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Show 2 Helicopter Slated for Widespread Prospecting the most minute (Continued From Page cal. 1) Exactly the game area was surveyed by helicopter in one hour, using only an engineer -- observer and a pilot. ' With the helicopter, it was found, flights very close to the ground could be made with complete safety. In bare areas, the engineers learned, surveys were made 25 and 50 feet above the ground, while in forest areas the height was increased to 100 and 150 feet. The flown results," he said, do not differ essentially from the results . obtained in the ground survey. Even compara- tively small features are identi- berg explained. Gordon Creek Test Pushing To Objective Western test on The Pacific Carbon Gordon Creek, County, is still in Navajo formation at 8555 feet and should find objective Weber within the next 1000 feet In the West Vernal, Uinta County area, Carters wildcat is drilling below 7143 feet in shale, with no report as to the intended depth of the test. Mountain Fuel Supply Companys wjldcat at. Last Chance, Emery County, is drilling below 3123 feet, with water reported on last drill stem test in the Sin-btopped at 2735 feet. . ad Lead Industry . Despite unprecedented consumer demands which ed the lead price to a record breaking 12.55 cents per pound at the years end, lead mining in the United States slumped to the lowest level since 1935, accordd ing to the bureau of mines, Unit-.rStates Department of the Interior. In 1946 the total mine production of lead in the United States (including that. made into pigments) was 332,478 short tons. a decrease of 15 per cent from 1945. Only this- - de- tails are blotted out and, as must be expected, the total intensity values are slightly lower from the air. With the helicopter, a predetermined position and altitude can be reached at any given moment. A given line laid out on the ground can be followed rigidly with the helicopter.des-It also is possible to ascend or cend vertically over a . given point, n This makes the correlation with ground features very easy, efficient, and accurate. By taking readings from two different al-is titudes, enough information disobtained to calculate the tance to the magnetic body as well as its depth. The information obtained during the summer involved the use of experimental equipment installed in a helicopter leased from Bell, Lundberg told the. even engineers, and we expect automabetter results from the continand tically-stabilized uous-recording equipment installed in the specially modified Bell helicopter we will get this month. one-hundre- - Minerals Pushed The D. C. discloshas Interior Department ed it has been making a geologWASHINGTON, ical search to determine whether Alaska may be a source of uranium, the basic material for atomic energy and the atom bomb. AlasAlso under survey are kas potentialities in oil, coal, gold and radium, and means of with the construction coping volcanic activity and of problem the permanently permafrost frozen ground which underlies the Territory. The departments geological survey said in a report that 56 geologists took part in a summer-lon- g field study that covered a wide range. Laboratory analyses of their finds will continue through the winter. . . , SUBSCRIBE NOW i KEEP POSTED ON MINING AND OIL DEVELOPMENTS -- Fields. From . : Spokane Stock Exchange. Western Unlisted Quotations. . , READ THE Site Chosen for Research Program Copies Of Mine Safety Code Available ck one-four- . Montana Firm to Sell Properties BUTTE, Mont Butte Independent Mines Co. held a special meeting of stockholders for the purpose of considering a sale of all its properties for cash or by exchange of stock in the company of the prospective purchaser. The company owns 400 acres of patented ground, including the Canadian and Montana group of claims two miles southwest of the center of Butte and operated in the late 20s. Walter Bolkovatz is secretary. e . Gold Holdings Take Advantage of Current Mining News i " - . Fill In The Coupon Today " - .... WESTERN MINERAL SURVEY . ..... t 221 , - .la payment ior Enclosed Bad. MINERAL SURVEY, WESTERN 4ha la yton subscription Oaa Year 82.56. . . 1,355,449,723 STATE ounces. Buyers of Silver on Strike, Claim NEW YORK, N. Y. Concerted action by large industrial users Of silver: to break the price of the. white metal can be seen in the lower, quotations for the metal, The Wall Street Journal says the silver users of the United States are on a buyers strike. The price for foreign silver dropped 6c an ounce in a recent week.- One local bullion dealer , Monday slashed the . price for foreign silver in New York by to 70c per. fine ounce. The price for newly mined domestic silver is not affected. The Treasury is obligated by law to buy all such metal at 90 an ounce. Silversmiths, jewelry makers, film manufacturers, pharmaceutical producers and other silver users have almost halted silver purchases the past few weeks. They thought the price too high and have been scouring their ,. plants for scrap metal to be re- - " used. Apparently they have been allowing their inventories to decline, too. During the war years silver consumption .soared, far ' above production. At its peak in 1945 U. S. industry and arts consumed 140 million ounces. But last year the total declined to 105 million. Best estimate for 1947 is 85 million, which compares with the prewar 80 million in 1941. Recent , sales in New York of about 1 million ounces of foreign . silver to British interests and the sale of 1.8 million ounces., ' of the metal for' minting into J served to j foreign coins has-no- t offset the buying strike of Amer- - lean consumers. Several million .ounces . of silver are rumored on the way from China for remelting and refining. If it does come here it may not be offered to American users; but the fact that it is reported coming has helped to unsettle, the market. Whether or not such foreign metal is offered in the U. S., the, rumor creates uncertainty. - - . 