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Show 2 September 25, 1953 The Western Mineral Snrvey, Salt Lake City, Utah Great Future Scientific Growth Controversy Demands Metals Flares At New Seen For new science as electronics, Williston aerodynamics, and nuclear Jersey Zinc ics are creating a growing Such- East 1st South 4 mand for metallurgical developments and metals that were unheard of a few years ago. The Oregon state department, of geology and mineral industries re-.'- a ports that titanium is one of newcomers of metals in the commercial field. Titanium has been found to have the best combination of high strength, light weight, and corrosion resistance of any known metal. The department says that zirconium, beryllium, lithium and a number of other uncommon met-talwith unusual properties now are being produced on an industrial scale. High unit cost is the chief obstacle to large scale use, and this cost is being lowered as research on production methods is carried on. s Officials of the International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter workers charged Wednesday that employes of the Empire zinc mine are being asked to subsidize the company while stockholders are harvesting record-breakin- g dividends. union said in a prepared statement that this subsidizpress ation takes the form of wages far below those prevailing not only in e area but in the The Gilman-Leadvill- the rest of the nonferrous industry across the country. The Gilman mine, owned by the New Zinc Co., closed Mon- Jersey geological surveys recognized that strike deadline se morning day the basin was laid out in such a by the International union which maimer as to be capable of con a bargaining unit there. Some has taining oil in its different forma350 workers were idled by the tions, he stated. Early wildcats, strike and subsequent shutdown however, did not attain sufficient attributed by the company to low depth and several leases which zinc prices and the domestic were started were abandoned. union demand for higher wages. First real inerest by a major company was shown by the California company, Aronson said in reviewing the basins development In 1938 this firm drilled a BUTTE, Mont. Foley 10,381-foContinued from Page 1 test just southwest of Inc., Pleasantville, N. Y. Brothers, has been the present producing Beaver appointed general contractor to this period, Lodge field in North Dakotas Wil- have charge of construction of the production during in reachsuccessful which proved liston county. Drilling difficulties, Anaconda Aluminum Co.s plant ing all domestic production rehowever, led to a decision to plug at Columbia Falls, Flathead Counquirements for both the atomic the well and further activity was ty, according to announcement of bomb project and the need for halted by World War, II. Chester H. Steele, Butte,-- vice vanadium. However, upon the sue After the war however, interest president of the Anaconda Alumcessful completion of the bomb, picked up when production was inum Co. Manhattan District ordered the found in the Devonian reefs in the Mr. Steele said that some of the of all uranium-producin- g the suspension Leduc and Bedwater areas of A- 200 operating Pots should be in operations within the Colo-radi- o lberta be cause it was known that production by late 1954 and the Plateau and directed the dis these same formations were pres- plant, which will have an annual mantling and destruction of ore ent in the Williston basin. capacity of 52,000 tons of alum- treatment plants. BurweH related Amerada Petroleum corpora inum metal, should be in full pro- that the policy then established tion took the lead' and began con- duction in 1955. The raw material was that the Colorado Plateau reducting seismograph work along for the plant, alumina, will be serves would be held in reserve in tye now famous Nesson anticline purchased from the Reynolds Al- the ground for future use, while in Williston county, North Dako- uminum Co. at Corpus Christ!: foreign supplies of raw materials ta, Aronson said. What they Texas. The finished aluminum would be stimulated and assisted found apparently was of sufficient the form of wire bar's to supply American needs. As a nature to drill a deep test, so a will be sent to a new aluminum result of this policy, the large drill site was cleared on a farm manufacturing rod and bar plant, group of independent miners who owned by Clarence Iverson. being constructed at Great Falls had contributed so much to the On April 5, 1951, the well was by the Anaconda Wire & cable war-tim- e production requirements proclaimed a commercial produc- Co., for final processing. lost much' of. their investments er from the Madison limestone of and many were forced to sell valthe Mississippian age and the uable holdings for a small