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Show ' M 'v mmmda . Much 9. 1956 Cent 10 Per Page 3 The Western Mineral Survey, Salt Lake City, Utah Moab Valley U. Gain Interest In Ariz. Lands Moab Valley Uranium has vv v r?z , if?; f ac- quired a 10 per cent interest in uranium properties near Holbrook, Ariz. According to a company representative operations will start this week. More than 700 tons of uranium ore located on surface properties is ready for loading, the company representative said. Properties in- clude: Sec. 1, 3, 11, 13, 15, 23, 25, 27 and 35, Township 20 N Range 23 E. Ore consists mainly of fossilized trees. - & NEIGHBORS Left of Sterling property is rich VCA property. C. E. Hicks, Sterling vice president, Robert Anderson, engineering superinten- - dent and geologist and Lee Shumway, mine foreman, check surface ore. Eight foot vein appears in background. Random ore samples from the properties assayed as follows: Major Acreage Exchange .31 per cent; .14 per cent; .52 per cent and .73 per cent. All ore can be strip mined, Moab Valley officials report. A loader and truck will be on the In one of the major Montana Oils interest in more than 11,000 property within three or four acreage deals of the year, Inter- acres surrounding the No. 1, 2, national Oil & Metals Corpora- and 3 Bills wells, and two full days. tion of Salt Lake City and sections offsetting them; a full Officials estimate the present Seattle has acquired the interests interest in the No. 1 Bills well 700 tons can be shipped within 30 of Western Oils of Shelby, Mon- and four full offset sections; and days. Extent of ore other Ilian tana in more than 11,000 acres in a liy per cent interest in the surface is undetermined to date. Pondera and Teton Counties of Thorman well. The No. 3 Bills well was com Moab Valley, a Utah, corpora- Montana. sale The was is headed Merrill J. arranged through pleted in Sept. 1955 as a shut-ition, by R. Carl Ferderer of 708 Newhouse gasser with a flow gauged by L. Bushnell, Provo, president; Dan Brownson, 32 Exchange Building, Salt Lake City, who had Montana Power Co. in excess of Place, Salt Lake City, vice pres- earlier obtained an option on the 15,000,000 cubic feet of gas daily ident and LeRoy A. Tengberg, property. from the Madison formation. Salt Lake City. The acreage involves Western The feet of gas daily from the Sunburst sand, and 300 barrels of high gravity oil per day below the Sunburst sand, and 300 barrels of high gravity oil per day M. BISEL below the gas zone in the same I0MC Buys Oil Interest In Mont. n FOSTER sand. HUDSON SPECIALIST The No. GENERAL AUTO REPAIRING l: 244 South 1st West (Rear) I APPRECIATE Mining Oklahoma Oil Increase Aids Spanish Trail Officials Check Monument Valley Sterling YOUR DA 2-50- 62 BUSINESS one of Utah's biggest customers Utah's mining industry spends an estimated $74,500,000 a year on supplies and services. Mining, as a major customer, helps hundreds of Utah businesses prosper, which in turn results in employment for thousands of Utahns. Mining payrolls, supply purchases and tax payments help build prosperity for our state. UTAH MINING ASSOCIATION "From the earth comes an abundant life for all ' if 1 Bills well had gassy Commonwealth Stockpiles Ore Spanish Trail Uranium Co. stockholders this week received word of an increased income from the companys oil holdings in Oklahoma, according to F. A. Mathie, president. At the anual stockholders meeting held in Salt Lake City, the company was informed that the new quota set by Oklahoma state on allowable barrels per month will boost monthly income from $2350 (per month since December) to $2700. Mathie also said the company anticipates the increased price of crude oil will increase income. Spanish Trail sells oil to Gulf Oil Co. Mathie and four other officers-director- s of the company received oil in the Madison, but has not a vote of confidence by being reyet been placed on production. elected for the coming year. The Thorman well is awaiting Serving with Mathie as vice completion with a saturated Sun- president is Lawrence Cracroft. burst sand section over forty feet Herbert Zimmerman is secretary; thick The potential of the area as a new oil and gas field is highly regarded in Montana oil circles in view of the high porosity and permeability of the pay zones and the thick saturated sand sections. Farrell Adams, treasurer and Ray Taylor general manager. The five serve as the Board of Directors. Mathie also stated that the company is nearly as excited about their Nevada tungsten property Four separate zones of the Madison formation flowed gas in the No. 3 Bills well, but only two zones were acidized to make the gauged flow of 15,000,000 cubic as uranium. Tungsten property is located near Cherry Creek, Nev. Operations consist of a tungsten mine, mill and 150 acre ranch with valuable water rights. feet daily. The company also has properties in the Ambrosia Lake Area near Grants, N.M., the Dirty Devil Mine (uranium) at Tomsich Mountain, the Markey Mine near Monticello, Utah and uranium property at Window Rock. High gravity oil was found zone separate in a free-typ-e from and above the gas horizon in the No. 3 Bills well which will be acidized in an attempt to make a duel gas-oi-l completion. U. S. Commonwealth Uranium, about 40 Inc., has stock-pile- d tons of commercial ore and has mined about two tons of hot trees which will be used for upgrading, it was announced by Jim Schultze, president and gen- GAMMO METER eral manager. Schultze said the trees run up to five per cent in the Wild Horse Mesa, adjoining two surface ore bodies recently located by Commonwealth, three miles east of Vernon Picks claims outside the San Rafael Swell. Schultze indicated that shipments would be stimulated as soon as the highway is repaired. Either the AEC or the highway department of Emery County will do the job. The highway extends from Temple Mountain through the Morrell Range down to Notum, Utah. :l let h I. amndd Ed & Nellie's take Bottle House yotit calls Dial Elgin 53 "automatic message ... .b and Model 707 - $795.00 603 Wait North Temple Automatic alarm, the sounding of a buzzer every time a anomaly is recorded places this instrument in a class by itself. Magnificent performance such as easily detecting anomalies from 2,000 feet, completely surpassing performance of Scintillation units, locating ore bodies worth millions of dollars-a- re reported almost daily from Also available with remote meter in plane instru- ment cluster, remote buzzer and many other options at extra cost. 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