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Show u LidHAHi - vu'ut- CITY - jgA X - - - ' ' -- w Uli-Ciy I: Features Mining, Oil, Financial WAig Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2, VOL. 24, NO. 40. One Year $2 JSS 1953 Federal Aid For Depressed Mine Industry Held Possible federal assistance to see the domestic for form of some Hope mining industry through its current depression was held out last week by Felix E. Wormser, assistant secretary of the interior for mineral resources. It may be necessary for the govT "' c i , , Vjl' v . 7 l ernment to provide aid of some rind to maintain the industry in good working order until the present unfortunate lack of clear-cu- t ' ? ' ' 4 4. ' i. ; i 4 t 4 , national policy on minerals has r ,v ' ' A t Y , , . , been remedied, he said in a pre, 'v,., " , tSZsZ ; pared address before the American Mining congress convention : 0 in Seattle. v ' :i October . ROOSEVELT, UTAH Such a clear policy is needed ' 4 been has now as never before but there is designated by the Indian Agency as now no one place within the fed- Jintah-Oura-y eral government that gives prim- the' date oil and gas lease bids ary consideration to its formula- will be received on some 32,749.9 acres of tribal and alloted lands tion, he pointed out. J V Whiterocks in Duchesne and near several have men for Mining - ' & counties. Additional inforUintah federal contended that years and description of the free trade poicies which make mation will be found in this weeks ands of the cheap dumping possible of the Roosevelt Standard. j. issue domestic on the foreign metals the for market are responsible Wane conunuea efiorts are being made to effect a more workable price level for lead and zinc and The acreage up for bonus bid present predicament of the indus- surrounds Whiterocks Shown been have mines in the Mountain Area that continuing production. ores, there are several running try and Wormser, prior to his ap- about 2V6 miles south and 5 miles above is a portion of the holdings of Rico Argentine Mining Company, located in Dolores County, pointment to the department of north of the community. It covers Colorado, which continues to yield regular important tonnage. advointerior, was an the Farm Creek area and appari cate of increased tariff protection runs up against the footon lead and zinc and other adve- ently of the Uintah Mountains. hills rsely-affected metals. This is one of the largest parIn his Seattle talk Wormser exof Ute Indian land to be cels freehis firm belief the in pressed dom of the market-placbut he placed up for bonus bidding in Of some 500 mining properties currently shipping uranium ore to said tat insistence on too rapid recent months. market in the western part of the United States, primarily from the liberation of foreign trade without According to Harry W. Gilmore,, Colorado Plateau, approximately 475 are completely private operations opportunity to make readjust- superintendent of the agency at Atomic ments .. might bring ..serious diffi- Fort Duschesne," Uintah' county,' while the remainder are operated under lease from the U.-S- ,culties. both at home and abroad. the bids will be COLO. RICO, opened after 2 Energy Commission, according to Sheldon, P. Wimpfen, Manager of the In suggesting a few fundamenRico on the of at Fort Oct 14.. mine .1 Argentine p.m. Colorado Office of AEC. Springs Operations function, tals upon which to build a sound sesa tons at 100 special Wimpfen spoke 11 Separate Units Mining Co. approximately minerals policy. Wormser said 1953 Metal and sion of the mined are ore of that1 first and foremost it must The area in question extends Mining Convention of the to miles to contribute a three and trucked and vigstrong daily through the following townships American Mining Congress devotorous mining industry by intensi- and ranges: Townships 1 and 2 the companys differential flota- ed to uranium mining progress fying exploration, discovery and North; Ranges 1 East and 1 West. tion mill. The Mountain Springs and problems. full utilization of our mineral reThe tribal lands, amounting to He reported that the domestic is the largest Rico ore producer sources. 28,263.27 acres, will be bid upon he said, it must pro- in 11 separate units. at the present time, while some uranium mining industry is operSecondly, Allotted levels of at ating mote the national interest and the from comes Argenreplands, tracts, production and the ore supply is WASHINGTON, D. C. Govern must be consistent with an en- resent largely 91 separate units. tine workings. The St. Louis tun- production, to buying stations and pro- ment is easing up slightly on stock- lightened foreign economic policy. nel is being reopened and diamond flowing mills The lands are portions of the at a rate that ex- piling of materials needed for Efforts to remove the many precessing is tunnel The is underway. Indian drilling reservation which have ceeds milling capacity. He said arms production. barriers to liberalize! been set aside for the use of invailing being retimbered with steel sets that at a recent survey of an imThe Office of Defense Mobiliza trade must take into railroad rail account, how- dividual members of the tribe. made from tion uranium has released an order to: of the segment portant the and needs of do- While the ever, Denver abandoned legitimate from the of. the Inproperty out1. Continue