Show Pipeline On Its Way After Long Struggle May Bring New Riches JI JI J I I I. I INTO THE TilE GROUND Wrapped GROUND Wrapped in asbestos a section of the Pacific Northwest pipeline Is ready for the trench The line will be more than 1400 miles long cost and bring brine natural gas to Moab and scores of other Trucks stacked with nine lengths each of inch 26 pipe began rolling through Moab last June That was this community's first tangible evidence that the sought long-sought Pacific Northwest pipeline actually was going to be laid Today River Construction Co crews are working northward from Monti- Monti cello toward Moab placing the paper anc and tar-coated tar big Inch pipe In the ground Other crews of R. R H. H Fulton and Co are working southward from Loma Lorna Colo The two spreads will Join north of Moab In a avery avery avery very few weeks The influx of oC pipeline workers wont won't last las 1 long But the Impact of the Pacific Northwest Northwest Northwest North North- west pipeline on Moab on Monticello on neighboring towns of the San Juan Basin Dasin in Colorado and scores of others along its route will be felt for years to come The pipeline represents a dream come true for Ray Fish the Houston Texas engineer engineer engineer eng eng- ineer who is chairman of the board of the Pacific Northwest Pipeline Corp Stretching from Ignacio Colo to Seattle Wash anc and Portland Ore the line will be more than 1400 miles long It will cost or perhaps more Before Defore ever a of dirt was moved Fish spent a million dollars in legal fees Hearings on the pipeline before beCore the federal federal federal fed fed- eral power commission spread over more than a year The record of the hearing ran to typewritten pages pages longest longest record ever built up before the Fish For Fish and C. C R. R Williams president of Pacific Northwest Northwest Northwest North North- west Pipeline Corp had opposition in their plan to build what will be the last of the nations nation's big gas pipelines Other companies also wanted to supply the Pacific Northwest with gas from Canada But Dut Fishs Fish's dream now is coming true The pipeline also fulfills a time long-time dream of the San Juan Basin Dasin communities of Durango Cortez Dove Creek They've known for years that they were on top of one of the worlds world's biggest natural gas pools Now at last they have a market And Seattle and Portland the big industrial industrial industrial in in- centers of the Northwest and many other communities soon will have natural gas where before they had to depend on coal oil all or artificial fuel Moab is one of those communities Impact of the pipeline on Moab wont won't stop with the supplying gas to the town however I IThe The pipeline will stimulate drilling In areas i all along the route which have gas or oil possibilities Already its it's stimulated drilling In Grand and San Juan counties Some day a well In Inthis inthis inthis this area may find the big pool that has been sought since the And oil or gas wealth will be added to Moab's uranium fortune |