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Show Sidney Mining Co. Announces Operations S WALLACE, Idaho The Sidney and Mascot Company Mining Mines, Inc., have signed an agiee-men- t to engage in a major uranium mining venture in the uranium fields of Colorado and Utah, according to an official announcement released jointly by Malcolm C. Brown, president of Sidney Mining, and Robert Brown, president of Mascot Mines. The two companies have the announcement says, a group of 36 claims in the Thomp- - V t X t ; V ft -' f ft A 4 '? - .ft v s u 44f - f A A. ' . A, '' ; " Ship More Giisonife c 4" 1 CRAIG, Colo Over 3,000 tons of gilsonite, known here as pet- rified petroleum," is shipped out of Craig each month. Gilsonite is used for asphalt and tar materials by road builders, and in the manufacture of insulation materials for homes The area 120 miles west of Craig is the only place in the United States where gilsonite is extensively mined. " 1 - X " I4 v wx." . i r . - kJ. i T-- L"? - " V i ? ZZ2 ft ' -- 7 Xft &.! "tH . - " ;$ $: , .f44? ft 'Nbvs $ A - 4ft. ft - 1. - 1 & T ft - "- w; T ft " ' ft? o - ' - A, ' THE CITY GROCERY PICNIC & FISHING SUPPLIES We Give Green Stamps Ph. 96 Telluride, Colo. S-- H ft ,4 A ; sfj? ' 'Sj&'r2 . JF uV son Mining District of Utah, lying between two of the more important uranium producing regions of the Colorado Plateau. At the same time Mascot Mines sold to Sidney a one half interest in the Alto group of nine claims in the Gateway mining district of Colorado, which Mascot had purchased earlier this year. The two groups have been selected for exploration and development, as a result of months spent in the study and inspection of the Colorado Plateau. & f- c- ft . . v ' t V, ' WHERE TO GO! SEE! WHO&1 TO ft i' 44 -- 4 WHAT TO BUY! 4 , ft"1 vl - ?A! X4 ft CALAMITY HILL, northeast of Gateway, Colo., is famous for its steepness and its rough, curvy road. Places where two vehicles may pass are few and a trip down the hill is enough to ruin the brakes on the average automobile. Down Calamity hill moves uranium mined in the Arrowhead, Outlaw, Calamity, and other districts of the Uncompahgre area Delta County's Crops Give High Returns Colorado's National Monuments DELTA, Colo. "The most diversified county in Colorado, Delta county, shipped over $3,500,- 000 woith of fruit from its orchards to markets during 1954. There were $2,000,000 worth of apples, richest crop of the county, sent to market, as were $1,250,-00- 0 in peaches; $120,000 m apricots; $35,000 in pears; $100,000 of sweet cherries; and $15,000 of sour cheri ies. Challenge Human Imagination STOBY'S Rock and Curio Shop Rock Cutting & Polishing Indian Jewelry Grand Jet. 322 Main Nature, leaving a giant imprint from has stamped out a heritage of grandeur in Colorados four National Monuments set aside for all peoples by presidential proclamation. Here are rock formations as old as time, fossil remains of giant dinosaurs and other kindred life that roamed the earth 60 million to 200 million years ago, and vestiges of long vanished human civilization. Probably the two best known monuments are the Black Canyon of the Gunnison and the Colorado National Monument. Becoming equally well known is Dinosaur National Monument, currently the center of a heated controversy. Sand Widly beautiful, Grand Dunes National Monument also enthusiof new gams thousands asts each year. Your Basic Source for . . . Spanish explorers in for the Metal Milling Industry I Anhydrous Ammonia Caustic Soda Ammonium Nitrate Ammonium Sulfate Sodium Bicarbonate Acide 8C Reagents Soda Ash Sodium Chlorate Copper Sulfate Zinc Sulfate Alcohols Chloroform jk cr Gh twr. t Chemical Division Grand JaxtiMi, Colo. V to go for mining and exploration and supplies is the George E. Failing equipment Companys new store at 615 First Street, Grand Junction, Colorado. THE PLACE canyons name. The river, carving Its way for perhaps millions of years, has left bands of black and pinkish rock on the canyon faces. Evidences of Indinosaurs and prehistoric dians are found, and trees dating back to the years 1220 and 1470 still grow. , Wild life and flowers are abundant. The monument attracts tourists from early spring until HEAVY CHEMICALS are 1761 thought to be the first white men to see the Black Canyon of the Gunnison. Trappers, military expeditions and finally settlers rediscovered the canyon that finally became a national monument of 13,176 acres in 1933. stretch the Here for a sheer canyon walls rise 1,730 feet to 2,425 feet above the narrow, raging river, yet the rims of the gorge are only 1,300 feet apart at the nearest approach. Except at noontime the bottom of the canyon is shrouded in darkness, hence the late fall. Almost brashly beautiful, Colo- rado National Monument was established by presidential procla- mation in 1911. Here are 18,120 acres of upland flanking the Colorado river on either side of Grand Valley, an area where wind and water have carved deep red sandstone into weird, haunting shapes over centuries upon centuries of i THE MAN to see is Calvin Cook, store manager for the George E. Failing I t Company. Hell help you with your problems and in the selection of equip- ment and supplies. time. Mans achievements are dwarfed by natures handiwork, including the immense monolith. Independence Rock, which juts 500 feet into the air. Adjectives like "fantastic and "fabulous seem commonplace to describe the beauties of the area. Nature has been at work since before the age of dinosaurs, whose remains can be found. Elk, bison, other animals, flowers and trees of rare beauty can be seen. Visitors can either take a circle trip or go one way through the monument. The eastern entrance is four miles from Grand Junction, and the northern entrance but 3V4 miles from Fruita. Dinosaur National Monument, 80 acres established in 1915 by presidential proclamation and ento acres 209,744 in 1938, is larged in the wilderness of northeastern Utah and northwestern Colorado. Through the monument wind the canyons of the Green and Yampa rivers. The mam entrance to the monument is north of Jensen, Utah, on U. S. 40. Now an area of great gorges and giant canyons, of desert-lik- e patches and rock stratifications, the monument once was a lush, tropical place in which dinosaurs and other prehistoric life flourished over 140 million years ago- - Fossilized remains are everywhere, as are the remains of prehistoric Indians who once called the monument grounds their home. Within the monument Is a tem- porary museum exhibiting ized bones at no charge to the public. fossil- THE RIG, recommended by FAILING engineers for exploration and mining work in the Colorado Plateau, is the FAILING CFD-- 1 Combination. Its fast, its rugged, and it operates economically. You can use either fluid or air for drilling with this rig, and you can change back and forth in a few minutes. Before you buy a drilling rig, ask for a demonstration of the FAILING CFD-- 1 COMBINATION. h WaltA S. 'fculUtf. Cenryuouf tm ENID, Of WltrtNONOVM OKLAHOMA, MMI company U.S.A. 615 First Street 900 E. Railroad Avo. Grand Junction, Colo. Caspor, Wyoming |
