Show OIL INDUSTRY BUSINESS NEWS Excavation Starts on New field BY DON ROBINSON Whiting and Haymond cons Company of Salt Lake City sub-contractor sub to W. W W. W Clyde Construction Co of Springville Springville- has begun preliminary 5 excavation on the new Grand county airport Meld el The prime contract on the field Iwas was awarded Friday to W. W W W. Clyde after examination o of the bid by the Federal Aeronautics Administration The government agency is a a participant participant pant in the project to fo the extent of 62 per cent of the cost exclusive of aU facilities Completion Is due m Ill November November November Nov Nov- ember on the airport but officials are are confident that it will come sooner v vP r w P a K Ford Company of Moab begar May 4 on a new building to house a sales and agency agency ag ago ag- ag ency on street The contractor for the square squar foot building fe is B. B A A. Turner of Moab Jack Payne owner said Tuesday that occupancy at the n new location was anticipated antic antici August 1 1964 The building Is to tobe be composed of white masonry with white split block front S 2 V Home Horne and Zick Zick- Construction Co sa Salt t Lake City and subcontractor subcontractor sub sub- contractor Whiting and Haymond Construction have begun work at Green River on additional missile facilities The ex ex- Is to handle the Athena missile program Construction Construe Construction tion began May 7 7 M MUnion Union Oil of California Is the l latest test to become active in local potash operations The operator is drilling a potash test at Seven Mile MIe on the northeast side of the Moab fault The acreage Is a from E E. E W W. Sawyer I Richfield Oil is Js drilling seven miles mUes southwest of Moab Tenneco Oil Is drilling drill drin ing a second test 10 miles mlles south and east of the city in San SanJuan SanJuan SanJuan Juan county and Independent operator Jay Roberts has a test scheduled for the area between Long Canyon and Little Canyon Can yon Grand county New regulations o of the state encourage the activity for lease validation and it appears as a result that activity of this kind will be fairly constant it The Bureau of Land Management will open bids May 28 on acres of land in four parcels for lease rights in Grand County's San Arroyo gas field The field developed by Sinclair Sin clair Oil and Gas Company is the most prolific gas producing area of the county and has 28 wells it a Moab be beauty uty shop operator Frances Jones is constructing a new top op at a t West Center and First West street location When complete the beauty center will be operated for Mrs Jones by Betty Beck 6 of Moab it The Ibe State of ot Utah Utan has acquired title Ulle to an additional acres aeres of ot land A in Ill the Cane Creek Anticline potash area virtually completing the necessary land acquisition there The state now has all but acres of the Cane Creek lands applied ap plied for in lieu of school sections used by the federal government govern ment meat for national parks forests etc A total of acres acres have now gone gone to the state in the Cane Creek area under transfer provisions The key to the importance o of current acquisition Is the requirement l that thel the l lands ds be producing non-producing at the time of ot transfer Had the transfer trans fer not preceded pr production of ot potash by Texas Gulf Gull Sulphur I jt It cOl could d pot not h have ve been made it it Moab's Moab nd Times independent p nd nt ha I fn Installed d offset printing equipment this week that will wall enable t the le firm to offer the complete range of ot commercial printing services Editor Samuel J. J Taylor said the installation of a commercial offset press and other equipment added to the already complete com corn letterpress operation would enable the firm to double Its commercial printing volume |