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Show 12.7 Barrels Average Nafuriia Gets Hew Water System Soon Only two years ago to convince a few people it deserved incorporation Today uranium has NATURITA Natunta had a court fight just The average oil well in this country produces about 12 7 barrels per day. The average price per barrel of crude oil is $2 82. This means that the average gross income per day per well is $35 81. Subtract royalty, and you have the grand total of $31 33 out of which must come operating costs, taxes, interest and incidental expenses. entered the picture and the booming town has a future that may een the most optimistic suipass of two years ago. dreams Naturita is nestled in the San Miguel River valley only a few miles from a uranium ore ptocess-in- g Training a pilot to be a complant employing over 150 peo- petent observer to patrol pipe ple. New additions to the plant lines by air requires approximatesoon to be completed will require ly six months. An oil leak is only one of some 20 conditions for even moie woikers. To further stimulate business, which the pilot must watch. several hundred producing mines are in the district, feeding ore into the plant night and day. Finding their community growing literally by the hour, town board members with the help of newly arrived, ambitious young businessmen managed to pass a $40,000 bond issue for a city water works. They also succeeded in convincing the school district to authorize a $30,000 addition to the grade school. Yet, this may barely handle the swelling enrollment by the time it is completed. The water works, now nearing EFFECTS OF EROSION on the Colorado Plateau, which for thousands and thousands of years have includes 14,000 feet of completion, been swept by winds and rains and receding waters. Sometimes high on the shelves of the ravines area. a covering pipe and canons seen in the photo are found deposits of uranium ores and other valuable minerals. This Five urgently needed fire hydrants Grand Junction, Colorado 6cene is taken from an airplane near the La Sal Mountains and is looking toward Gateway, are located at strategic points. Up. Colorado. stream river water is being divert- "Pay Less and Sleep More ed into a reservoir, and from a chlorinator near the reservoir a pump capable of delivering 250 On Highway 6 and 24 galllons a minute forces water into a tank. 25,000 gallou U-BoOpposite Veterans Hospital The tank is located on a rise about 100 feet above town, proNORWOOD Not so long ago viding a minimum of 40 pounds Norwood was a quiet farming and A commercial shale oil plant letter to this newspaper received pressure for faucets all along the 1910 North Avenue lumbering community. Now it is will be built on the Colorado Pla- from Max Lorimore, assistant line. is which town Year the system says Ray Mayor hustling, bustling teau by the Union Oil Company comptroller of Union OR. The disMarch. difficulties. There of having according to Reese satisfaction, however has not de- should be completed by late re new people, money and ac- H. California, comterred the company from developTaylor, president of the tivity. pany. The plans were revealed in ing shale oil plans. ' Norwood did very wen as a cen- a news letter sent to employes Said Mr. Lorimore: May I call ter for a thriving sheep and cattle by Mr. Taylor, who also revealed your to the influence Complete Supplies & Service for the Prospector business and eight busy lumber the company estimates that from which attention of Interior, mills. But to add to this two enor- one area in northwestern Colorado throughthetheDepartment Oil and Gas Division Send for Free Catalog mous uranium ore processing mills more than one hundred billion bar- and the National Petroleum Counoil be rels of of of worth milions dollars may produced." doing on the has had cil, stimulating Union Oil holds approximately search milling annually only a short drive 50,000 of, a acres of shale land, some reserve for, and development way, and it is easy to under- of which and refining URANIUM PROSPECTOR SERVICE production 30 more than it acquired here. is stand what happening capacity in the United States. In three-fifth- s about and ago, years this country with order to Too, the Atomic Energy Com- of which was acquired since World sufficient provide MAPS OF URANIUM REGIONS mission is considering building a War capacity to meet a posII. sible national defense emergency, third processing plant nearby. AND SCINTILLATION COUNTERS GEIGER The project must be completely oil industry has been requested Prospectors are a common sight engineered in order that work the BLUE PRINTING CUSTOM to provide an excess capacity over on the streets as glowing reports begin before two or three current of approximately needs flow in about successful claims might H. M. Shea, Manager although the committee barrels per day, equal and producing uranium mines in years, hopes to complete its findings withGyp Valley and Bull Canon near in six months, said Mr. Taylors to about fifteen percent. The in503 Rood Aye. Grand Junction, Colo. here. A top management com- dustry has provided this capacity, it and the benefit has which A much quieter but just as im- report, only set to mittee has been up study portant development is the pre- how best to exploit our shalehold-ing- s enjoyed as a partial offset to the burden has been accelersence of oil men in the community. and when such exploitation financial ated amortization of the emergenSeismograph crews are working should begin. cy facilities under Certificates of throughout the region.. That Americas giant oil pro- Necessity. Of course, the industry Several large outfits are expectwith the will not be able to absorb the fined to test every section of the ducersthe are dissatisfied government is controlling ancial impact of a permanently country around Norwood next sum- way oil production is pointed out in a excessive Therefore, mer. capacity. ways will have to be found to A few weeks ago the New Jersey enable the industry to earn a reaS. W. Stoker of the Fairfield With his two sons have recently or- Zinc Co.s mine at Franklin, N. J., sonable return on its defense ininvestment. ganized the Magic Valley Uranium within an hours drive from New spired capacity There is another serious problem Company with six quartz claims York for ceased operation City, facing the American oil industry ha Camas county from which considerable ore has been shipped all time, its ore exhausted after today, and that is the adverse ef100imports of petyears of steady fect of unrestricted and is considered to have very more than roleum on U. S. production. production. good possibilities. Countries of the free world produced a record total of 2 2 billion barrels of crude oil in the first six months of 1953, more than four per cent over the comparable output of the previous year. This was Grand Junction, Colo. an outstanding record for the nations, which now are producing nearly 90 percent of the worlds total crude oil supply but it is distressing to find that -the United States failed to partiin the cipate in this increase, opinion of Union Oil president TayS. lor. The U. actually produced less crude oil than it did in 1952, to Mr. Taylor. according This situation clearly illustrates Street 223 No. 7th one of the most important problems VANCE THORNBURG, President i that the American petroleum inPhone 3464 dustry faces today: the problem GARTH THORNBURG, Vice President of underproducing of developing Grand Junction, Colo. wells and then being forced to shut in order to accomodate them in the oil coming into this country from foreign areas, he said. Mr. Taylor makes an appeal for curtailment of excessive imports, thus encouraging the domestic oil Bridger-Jac- k, Plateau Mining Company Inc. industry constantly to find and one-eigh- KIPPS MOTEL Phone 1534 Norwood Has Its om Union Oil Plans Oil Shale Plant ; Hits Govt. Controls Troubles ... one-milli- Compliments of L. E. SCHOOLEY - Uranium Ore Hauling Mesa Neon Sign Co. free-wor- ld SIGNS LIGHTING URANIUM ENTERPRISES, INC. SERVICE MANAGING COMPANY FOR WE DO FINE CUSTOM WORK Cabinets Fixtures develop new fields Tucson Uranium Mountain Realty Co. GENERAL MILL WORK REAL ESTATE OF ALL KINDS 302 Main FIRST STREET CABINET SHOP GRAND JUNCTION, COLO. Phone 699 815 North 1st Grand Junction Street Phone 2080 WE B. (BILL) THOMPSON, PROP. Thornburg Uranium Co. American Asbestos & Cement Corp. Uranium Research & Exploration Co. Gunnison Uranium Company Ord Mercury Mines Thornburg Uranium Mines, Inc. 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