pe percent Coal I cent of the 40 mile line from Coal Coalville ville to Ogden O den is completed The 4 miles of 10 inch line between Salt Sal I which will sere Lake and Ogden Bountiful ul Centerville Farmington has been com corn completed Ka Kaysville and Layton I is is Construction of or the main main line s said difficult be of the most one said laid aid to in the history o of tasks of its kind tas 5 The the United States this work ork in I anI main transmission line reaches rC an around feet above bove altitude dc of level passing over oer the rugged rug edt j sea Wasatch and almost 3 of the airmail mail route I paralleling the air t last January started j The line was w 1 of the most of at the rv height one most winters in the history of this severe vere Starting at the country section sl-dion of thee mouth of Emigration canyon the theline the east The pipe wa I pushed line linc was station and a Sugarhouse at unloaded line nearest the at opportune n nsf stations to sf Green from that point east Roads were I opened River Ri d and with points tractors and nd d tt the pipe was loaded on interesting Sting trucks stories of Sonic Some ver very written job could be tremendous the n a ca caterpillar A At t several points points cable which wIth a specialty ll equIpped truck load load- loaded stationed to pull the load load-j was inclines wh where re reI with pipe up steep I ed to pull them with it was impossible but slowly However it its it's own power power brought the load the winch surely one place near At to its destination the in puleY Parleys Parley's canyon the summit winch was Caterpillar r with summit its and to get st stationed ed at the be said it took n L crew there it might operator two t of men and an nn and expert wriggle a mile to da days 3 to creep Here the long the desired position the pipe where to pipe lowered lowered t cable was section Section by sec Pad hid been Leen piled pulled up was the pipe pil slowly verY where it was to to snoWS the deep toto to ove over natural gas toI bringing in I to serve points Utah At A other of the homes and sleighs took teams tean with wagons the trucks had where the pipe pi-pe from point to the theline their nearest be bel beline reached the pipe j joint br I l line and placed abundance of line The I the joint our the late cold coldspring coldspring and and rain I snoW mountainous spring the left the upper regions saturated with water The clay or muck was almost t impassible impassible horses J ble le for light cars and saddle hea truck load loaded od nothing of a heavy vy say AI a wIth pipe pipe The pipe pIpe line did not wait wait I for fo better weather but roads were culverts placed in to drain off I the surfaces and in places planks were laid for great distances to make roads to haul hul h ul the pipe Trucks would woud bog down own and Caterpillars and in in some cases would bury themselves in the mire while struggling struggling gling gling- to pull trucks out A party of or pipe line workers was snowbound in Wyoming in a terri terri- terri terri-I terrifically severe blizzard in February and food was brought to them then by air airplane ai plane pla-ne Hardships such as these certainly compare with the struggles of othe the pioneers in blazing trails tr across acres the continent 82 years ago ago ago- The na na- na natural tural gas Iras men might well be called MODERN pioneers blazing new tra trails ils of progress II |