buying a few high mestic representing industry, mining he added. railroad. Southern producers, Rio Grande dian cannot be sold infamily, they of 50,000 tons of ore per year, priority items, believed to A sound minerals policy must Ore in the Mountain Springs is put or to nonof otherwise disposed revealed that mining costs rang- clude alloying materials for jet also look toward greater free mined from limestone replaceof members the tribes ed from $8.00 to $28.00 per ton and engines, with the idea of having dom of the market place, less in ments. Rico Argentine continues at Fort Duchesne. ranged from $5.00 to $29.00 stock piles of these complete by tervention, support or control by to be one of Colorados major profits The total alloted lands up for the former June, 1954, target date. government ton. base-metproducers. Sherman B. per othamounts to 4,484.63 acres. bid of 2. out Stretch purchases out that the Recent proposals for an interHinckley is president and general Wimpfen pointed reIncluded er a at least until materials, among the tribal memAEC has established guaranteed governmental agreement on min, manager. to bers of been view has made, goals seeking bonus bids on their minimum prices for uranium erals similar to that in effect on a allotted date. or a June later 1955, target acreage are Ebenezer, over were a bonus wheat scored by Wormser system bearing ores, 3. Palohia for Honor contracts Alice Red Cap, existing Montes, as and and above the price schedule, representing the worst in gov- Com no make but Atsee stockpile Peach&, purchases, Soccioff, Dolof which ernmental intervention and conhaulage allowances, all contracts more Quin, and Belle longer running ly Tonompicket to tend to increase the incentive trol, leading to production con a in than Shawtoinchchicut. except special year, tools, quotas and export controls search out uranium ore and get it cases. In addition to any bonus monand state trading. in production. ODM Director Arthur S. Flemies, the Indians are paid a $1.25 Any national policy must ming said that, besides insuring nize that this nation needsrecograw a year per acre rental. Discovery the most advantageous use of materials from The housing project at Cobalt, he point of petroleum or natural gas on Federal funds, the new policy ed out. Therefore,abroad, Calera which Mining near will it be neces the lands would net them a 12V& Idaho, would prevent government over1953 Week a 26, to big Sept. Ending has contend developed with sary company many unfair per cent royalty oh production of and lessen the eventual buying to an came lt-copper competitive practices now plagu- the hydrocarbons. It is believed operation, BINGHAM DISTRICT, U1?AH shock the when got government with the that this area includes the oilweek opening ing world commerce. end last 55 out of the market on completion Metals Reduction Combined He said it sponsored he believed it would be bearing Navaho sandstone seeps government of a of its stock tons. piles. been has over a period of time to which early Uintah Basin pioneers possible housing project whidv out ODM 38 said stock tons. of 8059 U. S. Mines piles the for past attempted to mine. develop realistic under construction of the 76 materials being acquired ern our economic policies to govUtah Copper (Kennecott) 960 relations with year. have reached 75 par cent or more other n cars daily average. but countries, added tha Uranium At Moab of the goals. The units are being rented on a this could not be done NEW PARK DISTRICT, UTAH overnight. MOAB, UTAH Moreno Cripple served basis acfirst come-firIn the meantime it may be Creek 1601 tons. Co. New Park Mining Corp., of Denver, is shipcording to Dean Taylor, manager California for the federal necessary Tungsten govern uranium ore from the Snowflake-ping of the project. All are equipped ment to UTAH furnish to dorelief Sunflower the EUREKA DISTRICT, NEV. California TungELY, claims 16 miles with cook stoves, heating stoves, 55 sten Corp. is sinking its three mestic mining industry, he stated south of Moab. The firm has leasore Chief Consolidated heaters water hot refrigerators, The interior department is now ed its compartment shaft at its Links Cottonwood mine 14 pnfl ventilation fans. Some units cars. the question of whether miles west of Blanding, Utah, to tuns ten 25 studying will mine. The new shaft Consolidated rents clay and Dragon have other furnishings be 300 feet deep and will serve as special provision should.be made Nicholas J. Murphy of Moab and are based accordingly. Rents have cars. main shaft for extensive explore in the income tax law to meet un- Francis D. Delson of Blanding. Empire Mines ore 1 car. been set at a level which will pay tion and development along a usual problems confrotning pro- Ray A. Bennett is president of Mammonth Mines ore 4 out the project cost in 20 years, ducers of minerals and metals. limestone-granit-e contact. Moreno Cripple Creek. first shipment in 9 years. he said. ' Date Set For Indian Land Lease Bids 1 4 V e . k v,;" ;' a;;- . A.s. ;v ,tvir '' J tf :7' - v; ,:tv fc. V v L :: . out-spok-en Production Private Enterprise Dominates Uranium Production Activity Continues At Rico Mine e, tain Non-me-tall- lead-zinc-sile- ic vr ever-increasi- 40-ac- re 45-pou- nd head-quarteri- al Housing Project Aids Operation At Cobalt Mine Ore Shipments coba- . 75-un- 85-to- st 15-ac- J re ng |