Show HELICOPTERS CUT COSTS OF TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING OF RUGGED URANIUM COUNTRY Seven SeNen thousand square miles mites of nt uncharted land in the outer fringes of ot the uranium ing area of ot Utah and Arizona will be mapped this year through the use of helicopters by the topographic branch of the United States geological survey Chester R. R Lloyd project engineer en eer of the mapping unit which has Its headquarters at harry Goulding's trading post postin in Monument valley said hell hell- copters will hill cut the cost of ot the project by half halt In addition he said the work his unit will do this summer would r require more men and at least east five years to complete I if helicopters rs weren't being used The helicopter survey started at Moab last tall fall the crew mak make makIng making I In ing Its headquarters for tor several weeks while surveying the area along the Colorado and Green rivers From here the party moved to 10 lute an and l now are stationed sta I In Monument valley This Thiis is the nicest area weve we've ever used the copters In In Mr Lloyd said saM but wed we'd have trouble trou ble getting on top of some of ot the they the mesas around here if It we didn't I have them In fact this is the most deluxe job Ive I've been on In II 15 years with the The copters are used only for fox transportation Nd No mapping Is done from them ISI Twenty Twentysix men three of ot them with their families are living in trailers at the Monument I ment valley camp The project Is being carried on with I some funds because of the Importance to the development of ot uranium deposits In the area Th The unit moved to Monument Monument I valley from the White canyon i at lUte Bite where It operated during during dur In ing the winter It n was miserable there Mr Lloyd said We had to put ut boards on an the helicopters to toland toland toland land on the snow snow we we couldn't get pontoons pontoons and and the copters are dangerous around timber |