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Show G & R STANDARD SERVICE Lube ' 7y h r' n T - . vafe 4 w ' - &M -- J t - i . ;. - v? r .1 j . T ' lfSV'r . .., ,W ! "Zj ; ty2 - - , v A v 1 . rv.t$a9 a r f Atlas Accessories George A. Lev, Prop. Green River, Wyou '" '-- 8c , DELL'S MARKET In The Middle of Town Fresh Meats & Groceries Green River, Wyo. TOMAHAWK THIS COMMON WYOMING SCENE Is punctuated by the dust of trampling hooves, the shrill whistle of the herder, the bleat of temporarily lost lambs and the sharp yapping of the intelligent sheep dog. Motorists sometimes curse, sometimes sit back and relax when the shaggy wool carriers halt traffic for a few minutes, but at the back of every mind is the recurring thought that this procession is, too, part of Upper Colorado River Basins ever increasing prosperity. Date of discovery of oil in the Weber Sandstone, Rangely area, was in 1933. In the Rangely basin are 477 oil wells and 19,036 productive acres developed. Accumulative production in the Rangely field since operations began in 1944 total 125,422,701 barrels of oil. Late in 1953, mobile telephone service was installed in the Rangely area to serve the oil firms in the basin. It was the second such service authorized in Colorado. THE TOWN PUMP SERVICE STATION TEXACO PRODUCTS Green River, Wyo. LARIAT LODGE Rock Springs NEWEST & FINEST Rock Springs, Wyo. RAMON'S TEXACO SERVICE Gas Oil Lube B. F. Goodrich Batteries Products Green River, Wyo. Trona Deposits At Green River Francom-Villanov- a Mortuary 15 N. 1st E. TELEPHONE 600 24 Hour Ambulance Service With Trained Attendants Latest Oxygen Equipment Green River, Wyo. McMurtry Paints Featured In The Heart of Downtown Green River, Wyo. Headquarters For The Hew Newest Major Chemical Product Huge covered hopper trucks roll down out of southwestern Wyoming through Craig, Rifle and Grand Junction day after day, destined for ore refining plants on the Colorado River plateau. Each is carrying a load of soda ash, a major refining chemical, and the intermountain West's newest major chemical product. Soda ash, the refined form of trona, has been a basic chemical of Americas industries long before trona mining started a few years back at Westvaco, 20 miles west of the railroad center of Green River. But it was, with the exception of comparatively minor brine evaporation operations, produced by synthesis. Today, the greater portion is still produced by synthesis, but near Green River, 400 rail carloads a month, plus the truck haul away to smelters, uranium reduction plants and oil refineries, go to the industry of the nation. Besides contributing to the prosoda ash conduction of tributes to the production of steam power, Railroads, power companies and municipalities employ it in softening water for boiler use. Diesel power on railroad is affected, as refineries use soda ash in the making of petroleum products. It has long been a basic chemical in glass making and is used in plastics and detergents. Intermountain In Wyoming, Chemical company mines and pro- - HOTEL If IB Scintillation Counter Geiger Counters duces for Westvaco of Food Machinery & Chemical coporation, soda ash directly from the ore. According to FMC officials, this is the only operation of the kind in the world. In the late 1930s, the Mountain Fuel Supply dicovered the deposit while drilling for gas and oil. The well was a duster, but the trona was further explored by the Union Pacific railroad, starting In 1940. With the end of the war, the Chlorine Products company, later to be absorbed by Food Machinery, started mining and marketing trona, as the first known large deposit of the mineral in ore form was developed. In the summer of 1953, Westvaco Chlorine completed a $20 million dollar mine and refining plant for the production of soda ash from the trona. Intermountain Chemical was formed to carry on the production, and a year later, in 1954, the property hit top capacity a rate of 300,000 tons of refined product per year to give the West a new force in the chemical Chlor-Alka- li division Uranium Prospector Supplies GIBSON RADIO P.O.Box 1129 Riverton, Wyo. American Electric Company ELECTRIC APPLIANCES AUTHORIZED DEALER ELECTRICAL CONTRACTING ERWIN J. VEHAR, owner Phone 121 GREEN RIVER, WYOMING field. C. A. Romano, of Green River, resident manager, in December, 1954, announced completion of a new drilling progra- -i which had been conducted to determine outer reaches of the deposit, depth of which averages about 1600 feet underground. The outer edges were not discovered, but he estimated the known supply to be sufficient to supply United States industrial needs, at present rate, for the next two and a half centuries, should all other sources fail. Although diesel forced coal mines to shutdown in the Rock Springs area, the new product has maintained steady employment for 425 persons at the plant, besides the population needed to care for them. Another result has been the addition of an additional road switching crew on the railroad, working our of Green River. The annual payroll is presently placed at $214 million at the plant and mine. KEMP MOTOR COMPANY FORD SALES & SERVICE Complete Service to All Makes of Cars Phone 52 P. O. Box 49 Green River, Wyoming By Green River Electric and Yates Furniture EVFRYTHING ELECTRIC PHONE 55 ALL HOME FURNISHINGS Green River Wyoming 3s CLIKJAX QURANIUM COMPANY AAA STOP AT HILLSIDE COURT Strictly Modern Steam Heat Telephones Heated Garages Showers & Tub 4 PLANT 749 1201 MAIN STREET SOUTH 12th STREET PHONE 1042 GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO On Highway 30 West BUYERS OF URANIUM AND VANADIUM ORES ROCK SPRINGS, WYOMING s OFFICE |
