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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, AUGUST SO, 1968 Page Twelve the basis of the 3,000 claims now Dept, of Interior Contesting Validity of Shale Area Claims The Department of the Interior this week initiated a contest challenging validity of about mining claims filed within recent years in the oil shale area of northwestern Colorado. The contested claims, all located during the past three years in Rio Blanco, Garfield, and Moffat counties, Colorado, cover more than 400,000 acres of federal land. Their validity is being challenged on grounds that they were not located properly under the mining laws and that they are not based upon discovery of a valuable, locatable mineral deposit. Complaint papers were filed in the' Denver land office of the Bureau of Land Management, which has responsibility for the lands in question. A hearing examiner is expected to decide the outcome in proceedings similar to a civil lawsuit. The Mining Act of 1872 allows a person to stake a mining claim on unreserved public land, and per 3,-0- 00 being contested. The Department said many of the claims filed under the mining act in the region during remits him to develop his mine, if cent years are believed to be he makes a genuine discovery Dawson-ite- . show that the mineral deposit he based upon the mineral claims to have discovered is now Dawsonite is a sodium alumivalid; that is, of such character of a that person ordinary pru- num carbonate known to exist dence would be justified in fur. in much of the oil shale region, ther expenditure of his labor and but Interior Department Solicimeans with a reasonable pros- tor Edward Weinberg declared pect of success in developing a in another case last May that valuable mine. Dawsonite comes under the defiOil shale is no longer covered nition of sodium in the 1920 Minby the 1872 Mining Act. Con- eral Leasing Act, and therefore gress in 1920 passed the Mineral subject to mining location under Leasing Act, which specified that the 1872 Mining Act. certain minerals notably oil Bureau of Land Management shale, coal, phosphate, sodium, Director Boyd L. Rasmussen said and oil and gas henceforth can the contest actions filed this be obtained from federal lands week are part of a stepped up only by leasing them from the effort by the Interior Departfederal government. Locators of ment to challenge all doubtful mining claims are not required claims to federal lands in the by the 1872 act to specify what rich oil shale regions of Utah, valuable mineral they claim to Colorado and Wyoming. Of the have found, until and unless more than 11 million acres conthey seek actual title to the land sidered to have commercial poor are challenged by a contest tential for shale oil production actipn. Thus it is not yet known in the three states, some 72 per what mineral or minerals form cent is federally owned. . Doves First Target Of 1968 Seasons Mourning doves will be the arget of scattergunners as the first bird hunt of 1968 gets underway on Monday, September 2 at 6:25 a.m. for an estimated 25,000 hunters. Open rangelands will provide the better hunting areas as doves will frequent these lands rather than the cultivated lands. Basic rules for this season call for a September 0 hunt with a bag and possession limit of 10 and 20 respectively with shooting hours of one half hour before sunrise to sunset each day of the season. This years bag and possession limits are a reduction from past years. The entire state is open except part of Salt Lake and Utah Counties, and the same regulation on having shotguns plugged so no gun can hold more than three shells in the magazine and chamber combined is in effect. Dove hunters are again asked to abide by regulations which make it unlawful to shoot from a vehicle, or to shoot at doves on power or telephone lines or poles. Opening day shooting ends at 7:59 p.m. A complete list of daily shooting hours is listed in the mourning dove proclamation. All persons 12 to 15 years of age are permitted to hunt mourning doves but they must have a small game hunting license and be accompanied by a person 21 years or older. All hunters are encouraged to obtain a proclamation for all rules on this dove hunt. During the 1967 dove hunt the 25,161 hunters harvested 263,949 doves with hunters in Utah, Box Elder, and "Tooele Counties taking the greatest percentage of the statewide harvest. 