Show Uranium Millionaire I Still Works Every Day I Praises Moab Climate I I The TIMES INDEPENDENT heard some interesting comments recently by Iby Blanton Blan Blan- ton W W. Burford who struck It ItrIch Itrich Itrich rich out by LaSal Junction a year ago Burford struck It rich On Oi Rattlesnake Rat flat Mountain last spring and last July he and his partners partners' sold out for tor In n January Burford and two partners all all strictly amateurs came to Moab Moah from Dallas Texas arm armed d with I a gelger geiger counter curiosity and a willing ness fless to explore They encountered some good reactions on an a afew afew afew few claims on Rattlesnake Mountain and leased them Then Thee they took a cat and were pushing a road through when they sliced into an foot 8 vein of high grade uranium ore The first carload carloa they shipped out of ot that hole averaged uranium a ton worth ton worth about a ton That hat carload sold for better than They drilled worth of uran Jum lurn out of the hole before they sold out The two Mormon boys bays they I leased the claims from are now riding in Cadillacs and living off their royalties When Burford was asked how hw howit it felt to be a new millionaire he said sad Working harder t han an ever Grinning he added Used to think it if I ever eve got a 4 million dollars there be toe no more mare of ot this work Id I'd play But it doesn's work out that way way- It kind of at spurs you on Instead of stowing sl you down Burford said he and his partnerS partners part part- ners have had tremendous luck They've been beel batting 1000 he hel said have lound ore on an every group of at claims they've they taken over The Texas man who a year ago was a printer and Insurance salesman says that despite the number of prospectors crawling over the country with geiger gelger counters ami and anc and the number of discoveries that have been made he believes that the surface has barely been scratched in the big hunt for ore Burford still operates ii his Is printing business in Dallas as aswell aswell aswelt well welt as his new uranium empire em pire He lies lie's 52 32 and married and his wife often travels with him through the uranium country countr He lie likes Utah Its It's That high dry plateau wonderful country The weather does docs things to you Makes you feel like a million he says |