Show gilsonite te plant completes pipeline survey As multimillion multi u II 0 million 0 ion dollar r project forges ahead A mn avy of the proposed pi pipeline pelino to extend from tin tho Bon bonafin aliza gils omle mining operations to it coking plant site nt it colo WIH wits completed last week according t to nil an ly by superintendent john baker of tho american gilsonite lils company the coni pany announced sonio time ngo ago tho the plan to build a it dollar plant in colorado to produce and coke of or a it high quality tho program also included tin construction of an all eight inch lino from the com pally Is annies nt at bonanza to fruita crushed gilsonite gils will be 10 carried in ill suspension pension in ill water through the line entirely new methods of high pressure hydraulic mining have been developed to ite place the present pick and shovel method the entire program will cost in excess of 10 million dollars the length ot of the pipe line will be 80 miles extending over rugged terrain said mr baker in a general way it will follow the old uintah railway right of way taking a southern course from bonanza past the old settlements tle ments of watson and dragon south of dragon the line will cross over the utah colorado line over baxter pass down atchee canyon to faulta although a part of the line will be contracted this year it Is expected to complete most of the line early in 1956 according to the superintendent increase In tonnage it 1 is expected that the program will be completed in 18 months when the mining of gil bonite will be increased from tons ton to or 1000 tons a day and an entirely new industry will be established in uintah county U 1 Is estimated that the known reserves will take care of the proposed operations for more then fifty years continued on page 8 continued front arige 1 T qt holes drilled nt at the sl site te of tile boking coken ot tit have tit orn pany it n gi ginders belaf it solid olid foun hatlon would allive lo 10 in be con strutted ted with I 1 ahe in nr of piling when ills ilant it iq which will li bo on oil it railroad it will be able to turn out a high quality of 1 l nl roko coke and high leat gm allne from taw gilsonite chih not II 11 K 0 o fair it used principally pilly to inake m ikc vor nishca st it ornu orrige battery bill cry census Bip halt floor all tile and insulation of hot underground paix more than 25 2 loni of f steel piling have been received for tile pumping plant to be con s a at white river work on oil this project will get lot under way this wk said laid superintendent baker it is planned to sink ink perforated collection lines 35 feet below the bed of 0 the river from front 25 2 to 50 tons of steel piling will bo be used to dam off the sand from rom the intake water will be pumped 1 from the river by two h p motors to two storage reservoirs near Boi bonanza ianza which will have a capacity of one and a quarter million gallons one of these reservoirs with a capacity of one fourth million gallons is already in use by the company |