Thursday, April 26, 1951. THE TRIBUNA. WILLIAMS LAKE, B.c. 5 é Page 3 Pipeline Plans To Fore Again: New Gas/‘Finds Prince George -- Date set for a start on construction of natural gas pipeline from the Drilling already under way is ex- pected to prove additional reserves to bring this total to 2000 billion. Westcoast Transmission Co. most Powerful of the transmission line ~ seekers, and the only one route to a Proposed line through this city, say they require 2400 billion cubic feet over a 30-year period. Pacific Petroleums Ltd., with their 5 association company, Lancer Petro ‘ leums, already hold 800,000 acres of f promising land in the western portion ; of the Peace River district and de- i yelopment it proceeding swiftly. Two other wells in the same area are showing preliminary flows of 3,000,000 cubic feet per day. These Iso were drilled by Pacific Petrole- ums and their associate companies. Several other companies are also drilling in the same general area, all 2f which will contribute to Westcoast Transmission Co.'s southbound pipe. line, First signs that the Alberta gov- ernment might relent. and permit ex- ert from some of thei: northern and more isolated gas fields came last year when Westcoast’ were granted Permision to build a 17-mile pipeline from inside the Alberta Boundary to Pacific Petroleums is a subsidiary company of Westcoast Transmission Company and is affiliated with the drilling group in the world. being made, in Edmonton. many observers ee One of the most promising discover- jes in the B.C.-Peace River section so far is Pacific-Sunrise No. 3, owned by the Pacific Petroleums group and situated only 10 miles north of Dawson Creek, Restricted drill stem tests on this property show a million and a half feet daily and as this is written, the gas is being opened for full test. os DOG CREEK NEWS Still leading contenders with an all- Canadian route to the south is West- coast, whose plans call for a 770 mile pipeline from the Peace River district to Prince George. SUNDAY LAST will long be re- membered by eight youngsters of this community. The Rev. Father Ducie Officiated at their first participation of Holy © ion. Some 35 people were in attendance all told. The: ser- vice was held in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Reg Chapin. HILARY PLACE was a visitor to Williams Lake last week, and while there attended a meeting of the Board of School Trustees. He was accom- panied by A. J. Drinkell who visited the Geoffrey Places. MR. and MRS. HAROLD PLACE were visitors to town. ‘MR. EVE spent a few hours in the valley Friday, : WE ARE ENJOYING a spell of real spring sunshine right now, and every- thing in the valley is blossoming forth very rapidly. The exact location of “God’s Country” is, unquestionably, hereabouts. 3 é ) I] SHOVELS and SWEEPS For Clean, Hi-Speed Farmall Cultivation You “skim through the fields with the Breatest of ease” with IH Hi-Speed sweeps and shovels, killing yield-robbing weeds and grass. 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Owned and Operated | Self Serve Specials Effective April 22rq WESTERN OFFICERS OF DUCKS UNLIMITED Recently appointed to be in charge of field Unlimited (Canada) are Angus Gavin, left, formerly 2 = OVERWAITEA LID, === Ompany —Central Press Canadian operations of Ducks Saskatchewan man- Their plans for this Benedum-Trees interests, reckoned | the city of Dawson Creek. Qhich Ducks Unlimited have promoted and financed for yeate ie by some as the biggest independent oil| At the rate new discoveries are Gavin, mow general manager, will operate from Winnipeg; Mr, Harley, now field manager for Alberta and Sash , has his headquarter that it will be only a short time before one of the pipeline companies is | sranted permission to export natural | ALCAN PROJECT CREATES BOOM The start of the vast Alcan hydro Project has made a boom town out of the village of Burns Lake, 140 miles west of Prince George, according to a news story in the Citizen. Men and equipment are pouring in| Part-of the greatest oil development ! =e) to begin work on another phase of the $555,000,000 project as offices, bunkhouses and warehouses are. being rushed by Morrison-Knudsen Company of Canada and its sub-contractors Mannix Corporation: A spur is being built on the CR. near the booster station. Clearing and grading of railway property east of the Francois Lake road preparatory to the building of a large warehouse and loading platforms will start this week. A camp for workers in transit to the road and tunnel jobs is being erected, and while the camp and warehouse are being completed work will start on the access road from Within a Month 500 men will be employ.d and by next year the road contract and tunnel work will require 3000 men on this phase of the gigan- tic project alone, 5 * As soon as the road to Tahtsa Lake is completed, men, machinery and Supplies will move down the big lake driven through tains, which rise including South America and the Far East, has an estimated weight of 5 million tons. ROGERS syrup 5 1b. tin .... Burns Quality Products PURE ALBERTA HONnY 4Ibs tins SMOKED pIcNice JELLO or NICE 53 a ee COTTAGE Dee Ib, LO PEDDING, 9 for . abe | pOreAC a ee Te Ib. nd 63c lb, Piece Ib pkt. ... Overwaitea Best Tea PER POUND v. $1.00 Overwaitea Best Coffee A PURE LARD, j BAKBaSy, 1/1) Ib. pkt. -D E. GOLDENLOA Fr CHEESE, FAR, large pkt. PALMOLIVE PRINCEss giant pkt. Pov ERWAITEA ' Pure Strawberry Jam OVERWAITEA 39e SOAP, 2 for SOAP FLAKES 47c 4 Ib. tin 1.17 Pork and Beans 15 oz. tins .... 