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Il ft t oy If r t r it-r f ji r 1 1 11 f V r t ft f Ir r fit P Pr i I Ii tit n 1 A Wf t f lt v t t It f r I D N s y t ta a t A T s F R NEARING COMPLETION COMPLETION Head frame construction at the Texas Gulf Sulphur potash tash development southwest I of Moab is nearing completion as crews reach near the r. r Mine Mill Site Flurry of Activity One j hundred and four fifty feet about Cane Creek Anticline atop top the tha for Texas Texa Gulf S Sulphur Sulphur- Company's mine min shaft wind and th the panorama panora panora- ma ma na w takes too thee breath away The Is no more mor moret t than an an an unobtrusive spear spear o of concrete In the huge area below the Colorado Canyon rim when viewed from a distance Close Clos in It dominates the landscape in a manner more more impressive than what nature has worl worked ed edwith with the red sandstone spires spire and buttes The building will house equipment equipment equipment equip equip- ment for hoisting the mam main mouth skips full fuU of potash ore some time In 1963 Below it I descending 2800 feet into the earth Is a foot 22 circular shaft shaf that will give access to the potash potash pot pot- potash ash ore are The smooth concrete lined shaft is visible now at the base of the providing an Impressive echo chamber for lor forthe forthe the thundering machines workIng working workIng work work- work work- Ing near by a and d the men above Up on top steelworkers carpenters carpenters carpenters car car- penters and concrete men lean Jean unconcerned Into wind building the framework for a superstructure superstructure superstructure super super- structure that will probe stilt still higher In the air The view of the project provided provided provided pro pro- vided by the height is beyond camera scope as it stretches on all aU sides Only the view from atop anant anant an anant ant hill bill could be he e comparable Equipment by the hundreds of ol tons Is moving In every tion The elevation makes th the heavy moving earth-moving machinery look something like tops manipulated manipulated man man- d aimlessly by some re remote remote re- re mote control The Job they are doing Is anything anything any any- thing but small A loaf like hill has been chewed chewe down to half its original orIgins size and the material material mater ial lal spread an and smoothed over three different areas On the filled a are areas r e a s the equipment moves slowly back and forth compacting and leveling the earth for building foundations Everywhere one looks something something some some- thing is moving Its It's dizzying to the uninformed observer and rather confusing Explained by bythe bythe bythe the men doing the job It is precisIon precision pre pee cislon effort on n a scale new pew to this country Careful observation reveals sup supervisory e r v III Q r y personnel of ot Stearns Stearns Roger Roger Manufacturing Co the plant contractors Isbell Construction Co excavators and the shaft sinking contractor tor ton International Harrison moving movIng moving ing between the area of activity Their movements take timing tuning obviously Traffic moves on 01 a pattern and the enforcement Is U Uno no problem when 11 done by thirty tons of earth mover Our small wheel four-wheel drive vehicle was like an ant in the middle of a square dance All AU of the activity Is not visible Below the ground feet teet last Friday men work U Sa Uthe the shaft on three suspended stages On the bottom Ottom they are mucking out the hole tole One stage up th the sides of the shaft haft r G ai 4 t ti J f is t k r rv v f j b y t t c l f It f P u a r. r 4 J M F w ws y s r. r t ti i i i M N m SHIPMAN CUTOFF-Crews CUTOFF going to and from Potash Utah Cane Creek arenow are arenow arenow now using this s spectacular road recently I completed by hy Isbell label Construction and are re receiving concrete and still till another stage up concrete forms are stripped from the sides side Access to the project t Is Ls equally impressive A new road has las u been built from the C Colo- Colo lorado lo- lo rado ado rim to river n level down Long wig Canyon Called Shipmans Shipman's Cutoff after Oran Shipman foot GOO mark on the shaft below The prominent tower is the center for a beehive of activity as construction crews rush the mine-mill mine project to completion Texas Gulf Gull Sulphur The new road makes a new scenic approach to Dead Horse Point Evans Gans Studio Photos project manager for tor Stearns Steams I Roger and of ot the route the road provides access that had been een cut off by highway construction along the river riven The new road spirals down from the Big Flat Fiat with an awe Inspiring series seriE of drops switchbacks switch switch- backs back and narrow chutes The scenery is Js pe spectacular ta but the driver wont won't enjoy Jt It The be grade grad reaches to nineteen per cent and straight segments are ate rare are In- In t In deed On the r return trip a huge D 8 Cat was dragging by cable a large larse truck up the maximum grade The road rod built by Isbell Construction does the Job lob Jt U was as Intended t to a do grades gradet and curves and all |
