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Show frtachin&s May Cure Ills OF Plateau Coal Fields Two Million Board Feet of Lumber Each Month WINSLOW, Ariz. Sawmills here are cutting over two million board feet of timber a month, more than most other Colorado Fiateau nulls turn out in a year. Working out of Americas largest stand of Ponderosa pine, they are currently providing 95 per cent Arizona's lumber production. in the industry indicate, output probably will conthe high rate for some come, and forest service officers at Holbrook say the fertile Sitgreaves forest could supply 55 million board feet a year for the next 20 years in proper planting and cutting procedures are follo01 Leaders too, that tinue at time to wer Since 1925 the forest has yielded an average of 40 million board feet a year. Much of the forest has an estimated 142 board feet of lumber to the acre, or an amount eufficient to build a large five room house. With approximately 448,000 acres ef timber bearing land in the forest, northern Arizona lumber men are looking forward to many more highly productive years. Outcroppings Indicate Near Winslow U-Or- es Tourists WINSLOW, Ariz. aren't thP only ones visiting Ari- zona's famed Painted Desert and Petrified Forest. Uranium prospectors are tramping over the traditional sightseeing spots near Holbrook and Winslow and they arent looking for souvenirs or Indian blankets. The news of Shinnarump, Chinle and Morrison formation outcroppings has leaked out and an army of geiger counter enthusiasts is moving in. Those names may be very strange to summer tourists, but uranium men willing to dare the freezing desert nights know the rock formations are the ones usually containing uranium. Claims are being staked at a rapid pace even during the cold winter months. Unofficial reports say the Atomic Energy Commission now has 10,000 tons of ore blocked out in northern Arizona. And any rumor of that kind creates active interest immediately. Principal difficulty in starting mining operations has been the low quality of present ore discoveries. Most recent finds have revealed an ore content of about .1 percent uranium. WILDCATTIXG last year In the Black Mesa Basin near Winslow and Holbrook, Ariz., resulted in speculation that another rich oil or helium field exists in the area. The rig shown here was set up on the Dewey McCaully ranch 19 miles southeast of Winslow, and drilling progressed to 3,000 feet when the drillers overnight abandoned the installation and moved away. Humor had it that an oil showing was made, but the drillers said nothing. A Dallas, Tex., drilling firm is now down beyond 1,200 feet on a wildcat operation near Holbrook. Recent inventions of new coalmining machines and processes may heal the illness of what was once one of America's largest producing industries. Two of the most startling meare the chanized coal miners Compton auger, developed by C. E. Compton of Grafton, W. Va., along the simple lines of an ordinary woodworking awl, and a remote-contrcutter which tows an automatic conveyer belt. The auger, which whirls through a coal seam and sprays shavings out at the rate of three tons a minute, produces three times the national average, while the converyor belt delivers almost twice that much. Dramatically enough, these machines have reduced the cost of coal per ton delivered at Charleston, W. Va., from $5 to $2, of which SI goes to the railroads which deliver the black rock. With the development of these machines, plus the solution of the problem of pumping powdered coal through pipelines, coal men think the industry is due to get out of the doldrums. In about five years, perhaps (at the most) fifteen, these experts predict the oil industry will be buying coal by the hundred millions tons to make gasoline; more power firms will depend on coal to produce electricity, of which 70 per cent is now generated in coal turning plants, and foresee even greater purchases from the atomic industry During 1954, the largest single coal purchaser was the Atomic Energy Commission. To date, all these innovations have been produced and teried in the coal fields of Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. That they will move to the coal-ricareas of the Colorado Plateau is a foregone conclusion, in the minds of coal experts. Coal mine owners, who lose no love where John L. Lewis is concerned, are inclined to give him credit for pushing the modernization of the industry, and many agree with parts of the recent Fine Wine According to results of a survey conducted for the Grand Junction Chamber of Commerce, there are acres in 100,000 approximately Mesa County that could be reclaimed for agricultural uses. The growing season of Mesa County is one of the longest in the entire state, about 190 days, and the annual precipitation in the Grand Junction area, recorded for a period of 63 years, is 8.86 inenes. ANDERSON'S AUTO SERVICE Headquarters For Hock Hounds Phones Telluride 43 & 76 Colo. SANTA FE WATCH INSPECTOR ROSE'S FOOD MART STARR JEWELERS All your food needs Your AG Market TROY IONEDAN Phone 99 Telluride, Colo. Phone 66 119 Kinsley Ave. Arizona Winslow and TIMBER COMPANY LUMBER from the rich timberlands near Winslow, Ariz., comprises one of the major industries of the entire district. The above photo shows lumber piling operations in a Winslow lumber mill after timber has been cut into lumber and taken into the sun to dry, or weather. Skyline Ranch Ledge 222 EAST SECOND ST. PHONE 599 Meals, Lodging & Fishing 4 Private Lakes ARIZ. Expanded In County NAGEL LUMBER And Beer WINSLOW Crop Lands Could Be h PUBLIC MARKET Winslows Independent Super Market statement he made in which be said that if . . . the utilization of energy, machinery, improved techniques, can become an economic advantage in lowering cost of production, in which the inestor, the worker, and the public as a consumer can participate, then it, indeed. becomes not merely an but an obligation." 9 Mi. South of Telluride On Highway 145 Telluride Colorado PETERSON'S Manufacturers of Ponderosa Pine Lumber GARAGE AND SUPPLY Dodge & Plymouth Complete Automotive Service Phone 78 Telluride Box 972 WINSLOW Phone 1480 ARIZONA Colorado We Are Proud To Be A Part Of The Development Of The Complete Banking Services FIRST NATIONAL BANK i Grand Junction ' Total Resources Member of Federal Reserve System So 123l54-$1733- 3, 855.935 Member Fedeftd Deposit Insurance Corporation |
