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Show Page 4 November 24, 1969 OIL & MINING JOURNAL . Numerous Topics Slated Workers (locking there are finding no work. The Sept. 1 1 state lease sale of $900 million to oil companies made headlines all around the country. The reaction was reminiscent of the day George Carmack discovered gold about 70 years ago in the Klondike Creek and ignited the feverish gold rush of 98. At the turn of the century over 30,000 dreamers of the pot o gold struggled over the Chilkoot Pass to this far north FAIRBANKS, Alaska--T- he great oil rush to the north slope of this state is fast producing the great unemployment crisis. country. Nearly all casually looking for jobs. Many go o'utside to the lower 48 states for work. But now that the black gold rush of Alaska is known across the nation, workers are coming from during the winter of quick money. Its true you can make lots of money on the slope, Hardy Smith, pilot for Interior Airlines of them in Fairbanks, says. A friend of mine up here offered me his job of trucking water to the drilling camps around Prudhoe. He makes $25,000 a year. A couple of years of that and you can retire for awhile. But you earn it. You work sometimes 16 hours a day every day of the week. It can be dangerous in that weather, even trucking water. conditions Arctic on the are extremely Slope severe. A wind at 30 degrees below zero freezes exposed flesh in half a minute. Engines must be kept running 24 hours a day. Tires flatten and crack if kept too long in one place. Working conditions force progress to a crawl when temperatures settle at 50 and 60 degrees below zero in December and January. North 30-mi- le increase months in Alaska is traditional. Construction jobs close down after the short summer season and workers usually spend the cold months idle or only eride hits everywhere, especially the oil states of Texas, California, Louisiana and Oklahoma. Alaska isnt so much the call of the wild as it is now the call found more where gold wasnt than where it was. The great claims were already staked out before their arrival. Now, with Alaska once again in the limelight, men are coming to tlic 49th state to make big fast money by working for the oil companies. But theyre finding the jobs arc already taken. Henry Hedbcrg, president of the Laborers Local Union 341 in Anchorage, reports 20 men a day come looking for jobs on the North Slope. Hes forced to tell them there arc no jobs on the slope or anywhere else for them now and probably wont be even in the spring. Unemployment nearly 14 raells out of 14 drillings BAKERSFIELD, Calif. Mericlc Oil Co., Phoenix, Ariz., has announced it has hit its 14th well in 14 drilling operations in their Chico Martinez field in Kern County. Adding the original seven wells on the property gives Mericle a total of 21 producing oil wells, according to a news release distributed by Alcon Bennett & Associates, a Los Angeles public relations firm. The release said the last two wells, located at Township 23S, section 35, range 20E, Mount Diablo Base and Meridian, have between 380 and 300 feet of producing sands. Bakersfield Drilling Company is the drilling company. Mericlc Oil is a For Diamond lubilee The engineering, exploration geology and mining sessions of the Northwest Mining Associations Diamond Jubilee convention in Spokane Friday and Saturday, Dec. 5 and 6, will feature many speakers from the Northwest, Eskil Anderson, association president, has announced. At the Engineering session Keith Whiting, supervisor of American Smelting and Refining geologist with the U. S. Geological Survey in Spokane, on The Gas Dills pistrct " An Example of Wyoming Sandstone - Type Uranium Deposits .. Robert J. Bolton, Computer Data Processors, Ltd., Calgary, Alta., is to talk on Computer Derived Information From Aeromagnetic Surveys, and Arthur B. Campbell, chief of the Geological Survey s Denver, Colo., Cos Northwest U.S. environmental geology branch, on A Survey of Remote Sensing Exploration office here, will talk on The White Cloud Issue - and Techniques and Applications in to the Earth Sciences. Problems Relating 0 t Mining Robert S. in Mine Planning. Howard C. Pettibone and Hendricks, senior industrial Galen G. Waddell of the Bureau engineer for Hecla Mining Co., of of Mines Spokane Mining Wallace, Idaho, will speak on Research Laboratory will cover Experience and Results with Hecla , J. M. Suttie, Stability of an Underground Shotcrete at assistant general Supt., of mines Room in Frozen Gold-BeariAnaconda Co. in Butte, Strata, Fairbanks, Alaska, and on Keeping Vein Mines Byron B. Brenden, engineering Mont., and Floyd C. Bossard, manager, and Victor I. Neeley, Going technical manager, for Acoustical professor of mining at Montana Minerals Exploration, Richland, Tech, in Butte, on Implications Wadi., will speak on Acoustical of Environmental Problems. Jack Harper, president of Card Prospecting from Diamond Drill Holes. Corp, of Denver, Colo., will speak George L. Atwood, mine on Advance Mine Transportation superintendent for Monsanto Co., Systems, and G. B. Huber, vice Soda Springs, Idaho, will discuss president of Explosive Monsanto Opens the Henry Technology of Fairfield, Calif., wll talk on Mine. Applications of includes session The Geology Special Explosives in the Mining S. Norman Kesten, chief geologist Industry. Two other speakers who have of Northwest Mining District for Asarco, on New Developments in been confirmed for the the Search for Silver Ore in the convention are M. J. McMillan of Coeur dAlene District Shoshone Victoria, B.C., who will talk on in the Brameda Resources, County, Idaho, Ted O. Price, district geologist for Western Canadian session, and Col. Walter Nuclear, Inc., here on Geology Frankland Jr., executive director and Ore Reserves of the Sherwood of Silver Users of Washington, Mine, and Frank C. Armstrong, D.C., who will speak on silver. Environment ng fr ANNOUNCING A UTAH FIRS I! of publicly-trade- d subsidiary Progressive Investment Development r - 5 - .1 Corp. 1 i : f. y . Corporation and P.I.C. Research and r ;; V ; . . Wj ... ,. . t . I I V C headquartered in Phoenix, Ariz. Mericle Oil has 17 producing wells in the Van Ormy field near San Antonio, Texas, and 16 wells in the adjoining Chicon Lake field, according to the release. PER ANNUM INTEREST COMPOUNDED ON $500 ONE YEAR THRIFT CERTIFICATES TV star in gas venture SACRAMENTO, Calif. television star who surmounted many A has tight situations on the video screen is challenging wildcat drilling odds in the Sacramento Valley gas search. James Arncss, Marshall Matt PLUS Dillon of televisions Gunsmoke, is drilling an exploratory well near the Dcnverton Creek gas field, 35 miles southwest of Sacramento. Santa Fc International Corp. handling the contract drilling work with a rig rated for 10,500 feet. Its likely a depth of something less, probably around 9,300 will turn up an answer. is The RA Y W. BRADFORD President & General Manager Ovar-the-Count- er & Stocks Mutual Funds Dcnverton Creek gas Held was a 1966 discovery by Mobil Oil Corp. Attesting to complex geology of the field is the fact that each of three wells completed there found gas in a different sand. The Arncss wildcat lies on the next section west of the most southerly well in the field. SAVE BY MAIL Name Address Cily Zip Social Security Number Send me Thrift Certificate in the amount of $. for a period |