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Show liiM'JlilfJj." Paddy Finds igjW i. .... v Yellow Rock, It's Rich Claim -- '"Cf & V? BOOKKEEPING - 1 X sS- SERVICE -- f y Barbara Pegau &- R Paddy Martinez, a Navajo Indian, ' was sitting on a ledge on Haystack Mountain in northern New Mexico. He reached back of him for the bottle of stuff it was illegal to sell Indians in 1950, and d glanced around to see a rock near his bottle. For his find, Paddy now receives $250 a month from the Santa ,r LJJIUlWiI A. ''Shp , 1950 JWLWUMiiUUUHIIII wo f 5 Back in N. M. GRANTS, .iriiFMwiiiiii "f. ' if ' X J IT Grants, New Mexico yellow-colore- - i "r! f T'Vh v C", &i .. Sl H i "" v. .? i1' ' Grants Confectionery The Humphries Sundries, Jewelry, Magazines Grants, New Mexico ' z. v. s. w v' 5 Sf, i y r. WV. .. v V . . y$x S L 'l4vr y v ? ' f i - v J': J A X. A xxXXXxxxxXx Fe railroad which happens to own a big chunk of the uranium rich land on Haystack Mountain. On that day, however, Paddy took a chip of the yellow rock to town and put it near a geiger counter. The needle went crazy, says Paddy. He had stumbled into what is proving out to be one of the Colorado Plateaus richest uranium bodies. A dollar ore processing plant soon went up and open p.t mines are well on the way to laying for it and more, too. Northern New Mexico became the land of opportunity and there is talk about a $10,000 award to Paddy r 54v ,y x.x. n Martinez. But that wont be all that the Indians will receive. The Navajo and other tribes in the district will someday reap huge benefits from Paddys accidental discovery, when the railroad, the Navajo tribal council, and government agencies have finally settled on terms. YOUR FOOD STORE GRANTS NEW MEXICO Lease Profitable to Indians, Too Anaconda-Lagun- a GRANTS, N. M. When Anaconda Copper Mining Co. wants ore it goes about finding it systematically. In 195 the company wanted to get into the uranium business in the Grants area. One day early in 1952, a company plane was making a radio-metri- c survey over terr'tory east of Grants, using a scintillometer, delicate device for detection of radiation. The instrument went on a clicking rampage over a mesa near the village of Paguate, about five miles north of the heavily traveled U. S. highway 66, and the now famous Jackpile mine was discovered. That mesa, it was determined, was on the Laguna reservation. Anaconda bid for and got the prospecting permit and now has 1,440 acres under lease. With the bonuses paid and the relatively small amount of ore tonnage removed, the Jackpile already has paid the Lagunas a total of $410,-00records of United Pueblos Agency show. The Jackpile mine is a shipping method. operation the open-p- it From 100 to 130 feet of interbed-de- d sandstone and mudstone over-li- e the ore body which is in the morrison formation. This overburden is being stripped away by heavy machinery to get at the ore. How much ore has come out of the Jackpile to date is restricted information, as is its value. Mining men familiar with the operation, however, figure that the ore is running from .3 to .4 percent in uranium oxide, which is good in an operation involving large tonnage. The ore is shipped by train to CUT LABOR IN HALF . . . WITH ELECTRICITY .'x ...x : V GRANTS AUTO SUPPLY 5 ?es t XX ...r.. .. iipXiXr'r" i IL E. MARKHAM Grants, New Mexico Anacondas mill at Bluewater, five miles northwest of Grants and about 50 miles from the mine. There it is stockpiled, pending completion of the second Anaconda mill at th site. The present mill now is processing a different type of uranium ore, a Todilto limestone, for which the mill is suited. The second mill will process the sandstone ores exclusively. Estimates of what the Laguna tribe is realizing now as the limited mining operations are about to be expanded vary from $50,000 to $75,000 monthly. Those persons who have access to the figures say that, somewhere in there is about right. The Lagunas also have received $45,000 for oil and gas leases on 6,600 acres taken up by two oil companies. Continental Divide Electric Cooperative "OWNED BY THOSE WE SERVE" Ore-Buyi- G. D. RAMSEY Texaco Petroleum Products ng Ffloab Station Box 87 Phone 31 Grants, New Mexico Uranium miners