5c . . INDUSTRIAL PAINTING Complete Equipment . Treasury holdings of free silver, bullion, it. i shown, have in the last fiv years declined a total of so-cal- . let For Spray or Brush Jobs 1,158,-816,72- ounces. Insure the Life of I In response to numerous ininquiries from the dustry, the Bureau of Mines today announced that handy, pocket-siz- e copies of the .Federal Mine Safety Code, governing the operation of bituminous and lignite mines, are available for general distribution through the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C. Hazelton, a city of 40,000 population in Luzerne County almost in the geographical center of Pennsylvanias famed hard coal region, has: been selected as the . site for . the Bureau of Mines new $450,000 anthracite research laboratory, it was an- -j nounced today by Secretary of the Interior J. A. Krug. : coal-mini- ng at a Time ' The two prospectors were burning the midnight oiL One of them was working. indus- -; triously with a stub pencil and a piece of paper. Suddenly, he exclaimed: An owl, planning to visit his lady love, put on all his best clothes, but on coming , out of his hole saw that It was raining hard. Sadly he exclaimed: Too . . aint learned wet-to-wo- o. Your Equipment For Nomina! Cost J. DAVIS 11. . - PHONE 7-45- 54 SALT LAKE CITY . to write! The second prospector got up and looked at the lines scrawled on the paper. Whavs it say? he asked. The first prospector scratched his head. Demed if I know he said. I aint learned to read W. H. CHILD, Inc. . CITY can be used to protect vegetables and fruits for the housewife. ,403,-408,94- . STREET of J Silver bullion holdings; on. thi other hand, decreased from ounces at the end o 1945 to 196,633,001 ounces at thi end of 1946. At the end of 194) silver bullion holdings totalei . Doggone if. I NAME - $463,874,748. . One Thing Gentlemens type resin with extraordinary moisture-proqualities, Russell said, holds Impor- tant promise for application in the south. It is about five times as moisture resistant as the best of the present day cellophane and . . - East Firit South 8-4- SaH Lake CHy. Utah. Thi Wash. SPOKANE, statement of the U. S. Treasury as of Dec. 31, 1946, shows tha at the end of 1946 its gold holdings totaled 586,537,118 ounce; valued at $20,528,799,150. Thi compares with 573,233,544 ounce valued at $20,064,924,402 at thi end of 1945. In other words Treasury gold holdings increased 13,303,574 ounces valued a , Western Mineral Survey dth . - I imag- ination, Robert P. Russell, president of the Standard Oil Development Company, reported in a recent speech. ' At the annual meeting of the Southern Research Institute, the head of the central research organization of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey said that-, among the new products resultmg from research and development in the petroleum, industry are: , Synthetic soaps of superior, quality; a type of resin that can be made into thin sheets and wrapped around perishable food products, keeping them fresh during weeks of storage; cheaper but highly effective fungicides and insecticides, a synthetic gasoline from natural gas that already appears to be . competitive with gasoline produced from petroleum. Russell also reported work on gasolines improved anti-knothat will give about50 per cent more mileage and reduce motor fuel bills. The new gasolines, hfe explained, can be made to operate in cars of the future which have engines of a higher compression ratio than are presently used. He added that experts in the automotive Industry have stated that these cars of tomorrow with such high compression engines can be built at the cost of present day cars. Synthetic soaps have remarkable properties and it may be that the next few years will see th of all soaps made from oil or natural gas, Russell stated. He said that if bur entire soap production for the next 50 years were to come from natural gas, it still wouldnt seriously deplete the nations resources . . Complete summary of stocks trading on the Salt Lake Stock Ex- natural gas staggers the (Continued From Page 1) and greatly increased our dependence on lower grade ores. Similarly, the drain on our petroleum resources has been severe. In each instance, research, developments have figuratively saved our necks,, as far as the war was concerned, and kept our standards of living from deteriorating. Promising Future This story of the changes and the problems of the mineral industry, Dr. Williams said, has a moral, which, .while sobering, at the same time is cheering. We cannot fail to view the depletion of our mineral resources without apprehension. We are justified, however, in the belief that our economy need not be adversely affected if we take advantage of that newly found resource, scientific research. When all factors are balanced, the Batelle director pointed out, the real threat' to the economies of United States and Canada is the state of mind, that might develop because of the temporary relief from pressing mineral problems. It is a human 'tendency not to worry about the . future when the present is smooth sailing. Thus, unlike during the war period when everyone was .concerned about future supplies, the tendency during peace might be to neglect research on better ways to win vital materials from increasingly lower grade resources. If this 'frame of mind is permitted, 'civilization could suffer a' severe setback. Demand Increases Enlarged productive capacities and enlarged populations. Dr. Williams stated, are factors which, heighten the danger in an attitude of . complacency. More factories turning out more goods for more people mean an increase in the rate consumption. The availability of an enlarged productive capacity is a challenge that we will meet, Dr.1 Williams declared. Research and development will result in the extension life of our minerals. It will also increase the versatility of minerals and metals in their finished forms. It will make possible the substitution of one for the other, and the use of two or more together to supplement the others useful-- ! ness. The metal and mineral in- dustry and their customers, whose present position has depended primarily always on technical excellence, will embrace technology to an in- -: creasing extent. To the degree that they do will depend largely their success in seeing that the present large capacities are made use of continuously. Is Leading Authority One of the leading authorities on metals and minerals research, during the war Dr. Williams was chairman of the War Metallur-- 1 gy Committee of the National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council, which established and supervised for the Office of Scientific Research and Development and the War Production Board scores of war research projects in metallurgy in universities, research institutes, and industrial laboratories throughout, thb ) United States. Battelle . Institute, which . . he heads, is the worlds largest independent Industrial . research . foundation.. . Survey of Alaska's Reliable and Detailed information on current activity of Mines and Oil - Expert Cites Petroleum Furnishes Vast of New Materials Necessity for Number would require only The number of new, everyday since can be, and are about .of our that materials Mine Research being made from petroleum and present known gas reserves. The new of-th- change. Weekly Reports January 31, 1947 Tht Western Mineral Survey, Solt Lake City, Utah . BROKERS UTAH SECURITIES . Write lot lalonurilMR j 8 All LAKE STOCK EXCHANGE SLDO PoatoHce Bos 745 SALT LAKE. UTAH Telephone M172 . - - |