Show STUDY DEVELOPMENT OF RESOURCES ASKED BY KRUG Secretary of ot the Interior J A Krug in his first annual report released Monday recommended the utilization of the vast de de- de deposits deposits posits of native bituminous and impregnated asphalt-impregnated rock I n Eastern Utah and Colorado The recommendation was w a s made as an answer to the na na- na nation's nation's tion's dwindling oil resources and it came in connection with his proposal that the nation take a wide nation-wide Inventory of Its mineral reserves Preliminary Preliminary ary surveys Indicate that the Uintah Basin asin territory may have havethe havethe the largest oil shale and asphalt i reserves r in the nation and thus will some day hold the key to I the nations nation's oil supply The report which was sub sub- submitted to President Truman al al- al also also so called caned for 1 Continued reclamation ef ef- ef efforts forts He said irrigation of large additional regions will be necessary necessary essary to meet the food needs of the expected to tobe tobe be added to the population op by 1947 2 Seeding and Improvement of the meat meat producing g western rangelands rangeland He a t M that range i I used for military purposes dur- dur durIng during I Ing the war be rehabilitated re a U and restored to graneN andI I 3 A nationwide inventory tory of mineral reserves re sod their com com I mercial value He 1 that this might cost and take 20 years flirt but would be worth it U 4 Establishment of r a Hawaiian Hawai Hawai- HawaiIan ian laboratory to study tudy resources of the Central Pacific He said this is the greatest untapped fishery resource in the world 8 6 Construction of the con con- controversial controversial St S1 Lawrence seaway to link the Great Lakes area with the Atlantic Ocean and to generate electric power Krug said ald the inventory of mineral reserves might t cost 1 and take 20 20 years 1 expressed concern cork coric rn at serious erious pf f na reserves of copper copper lead and zinc and said th iron ore the ore the Rats Range e- e es Is s sub sub- to o 20 I years year The Geological Survey and Bureau IThe of reworked I out plans tie hie said ln I tory on a national scale In ex- ex ex exploratory work they plan lan to employ geophysical methods I such as application of the air air- airborne borne magnetometer used dur duro ing the war to hunt out boats U-boats to use in finding mineral de de- de deposits posits U More Mapping Needed Ne ded Before the discovery portion of the program can get very I far Krug said there has hail to tobe tobe be more basic mapping of the I geology ge gy gya of the e nation on He added a that additional I prospecting for potash is need- need needed needed needed ed but upheld the departments department's policy opposed policy opposed by the mining industry that Industry that metallic minerals I on the public domain as well as al oil coal and potash should be leased rather than be taken over In fee simple |