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Show March 8, 1969 OIL & MINING JOURNAL Page 7 Melich named for Interior post WASHINGTON Mitchell Melich, Salt Lake City, has been named solicitor of the Department of the Interior by Secretary of the Interior Walter J. Hickel. The post requires Senate confirmation and pays about $30,000 a year. Melich is 57, the son of parents who immigrated from Yugoslavia. He worked in the mines at Bingham Canyon, Utah. He attended the University of Utah and became a state senator at 30. He was the sponsor of legislation which created the Utah Water and shuckin Power Board in 1942. He was Republican candidate for governor in 1964. Melich is a former president of the Utah Mining Association. For some 22 years he resided in Moab, Utah and practiced law there before making bis home in Salt Lake City a few Toledo Mining names new officer Oscar R. Pieper has been named vice president of the Toledo Mining Company, it has been announced by Anthony G. Hatsis, president and chairman of the board. M. with the City-basLake Salt firm, will be to evaluate merger and acquisition candidates and handle Investor re- Piepers responsibilities ed lations, Mr. Hatsis said. Mr. Pieper comes to Toledo Mining from Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery, a national certified public accounting firm, where he was manager of their management consulting services in San Francisco. Prior to Lybrands, Pieper was associated with RCA and was an officer at Bank of America. By Chuck Hayward Mr. Hatsis said that in addition to strengthening Toledos position in the natural resources field, it is also Intended that the company will further its involvement as an pany. The firm has recently been very active in contract oil drilling operations in the Rocky Mountain region, particularly Utah. i! Panel okays Utah resources book reprint i; WASHINGTON Senator Frank E. has announced that Moss, the resolution he introduced to provide for the printing of the updated volume on mineral and water resources of Utah has been favorably reported to the Senate by the Rules Committee. The report is a joint effort by the United States Geologic? 1 Survey, the Utah Geological andMlneralogi-c- al Survey and the Utah Water and Power Board. The report was first issued at the request of Senator Moss In 1964 and contains 275 pages, 56 illustra ah, f tions (principally maps of the State showng mineral loctions), and 20 tables. of mineral commodities, and its water resources. Basic Reference Work I Senator Moss explained that copies are now exhausted and the updating and reprinting of the report has become necessary. Five thousand copis will be printed by the Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee. The senator said the report presents in concise form a summary on the State's geology, its supply WASHINGTON Demand for borsustained high output the Bureau on minerals and compounds in the reported. Estimated production was 986,000 glass and enamel industries continued at a high level in 1968, accorshort tons valued at $74.6 million ding to the U.S. Bureau of Mines. compared with 955,000 short tons valued at $74.1 million in 1967. The high demand resulted in a Two sources in California sup ups charge for leasing AEC charge for leasing special nuclear and other material from the Atomic Energy Commission will be increased to 6 12 per cent of the material's value from the present 5 12 per WASHINGTON The TEST BORINGS ALL TYPES TEST HOLES IN ALL WESTERN STATES Core Drilling Wire Line or ref- erence work on these subjects and it is of major value to all those making decisions on the conservation, management, and development of these resources and of our lands. "It is being used extensively by industry as well as by officials of county, state and federal government, Senator Moss said. 1 am pleased by this early committee action, he said. plied most of the boron minerals. Sodium borates were obtained mine at Boron from the open-p- it of and from the brines Searles Lake. Some sodium and calcium borates were mined underground also in California. cent, effective April 1, 1969, the AEC announces, The charge is an annual leasing fee. According to the AEC the change reflects general increases in the cost of money since the current charge was announced in 1967. Moist of the leased material is enriched uranium used in power reactors operated by electric All Types & Sizes of STRUCTURAL STEEL BARS - PLATES Water Wells - SHEETS & REINFORCING STEa or Sampling EQUIPMENT OFFICES - Crandall Bldg. PLANTS -- 651 West 17th So. SKILLED PERSONNEL Salt Lake City, Utah Phone Springville Long Distance PHONE 489-48- 00 said. And for those interested in sources of petroleum ' still further down the road, there are Utahs oil shale prospects caught up in knotted jangles of geology, geography, political maneuver and bureaucratic decision, he added. 328-05- 41 Ritzma pointed out that Utah also looms important as a source of uranium in the total energy picture. Within the borders of the state there are large reserves of coal usable for fuel or as a source of synthetic petroleum and ptro-chemica- ls. Many areas rich in coal reserves are not mapped in detail as yet, Ritzma commented. more glamor to the energy picture of the state. But even though the entire energy picture is brightening, there are also some blemishes that will be difficult to erase, Ritzma said. One of the dismaying and disturbing moves against monuments, he said. sandstone in The east deposit of the Circle Cliffs has now largely disappeared behind the boundaries of the recently enlarged Capitol Reef National Monument and most of the prime targets for structural and stratigraphic drops beneath the Waterpocket Fold are also probably lost, Ritzma told the conference. oil-impregn- ated The Geological Survey estimates that the oil in place in the Circle Cliffs area runs about 5 00 million to one billion barrels. Half of this will be lost. We are also disturbed to find proposals being con- sidered for withdrawal of over a half million additional acres for a desert wilderness. The loss in potential economic return to the southern region and to Utah is staggering to comprehend, Western Steel company Ritzma claimed. Hearings on the monuments extension is expected to start in southern Utah and Salt Lake City in mi d-Ma- "'pafacatM JgNSilN CONSTRUCTION l & DRILLING 1045 W. MAPLE CO. MAPLETON in- a better future for the petroleum industry in Utah was the extension of lcapitol Reefs and Arches national WESTERN STEEL SERVICE CENTER Air or Mud Mine Underground Long Hole Drilling Cable Tool a ated adding rials Rotary LATEST TYPE For those interested in reserves that might begin to produce five or so years ahead in time, Utahs sandstone are an attracdeposits of tive target for exploration. It is significant that small amounts of oil from the Lake Fork deposit in the Uintah Basin will reach market in 1969 or 1970, Ritzma There are also geothemal sites present in Utah N-mate- COMPLETE WAREHOUSE SERVICE Standard The potential is here, he said. For those interested in oil and gas prospects that can be developed for immediate return, Utah offers a wide variety of geographic and geologic environments and a history of prolific and profitable production. oil-impregn- "This report is the basic Copies Exhausted Demand remains high for boron minerals It. Howard Ritzma, petroleum geologist for the Utah Geological and Mineralogical Society, told the Rocky Mountain Petroleum Geologists Conference in Albuquerque, N.M., that Utah is truly an energy storehouse. SfouctwuU Steel ALSO FABRICATORS OF PLATE Resolution for Kaiparowitz AND REINFORCING STEEL STEEL ERECTION A RIGGING Building the WEST with WESTERN rch. STEEL A resolution Introduced into the Utah State Legislature byState Rep- Atkin and Mitchell HJR 23 memorializes the Pres- - ldent, Secretary of the Interior and es Congress to "promote and tate the Kaiparowitz Coal Project and Lake Powell development. facili-resentatlv- |