who have been ore at Moab, Utah, got stockpiling good news in January with the announcement by the Atomic Energy Commission that a new uranium station and sampling plant was ready for Feb. 1 BOND GUNDERSON CO. opening. Although a provisional buying station had been operated at Moab since May, 1954, it did not have Headquarters the capacity to handle all the ore In Grants, N. M. being mined in the area, with the result that a tremendous amount for was stockpiled, awaiting the opening of the sampler. Du Pont Explosives Until uranium ore Is sampled and its per cent U308 determined, and Blasting Equipment miners cannot be paid for their efforts. The AEC said that ore which has been accumulated on a provisional basis will be mechDetectron - Precision anically sampled in the new plant and final settlement made with Babbel the seller. Hunting Establishment of a buying schedGeiger Counters ule for the plant was announced Look by Sheldon P. Wimpfen, manager of the Grand Junction operations of the AEC. American SmeltMine Safety Some ura- officeand GRANTS, N. M. Refining Co. is operating nium prospectors In northern ing Moab station for the the new Equipment New "'exico hunt the yellow min- commission. eral by looking closely at weeds! Helen L. Cannon of the U. S. Geologic 1 Survey wrote in 1953 Complete Hardware that by hunting for certain plants THRIFTY DRUG CO. it was possible t- - discover uraDepartment nium ore deposits. In the Poison Canon area it Prescriptions, Fountain, Service Since 1915 was noted that milkvetch and Cosmetics, Liquor, Sundries. Indian rice grass were growing in profusion at the base of an e Phone 2 Phone 126 outcrop, and on the alluvium of Grants, New Mexico the valley floor the vegetation Grants, N. M. was found to consist mainly of shadscale. These plants thr e through absorption of selenium, an element usually associated with uranium ores. Through ' e weathering process, some people believe, selenium and uranium were carried to the valley floor in solutions. Uranium is soluble. Helen Cannon also recommendof the needles of ed analys Grants, N. M. deep-roote- d trees growing on the Todlito limestone as a feasible Total Resources $2,493,219.60 prospecting method. The average uranium content of pinon and Capital Accounts $149,665.55 juniper trees on th limestone was found to be ten times greatCourteous regard for the wants of every er than in similar trees growing on sandstones elsewhere on the customer. Officers easily accessible and Colorado Plateau. g Uranium? lor Weeds -- glad to advise. Gallagher Business Machines Co. DRILLING AEC Opens flew GRANTS STATE BANK Labor is a big item in the home, on the farm and in business. Electric power is the modern way to minimize labor. Electric power appliances and machines can perform many jobs more efficiently and in much less time. Electricity can save you money and make work easier and more pleasant for you. Electricity costs so little and does so much. MINING Cash Register. - Adding Machine Typewriter -- Bookkeeping Machines Calculators Sale - Service - Supplies Phone HANOSH EXPLORATION 21 Third St Albuquerque, X. M. COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT We make it a point that every business transaction with our patrons shall be mutually satisfactory. N.W. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT KAYLEE COMPANY GRANTS V x J THIS AERIAL VIEW of the Anaconda Copper Companys Bluewater plant was taken in the spring of 1954, and shows the sprawling operation of the companys uranium processing operations. Huge stockpiles of ore may be seen at the right, with the desert wastes stretching out for miles behind the plant to distant mounains Little can be described about Anacondas mining or processing operations, since the Atomic Energy Commission has clamped a security veil over the venture. 0, Compliments of Box 447 -'- 5 f X PADDY MARTINEZ multi-millio- v $? -- x,xxxxxxWx:xxx;:X'-x,x- . & L ., ' x. & S X s v f V'vv. ' STORES - Phone 233 NEW MEXICO Complete Line of Work Clothe Lou Bright, Mgr. Grants, N. M. As a depository for your money, this old and reliable bank stands ready to help you with counsel security and 2 compound interest. 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