Show S MILL NOW ON BASIS VANADIUM 11 ANT HANDLING TWENTY TONS oil B OKI PER DAY TURNING OUT A TON OF the united states company vanadium mill in dry valley Is t now in operation and li is turning out about a ton of vanadium concentrate concentrates per day the mill alch wa was overhauled and end improve proved Lin following a teat test nin run made six week weeks IBO ago is now operating opera tiny I 1 and 11 R mosely su petin of the company who waa was in moab I 1 oab tuesday expressed himself an as being highly please with the performance for mance of the plant about twenty ton tons of ore are run through the mill dally daily and the concentrated cent ent C rated product luct called vana dite will about a ton per day the concentrate will be trucked te to the railroad at Thomp ioni and then hipped to denver for refining the united states company operates opra tc a refining plant in that cit about men I 1 ho he camp and will pro bably be he increased to about forty fort M the mill increases iti its capacity part art of these men are employed in n the mill while the remainder are used in mining and faulling ha a ore the company inree large five ton truck will be kept bwy continuously haul ina salt alt and crude oil from the talland railroad to the mill and anti hauling tho the vana van daum concentrate ne ins a wick back load salt Is 1 used in the extraction process and the company buy buys it in carlond lot lots crude oil is used as feel for the boilers the company has drilled two to wells for the of vater mater to operate the pr proc cn ts and find the flow Is sufficient for the mul mill purposes mr mir monell A third well will prohibit ibl bo he drilled to increase the thi this will be put down to a derith nf around 00 feet where it Is believed a large 1 flow of water can be obtained the company compa riv has oven given zi rious consideration to the nu question estion of util a tho the vast body of salt was encountered in the western allies oil well di drill billed rd on the tte maxwell maxell farm at moab it is believed bolic vod that this salt can bo be brought ht to the surface in solution and thon arc precipitated through I 1 evaporation and it Is possible that I 1 arrangements amy be made to utillie utilize athis i this vast local supply the trans por tation cost costs on salt shipped froin from salt lake city is high and it is be lieveld that a material navin waving in the cost of operating the mul mill can be ef fectea by making ma kiris use of the local salt bed about a thousand feet of I 1 what appeared to be a lure salt wa was penetrated r abed by the allies drill the U S mill has now passed through its experimental work and ite its success la Is no longer in douat it will be a nerma rient fixture in southeastern utah as the claims contain cont alil sufficient ore already ened and blocked out to keep the plant operating opera at tit capacity for many years |