2-3- Dixie College Hosts Science Meeting Fall meetings of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters will be held at Dixie College, St. George, September immediately following the Conferenceo Utah n Higher Education, September Hundreds of the States leading educator will be oh the Dixie campus to participate in the UCHE and Academy meetings. Many will remain for both meetings. Academy awards will be presented at a September 13th noon luncheon, which will begin activities for the Academy. The recipient of the Charles Redd award in the humanities will be the featured speaker in the early afternoon general meeting. The Charles Redd award is a prize of $1500 for a most significant contribution for the betterment of mankind during the past five years. Section meetings will follow on Friday after noon. The Friday evening meeting will feature A. Karl Larson, who will speak to the subject: Some Highlights of Southern Utah History. Saturday activities include a field trip to Mountain Meadow, where Juanita Brooks will discuss .the historical significance of that location; Snows Canyon (Dixie State Park), where geological, biological, and ecological features of Southern Utah will be described; and Santa Clara and St. George, where historical landmarks will be visited and discussed. Committee Chairman for the St. George meeting of the Academy is Loraine Woodbury, Dixie College. 13-1- 4, 12-1- 3. . sheepskin. Star-spangl- ed How do you put aside enough money to put a child through college? Lite this: join the Payroll Savings Plan where you work or Plan where you bank. When graduation day comes, you may not see the stars spangled over the sheepskin, but youll know they are there. Because the Bonds that grew enough in interest to pay for college also helped Bond-a-Mont- h your Uncle Sam. Buy Bonds help your country as you help yourself. NOW - to maturity and Freedom Shares (sold in combination with E Bonds) pay a full The extra interest will be added as a bonus at maturity. And now you can buy the BondFreedom 5. Share combination any time no monthly commitment necessary. Get the facts where you work or bank. US. Savings Bonds, new Freedom Shanes Higher Rates! Savings Bonds now pay 4.23 when held Tkt V.8. Government iota not pan for thin ndvertitement. It it pretexted I'rp I'.'wcnt and Tht Alrrr;,.'. ep'ration r!tb the T:t i tervice in i Electronic Testing Related to Fiddles Electronic acoustical testing is now being used in the construction of fine violins and other members of the violin family. Writing in Physics Today, a publication of the American Institute of Physics, Carleen Hutchins and Francis Fielding explain how acoustical testing is used to make judgments of in- strument quality that were formerly made by skilled instrument makers with years of training. The authors admit that, although their techniques enable them to distinguish between good and bad violins, the char- -' acteristics that separate the relatively few superb violins from the good ones still cannot be measured scientifically. The most important measurements are the resonances of the top and back plates of the instruments as wood is removed progressively during their con- struction. These measurements allow the characteristics of the finished instrument to be determined before it is assembled. In addition to making conventional violins, violas, and cellos that are eagerly sought by professional musicians, they have made five new instruments ranging from a tiny treble violin to a giant contrabass. This new group of violins has been acclaimed as the first major innovation in an entire family of instruments in the last 350 years. Utahns Can Choose From Many Insurance Firms In Utah, persons wishing to buy property and liability insurance, of which auto insurance is largest single segment, can choose from among 389 companies which are licensed to do business in the state. Of these companies, 4 have their home offices in Utah. In 1966 property and liability insurance companies employed 2,275 persons in the state. Direct written premiums for auto insurance in Utah totaled $41,320,972.00 in 1966. Of this amount, $15,145,191.00 was for auto bodily injury liability, for auto property damage liability, and $18,192,293 for auto physical damage insurance. In the decade from 1957 to 1966, the cost of auto insurance followed the inflationary trend. Average statewide rate levels in Utah have increased 46 per cent for auto liability insurance and 38.7 per cent for auto physical damage insurance. In the same period, premium taxes paid to insurance companies rose 89 per cent, from $2,879,000 to $7,-983,4- World Book Lore House guests today can generally get away with a box of candy or a bouquet of flowers as a gift. But when the Queen of Sheba visited King Solomon, she brought him pices, preciojus stones and 120 talents of gold estimated to be worth more than three million dollars at todays dollar value. nn 88 |
