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Show April 6, 1956 The Western Mineial Survey, Salt Lake City. Utah Lost Creek Oil Asks Mill Okeh Revolutionize Air Hunt Lost Creek Oil and Uranium Co. is negotiating - with the Atomic Energy Commission for location of a uranium mill in Riverton, Wyo. Satsifactory progress is reported by Robert W. Adams, president of the Rawlins, Wyo. firm. Lost Mills contract would call for 250 tons of ore a day. Construction location is proposed at ore-processi- - the present buying station site in Riverton. The mill would cost approximately $2,000,000, Adams said. Adams company has sufficient ore, he reports, to merit the mill. Ore reserves are on company property in the Crooks Gap area in south Fremont county. West States Up Lead Production Mine production of lead in the Western States was up a fraction during January with 14,500 tons for 1955. According to the Bureau of Mines, Utah was the largest Western States producer during January with an increased four per cent over Utah production in De- cember. The prolonged strike affecting the mines of 16 operators held back production in Idaho. The strike has now been settled. In Montana, lead production decreased because of a lower output from the Butte mines of Anaconda Co. Substantial increases in quantity of lead produced were recorded in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and Washington, the report said. Moab U Page 3 Moves GRAND JUNCTION,- - Colo. Moab Uranium Co. announced today it has moved its main office from Moab, Utah, to Grand Junc- tion. C. M. Hickman, erecutive vice president, and R A. Pitzer, vice president, have opened offices for the company in Suite 208-20Uranium Center, Grand Junction. Both Hickman and Pitzer will 9, live here. A field office will be maintained on the company property in Moab, Hickman said. Juniper Drills Of 10 Well Oil Program Map Device Levels Aerial Photos Displayed publicly for the first time at annual meetings of American the Congress on Surveying and Mapping and the American Society of Photogrammetry being held at the Shoreham Hotel, is the Geological Surveys new orthophotoscope, Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay announced today. This novel addition to the lab oratory tools available to modem ern topographic map from stereois a device for changscopic pairs of aerial photos. ing aerial photographs with all Owing to the pressure of other their distortions owing to camera for tilt and changes in elevation on work the device was shelved 1953 a the time. in Then, early the ground into the equivalent interdivision committee of distortion-frephotographs. It Surveys on of photogrammetric application produces an orthophotographs" to techniques geology saw an (ortho from the Greek word for acute a device of this for need straight, hence signifying correct nature to the compilasimplify or right). On this corrected phototion in the curdata of geologic graph, which is in fact a true rent accelerated search for stramap or photomap of uniform minerals. scale, it is possible for the first tegic By fall a workable model was time to measure straight line distances accurately on an aerial completed to prove the theory. Engineering plans were drawn photograph. up in January 1954 and the protoThe device uses an optical ar. type model at the Shoreham torangement for projecting two day is the result. The instrument overlapping aerial photographs to works with either vertical or form a stereoscopic image focused oblique aerial photos. on a moving screen that allows According to Gerald Fitzgerald, a sensitized film to be scanned" Chief Topographic Engineer of the Geological Survey, the orthoby a narrow, moving slit. The film and the overlying photoscope is one of those instruscreen with its slit are carried ments technicians would say just on a platen whose elevation is cant be true." We feel a real obstacle to changed continuously as the operator keeps the silt on the photogrammetric progress has model. As the been removed through developground" in the scanning slit travels back and ment of this instrument," he said. forth from one side to the other The art of producing modern until the whole projected image topographic maps has made treis covered from top to bottom, the mendous progress in the last corrected photo is gradually built decade or two by just such giant forward strides as this. up. orNew techniques delevoped to The ideas embodied in the contake advantage of new optical thophotoscope were first ceived in 1936 by Russell K. Bean, and mechanical discoveries, aided chief of the Surveys photogram- by essential financing, now permetry section. No steps were mit the Survey to turn out some taken toward their development 1700 completed maps annually as however, until in 1950 when the compared with less than 150 in first experiments to test the prin- 1943." The now orthophotoscope ciples involved were made in the for it sections makes possible Arlingphotogrammetry to plot their true positions by corton, Va., optical laboratory. The test model was simply a relating objects on the ground crude arrangement of sensitized with images on the photographs. paper, a mobile paper