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Show lUtes Visit Carter Rig Robert Colorow and his sen, JVaarsSiaiS, get first-hand dope on drilling One cold morning last winter Robert Colorow and his son Marshall chopped a hole in the ice on the water trough, tossed some hay to the cattle and then saddled their shaggy ponies for EDITOR'S NOTE Robert Colorow was killed on Aug. 23, 1352 near Neola when the automobile he was driving missed a bridge as he was traveling east through : Hay- j den. j i a ride to Carter's No. 2 Du chesne-Ute Tribal well. As mem bers of the Ute Tribe and beneficiaries bene-ficiaries of the Duchesne. Utah, discovery well, they had been wanting to' learn first-hand about the big Carter drilling ris probing for oil near their home. On the cross-country ride the range-wise ponies carefully tested test-ed each step they took in stirrup stir-rup deep snow drifts before shifting their full wei?ht. Friendly Guy Keith, Carter drilling tool foreman, met father and son as they rode up to the , doghouse steps and invited thein to be his guests for a tour o'J the rig. Starting with the draw works, they covered every major ma-jor drilling operation. Both father and son found the crew's teamwork fascinating, round-ups . and branding, they Cattlemen, used to teamwork in appreciated this sort of thin?;. They all talked for auite a while at the mud mixing pits. The water used in the mud interested in-terested the Colorows most. Around this part of the country irrigation is expensive even when you live near a river. Figuring how much it cost tj haul water to the location gave them a practical idea of the difficulties and cost of drilling in arid locations. Young Marshall took a quick liking to the amiable driller. Harold Streit, who shared his big store of oil field lore with the boy. Explaining his job to Marshall, Harold found an admiring ad-miring audience. While thev were on the rig floor, the Colorows Col-orows got a chance to see Driller Drill-er Streit clean house. The broom he used to sweep the derrick floor was a high pessure hose squirting hot water to wash away the mud left from a tooting toot-ing job. Later Guy Keith and the Colorows Col-orows went into the donouse to look at a diamond core bic and some rock cores. Guv didn'1 have any trouble explai.ng to the Colorows how oil passes through solid rock. During thaws Marshall and his father have seen water ooze out of the side of solid canyon walls and they know oil could do it, too. After the visit they said goodbye to Keith and rode back home over the road Carter built to reach the well. Both had a good understanding of drilling operations and the growing importance im-portance of oil development to Utah after their visit. - |