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Show June 16, 1969 OIL & MINING JOURNAL Oil shrinkage 'critical The GALVESTON, TEX. of redomestic oil shrinkage Rites to hail 'coal liner tinued to decline over the past 12 serves has reached a critical state, the president of Petroleum Equipment Suppliers Association (PEAS), said Monday. PEAS President John B. Merritt of Los Angeles told the 23rd annual convention of the Texas Independent Producers & Royalty Owners Association, drilling in the U.S. has con years. SUNNYSIDE, gas and oil will be in Alaska and in new offshore fields. Presidents Utah to inspect drillers In the event a company is contracted to drill a mineral test hole within the State of Utah, it is requested that the Oil and Gas be Conservation Department notified so that a safety inspection can be made. All information related to a well location and drilling activity will be held confidential, according to Cleon F eight, director. All rigs drilling at a depth below 2, 000 feet for stratigraphic and core resource evaluation assuring the continued high-volum- P . fc rpi4 ? & i . S . ! (),: ijt t ft fe! C? .v. kt i.. INVFSTMEN; SECU 'Acmljors Salt Lgm; i T specially-designe- E13 txri MARKET SPECIALISTS Salt Lake City 2000 Univ. Club Bldg. 136 E. South Temple 1 Phone: Provo Las Vegas 163 N. Univ. Ave. E. Charleston Blvd. .1721 Phone: 7 Phone: 5 100-to- d n gondola cars have now been received and placed in service. One hundred of the new cars were bought by the Union Pacific and Rio Grande, providing a reserve above the 84-cconsist to allow for rotation of cars for service on a regular basis. capacity INVEST WITH OUR OVER-THE-COUNT- ER operation of the e Sunnyside Mine for many years to come. Operation actually began late last year with leased cars. New, 'I S who will participate in the dedication are Jack J. Carlson of Kaiser, G.B. Aydelott of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, Edd H. Bailey of the Union racific Railroad, and John S. Reed of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. The train, which makes a I,6- 00-mile round trip every four days, handling 8,400 tons of coal from Kaiser's Sunnyside Mine to the Kaiser steel mill at Fontana, Calif., is credited with data will be checked. industry. Utah-T- he presidents of the Kaiser Steel Corp. and three railroads will meet here June 17 to officially dedicate their Coal Liner unit train and new high capacity loading facilities. Governor Calvin Rampton of Utah will head a delegation of business and civic leaders who will participate in the event. And during this period, our nation has continued to use up its proved reserves of gas and oil at a rate faster than new supplies are being found. Merritt preducted the first push for new U.S. reserves of The Utah Industrial Commission has requested the Division of Oil and Gas Conservation office to expand its drilling rig and crew safety Inspection program from normal oil field activity to segments of the mining Page 5 high-sid- e ar New unit train heads for Coast steel mill. 364-197- 374-825- 384-299- Challis favors forest mine CHALLIS, IDAHO . The For- est Service took Its series of informational meetings to Challis ENGINEERS, INC. and found people who live nearest the White Clouds area seem to Mining Exploration Claim Staking favoe mining development there. The government conducted meetings at Boise and Idaho Falls last month, and at Challis Wednesday, to get the feeling of people toward an application for Survey Work Anywhere in the Mountain West 2300 W. 13400 South a 254-424- 5 permit by Amer- ican Smelting and Refining Co. Riverton, Utah 84065 254-376- multiple-us- e (ASARCO.) The company has asked permission to build a road into the White Clouds area, in Custer National Forest, as access to a proposed molybdenum mine site. 6 K1GTC7 end OUSE Vlsnes, Sllverton, manager of ASARCOs Northwest Mining De- conservationist. government, adding the more land thats locked up, the narrower the tax base becomes. He estimated the mining development could mean as much as $720,000 a year in tax money for the county. The feeling of the 300 or so persons attending the Challis meeting apparently weighed heavily in ASARCOs favor. Its welcome to be before a friendly crowd, said Norman partment. State Sen. James Ellsworth, was one of the chief advocates of the mining venture. I dont deny the beauties of said Mr. Ellsworth, nature, but I am still more Inspired by the progress of man. said 95 percent of Custer County is owned by the federal He Envirotech acquires Eimco EQUIPHGHT SALT LAKE CITY-Ei- mco Corp., manufacturer of mining machinery and pollution control equipment, has been acquired by a Corp., newly-forme- d in the company environmental control field. GRMMLL EXCAVATORS Envirotech AUSTIN-WESTER- Conservationists oppose the idea, claiming the economic benefits resulting from mining development would not match the loss of scenic beauty. At the May meetings, Gov. Don W. Samuelson Issued a statement supporting ASARCO's application. His endorsement was followed by the resignation of Ernest Day, chairman of the State Parks Board and an ardent POWER GRADERS R HYDRAULIC CRANES ROBBINS A SCHRAMM ROTARY ORILLS A SECURITY BITS president and chief operating officer of Envirotech, which also acquired BSP Corp. from Bangor Punta Corp. M. Lee Rice, president', of Ogden, said' the companies best equipped to handle pollution Since 1957, Eimco has been a control problems are those subsidiary of the Ogden Corp., which are systems oriented. He which acquired the firm from said it was in the best interest of the Roseblatt interests in 1957. Ogdens shareholders to transfer Eimco to Envirotech, a new Berne A.. Schepman, corporate vehicle in which the president of Eimco, becomes' the combined capabilities of several equipment manufacturers can better assume responsibility for total systems. Envirotech was formed by the New York assets management firm of Donaldson, Lafkin and Jenrette Inc., North American Rockwell Corp. and Robert Chambers, .a San Francisco industrialist. Eimco employs 1,800 in Salt Lake City. Its mining division makes rock loading and( tunneling machines and auxiliary supporting equipment. Mountain Fuel to close mine SALT LAKE CITY Mountain Fuel Supply LINK BELT SPEEDER SHOVELS AND CRANES WESTERN ROAD MACHINERY 2300 SaaKi AAeln P. O. Ban 2 SAB COMPANY Salt Lake City, Utah 04110 590 W. 19th St. BrsRch Offices: Maht Falls, Idaho 3418 Westira Co. will shut down its phosphate ore beneficiation plant at Conda, Idaho; on June 30. The firm said from operational losses and continued depressed conditions in the the in, OtisB, Idaho shut-dow- n resulted- - - fertilizer industry where adjacent El Paso Products Co. MOUNTAIN FUEL invested plant which was closed down in an estimated $4 million in the 1967 because of conditions m plant which started up. in 1967 the phosphate fertilizer industry. and had intended to beneficiate its own ore from a leased mine. Mountain Fuel's Conda plant However, the plant ended up employed an estimated 5U using stockpiled ore from the persons. phosphate is used. |