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Show Inly 13. 1956 Page 5 The Western Mineral Survey, Salt Lake City, Utah Bureau of Mines Gives Up When Appropriation Runs Out faThe custody of the Governments experimental cilities at Rifle, Colo., was assumed this week by the Navy, Secretary of the Interior Fred A. Seaton announced today. Operated by the Bureau of Mines since 1044, the installations Naval oil shale reserves. They consist of a mine, which on are lias been producing shale, and retorting and refining equipment which has converted the shale into diesel oil, gasoline, and .other products on an experimental basis. Secretary Benson said the transfer 'is necessary because no money was appropriated for con tinuation of the Rifle developof the facilities the Bureau of ment by the Bureau of Mines. Mines has installed on Naval Rifle is on the western slope of Oil Shale Reserves Nos. 1 and the Rocky Mountains. It lies in 3, including parts of the roads the heart of a and service lines that are on area covering parts of Colorado, acquired by the Utah, and Wyoming, that contains of Department Interior from pri oil shale deposits capable of yieldvate owners. ing many hundreds of billions of In answer to your inquiry, I barrels of oil. am glad to state that the DeRetorting and refining equipcan accepi ment at Rifle has been idle about partment of the Navy to and will take full expect a year and since July 1955, work control and custody possession, has been confined to mining red of facilities the search by the Bureau of Mines. .as of July 1, 1956. A staff of Bureau of Mines em- In this new arrangement I am ployees will be assigned to mainconserve certain the that the Navy can count and tain, protect, Part of the Navy is now assuming responsibility a rotary NAVY TO RUN AND WATCII on the further at Rifle facilities cooperation of the Bupending ex- drill set up for drilling a vertical down hole, Oil Shale the Rifle contained in equipment reau of Mines for assistance in word from the Navy. the which at for Colo, Rifle, perimental plant facilitating the orderly transfer Attached is correspondence beof the these to Navy. properties tween the Department of the InIn course due is suggesit my of the the and terior Department Advertise In The . . tion that an Navy regarding the transfer. agreement be worked out beLetter of June 14, 1956, from MINERAL SURVEY tween the Departments of the Secretary of the Interior Fred A. Beach an Interested market! Navy and Interior similar in Seaton to Secretary of the Navy to form the agreement working Charles S. Thomas: now in effect between the Navy My dear Mr. Secretary: and the U. S. Geological Survey, Geologic Information that will rock is concealed by the Malaspina After the Synthetic Liquid certain services could aid in the search for oil in south- Glacier and by unconsolidated whereby Fuels Act was approved on be performed by Bureau of ern Alaska was released to open April 4, 1944, the Bureau of Mines personnel upon the re- file by the Geological Survey toEntitled Reconnaissance geolMines established the experiquest of the Navy on a reim- day Secretary of the Interior of the Malaspina district, ogy mental oil shale mine and plant bursable basis. It is understood Fred A. Seaton announced. Alaska on Naval Oil Shale Reserves by George Plafker and that the Bureau of Mines will The Malaspina district is a part the report has been Don J. Nos. 1 and 3 near Rifle, ColoMiller, complete as .expeditiously as of the Gulf of file at the followon consent to open the rado, pursuant possible the reports covering Alaska Tertiary province, an area placed leta in Geological Survey offices: of the Navy expressed its experiments. of oil and ing which in seeps many the from Washington, D. C.; Juneau, ter of August 12, 1944, from which known are and gas Alaska; Anchorage, Alaska; Menlo Sincerely yours, Acting Secretary of the Navy e been some oil has proS. Interior. Gates, Jr., (s)Thomas Park, Calif.; Denver, 'Colo.; Los to the Secretary of the duced. on of the Calif.; San Francisco, May The report submitted Acting Secretary OG.E. Comp tmy now in Angeles,Salt Lake leases Oil are and gas of Committee Utah; SpoNavy City, Calif.; 31, 1956, by the effect for a large part of the dis- kane, Wash. Conference on the Department trict and extensive exploratory acof the Interior and related Copies from which reproductivity by private industry is tions CUT