Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-07-08 | Page 6 | Pope Line through Desert

PIPE PIrE LINE THROUGH DESERT The noise of ot h handling st steel eI pipes and met metal ll shapes and the roar o of tractors has been brought broucht to the sunbaked sunbaked sun baked hills hilts of ot Mesopotamia through the construction of ot a mile 1200 pipe pipeline pipeline pipeline line directly across the trackless SyrIan SyrIan Syrian Syr Syr- ian desert to convey oil to the Me Mediterranean Medi i- i parts For this colossal job the company ordered what is be be- li ii ved to be the largest equipment of its kind ever produced It consists of ot truck-tractor truck and tr trailer trail trail- lil er with a combined weight of ot 20 tons ton and a length of ot feet This equipment equip equip- m ment nt h has 30 tires on the ground C car can ries gallons of ot gasoline and the weight of the bolsters and chains necessary to hold the load is equivalent lent to that of ot the average passenger car In its operation at Iraq the equiP equip- ment meat is called upon to pull approximately approximately pounds of ot steel pipe across the desert and over unimproved unimproved proved roads Axle transmission and other parts were made of nickel alloy steels In addition a fleet of at 81 Track Track- son industrial crawler tractors was ordered to help make the pipe lines and to help in the digging of ot post postholes postholes holes for the Iraq line linc