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Show At Canadas Port Radium plant, just below tiie Arctic Circle, aa endless rubber belt carries coat Uranium Mounfain or like lumps of uranium-bearin- g from mine to mill, says the National Geographic Society. Keen-eye- d spotters hold doubtful chunks before a Geiger counter suspended from the ceiling. A flashing light Until 1953 confirms Port Radium was Canadas only uranium mill. A larger plant ia Beaver-lodg- e now swells the output. Named for Its Ore MEEKER Uranium is not new to the people of Meeker. In 1905 Jim Riland and his partner opened a mine 20 miles north of the town, and though they were seeking vanadium there was so much uranium around the mountain and in their diggings the people ct the district tagged the name Mountain onto the Uranium radio-activit- North Avenue Music Store mount Finding it was not profitable to haul ore from a high mesa near Gateway by any Uranium Corp. pressed a helicopter into service. Now the Job is done in a fraction of the time formerly required. LIKE A BIRD! other method, Today the region from Yellow Jacket Pass to the north end of the White River area, approximately 20 square miles, is staked almost solidly with claims with Uranium Mountain right in the middle. The Rio Blanco county recorder at Meeker recalls that prospectors came in so rapidly with claims, as many as 300 in a day, that it was difficult to keep an accurate total. For the entire county, including Oak Ridge and a hot area north of Rangely, there were over 2,000 claims filed. Many geologists feel that only the surface of a great uranium field has been scratched in the Meeker district, and when deep drilling is started they will find even more high concentrated uranium deposits. Specialist in Mnsical Instrument Repair 747 NO. AVE. Grand Junction, Colo. TOOTHAKER AGENCY Cedaredge, Colo. REAL ESTATE , INSURANCE Dodge Helicopters Used to Solve Palisade Mountain 'Orelift' YOU will find a GATEWAY, Colo. Less than a dozen white men have been on the top of Palisade Mountain at Gateway, rich in uranium. Climbing the sheer, 2,200 foot high walls is a job. Dodge Uranium Corp. makes it to the top in less welcome at THE 7!4-ho- MIDLAND than five minutes by helicopter. Palisade Mountain is one of the two towering formations from which the town of Gateway got its name. The tip end of this handsome crag gives an unparalled view up and down the Dolores River Canon and along West Creek. Stone artifacts found there indi- - HOTEL Phone 300 Rifle, Colorado STRATEGIC MINERALS CO. 740 Main St. Grand Junction Phone 3776 cate it may have been used by early Indians as a ceremonial spot or perhaps a lookout. With the coming of the big uranium search. Palisade Mountain drew the attention of the Lewises, Jack and Ray, and Wallis Winfield. They made the arduous climb to the top and discovered what appeared to be a rich vein just below an outcropping of slick rock. The ore strata apeared to run all around the mountain. Four selected samples of the rich assayed from 3.5 to 15.8 percent uranium, it is said. The big problem was how to get the ore down from a location almost twice as high as the Empire State building. They carried some down on their backs, lowered some on a little hand winch maybe seven tons of high grade in all. It was too slow to be profitable. Putting in an aerial, tram would have been a big gamble without knowing how much ore might be up there. And how was anyone going to get a big drilling rig on top of a 2,200 .'oot rock that isnt much wider on top than a r Gen. Manager. I. R. Taylor Mine Manager for Delicious French, Italian and American Dishes. Pizza Pies in Four Flavors. 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They have been using one on Palisade Mountain for several weeks now, flying equipment and men to the top and hauling down ere in sacks lashed to the undercarriage. Helicoptering (if there is such a word) is expensive flying. A ship and pilot cost $75 an hour $1.25 a minute. But Jerry Yakes thinks he has it worked out. We can make four trips an hour, carrying down 400 pounds of ore, he explained. If there is enough bighgrade, one per cent or better It will be profitable, ore, up there and some of that ore should run higher than that. The mountain is hotter than a firecracker. Ore being taken out is solely from exploratory work. The copter, piloted by Don Williams of Allied Helicopter Service, has Hossfeld hauled up a rig for drilling out the ore body. If that carnotite strata runs clear through the mountain, Mr. Yakes says, they have quite a few million in ore, up there. The helicopter has proven so successful Dodge Uranium has ordered one from Bell Aircraft. A pilot himself for 28 years, Yakes plans to fly the Dodge Uranium whirlybird himself. The use of a copter on Palisade Mountain created a minor sensation in Gateway for several days, but the natives scarcely give it more than half a look any more. As a matter of fact, helicopters with their maximum maneuverability, are being used more and more in the uranium industry. Hidden Splendor Mining Co. (the Atlas Corp. subsidiary) is using two of them in its operations on the Muddy River and Interstate Mining & Exploration Co. is using a third. Just recently it was announced that Western National Co. Ltd. had purchased two helicopters for exploratory work. They are to be equipped with $6,000 worth of instruments. One will be used in the Monticello area and the other kept at Grand Junction. 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