Show cotez cau fishing tools inc build warehouse and east of vernal venial currently under construe U C tion east of vernal la a warehouse for cortez fishing toola inc this athla firm located in vernal a year ago due to increased oil and gas drilling activity in t the he area and recently moved to its 0 own w b building AS ITS NAME suggests the oil industry service bervice firm will rent drilling and fishing equipment or will do the nee essary job itself seven men are employed by the tae company which has a monthly payroll of to owns worth of equipment and grosses monthly five of the employees fam i hies live in trailers on a lot adjacent to the new location the 30 by 58 foot warehouse contains partitions se gre gating the shop and supply storeroom and in the front is a smal small office tito the location of the firm just off U S 40 can easily be seen by a bright neon sign i it ARMSTRONG manager 9 af pf f the vernal location said that the local unit staff designed its own building and built it without outside help other than some finishing work specialized equipment includes shoes dressed with tungsten carbide that can cut through almost any metal on fishing expeditions the shoes hoes are dressed with the hard metal at 2000 degree heat fishing to the oil industry Is a technical term terin meaning locating lost tools and equipment that have fallen down holes being drilled tot for oil and gas tests testa ANOTHER PROCESS includes using wash wah pipe which washes liquid around the stuck tool to 14 work it tree free so that it can be ba withdrawn members of the local staff include mr arnstrong AriA Ari strong R B eller truck charles charlea Arro armstrong strong and lloyd mears shop ohop gien men and L J wilson aart fishing tool operators head office of the company is in abilene Ab llene texas x A A fl Q Y W WA WAREHOUSE R E 1 10 USE co completion tion of the interior Is 1 underway on the th nw now warehouse wa rhu and sho nop of cortex fishing tool 18 in inc C sho shop and tools took many of which may be b ten hnud can be soon the huge in 19 center Is used for tipping shoos with car bado 4 ja r 44 i T 14 I 1 rp 14 1 0 10 F r 7 alj t 4 e 7 jf 4 ka A M SHOES general manager lacy harbor loft left and local manager J B R armstrong display tungsten tipped shoos ho that are wd used to free fi tools and pip amad jammed in wll wells mr lacy to Is pointing to a drill pip that has hai dp dop grooves cut by the tha shoes ho bjoro it was wa fished out mr armstrong shows how a two inch pic of tubing that was spiraled pi when a 30 lb weight of pipe fell on it down a hole at right is the same size tubing in normal slat staff photos |