screen with It will be particularly valuable to a hole for a scanning slit, and a geologists for plotting fault lines, pair of standard mapping pro- rock contacts, prominent resistjectors (modern magic lanterns) ant beds, formation strikes and such as photo grammetrists use in dips, etc. Photo interpreters and other their work of building up a mod map-maker- s, e 3-- D map-make- rs Zinc Ups; Downs, Recorded by Nine West States 3 Drilling operations will begin shortly on the first three wells of a planned program for the next six months, according to Juniper Oil and Mining company 10-we- ll officials of Denver, Colorado. The first well, on which location has been made and drilling contracts awarded, is in the Sailor Western states recorded ups Springs Pool, Clay County, Illiand downs in zinc production dur- nois. ing the first month of 1956, the This well will be known as the Bureau of Mines said today. n Oil and Mining Co. Production of recoverable zinc Juniper B". was 21,700 tons, nearly the same as that estimated for December, It will be an inside location but 1,100 tons less than the month- and an up-dioffset to a well 1955. in a with initial producly average tion. It will be drilled jointly In Montana, the principal pro- with Ashland Oil and Refinery ducing state, output decreased at Co. the Anaconda Co. mines at Butte g The other two wells are in the and plant at East Helena, which account for most South Darling Pool in the north of the states zinc production. end of the Cut Bank Field, Glacier Idaho production was higher County, Montana. than December, but still lower One well will be a direct offthan usual due to the prolonged set and from a comstrike settled Jan. 31) that shut well mercial producing from the down 16 operators in Coeur of Madison the limestone. top dAlene district. There were increase in Utah, The second well will be a Colorado and Nevada and de- down-diwell from a creases in Arizona, Washington, cubic foot gas well in the MoulNew Mexico and California. ton sand. Bris-sende- p 200-barr- el slag-fumin- re p military specialists also will find many uses for orthophotographs especially in association with intelligence work. The agronomist can accurately plot his woodland boundaries, timber classification, soil variations, and crop inventories. Plots based on an orthophotograiph would show the true plan of a tract of land at a uniform scale, as long as the corners or boundaries could be correctly identified. Orthophotographs will be of great help in scaling distances which can be used in combination with vertical angles determined in the field, to calculate elevation differences without requiring the facilities of a photogram- Four Firms Close Merger Details Final approval on a four company merger was received last Friday when International Oil and Metals stockholders met in Spokane. J. B. Haffner, president of IOM, reports that this okeh completes a merger plan started last year. Intermountain Uranium Co., under President F. Bennion Redd, Monticello, joined with the company in September. Last month in Salt Lake City Apache Uranium Corp. stockholders approved a 30-- merger with International. 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TRUCK PARTS 1563 South 2nd West HU 11 Salt Lake City. Utah Oil Securities Property Interests Pay Cidar Creek acre than The recent wildcat natural gas discovery in Jos Valley Gas Field, Sanpete and Emery counties, Utah will substantially add to Oil Securities treasury, according to N. G. Morgan, Jr., president, Salt Lake City. Oil Securities holds an undivided 16.67 per cent carried working interest in 12,551.02 acres being drilled by Three States Natural Gas Co., Dallas, Texas. According to Morgan, Three States plans to drill three additional wells this spring. Under the agreement between Oil Securities and Three States, the drilling company will absorb all operating costs. In the Flat Canyon Structure, Emery County, Utah, Morgan reports Oil Securities has an arrangement with Three States to obtain 16.66 per cent. Three States, according to Morgan in a letter to stockholders, will resume operations on the Kearns No. 3 well in Flat Canyon this spring. The well is now at 6397 feet, he said, and showed 3,646,000 cubic feet of natural gas on open flow. Three States last month announced a major discovery in Jos Valley reported to have 20 per cent more natural gas per The firm plans to spend 1)4 million dollars in exploration and development of the property during 1956. The Jos Valley unit consists of 80,000 acres. Morgan also reports plans have been announced by Pacific 'Western Oil Corp., Los Angeles, Calif., to drill a 15,000 foot test well in the Gordon Creek structure, Carbon County, Utah. Oil Securities owns a three per Field, nearby cent overriding royalty interest in 3,149.54 acres in the area. In addition Oil Securities drill- ed its well No. 2 in Northwest Salt Valley incline, Grand County, Utah and is now undertaking chemical processing in an at- tempt to break the water bridge preventing free flow of gas, Morgan stated. El Paso Natural Gas Co. made productivity tests, he said. Avoid Costly Shutdowns! 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