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Show 7' Bulk Rate U. S. Postage PAID 0, Vol. 1 No. 16 Salt Lake City, Utah Permit No. 2091 '1 June 16, 1969 25$ per copy Utah chief kicks off mine centennial PARK CITY Gov. Calvin the event is of historical sigL . Rampton told a group of 200 nificance to all Utahns. The propersons here that mining, which gress of our state is largely a began in Park City 100 years direct result of the discovery of silver laden ores of your hills. ago, is the industrial backbone of Utah, but that the tourist inThe governor noted that the immore assessment in Utah is 15.1 mine is becoming dustry portant. percent of the state's total tax to kick at a base. banquet Speaking ott the Park City Silver Mining He said Abraham llncoln is Gov. said Centennial, Rampton reported to have said Utah would Utahns get word Flying 'bomb safe Utahns who spit a low-flyi- ng plane towing an object that looks exactly like a red bomb shoul not head for the nearest cellar. It isn't a bomb, assured Lynn It's a magnetoRay Singley. meter. It's used to help geologists, said Singley, vice president of marketing for a company called He wants Utahns to know what the plane's doing so they wont get excited. It helps to pinpoint underground ore bodies and oil. In the past, people have called authorities to report the plane for everything from to heading for a crash. Our pilots have even been shot at in South America, said Geo-Upda- te. elk-poachi- Singley. ng Sometimes an appearance of the plane nearly empties the entire town, he said. It causes something akin to a gold rush. In some mining towns, people know wvery area that doesnt have a claim on it and when the people see our plane, they assume there is a valuable ore bed around. Singley said. Were trying to find ore, but just because were there doesn't mean it's there. When these people jump to the wrong conclusion about the appearance of planes towing red bombs, their next jumps are into jeeps and cars. Singley said they head for the hills to start staking claims. ' Often, though, the land beneath is less valuable than the bomb dangling from these planes. They are cases carrying worth of $10,000 a-b- out in- struments, Singley said. Pilot Lynn Hanks recently flew too low and banged the exinto the bushpensive es of a northern Arizona desert. Such operations are tricky, but flying in settled areas can be trickier. It can mean telephone ore-snif- fer calls to the Federal AviationAd-mlnlstrati- on and the pickup of phony ore signals from such places as junkyards. become the treasure-hous- e of the nation. The vast bulk of Utah's mineral resources remain in the storehouse awaiting development, he said. Gov. Rampton said it was not the Intention of his administration to stand in the way of development of these resources. Working together, government and industry could develop more mineral resources, he said. He said the Utah Travel Council spent more than $50,000 promoting the states ski resorts and winter recreation areas. More than 600 persons were employed in the winter sports in- dustry in Park City last year, the governor said. He noted that only 200 are employed by the local mining industry in 1969, which at one time supported more than 5,000. Others present included Benton Boyd, president of Utah Mining Assn., Clark Wilson, new president of the United Park City Mines Co., and members of the Thomas Kearns family, pioneer Park City industrialists. Dow Chemical decides on Washington for new 820 million plant SAN FRANCISCO Dow Chemical Co. announced it has picked a site near Dallesport, Wash., to build a $20 million plant to produce magnesium and chlorine. So ended any hope that the might be sited in Utah. Dow had indicated that a Utah location was among those under plant consideration. The plant, using new processes, will produce 48,000 tons of magnesium and 100,000 tons of chlorine a year. Startup is scheduled for the last half of 1971. The $10 million processing plant will be built . adjacent to a plant to be built by Great Salt Lake Minerals & Chemicals Corp. to recover other minerals from Great Salt Lake brines. Dow has a contract with GSL to purchase byproduct magnesium chloride salt. It will super dry the salt at its plant in Utah. Removal of moisture halves the weight of the salt and is a fac M&C tor in economy of transport. The facility will be operated as part of Dow's Western Division, which is based at Pittsburg, Calif. Dow Is the world's major producer of magnesium 120,000 tons a year. Its main plant is located at Freeport, Tex. A Dow spokesman noted that while power costs and barge transport on the Columbia River were of prime consideration in locating in Washington, so was the availability of a market for chlorine. Construction waits on road National Lead to start work in August on Magnesium Plant TOOELE National Lead Co. officials announce they plan to start construction in August of a $60 million chemical-industriworks on Great Salt Lake. First marketable magnesium ingots from the rich lake brine will be produced about two years from now. al The timetable depends upon construction of a 12 -- mile surfaced highway from Timple Point to the plant site west of Stans-bu- ry Island at the southwest tip of the lake. The road needs to be finished in 11 weeks for the firm to meet its August schedule to start construction, said Eugene F.Er- - bin, general manager, and Walter R. McCormick, general superintendent of the magnesium project. The two National Lead offi- cers met with Grantsvllle, Tooele and Chamber of Commerce of- ficials and explained plans for the project. They told local leaders that the company and Gov. Calvin L. Rampton had resolved an agreement with the State Land Board for royalties and rentals on pro- duction and leased lands in Tooele County. The agreement has to be signed with the state later' this month and means thousands of dollars a year to Utah in royalties, they said. The plant will produce 45,000 tons of magnesium metal a year, Erbln said. This equals about 40 per cent of present magnesium production in the U.S. National Lead plans to market most of the metal in the eastern states. Anout 20 per cent of the production will be consumed by TiNational Lead affiliates tanium Metals Corp., Henderson, Division Nev., and Doeler-jarv- ls of Ohio in die castings. About 80,000 tons of chlorine produced in the operation will be marketed chiefly in the Pacific Northwest, according to the magnesium officials. Utah notes increase in new corporations year Filings of new corporation papers with the Utah Secretary of States Plane tows "bomb" over. possibly undiscovered ore beds. office have Increased 38 Industry in general. He said the filings are considered a barometer of business activity and the barometer at present is giving a favorable reading. From December, 1958, through per cent in the last six months over the same period a year ago. Secy, of State Clyde L. Miller made this disclosure Wednesday and said the Increase can only May, 1969, 1,166 new corporabe attributed to an Increase in tions were formed and their paboth in pers filed with the secretary of Utah business activity uranium and mining fields and state. In the similar period a ago only 876 new corporations were formed. Miscellaneous corporation filwhere existing corporaings tions have been consolidated, merged or their structures amth ended totaled 678 in the period, 49 per cent above the same period a year before when 455 filings were recorded, Mr. Miller said. six-mon- |
