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Show Uranium Activity Locally increasing by the Month Atomic Energy Commission reports this week that a record re-cord amount of footage in uranium exploration drilling is scheduled for the coming year, comes as little surprise to residents of Southeastern Utah, who have been observing observ-ing land activities and. mine development work in the area. .... ... " In the Lisbon area, on properties originally discovered discov-ered by the Humeca group, Rio 'Algom Mine's is currently current-ly in the midst of a mine development program, with one shaft underway and the second about ready to be placed under construction. Contractor for Rio Algom on the' 18-foot ventilation shaft, Centennial Development Develop-ment Co:, is now working below the 100 foot- level, according ac-cording to reports this week. Additionally, the second shaft to-be used for mine production, produc-tion, will be constructed soon by Boyles Brothers Drilling Drill-ing Co., of Salt Lake City. Although . this - new mining property is closer to production produc-tion than any; other large prospect in Southeastern Utah it will be two years before productoin begins from the deep ore body. Also in the Lisbon area, on property adjacent to the Rio Algom land, Western Nuclear Nu-clear Co. is involved currently current-ly in a six-well drilling exploration ex-ploration project on land they have under option from General American Corporation. Corpora-tion. If their program proves an ore body, it is expected that the firm will begin development de-velopment work on a mine on their 5,000 acre block, according ac-cording to a Denver official. But while the Lisbon ac- to These massive hoists, right, operate cable through hcadframc sitting over deep shaft being developed for Rio Algom Mines by Centennial Development Company in the Lisbon aita. Second shaft, to be used for tivity seems to be closest to production, a number of other pieces of activity make the uranium business in San Juan and Grand Counties nearly area-wide. Grand County Recorder Esther Somerville reported that by. the end of June, 3,471 new claims had been filed in the office on Grand County properties. Six hundred hun-dred of those were filed during dur-ing the month of June, . she said, with a good deal of interest in-terest indicated in the Yellow Yel-low Cat area near Thompson. Thomp-son. Total claims filed in her office in all of 1968 totaled only 6,687, with.. 2,000 of those coming in April of tJiat year, so we could be heading head-ing for a record year here, she said. Also, assessment work notices no-tices are beginning to come in, she said, with the deadline dead-line for doing mine assessment assess-ment work set at. Sept. I. In San Juan County, Recorder Re-corder Arvilla Warren, reported re-ported that in June 977 claims were filed, with a total of &10 of them coming during 1he last two days. "We are sw;iiped here," she told The Times-Independent Tuesday. Total claim filings for the first half of 1969 in San Juan County come to 4,696, Mrs. Warren stated. Manly B. Lincoln, manager mana-ger of the Moab Office of the Utah Dcparlmcnt of Employment Em-ployment Security, stated that although mine production produc-tion from new properties will not come here for a year or two, high employment should continue and increase as a result of the shaft development develop-ment work, seismograph activity, ac-tivity, and other related projects. production, will be under development soon, by contractor Boyles Bros. Drilling Company, of Salt Lake City. (Photos by William Green, Utah Employment Employ-ment Service |