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Show Sullivan Sees Big Growth In Area Ray Sullivan, vice president of Mmerals Engineering Co., discussing the outlook of the uranium industry in this area, and direct developments from it, says most people of the Western Slope are selling the uranium boom short, and said he thought the expansion had hardly started. He feels expansion of local facilities will increase many fold during the next five years, and expects to see more and smaller, widely scattered, production mills. He also predicted mining activities to increase by many times the present pace. Mr. Sullivan also said he expects much consolidation of uranium companies, which he believes will put the industry on a more sound basis, and keep some of the smaller firms from going broke. He predicted a big population growth for Grand Junction and other communities as a result of the concentration of energy in the area and resultant influx of connected industries. HI, THERE for the protographer last summer atop Grand Mesa. Before and after the picture above was taken, the cub rambled about the area in a playful mood, unafraid of the cameraman. He displayed an interest in the photographer, was even friendly but who wants to get chummy with 150 pounds of bear, cute or not? A bear cub poses prettily Bronson, Active, Agile, Is Anxious for More Work Fletcher Bronson looks more like successful farmer than a of one of the nations top uranium producing mines. Today he is both. Farming Is a hobby but there was a time he worked for 50 cents a day and felt glad to get it. Sixty-fou- r year old Mr. Bronson remembers clearly the rugged Joe years before he, his Cooper, and son. Grant L. Bronson owned the fabulously rich Happy Jack mine near Monticello, Utah. Unofficial reports have it that at least a million dollars worth of ore came out of the Happy Jack last year. But likeable Mr. Bronson, who has had a lifetime of hard work wresting a living out of a rough country doesnt impress a person as being a millionaire. His hard, strong hands recall days when he followed the threshing crews pitching bundles from tiawn to dark. Then receiving wheat for pay, which he traded with the grocer for food. For 45 years he has shorn sheep sometimes shearing as many as 200 a day or two every five minutes. He and the boys, his son and Mr. Cooper, tried their luck at mining in 1940 when vanadium was at a premium. After three months the vein petered out and they were forced to close down. Mr. Bronson began to learn about the uranium processing business when he worked on construction crews building the Uravan and Monticello plants. During the war he was a leaching process operator working with acids that separate the minerals. In 1946 the family heard about a mme for sale in White Canyon, 60 miles southwest of Monticello. It is now one of the five most valuable uranium mines on the Colorado Plateau. a In his speciman collection Mr. Bronson has ore from the Happy Concerning the supply of uranium in the area he said he expected all known deposits to be mined out within five years, but believed much more would be located through new methods. He said in 1949 boring 12 feet deep for the ore was a deep hole, but that now boring to a depth of 1,400 feet is not unusual. He also foresees new methods of digging out and locating the ores. However, he pointed out that the new methods will probably greatly increase the price of uranium. He said he was sure future power production would come cheaply from uranium, and that one of the major problems of the next generation would be getting rid of waste products. Radioactive Reaches Oil Come Under Study, Too Petroleum has had a majea role in lifting burdens off man'll shoulders. Of todays energy, mor. than half (about 62 per cent) cornea from oil and natural gas. Bjg 1960, it is estimated that man wiy do only three per cent of the phy sical work performed in the United States. Animals will do one per, cent and machines, 96 per cenCi Before the oil industry started, fi 1859, man did 15 per cent, animal 79 per cent, and machines six pe cent. cockNow its radioactive roaches! A group of U. S. public health experts trapped sewer roaches in Phoenix, Ariz., and exposed them to radioactivity. Then they turned them loose in a spot from where they migrated into a house through water traps in the plumbing. The roaches didnt know H but a geiger counter followed them along their route, so that a study of their migratory habits could be made. The researchers found that cockroaches will travel as much as 200 feet when they become overcrowded or when forced out of colonies by backed-u- p sewage. Gefflng Stronger Gasoline Improved The quality of modern gasoline has been improved so much ia recent years that two gallons ol 1954s motor fuel will provide the same work energy that required three gallons in 1925. ON YOUR NEXT TRIP TO GRAND JUNCTION STOP AT Motor Inn Lodge A Friendly Place To Stay Reasonable Family and Commercial Rates Phone 512 2812 North Avenue, Highway 4, New Cover for Cracks Cracked walls soon may have their faces lifted by a petroleum product. A wall coating of plastic, made with a vanyl resin base which is is sprayed on in a single coat and forms a continuous web that will bridge wall cracks up to two inches. It is said to resist deterioration by weather, water, major mold and mildew groups, most acids and alkalies, and strong washing deter- Jack containing from 50 to 60 per cent uranium. Ordinary ore is more often as low as .30 per cent. Mr. Bronson enjoys hunting and fishing and is active at his farm- gents. ing. Though be could easily retire, he says, Tve worked hard Better Gas, Engines all my life and I intend to keep Gradual development of higher right on. octane gasolines and higher compression ratio auto engines eventLead-Silv- er Strike ually will save American motorists about $750 million a year and probably will result in the conReported by Calvin servation of about 400,000 barrels lead-silvA new strike of profitable of crude oil a day. ore has been made at the Calvin mine of Commonwealth Lead Mining Company, located CONTRACT MINING near Melrose, Montana, it is reported by J. F. Featherstone, comORE BODY VALUATION pany president and general manager. New returns from a shipment recently made amounted to $1,089 of which the company retained fifty per cent as the project is being operated by lessees on a fifty-fiftbasis. Value of the ore was $57 per ton, Mr. Feather-ston- e said. AMERICAN URANIUM y ENGINEERING Send For Roads CO. asset P.O. into Box a an 1599 Uranium Center liability Turning is an everyday story for oil men, Grand Colo. Junction, whose ingenuity and resourcefulness are noted in America. The problem facing one oil company was what to do with oilsoaked sand after useable quantities of oil had been separated from it. The solution was ideal. It was used to surface leased roads on which traffic was too light to justify paving with asphalt. The growing demand for oil products on the nations farms is emphasized by a recent U. S. Department of Agriculture report stating that tractors in use now total Before the start of World A little over f of one per War II, they numbered only 1,700,- cent of Arizonas 500,000 square 000. Truck totals also have risen miles was recorded as cultivated from 1,100,000 to 2,400,000, on the land in 1946. farms. 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