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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1977
Page
9
In early oil days Pennsylvania crude was shipped in wooden barrels moved by horse wagons to market. Wallace N. Seward of the American Petroleum Institute notes that although barrels could hold 55 gallons, refiners paid for 42 gallons due to extensive spillage.
The Utah Division of Health notes Uintah County recorded two gonorrhea cases and two rubeola cases for August. The rest of the text discusses industry transport methods and barrel measurements, but the core health data remains these four cases in Uintah County.
Reclamation renames Tyzack Dam as Red Fleet Dam and Reservoir on Big Brush Creek near Vernal. Brown & Root Western, Inc. began construction in 1977, with about 8 percent complete. The Jensen Unit of the Central Utah Project will store 22,600 acre feet for irrigation in the Vernal area and municipal needs, plus recreation. The striking red buttes, part of the Moenkopi and Nagaja formations, shape the landscape viewed from Highway 44 north of Brush Creek.
Mountain Fuel Resources is finishing an underground gas storage in Clay Basin Daggett County Utah. The facility could hold enough gas to supply Salt Lake Valley about 200 days, though delivery to Mountain Fuel Supply Co customers is not assured. Most gas stored may go to Northwest Pipeline’s Idaho Washington Oregon customers.
A succinct Entreaty declares that success makes us intolerant of failure and failure makes us intolerant of success, attributed to William Feather. The aphorism underscores the double-edged drive behind achievement and setback.
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