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Show More Gas Than Hoped , Potentially the Colorado Pla- teau Is one of the richest natural . s gas fields In America today, with , known fields from the great San - Juan Basin In New Mexico ' ,f through western Colorado, north- f eastern Arizona, eastern Utah, and clear Into Wyoming and . y Idaho. t This great storehouse of nat- v' ural Energy has just recently been reahzed as being of major ' importance on the Colorado Pla . ; teau. Now, dozens of wells are jL being drilled or are In the plan- " ''j nlng stage by as many as a doz- . , en different companies. . yx Developers of power look to natural gas In this immediate dls- , .V trlct as being of tremendous im- . "-,J portance in any future plans that ' may result from today's studies of the Plateau's sotenliaL The , v reserves are almost limitless and & now only ways of utilizing them -' fully are holding back complete . Ta dc-elopment .,, Much of the gas Is, of course, Ta? being sold to interstate pipeline r Tpv companies for use in other areas. ;tte But there are those people whs - ;a see the natural gas lying beneath , the great Plateau as being used in the power stations that will JA tomorrow supply Energy to the . . 3 thousands of industries that may someday be located at the source of their natural resources. fi ' What lies ahead for historians ' i of some future date to write about the use of natural gas being sup- .'$." plied by wells on the Plateau -can now be only matter of guesswork. Present plans caU for '. sale to intra- and Interstate pipe . : . lines and a small amount for local . consumption, merely a sufficient . , amount to meet local needs. y. But who Is to say that event- - f& ually perhaps in the not too dls- ' tant future the same gas that now pushes against the earth's crust seeking to escape the great crevices where It now la en trapped, may be released to power the greatest Industrial plants America has ever knows. |