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Show Kay Predicts Rising Costs Will Force Ore Prices Up Delia County Cattle Valuation At Helicopters Regular Equipment Now GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. The Formerly, too, he said. It was 1854 President of the Colorado Min- rather inexpensive to dig an ining Association believes the rising cline to the discovered uranium ore cost of uranium ore production will bodies but today it is becoming necessitate a higher purchase priee necessary to sink regular mining M the boom on the Colorado Plashafts and to install more expenteau is to continue. However, he sive equipment in order to bring the next few the said, during years Colorado Plateau will see increased the ore to the surface. Too, prices for uranium claims have risen in activity due to the construction of new mills and ore production from the past five years from $50 per claim to thousands of dollars per past discoveries. claim, Kay said. Marvin L. Kay, president of the pointed to another disturbassociation and vice president and ingKay factor now the uranium general manager of Climax Ura- miner today as facing being the validity nium Co., declared that most of of the title to his claim. the outcrops and uranium deposits The United States mining laws do mining close to the surface on the Pla- not valid for a making teau have been mined, that future claimprovide location for mineral deposits ore discoveries will be deeper in the earth and therefore all costs, not exposed at the surface. including those of exploration and Said Kay: Unless providing for makmining, are rising constantly. Pre- amends this lawlocation of claims, viously, he said, prospectors drill- ing a valid ed to an average depth of 100 lengthy court procedures , will be r less feet, at a probable total certain to follow. cost of about $200 per hole. Today, Overall, Kay would make but a however, core drilling must go few comments concerning what will down 400 to 600 feet, raising the happen in the uranium mining and costs of this single operation to milling business if the government approximately $800 per hole. purchase program ends in 1962. Congress $2-Mi!!i- The Western National Co., Ltd., has purchased two helicopers, equipped each with about $6,000 worth of geophysical instruments, and they are now being used to explore the Colorado Plateau area for uranium. One of the helicopters is based at Monticello, Utah, for use of Grover C. Moore, consulting geologist and mining engineer for the company. The other is based in the Grand Junction, Colo., area. Western National has purchased an option on 15 claims in the vicinity of the Happy Jack mine. The claims are in the Henry Mountains and are owned by O. C. Williams of Phoenix, Ariz., and Daly Anderson of Mesa, Arizona. The ore occurs in the Shinarump conglomerate and the beddings have a vertical thickness of approximately 40 feet, showing a mining width of about 300 feet. DELTA, on More Colo. worth of than cattle are BOLEN MACHINE here-ford- Sam K. Smyth Registered Mining Engineer and Geologist Ph. 4271W 1826 Elm Ave. Grand Junction, Colo. Phone 167 839 So. 8th Grand Junction New Mt. Soprls SC129P Portable Scintillation Detertoc employing IWxl hermetic- ally sealed crystal with packed magnesium oxide reflector. Orders accepted for immediate delivery WORKS, INC. Foundries Precision Machining Gray Iron, Bronze and Aluminum Castings F.O. Box 1080 graz- ing on pastures in Delta county, according to a recent official estimate of the Department of Agriculture. The herds are made up s of 23,000 head of white face and Angus cattle. In addition, there are 25,000 head of sheep with a value of $600,000, pastured mostly in the higher elevations of the county during the summer and on feed lots in winter months. WESTERN INSTRUMENT SUPPLY Announces S647.00 pu WESTERN INSTRUMENT SUPPLY St 1523 6th Colorado flio Street Boulder, Colo. PBcaffoau! The fabulous Colorado Plateau is Americas storehouse of energy a new frontier for prospecting and exploration. You know of its wealth in natural resources ... the challenge it presents to men seeking these resources. The Plateau also challenges the manufacturers of prospecting and exploration equipment. They have to know the area and the wide range of conditions under which their products will be used. And they have to be sure their products are designed and built to give dependable, efficient service. Longyear has helped open this new frontier. Its reputation on the Plateau as in the entire world has been built through complete customer satisfaction. THE PROSPECTORS BEST FRIEND GETTING READY for micro-wav- e telephone service between Cortez and Rico, Colorado, on the Western Slope and the Colorado Plateau. This tower, at Cortez, will have a receiving antenna at its top, and telephone conversations will be sent by very high frequency radio waves. The system is the same as used to transmit television, radio and telephone service across the nation. (Photo courtesy Cortez Sentinel.) long-distan- Micro-Vav- Sysiem For e ' tion. Major project is the Very High Frequency (VHF) radio system between Cortez and Rico. The installation is the same as used in television, radio and e telephone micro-wav- e relay systems, except that it is and is not a relay system. Much of the work has already been done, Johnson said, and the project will be completed soon. The equipment budding at Rico, eight by 12 feet in size, has been tower to completed and a hold the receiving and transmitting antenna is erected on a rise some 1,000 feet above the town. point-to-poi- 1 ?! 1x3 fu..;-!:?- similar tower is already up in Cortez. The micro-wav- e equipment will provide two channels between Cortez and Rico, and maintenance work will be simple. Now, telephone calls between A are Cortez and -4 ixwr-'i- " 'igp- 4i?p routed and through Durango, Montrosemicro-wave Telluride. The Cortez-Ricequipment is the first of its type to be used on the Western Slope of Colorado, Johnson said. o Jeep-mount- ed 17-fo- ot U Corfez-Ric- o Two projects to improve phone service in the San Juan basin will be completed soon by the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co., according to George D. Johnson, district manager with offices at Grand Junc- Rico tele- the Longyear Prospector and 24 Drills are a familiar sight on the Plateau. These versatile, mobile units are ideally suited for mineral exploration in rugged country. From the lightweight mast, to the safety-typ- e chuck, there are many important advantages only Longyear offers. Va&v. 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