OCR Text |
Show I . r your local store is having a sale on Geiger counters, think twice before you rush out to buy one! Uranium may be where you find of it, but it costs between $5,000 and $500,000 to get that firstion the ground. And since only a handful of the hundreds of ' prospectors looking for radioactive ore find a profitable claim, it's apparent that uranium is not the royal road to riches! If you do stumble upon ore that sets your Geiger counter to clicking, you can make a modest sum by selling or leasing your claim. Or, if you're willing and able to shoulder the financial risks and the labor, possibly you can hit the big money by mining the claim yourself. Oliver Brunson is trying for that elusive bonanza north of Globe, Ariz. He and his wife, Peggy, drove up Workman Creek one day in April, 1954, and stopped while Brunson clambered up the mountainside with his counter. When he came back to the truck, pale and excited, he was clutching a piece of "hot" ore. The Brunsons set up housekeeping on the spot and began working the Lucky Stop" mine hoping their effort will :.. pay off eventually in a big way. W - , AY I : l-Aw'- '' -- ' .: -- back-breaki- ng U u V4r UUXU 1 .... I. 4T?r I Vf 5 v'- f uat J ' ' 7 - I - V U -: v- - J"'f. 1 . . ; k JLi phofci by Jo i l XT s --. It takes luck to find uranium. But once it's found, ittakes even more skill. Setting explosives is an example. Here a powder man loads fuses and caps in a dynamite charge that will blast ore loose from the vein. It's a tricky job, not for amateurs. 1. C J- - 1 r hip 0 . v -- : . - T 2. Oliver and Peggy Brunson started mining near Globe, Arix two years ago with only an auto trailer, dog, and Geiger counter. They still have all three, but something's been added hope of riches in their "Lucky Stop" claim, which may be a valuable stake. 3. Monuments of hope, tike this cairn of rock, spot the Southwest. It stakes out a claim for some prospec600- - by 1,500-foo- t tor. Adjacent area also is claimed should the vein swing off. To keep a claim, $ 00 worth of work must be done within a year. & 1 . I ; I 4 4. Uranium mining is no operation. This air compressor, used in jack- hammer work,represents a $12,000 invest ment. If costs between $5,000 ancT$5000&" to get a mine producing, so many prospectors must sell their claims to companies. pan-and-sho- vel 5, Brunson began exploiting his discovery at this shaft. Later two new shafts were opened. Brunson recently made some tungsten claims at Tombstone, but the "Lucky Stop" named because he stumbled on it. r -- i . : A accidentally while resting is his big work. Family Weekly Mqgnzint, April 13. 1936 IS |