6 for 79¢ the Summit Moun- Pp: pee coca os Herren vrante| OPTIONS TAKEN ON | um values across width. This Is What Happens When Oil Came To Redwater Just about two and a half years ago the hamlet of Red- Water Alberta, numbered about 160 persons, if you include a few families living on farms close in. There were four general stores, two garages, three grain elevators, a tiny hotel and lunch counter, pool room and blacksmith shop. But no street lights, no movie houses, drug stores, bank or fire department. Dusty, quiet little Redwater in the Smokey Lake municipality was the small centre of a vigorous tarminz community populated mostly by the original Ukranian settlers and their descendents, with a few Anglo-Saxon French and German families. What happened in Redwater about two and a half years ago is told in the latest issue of the Imperial Oil Review, and it is a stoty that might easily be repeated in the Cariboo within the next few months. The big change, after the day in September, 1948 when oil was discoy- ered beneath the fields at Redwater. The unexpected Jiquid crop brought an array of portable oil rigs, tall and gaunt metal pyramids, wheeling into the wheat fields. They began to drill to more than half a mile beneath the surface. Derricks soon dotted the landscape for 15 miles along the me- andering dried-out Redwater river. As the wells began to come in at the rate of one.a day, the rigs moved on. Strange new mechanisms appear- ed in the flelds, the pipe-fitters’ bran- ching “Christmas Trees’ controlling the flow of oil from the wells, and the pump jacks which stand at the wei! heads like big mechanical rocking horses, nodding slowly as they pumr the oil from the reef below. These activities at Redwater wer: n Canadian history, which had been touched off by the earlier discovery at Leduc, Thousands of people were volved, directly or indirectly. They bégan to share the oil harvest — 9 harvest that S expected to continue for at least 70 years, come hail, frost, grasshop- pers or wheat rust. Life and movement in the awalencd hamlet of Redwater saw the commun. ty blossom into a village and just recently a townsite population swollen © 3500 in two booming years. Oil rigs, tank cars, bulldozers, trail- "rs, portable cabins and an army of vorkers and merchants came rolling into the once quiet farm centre, Redwater’s three main strects filled 3p rapidly with every conceivable ‘ype of business; four more general stores, a drug store, nine restaurants, shree lumber yards, two banks, two sheatres, a bowling alley, barber shop, “wo jewellery stores, bus depot, three clothing stores, two hardwares, Cement sidewalks were laid on two streets. Street lights appeared along with a telephone system, trains every day, regular milk delivery, a police- man, ‘village secretary, civic organiza- ions, churches and two weekly news— papers. The municipality built a new high hool in Redwater toward which the village taxes provided $11,000. All cle- ments in the community co-operated Subscription for a $20,000 curling PARTY WINDS UP |: : BADMINTON YEAR At first the farmers feared the oil discoveries would disrupt their lives nd harm their crops. But now they i lub The Lone Butte badminton +, _| Dow that the ofl acti es cause lit closed the badminton season with a| © lneteat a eee dance: at Lone Butte Saturday night. producing ai face ee vias from Williams | “eS require very little space, There were players equire i F rig ne Lake, Prince George, Clinton, and ms ae iS soueneed right to tie Forest Grove. It was a very Successful | “C8¢ Of the well sites and there is al- fae most no interruption in the produc- THE Bert Browns of the the Lone| ‘Wily of the land. The farmers have Butte Hotel are in Vancouver on 2|40€ new friends among the oil mon business trip. The Chet Caleutts are | 274 life is just as full as before the cunbitig. the: Hotel, ands ators. drills came to Redwater. MR. an MRS. SIGURD TART ++ neues P the LY minch on Tse € enter- ~ tained the Philosopher's Club Sunday.| Glug Ys Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Jack DeVries, Mr: and Mrs. Chris Horn, A. J. Percy Willard and Lola THE United Church hela service at Lone: Butte Sunday, Rey. Jack Col- Clough officiating. 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