Show uranium bug infects 1441 in wyoming the stales lime stones and sandstones of southwestern wyoming are not exempt from the jeep gelger geiger counter and pick of the uran uranium lum hunter in sweetwater coun county y alone where there is as yet no commercial production of uranium a total of 1441 location notices were filed in the county eat best at green river during 1954 search for the uranium has has spread to all corners of this county one of the largest in area in the united states r i although the greater portion of the locations a are re in the eastern half in the area north of wamsutter sutter 40 miles west of rawlins wyo prospectors t 0 rs have move moved southward from I 1 the he crooks gap gas hills uranium fields of central wyoming but claims have been posted southward C clear ear into colorado and into da daggett county utah one set of iwas claff claims was lied filed upon just south of the green river city limits one green river group the Coker Coke lver rIver company reportedly Is shipping from crooks gap in fremont county one sale of property south of bock ita springs las been reported but locations keep piling up SO south u th of green river in daggett county utah the clay basin area a gas producer is the scene of almost frenzied prospecting while much of the northeastern portion of the uintah mountains is heavily prospected much of the me prospecting though Is by inexperienced perien ced people relying upon the geiger counters to indicate radium activity some locations have been reported right up on the west slope slopes of the wind river mountains in ja sublette county wyoming in the early a ore was reported in the wamsutter sutter area and exploration work carried on for many years by grand ma mccormick McCorm lck since deceased these claims were recently subject of the first uranium file lawsuit in sweetwater county uranium is the most suspect and the least known of southwestern Wyo energy producers |