MOTOR of text and illustrations can Agencies Appropriation Bill for To to scheduled the begin shortly. the fiscal year 1957 (House expense are west in the adjoining Yakataga be made at private 4 Homewood Place, at available Rept. No. 2250) disallowed the district private industry is currentINVENTORY! funds that had been included in Menlo Park, Calif. ly drilling for oil. the Budget for the work of the For much of the area the geoffl-LTT- ES Bureau of Mines at Rifle in that observations contained in logic Now we have General year. The Appropriation Act are the first to be his report d 55 Electric to conform be expected may GROWING PAINS? since the late 19th century. motors in stock 5, 7 with that report. As a result, Dealers are impressed with this The current studies were made the Bureau of Mines will have weeks ad in the Commercial & 10, 15 and 20 hp. Don't of three. field seasons It would be trite to say the parts tie-uno funds after June 30, 1956, Financial Chronicle by a large during your money in a part of the Survey's program for operations at Rifle nor for New York securities dealer. It as Uranium stocks. is motor Well give growing, Industry s care of the facilities and their stated: Dealers . . . We believe ;o investigate the petroleum Terservice on you because everyone knows it is. of the Gulf of Alaska protection against theft, fire or you and your clients will continue nary province. these motors. For all your to profit in ATOMIC STOCKS Chances are that your Uranium other losses. motor needs emergency to In a addition short it! the The of a text, sent question hardly Therefore, this letter is or otherwise pick up Company is growing so fast to you to inquire whether the industry which has grown in 15 report consists of a geologic map your phone arid Dial and 5 structure sections of the that 'you've had to neglect Department of the Navy can as- years from an equation whispered ME for Motors. in the Presidents ear to a $14 Malaspina district and adjoining sume custody on July and public relations. publicity 18. frorfiWBffc G.I. Cm of the facilities the Bureau of billion program figures to dwarf areas at a scale of .1:125,000, The bedrock in the mountainous Mines has installed on Naval this sum and dominate the future. I CAN HELP T0U . . . part of the district is divided into reserves Nos. 1 and 3, including General Electric Seismic Surveys are being un- hree major groups: parts of the roads and service dertaken by the AEC in the Mount Write news releases, letters lines that are on (1) a crystalline complex conSupply uranium district northSpokane to stockholders. acquired by this Department east of Spokane to determine po- sisting of Mesozoic and perhaps Salt Lake City, Utah from private owners. tential uranium deposits. Day- older metamorphosed sedimentary Handle large mailings. Phone EM Sincerely yours, break Uranium is the areas prin- rocks; the Yakutat consistA. Seaton (2) group (SGD) Fred cipal producer. Boise - Casper Help with annual reports ing of slightly metamorphosed Secretary of the Interior Mesozoic - Denver rocks of Butte Letter from Acting Secretary Silver Buckle is one of five sedimentary and other types of publicity and of the Navy, Thomas S. Gates, Jr., owners of Northwest Uranium age; Billings- - Albuquerque and public relations. 0 to Secretary of the Interior Fred Mines which was granted a (3) sedimentary rocks of TerA. Seaton, June 19, 1956. loan by the Defense Minerals tiary age, in which oil seeps and AvIfcorlMd Dlsfrtbvtor My dear Mr. Secretary: Exploration Administration for a potentially favorable structures This will acknowledge your $29,160 contract to trace ore zones were found. The sequence of sediPhone Em GENERAL ELECTRIC letter of June 14, 1956, in which disclosed by bulldozer trenching mentary rocks of Tertiary age is to In5 as whether or After all and in make the to a inferred inquiry underlie large part Spokane you p.ra. drilling day Saturday MOTORS the Department of the Navy can dian Reservation. Percussion drill- of the coastal plain area of the 3BTassume custody on July 1, 1956, ing now Is underway. Malaspina district, where the bed oil-sha- le 16,500-square-mi- le rights-of-wa- y above-mentione- inter-department- Oil Hunt In So. Alaska Aided By Geologic Motes al 300-mile-lo- oil-sha- le high-grad- MINING ob-ain- i ed Tri-Cla- ; p possi-)ilitie- I 24-ho- ur ; 1,-19- rights-of-wa- y 11 $21,-87- 3-96- 10 DA-14- 8 |