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Show "Jor VoL Klw& ctf 26; No. 37 ititficance JftcAt'fr A V .'.y in The Oil Per Copy New Mexico Bureau Reports of two big oil discoveries in the Farmington area i at the welcoming luncheon of the second annoon Thursday in the Newhouse Hotel. last week attracted considerable attention to the northwestern New Mexico section of the San Juan Basin. Governor J. Bracken Lee, will be the sp nual Rocky Mountain Minerals Conference at Meetings continue through Oct. Technical sessions open at 9 a.m. Thursday. Four speakers are scheduled. Ernest T. Thurlow, manager, Salt Lake Exploration Branch of the Atomic Energy Commission will speak on Uranium Occurrences West of the Colorado Plateau. Earl H. Pierce, power and fuel Steel engineer, Columbia-Genev- a of U.S. Steel Corp. will Division Geneva Works Water discuss Water Testing Sysand Supply l-:- 7-- 8. 30 The discovery wells, both rank wildcat tests, were drilled by El Paso Natural Gas Co. and by Claude M. Carroll, on a farmout from El Paso. The Carroll well is the No. 1 I Ute, located in Section Too about 13 miles northwest of Farmington. The operator reportedly is in- 11 M C 1 11. A R mJ W 1. i. W W w with pumping equipment stalling potential oil production estimated at 60 to 65 barrels per day from the Tocito formation. A 1 Ms hour drill stem test of the Tocito from 2,340 to 2,400 feet recovered 1,140 feet of oil. The well was drilled on a Gunsite Butte, a Utah corpora- farmout from El Paso. its rfPrt romJuan El Paso's oil discovery is ts on; in Section J5an No. 1 Kelly-Stat- e about 20 miles straight IN .XL Basin io Rlo Amba county. early this week south of Farmington. The company is drilling In the . The operator was report basin on recommendation of John running tubing to test the Hospah A Egan petroleum engineer, who formation after the well flowe jiag een woring in the area for oil in more than three 1000 barrels of years. 48 hours. The Gunsite well, Egan reports, The wildcat was drilled to a is well in the 10 million cubic total depth of 5,150 feet and feet per day class. It is now plugged back to 4,973 feet to- being drilled into gas in the Pic-tethe Hospah formation be- tured Cliffs Sand formation. Gunsite has been unable to test tween 4,760 and 4,842 feet. s guage-wareported the total output of the gas well The after the well had been sand oil as their present equipment will See GUNSITE Page 5 fracture treated. 1 U tem. Carl M. Marquardt, Industrial Physics and Electronics Co., Salt Lake City, will talk on Control Engineering in Minerals Final speaker, Benefication. Blair Russell, Jr., Salt Lake Tungsten. The welcoming luncheon with Governor Lee as speaker, will be held at 12:30 p.m. to 2 P.m. ffa Hits Gas In N. M. Basin -- ty six-secti- Thursday. Four papers on technical subjects will be presented. Rare Metals will he discussed by M. n. Kline, t, I of Metals Corporation Rare ProducLake City; America, Salt tion of Phosphoric Acid and Iligh ty Strength Phosphate Fertilizers from Western Phosphate Rock will be the discussion topic of R. J .McNally, assistant manager, Department, Sulphuric Acid American Smelting and Refining Co., Salt Lake City. to Quantitative Approach ProBulk Material Handling grams, is the topic to be handled by Andrew W. Jenkie, consulting engineer, Salt Lake City. Rod Mills and Ball Mills at The Hayden Plant of Kennecott st 48-ho- ur Survey Readies Vegas Issue UTAH GOVERNOR J. BRACKEN LEE To welcome western The western states phenomenal development will be in Thursday. mining representatives the spotlight at the annual Colonial Uranium Co. of this GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. dty has made a purchase agreement for an approximate seven-eightinterest in eight producing Oklahoma oil leases valued at $980,200, it was announced this week by Robert I. Ludwig, Colonial president. The claims were purchased from Carl W. Crites of Cushing, hs $3,-50- semi-prove- nt . zinc-silv- er 'Open House1 To Show Bleak New Ore Vein of Bleak Uranium Corp., is spon-- Charles Bleak, president soring an open house program