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Show PAGE FOUR Tie WESTERN MINERAL . Clmlatlai News - Advertising Phoau Street Salt Lake City, Utah . Entered as second class matter at Salt Lake City, Utah, under Act of March X 1S79. for two yean; Subscription rates: for one year. Please mention Western Mineral Bur-ve- y when writing to advertisers. Advertising rates on application. $3.00 Harry B Miller . . Publisher MtCORKICK Editor O. D. QUINLAN Fes tore Editor FRANCIS 4ENEINS Adv. Manager L. M. BILL ..Contributing Editor dAREN K. For the newa of most significance in the mining and oil world. All news appearing in the Weston Mineral Survey is obtained from aources believed to be reliable but no rssponal-Willis assumed for accuracy of state- y ments. Reproduction this publication of any material from must have written permission from the publisher. Editorial ing an important Utah industry. Now, with 40 years of success behind them, with their place in (Continued from Page 1) mining history intact, the Sweets have decided to pioneer again. mineral wealth of Bingham. v The magic metal uranium V, ' t' ' t V'i ' v Sri in another years time it? a wU A . ' So, v. ' I. has tickled the imagination of the Utah V" ' jl may have a new ' ,4 ; ArS44 veteran, and his miners heart equally as big as our industry , present started pounding with reports of ' tmining interest, which will boost the past two years that men the of the state greatly. were taking millions from Utah I doeconomy " not see how it can miss, 'V i ) ' ' ' '7' ground. Commissioner Love emphasized. 'v ' '"Si Uranium is power. he points Instead of remaining at the out, and power is progress! We looked for coal for four decades present level, the uranium indusis going to continue to grow because coal was needed to power try and become bigger, greatly exthe wheels of western progress. Now its uranium the wheels ceeding production from present , need So well produce uni' Utah mining industries, he said. ' He now f nium. estimated, it is as 4 twice as the California big Power has always been the ' : ' , f Sweets gauge of success. Coal gold rush and the Alaska gold ; has been their major project, al- rush combined, having already , I r ' ; twice as produced like much as was J. all western engithough .4 V h,; neers that have dabbled success- produced in these two world fully with gold mines, silver mining upheavals. Where will ' r. r i . . , ' v claims and quicksilver deposits. the uranium be found?" asked . a, a 44 . i , ' , ,14. iv, But, Mr. Sweet pointed out, Commissioner Love. Then he Colorado power is basic . . . when you rejoined: The new home of Charlie Steen, the nraninm boom's first millionPerhaps have will tomorrow. it find a metal with energy like Perhaps aire, perches in majestic colitnde half-wa- y up a mountainside. The will have Wyoming next coal and uranium it year. find you honse. windowed featuring spacions walls, has a commanding wealth . . . and progress . . . Our production is tremendous at view of Moab, Utah, jnst to the south. Steen's fabulons Mi Vida power can always be marketed. present. Whether some other mine is 40 miles south oi Moab. (Survey Denver Bureau Photo). state will eclipse Utah in producThere is never a shortage. Unlike the influx of amateurs tion, who knows? We have the in the business, the Sweets have lead and have a good chance to aproached the uranium dream hold it, on the basis of our uranium discoveries up to the preslike practical mining men. ent. They realize that uranium is There are 600 industries of not a stock certificate, a pretty the United States now experian prospectus, oral promise. There is only one yardstick menting with atomic energy. It is not to a a mining man uses to judge this goingas be slow process was time, it when the mining land, Mr. Sweet said, 'and that is is there something steam engine began to make hisin the ground. tory. Now we have a good marThe Sweets intend to find out ket, with the government makAt the present time the Sweets ing it particularly attractive to control 408 potential uranium produce uranium," he concluded. claims