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Show Mound Isn't Meal; Indian Ore Hoes Down U-Boo- and face contrasted sharply with the color of the huge pile upon which he labored. This was the pile of treated uranium ore after it had been filtered and precipitated at the huge Anaconda Copper Co.s mill on the slopes of Mt. Taylor in the mountains near Grants. To see the Indian casually hoeing the finished uranium so it will dry out, id always a surprise to visitors, who envision workers in thick asbestos suits, windowed helmets and heavy rubberized boots handling longarmed metal tongs to grasp the mineral. Instead, the Indian makes the mounds of ore which, when dry, will be packed in containers and shipped to the Atomic Energy Commission compound at Grand Junction for testing and distribution to appropriate laboratories or plants. Ag it is piled by the Indian, the ore is powdery, dirty yellow-brow- n in color, and appears quite harmless. It is, there. Not until later or does it take on a deadly aspect. mill receives The Anaconda uranium ore from many sections of the Colorado Plateau in railroad car and truck. As the ore arrives, it is carefully sorted according to its class and type. On the mill property are huge piles of gray, tan, yellow and brown ore which later will be treated and then prepared for shipment to Grand Junction. Inside the mill, as in all others1 handling Plateau uranium ores, the operations are almost entirely by machine. Tne ore is shoveled onto a conveyor belt which transports it to two crushing mills, thence the ore is poured into the tower. What goes top of a on inside of the tower is not to be public information. -- 600 Tons of Uranium New, Expanded Mills To Fit Uranium Heeds Shipped Every Day Greenriver (or is it Green River?), Utah is shipping about 800 tons of uranium ore every day, half of it by truck, to Salt Lake City and to Grand Junction. The town recently purchased $20,000 filtration plant and by this spring will have hooked it into the present town system. It all is a part of the towns efforts to keep up with its natural growth as people move there in the increasing search for uranium ores. Construction has started on a consolidated $350,000 grade and high school, and $10,000 worth of Improvements have been made on the airport in a joint city and state project. Planned are a new hanger With a complete shop and fueling facilities. Most uranium activity around Greenriver is in the Muddy River region, where five companies are hotly contesting for claims. Troubles beset the population, too. For example, all available Post Office boxes are rented and ever 150 people must receive mail through the general delivery Window. Since 1953, 50 new companies have settled at Greenriver and are receiving mail through the local Post Office adding considerably to the volume. Airport Enlargement The Grand County airport at Moab may be unproved this summer, using federal and state aid amounting to approximately Runways will be paved and an additional 500 feet of gravel runway will be completed. At present there is 5,200 feet of paved runway and improvements will add 1,500 feet of gravel runway on the end. Present facilities accommodate up to DC 3 or 4 size planes, and it is hoped commercial airliners will use the airport when improvements have been completed. Three of Americas greatest rivers have principal origins in Wyomings Grand Teton range. The Yellowstone starts there and later Joins the Missouri; the Snake winds its way over to the Columbia; and the Green cuts down to the mighty Colorado. $80,-00- 0. In an effort to keep up with uranium production from mines on the Colorado Plateau, several new processing mills were completed, already existing mills were enlarged, and still others are now in process of enlargement. e Oil Industries The big plant at Shiprock, N. M., was opened in November to treat ores produced in the nearby Lukachukai and Carrizo Mountain areas and was the ninth such mill in operation at that time on the Colorado Plateau. Anaconda Copper Mining Co., was busily engaged in building a milling unit to treat sandstone-typ- e ores produced in the Granite, r, N. M., area; the plant at N. M., for limestone-typ- e ores was completed by Anaconda in 1953 and immediately went into Kerr-McGe- Blue-wate- Engineering Cattle Raised Again ALLENDALE, S. C. UP) Belfast plantation near here is back in the cattle In Tarlton Browns business. memoirs of the 1700s, he recalls as excellent range for the place cattle and said it was no uncommon thing to see 200 in a herd." Harry M. Lightsey of Columbia recently bought the old place and is reviving the cattle raising business on it, has rebuilt the plantation house. Hefty