for Salt Lake City stock salesmen and others, at the companies ura-nium claims in the White Canyon area of Hidden Valley next Sun- day. In Salt Lake Thursday for a directors meeting of Bleak Ura- nium, he told a group of floor of Capital Securities Corp., that his company has ore and invited them to spend OPEN HOUSE Page. 6 Judella Uranium Mines, Ltd., of Saskatchewan, Canada has the purchased Navajo Mine in Mountains the Henry for $250,000 from Howard Hanks, of Salt Lake City, it was disclosed today, by readers aware of the contina spokesman. uing boom. The property is adjacent to The American Mining Consome of the Vanadium Corp of gress issue will be sent to regAmerica properties in the Henry ular readers and will te availMountains area. able in Las Vegas during the Daily ore shipments averaging sessions. It will carry a comfrom .30 to .50 per cent are made plete program. to the White Canyon government receiving depot, according to David Novelle, of Salt Lake City. Novelle was recently appointed URANIUM HUNTER superintendent of mining operations. A crew of 19 men are emTAKES TO BOW ployed on the properties. Finances for purchase of the Survey Denver Bureau were made available mine Robert Lorent- - through a large brokerage house Moab, Utah zen, assistant secretary and treas- - in Regina, About a year ago Howard urer of the Moab Uranium Co., bow a with Hanks and Reo Hunt, both of went deer hunting and arrow for the first time Salt Lake City, acquired several thousand acres of potential ura- Saturday. Little more than four hours af-- nium property in the Henry ter he bought his license, Lorent- - Mountains. buck. He zen bagged a Eventually they determined to a wand $1 dissolve bo 50 a the partnership. In the used pound his and ensuing split up, Hunt was dropped hunting arrow, signed as part of his share of game with the first shot. Lorentzen made his kill on the the division, the property which Blue Mountains west of Monti- - he has sold to Judella. The trans-Se- e action involves eight claims. cello. 10-1- Survey Denver Bureau Okla. Canada Firm Buys Navajo American Mining Congress in Las Vegas, Nev. Oct. A special issue of the Western Mineral Survey is now being readied to keep Congress ColonialUraniumBuys Oklahoma Oil Leases Production from the wells is 0 Education in the Mineral Indus- now yielding a net of about The said. try. a month, Ludwig A Minerals Beneficlation leases also include proven and Luncheon will take place from n locations from an 12:30 pjn. to 2 pjn. at which additional 24 wells, he added. the guest speaker will be WilThe transaction further adds to liam W. Mein, Jr Colonials diverse interests, which and Director of the AXH.E. now include uranium thorium Four important papers will be production, atomic instrument presented at a session Friday af- manufacturing, gold lead ternoon from 2:30 to 5:00 pjn. production, milling and Uranium Mining Methods' will rare earth chemical extraction. be discussed by J. Fred Johnson, The Crites leases, totaling 790 consulting engineer, Salt Lake acres, are located in Creek, Payne City. and Lincoln counties. Purchase Approaches to the Problem of price was not disclosed. The evaluation of $980,220 was Coking Western Coals, will be the topic discussed by John D made by T. A. Reardon, Okla-Se- e COLONIAL Page 6 See CONFERENCE Page 5 Vice-Preside- lOe ed By Survey YIELDS OIL STRIKES Speakers, Progr: . Tear $3.00 .eralsmeet; SAN 9 Copper Corporation, is title of a paper to be presented by Milling Staff, Kennecott Copper Corp., Hayden, Ariz. Friday morning Clement K. (Chase, chief metallurgist. Uranium Reduction Co., Moab, Utah, Beneficlation of will discuss Utex Ores. D. L. King, General Manager, San Francisco Chemical Company, Montpelier, Idaho will read a paper entitled Underground Mining of Phosphates. F. E. Briber will discuss Forty-twInch Vibrating Rod and Ball Mills, and John R. Lewis, Head of the Department of Metallurgical Engineering, University of Utah, will talk on Engineering One ke Ciiy, Utah, September 30. 1955 UtahGovemorToOr vice-presiden- and UUning World" I I 3. en I I |