Show PIONEER PRODUCER OF MOAB REPORTS ON FATE OF THE SMALL MINER The Shift Shirt floss Boss In hl his column In the Salt Lake Tribune Tri TrU bune Wednesday commented on an address add res delivered last week by a Moab producer before the annual convention convention con con- of the Colorado Mining Association The authoritative tive Shift no floss Boss s gives needed publicity to a fact fad that The Times Independent has harped on for lor years years that all Is not well velI with the Independent uranium producer of southeastern southeastern south south- eastern Utah and southwestern Colorado The article In the Tribune is reproduced below Often a quiet dignified rebuttal rebuttal rebuttal rebut rebut- tal Is more effective than an angry explosive answer Listeners Listen Listen- ers at the recent Denver mine meeting heard such a rebuttal from a pioneer producer er well qualified to speak with authority After hearing from various government officials that the uranium industry of the Colorado plateau is in a healthy condition condition condition condi condi- tion Howard W. W Balsley Baisley Moab Utah included the following statements In his address to the convention I Tt lIlt has been very apparent from the start to the smaller uranIum uranium ura ura- producers that Mr Pinchot's Pinchot's Pin Pin- 1 chot's Gifford Pinchot's original policy that 10 small stockmen be I permitted to make a living rather rath rath- er than one big one get rich is not the policy of the Atomic Energy Energy En En- I En-I ergy Comm Commission Perhaps there are some good reasons for the thel commissions commission's position in the mat mat- ter mat I Fewer Producers In the uranium district with which I am most fain familiar Ular there are now definitely fewer producers lers ers ems of uranium than there were a year ago With very few exceptions exceptions these men have found they cannot possibly exist under prevailing prevailing pre pre- conditions despite the fact that since this time last year several concessions to the producers producers producers pro pro- have been made by the Atomic Ener Energy y Commission As to drilling to Illustrate our ou contention that smaller claim owners are apparently not re receiving re me- their just proportion of this drilling diamond-drilling program program program pro pro- gram and at the risk of being severely criticized I am going to cite one outstanding Instance Down in southwestern Colorado not far from the Utah-Colorado Utah state line resides the man proclaimed proclaimed pro pro- claimed as the uranium king of the world said to be the largest known Individual owner of rich uranium mining properties in ex ex- Wondering V de in JV Why y Despite the me fact tact that this man had vast tonnages of ore oro already blocked out within his properties with with tons upon tons of good ore oreon piled on his property awaiting shipment and with his own diamond diamond dia dla- mond drill standing idle the idle the government moved in and did more Imore than feet of new hole We dont don't want to apper persnickety persnickety per Gabby Hayes or su supercritical supercritical su- su In matters matters but but as we small fry continue to slowly waste away away and and that is not said altogether j jokingly eith either look either look lat at me for Instance instance we we cant can't help wondering why I Most observers consider the wondering why to be amply Justified comments the Shift I Boss |