Show U activity expected in eagle county after spring thaws fac colorado plateau Is buzzing with rumors about uranium ore strike strikes in the vicinity of eagle e colo and some factual accounts account are also going the rounds it all started last fall when it was reported that a student at western state college edwin ar bar jr a resident of red cliff discovered a 39 foot exposed vein veto of high grade uranium in holy cross mining district 21 miles from red cliff immediately the atomic energy commission pricked up its ears an assay test on pounds of surface ore repealed per cent to 2105 per cent uranium oxide content of the variety As soon as the spring thaws run off right now theres about 30 feet of snow in the irn mining ining district it is 1 expected that exploration equipment will be moved into the tb area by major companies arbar believes there Is a body or vein of pitchblende lying below the ore and and readings are unbelievably high indicating higher grade ore at greater depths arbar has filed twenty two claims covering the radioactive area la in a block formation and another undeveloped claim in this same area that been proven but a gelger geiger counter reading shows a good sign of more ore ore on to is expected to be shipped from arbus claims claim this spring or summer and arbar la Is conferring wi with h officials concerning future development last fan fall a large company quietly purchased 1800 acres covering leases lease bear near horse mountain southeast of eagle the county seat ley they knew the they y taking much a of a gamble for in 1913 copper miners found they had processed over a too ton of uranium ore while working the area since there was no immediate market they sacked it and it stu AM rests la in a barn bam at eagle shortly before die the horse mountain district purchase was made there was a atrice assaying asang from 61 1 per cent to 1 per cent above manna marma lake oo 00 piney mountain la in northern eagle county geological formations are interesting to bat that particular portion of colorado just as crevices have occurred to hold snow forming the famous holy cross so do two rock faults bisect eagle county A fault occurs when layers of rock crack down the middle and formations far below mow the surface are forced upward th the top of 0 the fault cross Is near I piney iney and horse la is where the two faults intersect holy cross mountain Is 4 on an the right arm of the cross meanwhile some float floar ore on has been found in eagle county too one a heavy piece of mineralized erali zed rock about the size of a turnip has been identified as euxenite bux enite by an assayer however it Is 1 dot not known where an amateur rock hound bound found the th miner at iced rocks carried them for a while and wearying of them tossed them away geo geologist tend to be laveve bithe otherwise saying they think the rocks were forced to the surface from far below or had hal rolled irom from somewhere on a near I 1 by mountain meanwhile additional cation T investigation is being made cinto into the case of the floats the largest tanker in the world will ca carry rr million gallons of oil that h aty s enough to till fill about lib 1570 railroad cars |