Show Pipeline Crews Shifted Into Moab As Project Nears City The multi-million multi dollar natural gas pipeline from the San Juan basin of Colorado and New Mexico to the Pacific Northwest has started start ed cd a 1 pincer movement on Moab and crews of two companies have moved into toWn The actual laying of pipe from the north has reached a point near Thompson while pushing In from the south workmen have reached a point near the Hole in the Rock diner along Highway 60 south of Moab Spreads from b both th companies have been moved Into Moab where work has been started on the tie- tie in point on the Colorado river just south of the site of the new uranium mill These spreads will start from the tie in point and work back toward toward toward to to- ward their respective groups way Right-of-way crews were busy building roads through the canyon to the north and blasting their way through the rocky area At Atthe Atthe Atthe the same time crew of workers were operating a rotary ditching machine on the flats flats' north of the canyon and preparIng preparing preparing ing to cross the highway near the road to the Arches National Monument Mon Mon- The line working In from the Thompson where the walls rise north reached a canyon near feet on one side and even higher on the other then moved to this end of the sine line to work back Work on the northern project company of Lubbock Tex and the theIs theis theis is under R. R H. H Fulton Construction crews from the south are workIng workIng workIng work- work Ing under Rivers RIvers' Construction company of Fort Worth Tex Th The tie-In tie point at the Colorado river rive here is the end of the line Une for both bot crews Fulton has another spread workIng working work ing on the line Une near Rangely Colo which ties the line Une into the gar fields in that area I The Durango News Herald-News reported reported re reo ported Tuesday that work in the San Juan basin end of the line would be completed In about eight days Work is well under underway underway underway way on a 6 million compressor compressor station and gas products by-products plant two miles south of La Plata air air- field Ditching machines were scheduled to complete gouging out the he ditch to the starting point of ol the line Tuesday or Wednesday I An overall crew of about 1600 persons are engaged in the pro pro-i pro project in one way or another with some 12 spreads of men each doing the actual field work at this time in a race against win winters winter's winters winter's winters winter's ter's cold blasts As a part of the introduction program of giving natural gas for forthe forthe forthe the first time to residents of the Pacific Northwest Fish Northwest Pipeline company designers of the giant project will be host to utilIty utility utility util util- ity and press in a sightseeing tour Groups from Portland Spokane Seattle and major Idaho cities will make an aerial inspection of the 1446 mile route on Oct 6 7 8 and 9 The group will be guests at ata ata ata a western barbecue in Durango and will view the drilling operation operation operation opera opera- tion of gas wells in the San Juan basin source of the supply for the cities along the route I |