Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-22 | Page 13 | Ready to Develop Uranium Ore Field

READY TO DEVELOP URANIUM ORE FIELD Grand County Deposits Will Be Shipped to Eastern Manufacturing Manufac-turing Centers. With the price of uranium ore much higher than before the beginning of the European war, the metallurgical department depart-ment of the University of Utah, with which the federal government is co-operating by giving the use of its experts, Is Interested in the report received yesterday yes-terday that the Consolidated Ores company com-pany of Moab, in Grand county, will shortly begin mining and shipping of uranium. This is the statement of H. K.; Thur-ber, Thur-ber, superintendent of the company, who has just returned from a. visit to the properties. The retiring stats conservation conserva-tion commission, of which Thomas L. Allen Al-len was field secretary, has long been aware of the presence of this most valuable valu-able ore. for national defense purposes. The state officials have kept the govern- ; ment closely informed as to the value of , the ores in this field. It is tho intention of the development company to establish two camps at once. The work of equipping the camps is now under way. The company is now shipping ship-ping a carload of ore by freighting methods. meth-ods. Associated with Mr. Thurber are B. V. Wooley and Ed Billingsly.