fraction boom was on. of their value. A suit, still pendOil was the Montana governors ing in teh Colorado Courts, bebusiness before he took office last Division of tween the Anti-TruAs and two of Justice the Department January. rig builder he said he watched Montanas oil production furthshed large companies, may Nev. Uranium Austin, Mines from a er light on the restrictive pracjump yearly total of about of America has brought in a big tices affecting the production of 45,000 barrels in 1916 to over 30,000 power shovel to work in the Wash- vanadium and uranium. barrels daily today. Since the discovery of oil at the ington Canyon property of the Burwell quoted portions of a Iverson farm there have been 36 company. At this time the work brief that was prepared in 1947 new oil fields discovered in the fconsists of stripping the top of a jiving the overall picture of the hill m basin, he stated. Eastern Montana work. preparation for open pit problems of the vanadium indus-r- y It was the new road to that has 11, North Dakota 8, Manitoba as it is tied in with the uran-uthat was washed out property 5, and Saskatchewan 12. South Daproduction and points up the kota has none to date but shows twice last week. problems that have metallurgical Tow shifts are now on resulted in the working great promise, he added. declining use of Montanas first real dose of bas- the Linka property, where the vanadium in alloy steels. This, in optimism came when Shell Oil shaft, is being put down to a n turn, has directly affected the depth of 300 feet. Another shift company brought in the first dis- will economic factors governing the be added as soon as the comcovery well at Richey in July, of uranium. pany can obtain the men. The production 1951, he declared. the newly organized Since company reports at the moment Atomic Energy Commission beit is particularly in need of timgan the procurement of uranium, ber framers and shaft men. While at present the company is Burwell said that the Colorado a scene of employing some 18 or 20 men on Plateau has become the activities in this area, it an-- bustling vigor. New communities, new roads and dusty truck trains, meet the entire needs of the world Jjcpates ePlyinS 50 or more in mark the transition of a frontier ne.ar future u activities de market for accordance with recent into a modern industrial communvelop claimed recently by p ity. He claimed that this transHry Moore, manager of the Roads End formation reflects the importance Mines company at Big Bar in Trinof uranium, now at the top of the Cobalt Output Booms ity county, Calif. list of minerals needed for nationThe deposit on the Roads End The Wall Street Journal reports: al survival, and in spite of the property covers an area of four More cobalt is coming to ease proposal that America should square miles, he says, and con- the squeeze in this arms-vitshare the secrets of the atomic tains abundant silver and nickel, metal. It goes into jet engines as bomb in return for foreign urancopper and titanium along with well as magnets for telephones ium, which was advocated by rich cobalt, some of it almost pure and TV sets. The U. S. produces some thinkers in have not less than 10 of its cobalt needs. Washington. native metal. The area where the discovery Imports doubled just between 1949 The unfolding wealth and was made, near the coast about and 1952. Now Northern Rhodesia, abundance of our raw material half way between Redding and second only to the Belgian Congo supply of uranium, Burwell said, Eureka, Calif., has had very little in production, with 1,250 tons last is again a testimonial to the mining activity with the exception year, is shooting at a 1957 target ability of the American miner to ' produce in times of need. between 2,000 and 3,000 tons. of placer gold operations. ContractorSigned For Plant Uranium ot Power Shovel To Work Uranium st m or before the 5th day of January A. D 1954. Executor of BEV. JEROME 8T0FFEI the eatate of Bev. Joseph O. Delalre, deceased. Date of flrat publication, September . 1953. HOGAN, 4, A. D R. J. Attorney or Telephone: phys- de- As far back as 1918 the U. S. 22-2- - t The Williston basin is the largest basin of its type with oil potentialities on the North American hemisphere, Montana Governor J. Hugo Aronson told a recent meeting of the interstate oil compact commission at Billings, Mont. Estimates of its size range from 120,000 to 250,000 square miles, he said, covering the majority of eastern Montana, North Dakota, a vast portion of South Dakota and portions of Saskatchewan and possibly some of Alberta province in Canada. WESTERN MINERAL SURVEY for the Executor. NOTICE TO CREDITORS Entered as aeeond dan matter at Balt Lake City, Utah, under Act of March X Estate of LueUa M. 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