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Show April 21, 1969 Hearing set on shorelands A formal hearing in which Utah will present evidence backing its claim to 600,000 acres of shore-lanof the Great Salt Lake has been set for May 19 in Salt Lake City, Utah Attorney General Vernon B. Romney has announced. Mr. Romney said he had been informed by Federal Judge J. Cullen Ganey, who will conduct the hearing, that a pretrial schedule! for April 24 in Scottsdale, Ariz., has been canceled to save ment by National Lead of plans to build a magnesium plant on Utah claims ownership to the lands, and through tha lake. The Salt Lake City hearing will deal with navigability aspects of the case, something which must be gotten out of the way before the ownership of the lands can be decided with finality. The federal government has made two claims: One holds that federal ownership extends to the center of the lake and Includes brines and minerals in solution. This claim the lake is a assumi-- There isnt a single legal action . of more Importance to the people of Utah than this one, Mr. Romney said. The action takes on even more significance with the announce- - The second claim if the lake is determined to be navigable-ho- lds that federal ownership extends to the waters edge. The state claims the lake is navigable, and therefore the state held title to the bed of the lake upon being admitted to the Union ds time. mineral-ric- h special legislation was allowed to directly sue the United States government for title. v in 1896. Judge Ganey, chief judge of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, Pa., was appointed a special master of the U.S. Supreme Court to hear facts and arguments in the case and report findings and recommendations bck to the high Utah A plan to classify' more than one ihillion acres of public lands in the Circle Mr. Rpmney said he believed the hearing will take about three days. The outcome of the suit will have no effect on present mineral leases outstanding on the lake for instance, those held by the Magnesium Project since at the outset it was agreed by the state and federal government that leases granted in the Interim would not be altered whichever way the case was decided. But future development of the lake will be affected. non-nav-iga- ble body of water. Cliffs area, the Escalante Desert and Escalante River canyons for multiple use has been submitted to Bureau of Land Management headquarters in Washington, D.C. Fred Howard, BLM district manager, told Escalante cattlemen a limited area southeast of Silver Falls Canyon would be designated as a primitive area under the plan, because of its special attractions. Grazing would continue on two allotments the new primitive area would Include, he said. No mention was made of mining activity, although the area surrounding Circle Cliffs have been rich in mineralization anium. particularly ur- BLM plans include recreation facilities with trails leading tothe more spectacular scenic areas, Mr. Howard said. BLM favored building road from Dance Hall Rock 15 miles - -- Rock to the west of Hole Bullfrog Recreation area on Lake Powell, as proposed by the State Road Commission, Mr. Howard -i- n-the said. BLM also urges the rebuilding of the road from Dance Hall Rock to Escalante, he said, des- pite opposition from the Wasatch Mountain Club and the Sierra Club. Both groups are seeking to have 600,000 acres of public land declared a wilderness. Ervin C. Burroughs, regional forester at the Escalante office, U.S. Forest Service, said his district has no plans to create wilderness areas from lands administered by his agency but discussed plans for further development of recreation facilities in the North Creek area. Dale Marsh, Garfield County commisslone, reported there has been encouraging progress toward rescinding the presidential order adding 215,000 acres to the Capitol Reef National Monument as a result of the combined efforts of affected Chase sees world copper surplus surplus on the free world copper market is possible late this year for the first time in many years, according to the quarterly economic report of the A Chase Manhattan Bank. Chase said the outlook for a closer balance between supply and demand in coming years will exert some downward pressure on prices. Chase took issue with state- ments by leading copper industry figures that the prolonged copper shortage in general, and th the lengthy 8 U.S. -- 68. in 1967 copper strike in particular, caused no significant loss to copper through substitution. The bank noted that, while U.S. l2-mon- MINERALS production of durable manufactures slipped 0.7 per cent in 1967, copper consumption end-u- se markets dropped 13.6 per cent. This Indicates that some 13 per cent of the market for copper products in the United States estimated at some 410,000 tons of copper was lost during 1967 for reasons other than the decline in industrial activity. DRILLING INC. Min Davtlopmanl and Exploration Contracting Services Rotary Drilling Coro Drilling CHICAGO BRIDGE IRON CO. & ROBERT M. PHELPS, Manager . Phone 484-555- 1 550 WEST 17th SOUTH P. O. Box 687 - Salt Lake City, Utah Related Services 370 Parker Ave. Ely, Nevada (70 2) 229.2126 Salt Lake Office:i Cascade Energy A Metals sots Unlv. Club Bldg. 132 E. South Temple (SOI) SSS 2771 By Chuck Hayward The mining industry, as we may have observed before, is a strange business. Coupled) as it is with the stock market the market wonderful things happen. over-th-coun- ter particularly many wild and v recent circumstance of comic opera cast is the Crestline Uranium Affair. We have a story elsewhere in which the Securities and Exchange Commission announces it is going to permit the sale of Crestline stock, but Vams that the company is worthless. One Before Crestlines suspension by the SEC in January, the stock had zoomed to 20 cents pe share. Were willing to wager that OTC investors, being the stubborn creatures they are, are just as likely as not to run Crestline to even new price heights. Well see. Speaking of strange happenings always brings up thoughts of the strange and sometimes hilarious ways m which famous mining prop- erties were discovered gold around a prairie dogs hole, a wayward mule and rock chosen to throw at it, and so on. But we can see in the making even more amazing mining stories. For example, theres the promoter who has spent half his life selling smoke putting together mineral claims with doubtful if any value who suddenly finds himself in possession of a property with real commercial possibilities. He starts developing it in order to give himself something to promote and suddenly hes in the mining business. And making money at it! This is a story thats being written again and again in this time of soaring mineral values and prices. Strong demand from government, industry, and the consumer, timed with a healthier overseas market, has taxed the capacity of U.S. metals industries to produce enough to go around. Which is not to say that just anybody can money in todays mining industry, but higher prices and increasing demands are making the business more attractive for many formerly marginal operations. Which all is leading up to another problem in the shortage of good, knowledgethe industry able mining men. Theyre getting to be as Fully Equipped lor Headquarters: a few court. BLM eyes multiple use plan ESCALANTE, chuckin' MINING COMPANY interested in purchasing Uranium, Silver & Copper properties' Write: Code P-1- 11 P. 0. Box 71, Salt Lake City, Utah 84110 scarce as hens teeth, and many new developers are finding it tough to work promising properties for this reason. its not just the miner whos in short supply. Operators of drilling rigs, geologists, all sorts of experts in minerals exploration and production. Employment prospects in the mining industry have never been better. And And its about time. |