Show phosphate ore takes fakes spotlight in uintah and daggett counties Counti cs attention Is being riveted in the raw materials field these days daya to phosphate deposits on a north branch of at the uinta mountains in daggett dagget county some acres has already been put under lease by two salt loiters lakers and two trat tracts is of around 2500 acres each are due for public bidding on dec 0 and 10 respectively at tile the land office of the V S dureau bureau of land management salt lake city one successful lease holder john 11 II morgan jr said bald the prospect la Is that ultimately the phosphate rock may be mined for use in production of elemental phosphorus mr morgan said that neith er he nor his father john 11 II morgan sr expected to carry out the proposition of mining or development they hope to interest others in the phosphate leases they hold the morgans morgana were successful bidders at 2811 for I 1 88 acres of federal phate leases in township 2 north and range 20 kast east several weeks ago they also hold a state phosphate lease in the area where it is said a low gra ie deposit 20 feet thick and running 18 per cent phosphorus is amendable to open pit devel in this this same bid letting san francisco chemical co montpelier idaho bid 1 an acre or 1802 88 san fran cisco had asked that the lands in question be put up for bid the firm is 50 per cent owned by stauffer chemical co pro dubers of treble super chates at garfield utah san francisco earlier this year exercised option on the huge humphreys phosphate deposit 15 miles north of vernal uintah county meanwhile it was reported that mike and william abra ham dallas texas oilmen had asked that two tracts in the sare township and range be put up for bidding the bureau of land man argement said that sealed bids would be received on or before 1 rpm p in dec 10 1059 1959 at the land office in salt lake city on 2509 48 acres the tol fol lowing day at I 1 p in bids will be opened on a second tract containing 2373 77 acres john 11 II morgan jr proposed that developers of a phosphate mine could ferry the rock or electric furnace product from the mine area along the lake formed by flaming gorge dam to near the railhead at green river wyo wy 0 her parents mr and mrs paul guillory Gul llory roy stedman spent saturday and sunday in the range ly hospital mr stedman became ill at church ier services vices in rangely langely mr and mrs les maier spent the weekend at big piney wyoming visiting with their son and family mr and mrs lewis vincent mr and mrs roy stedman return returned id to their home in L la habra california after spend ing several days with their son mr and mrs don stedman and doyd boyd and enjoying the deer hunting mr and mrs don wardle attended the wedding recep tion at glines ward chapel saturday night for mr and mrs delos kempton formerly sherry galloway robert allen alien was honored at a birthday party in his home saturday night fen guests attended mr and mrs merle chamberlain and boys friday in salt lake city where they took their small son dart to the doctor and visited with mr and mrs BU bill dowser bowser mr and mrs rocky mason and family have moved to our pamp camp they are former residents of taft california mr and mrs bob griggs enjoyed the bingo games held at the elks club in It angely monday night mr and mrs richard self and daughter who are former residents of la llabra coll call fornia have moved to our little community several ladies from the camp attended the meeting of the petroleum club tuesday night mr and mrs charles dim mick from rangely langely visited saturday night with mr and mrs wes punches and family and mrs punches brother brot lier mrs hugh coy and todd visited sunday afternoon in artesia with mrs woody smith and wilma wilina and mr and mrs burl coy and children |