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Show l Claim Filings in So uf heasf ern Utah -Rival Activity During Storied Boom S w uranium srnrcih has to . rJvated to inter" I pnrpovtions in bolh . a and Sfln Juan coun- VriiTin 1he County V. San Juan county it Irs' tie filing may vfS ppnk rfhe :50'sf , L count by the end of vear- Already this 'qM2 claims have f51';! filed as of July 7, m County Recorder Ar- J ffarren reported a , 5 i rush appeared to be 1 last week. i claim filing has Pered i Grand county this :h nth. and there 1S some V:lm to believe there is vlhoklback untn SePtem" for tax reasons. Al-jy Al-jy this year there have M 3-9?7 claims filed, it the peak of the boom o'r-and's recordings num-, num-, bred 15.305 in one year. :s j The interest in uranium kg,' as revived last year at I -hen the market was hit is j' b a projected demand K . (rsn private companies rkp.; nuclear power reactors, an several years of in; i'jnificant activity, Grand J ., (Iinty recorded over 4,000 el'iims in 1966, a figure i'aost reached during the t'it six months of 1967. is I' June was a big month t jji the San Juan Recorder's ilfices ,with 1,970 claims sOr, worded. A year ago only hljiJ claims' were filed in f-Jjne. July is holding its nn'prn there, with 345 fil-Poc- Lags recorded the first fori week. Grand is in' a July t lull. Only 10 claims have il ; Jeen recorded to date; last t nonth there were 519. Grand county Recorder, I'l fcther Somerville, notes hopiL'ne holders are now fiNLflooding their offices with I Jproof of Labor filings, unit) Ah must be recorded ( ipeh year to legally hold 'liifcaims. The increased uranium activity is partly responsible respon-sible for what is becoming an -accuto housing short" age in Moab. Large rentals ren-tals are nort-erfstent; an only a few ' apartments and trailers are available. The void of "squatters" however is significant of the different trend of tho u-oro search this decade! In the '50's many of . the prospectors came in , with little financial backing, and the area was flooded with people living in tenls or cars. There is none, of this involved in the :1967 hunt. The uranium industry indus-try has developed into a search for deep ore, which is so expensive it is a big company - project. Many oil and gas companies, . as well as traditional - big names in the uranium' ut dustry, have gazed into the crystal ball, and are diversifying into the uranium uran-ium business. It is this big company business that Moab resident resi-dent are eyeing now. A new stage of prosperity is anticipated when the companies com-panies begin developing their holdings, and thus go into production. Some say this year ' will see action. ac-tion. Others predict it will take another year or two for the industry to get into in-to . full swing. |