in the Colorado plateau and Wyoming uranium fields. Drilling will start soon A staff of trained, g geologists and engineers have been hired. With a gleam in his eye, with a veteran smile, Mr. Sweet now 85 says it will be good to be back in the field! At a reorganization meeting of Mountain Valley Uranium Corporation held recently, Thorit Hicks Company Hatch, of Hedper, Utah, was chosen president and a director, efv DENVER BUREAU Circulation News Advertising Denver, Colo. Bldg. Bl Klttredge NORMAN LEVINE--Denve- r Reprcocatatlvi 15.00 ... Time to Take Stock The current rush for the dollar bill has made many of us who should know better oldtimers included forget an old saw that helped our fathers and some of the oldtimers left enjoy life. Ever so often they stopped to take stock of the situation. From the philosophy evolved ethics and an enjoyment of life as it happened to be. True, we have shorter hours, more production and higher standards of living. But too many of us in our search for the dollar have forsaken ethics. We have more but enjoy less. Maybe its just time to stop to take stock of things. Enters U-Fi- eld After 'earth 40 years of probing the of Utah for burled treasure, veteran mining man W. H. Sweet, of Salt Lake City, is getting ready to pioneer again. This time its uranium! A veteran coal mining man, Mr. Sweet helped open up many of the major coal fields of Utah. With his brothers, F. A. and C. N. Sweet, and a son, Victor, he pioneered the search for coal in Utah. V 1 4 v 4 - 4 4 - 1 ... T 4 Mt v 4 4. 4 ? 4 , ri; A-t- ... Standard Uranium May Operate' Mt. Valley Property Changes Name Now Western Mineral Survey 421 Chinch SL Salt Lahe City. Utah Published Once Each Week Late News, Quotations, Information Service, en Mining. Oil Financial KEEP POSTED ON THE GREAT URANIUM ROOM $3.00 One Tear $5.00 Two Team CIRCULATION DEPARTMENTS 421 Chnrch Street Salt Lahe City, Utah or 722 Kltredge Building, Denver, Colorado Subscription Order for which send me Western Mineral Survey for fective until the next regular stockholders meeting. He succeeds- Floyd Adams, who resigned. Francis Scartezina, Provo, was elected acting succeeding secretary-treasur- er secretary-treasure- r, William Reves, and director, who also resigned. Allen Browne, Price, Utah, business man, has consented to act as director, but has not yet actually been appointed. His appointment is to be confirmed at a regular meeting May 16. President Hatch announced that the new board intends to adopt an aggressive policy in the companys affairs. He said Mountain Valley is already considering several deals relative to property of the company, among them a proposal which if consumated will provide that Standard Mining Corporation take over and operate part of Mountain Valley property. NOW IN STOCK SCINTILLATION COUNTERS "Precision" 11 IB "Detection" DS 222 Fisher "Scintilla-Dyne- " . $495.00 $289.00 $249.50 COUNTERS GEIGER-BISMUT- H Fisher Scout Deluxe Bismuth Fisher Scont Deluxe Geiger Connies Precision Professional Fisher Scont Precision Lncky Strike Detection DG-- 2 $159.50 139.50 139.50 99.50 99.50 99.50 35.00 Fisher Snooper All Fisher Scont Models Rave 75 Honrs Continnons Use And Adaptable For Drill Hole Probes C-- 18 MINERALITES "V-4- 3" "SL "M-1- 2" Heavy Duty 30 FI, Throw $77.50 $39.50 Field Model $39.50 Complete service and repairs on all makes detection instruments. 2537" GEIGER Name COUNTERS FOR RENT GRAND JEWELRY Address. City v w DENVER The Denver investment banking firm of J. W. Hicks and Company has changed its name to Hicks, Newton and Company, Inc. Joseph W. Hicks, of The Sweets were instrumental both the old firm andpresident the newly in building branch railroads organized firm, and Ralph Newthroughout Utah coal fields, de- ton is executive vice president veloping raw coal deposits into and B. J. Weed secretary-treasur- er profitable ventures, and father of Hicks, Newton. Enclosed find $ 4 4 4 hard-workin- Mining Veteran May 6. 1955 Utah Uranium SURVEY 421 Church Western Mineral Surrey, Salt Lake City, Utah -- State. 220 So. Stale (Write for free catalog) Sail Lahe City |