Feline SACRAMENTO, Calif. Wl Ralph Snows orange and yellow cat named Duke weighs 30 pounds. . Mine, Industrial, , Structural and Fabricating Steel of All Types Heavy Duty Mechanics Representatives for Commercial and Residential Contracting Maintenance Morse Brothers Machinery Company Distributors For Western Slope Oxygen Company Phene 4371 Moab. Utah There arent many horse-shoer- s he the business today, serves. Its realy an art. in Electrically " Any Type Tanks. Drill Pipe Straightening But at the bottom of the tower Is what looks much like a garbage can into which the crushed ore is poured directly from the mechanism of the tower. Although officials of the mill will not discuss the towers internal organs, the noise emanating from it is deafening. But the ore still is not ready for the Indian to make into mounds. It is given yet another crushing treatment in drums filled with steel rods and balls, and comes from these fully pulverized. The next process is to cook the ore producing an extremely foul odor in live steam to step up the chemical process separating the uranium salts from the rock. Finally the uranium salts are filtered and precipitated out of the solution by a classified agent. Then it is ready for the Indians boe treatment. Soon to be opened by Anaconda is a second mill nearby in which sandstone type ores from the famous Jackpile mine, owned by Anaconda, will be treated. In the older mill only limestone-uraniuores are treated. All so that America may have power to cure diseases or to defeat an enemy. When It's Mild, Watch That Storm! Texans and Easterners moving into the rich uranium region along border are the Colorado-Utamighty pleased with the mild climate. Its the first time many of them have done year around drillh ing. But The sudden storms peculiar to the area have them just a little nervous. Recently an icy wind blew down Muddy River canon near Green River, picked up a 30 x 30 foot frame cookhouse and smashed it against a cliff 400 feet away. Sev- eral huge drill rigs were pushed over as if they were toys. Luckily, no one was injured. Jim Gilkinson, a geological engineer originally from Connecticut who works for the company that remarked: lost .the cookhouse, Where I come from we just figure on bad weather coming along normal like. Here, it sneaks up oil a guy before be knows what is happening! Stays Out Of Debt MOAB recent curb A Repair Free Estimates Phone 4336 Box 433 Moab, Utah ob- and gutter proposal developed by city planners here was completed almost before plans were completed. As soon as the engineering plans were completed several business4 in Years Up men put in their share before bids Moab is growing, as if anyone were advertised. And payment of the $28,000 project was didnt know. The official census of 1950 re- so fast any ordinary community 2,426 k vealed a population of the May, 1954 census population to be 2,715. of the present number living at Moab are in borhood of 3,700. Well Locations Roads have been dumbfounded. Participants in the program were Estimates given the choice of taking a bond of people on the expenditure, or paying up the neigh- in three months. They choose the latter system. 1,274 and shows the would Reconnaissance Pipe Lines Land Surveys Elevations Claim Surveys con-sider- "At Your Service General Welding Rig Repairs Machine Work g full production. Other big mills were to be located at Moab to treat ores of the Big Indian Wash district, ore from the Jo Dandy body near Bedrock, Colo., and to treat the White Canyon ores at Hite, Utah. Expansion of existing facilities Shoes Way to School was being considered by Vanadium Bill Wash. Corp. of America, Climax Uranium ELLENSBURG, announced a million dollar expan- Gallacher, 22, who is supporting a sion at Grand Junction, and Vitro family to boot, is shoeing his way Uranium Co., likewise announced through college. He loads his anvil expansion plans. and other equipment in the back of The AEC, meanwhile, announced his car and cruises the country roads in quest of business. plans to expand facilities in A 8c E ELECTRIC Mosare But m GRANTS, N. M. The young Laguna Indian was working with a common hoe on a mound of what looked like cottonseed meal. He wore overalls, and his bronze arms REMODELED L.D.S. Church at Moab is being used for school room, handling the unusually large second grade. Children still attend in shifts, 8:30 to noon, and 12:30 to 4:30. School is also conducted in Sunday school rooms of the new L.D.S. Church. Nice San Juan Engineering Company Registered Professional Engineering and Land Surveying In New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Arizona Moab Ph. 4331 J. 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