Show 12 GRA GRAND D COUNTY MEN l PASS THEIR EXAMS The 12 Grand county men who were sent to Fort Douglas induction induction In Induction in- in center last week for pre- pre Induction physical examinations all passed passed- the examination and were pronounced fit lit for military service according to Winford Bunce Bunco clerk of Local Board No 10 Four men who v previously took the exam also passed givIng givIng giving ing Grand county a record to date The local board has received a call for induction of two men menon menon menon on Sept 21 Robert Muir and Raymond Murphy who have volunteered for Immediate induction in induction Induction In- In will fill this call ac according according according ac- ac cording to the board ic Plans Extensive Uranium Mining Program r i LEGEND J RIO r ORE RECEIVING PUNTS PLANTS 5 DEPOSITS IN THE MORRISON I IA Rifle FORMATION A DEPOSITS IN THE SANDSTONE I X DEPOSITS IN THE nd CONGLOMERATE j M C. C A Z Map lap of the tho I J c 1 Colorado Plateau D I J Uranium Belt I t o b F Location i. i I a. t MONTRO of ro the Various Producing S. S Areas II SAN MIGUE S cp Cut through Courtesy Courte Monticello 0 r SAN O DOLORES f S AN JUAN i of Denver Mining I Record n 5 J I LA PLATA N RIVER K A N E I J COLORADO COLORADO j UTAH a NEW MEXICO ARIZONA i SAN JUAN I COCONINO I NAVAJO j A APACHE PA CH E 0 p I I I J I I I i I I t J I IL IThe L Mining Congress COngress Congram Con- Con American The and exhibit of convention I gress held at Salt Lake equipment week was attended by last City 2000 mining men roen and an ani over and anel instructive program pro pro- out One ol of carried gram most y-as y Urne timely L y pap papers of the theman the te the convention program am man many on of f Jesse C. C Johnson that was materIals of the raW manager of the Atomic tomic Energy operations said in part lie lle Energy commissions commission's commis- commis Atomic The program on OD sion's plateau has been bE the Colorado maintaining and anel inI j. j in impOrtant This prOgram pro pro- creasing l clude ore to gram drilling a year feet feel o of of pro neW Important public found on fOI b being made are ar I under lease leaH private p Ining Private Industry i also Is carrying on extensive drilling programs program We hope ho tI not notto only to maintain adequate ore reserves for existing plants buto but buti 0 o provide ore for new plants I Prospecting and exploration i otto oth government and private i i has not been confined to the Colorado Plateau Nearly one onehundred onehundred onehundred hundred government geologists geologist are studying uranium occurrences es as In tn other parts part of the United States However the success oi ot any nationwide search for tor minI minerals min mm I eral depends upon enlisting the thc hundreds hundred of prospectors miners and land geologists who are out looking look of mineral minal de ring ing fo for all types posits posIt They and their financial are the men mw who developed devel I coped the American mining In in- r As an indication of public in terest which followed the commissions commission's Commissions Commission's Commissions Com com- missions mission's announcement of a domestic do do- uranium program during I the past two years our laboratorIes laboratories labora labors tories have received more than samples amples from various put parts of ot the United States state We have had more than letters about uranium occurrences Interest In searching arching for uranIum uranium uran uran- ium turn hai ha not been confined to inquiries Prospector have been out in the hills hUb digging Little was was reported during the first season that of 1948 but during Ithe the summer of 1049 samples sample and reports of interesting finds begar began coming in in hi volume This year Iven avon ven more new now discoveries hav have been reported and many of then them are being beina prospected by surface cuts cub under underground workings working am enc j drilling Man Many of our oW geologist Continued Q on last Ian page |