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Show Inly 6. 1956 Page 3 The Western Mineral Survey. Salt Lake City. Utah Cashing In On Gas, Oil Comstock, Arentz Tell Mercury Plans Comstock Uranium and Oil Corp. Salt Lake City this week estimated mercury reserves valued at $888,075 on their Bretz Mercury Mines property in the southern part of Malheur county, ore. According to stockholders report the company has entered a feet at an estimated 3900 foot depth. Comstocks second interest is Western States Oil and Metals Co. on their No.l well on the Westwater struction in Grand joint venture with Sam A. Arentz, Salt Lake City mining businessman, to mine and produce mercury from the Bretz mining propertys. The company also named Paul M. Sorenson as mining engineer, lie has more than 28 yean experience. The report also contains complete reports on Comstocks diversified mining and " drilling interests. The company has copper property iq Nevada, gas and oil properties in Utah and uranium in Utah aind Arizona. Comstocks most interested venture is the Oregon mercury property. The Bretz Mercury mine is located 12 miles northwest of with Samuel A. Walsh remaining as director and president. Other officers include: William A. Sarri; vice president, and Lee K. Nicholson, Jr., secretary and treasure,. Directors are: James V. Sadler county. The company has a 43.75 P. Duncan, Robert E. McClellan ?er cent interest in this well and Drilln an additional 3,650 acres. (former Mother McConaughy Lode president), R. E. McConaghy ing is now in progress. Following the recent merger and Dale L. Ravenscroft. jetween Comstock and Mother Company officers are located at stock exchange 212 Phillips Petroleum Building, Lode on a 20-basis, the company reorganized Salt Lak City. 1 McDermitt, Nev. ; According to the report the property was owned by the Bradely interests in the mid 1930s. Ore was mined from open pits and trucked to a reduction plant at Bradelys Opolite Mercury Mine nearby. Prior to closing the Bretz and Opolite mines at the end of the war more than 33, 000 tons of ore Comstocks drilling operation in Westwater Structure. Radioactive Chief Indians Used Carnotite As Effective War Paint both was treated with a recovery of 17.8 pounds of mercury per ton from the Bretz mine. During the past few. months the property came into possession of Shawano Development Corp. Mr. Arentz entered a joint operating agreement Shawano and in turn with Comstock. Under terms of the agreement to the report both parties will obtain returns of their investments from sales of ore based on ratio of. their Comstock will contributions. recieve.25 per cent of all profit Arentz-Comstoc- k probably Sitting Bull and Old Chief Crazy Horse were highly According to Howard J. Andersen of Boulder, Colorado, both famed Indian warriors ate, slept and walked on ground rich in recieved. e materials. Their camp grounds and Lookout mounTo Open Pit Mine tain in Cravens Canyon, South Dakota, have been the site of extensive recent mining operations. Drilling on the Bretz proAndersen is president of Rocky Mountain Standard, Inc., perty has shown 20,000 tons of ore with average mercury content Boulder, Colorado, oil and uranium upgrading machine manufaccomset a to now is His firm. of 15 pounds per ton in one area, up company negotiating turing bined mining and milling operation in Cravens Canyon. He In the foreseeable future the stated that his firm expects to process 300 tons of low grade .11 report notes, mining will be from per cent uranium ore daily and to raise its value to 2.1 per cent open pits. uranium with its recently developed beneficiation process. Stripping of overburden has We have spent a great deal of time running assay tests of now progressed to a point where the Indian camp ground where there are many petroglyphs or mining can begin. Wells Cargo, Indian drawings, Andersen added, And we know specifically Inc. is doing the stripping. that Cravens Canyon was used as a lookout post for warring The estimated 20,000 tons Sioux. What they didnt know was that beneath their feet back reserve is worth $888,075 at the was enough uranium ore to not only drive the then in 1870 present goverment guaranteed White man out, but in fact to conquer the world! price of $225 per flask of 76 Andersen added that carnotite (uranium-bearin- g yellow ore) pounds of mercury. was one of the coloring cosmetics used by the warriors when Copper Land Leased painting their bodies for combat. Comstock has 43 patented lode Although this ore is low grade, without doubt Sitting Bull in the Salmon claims mining and Chief Crazy Horse would have made a Geiger counter go River Elko Mining district, crazy, Anderson said. hais Nev. which leased it county, The location, Andersen added, is close to Mt. Rushmore, to A. J. and operators Terteling where the presidents heads are carved in rock. The mining area is Idaho. Boise, Sons, a massive white sandstone tower which rises more than 200 feet Under the contract Comstock above the canyon floor. It is covered by Sioux Indian drawings will recieve 10 per cent of net on the cliffs. smelter returns on all ore shipradio-activ- e. radio-activ- When in Need of Electrical Materials - Lighting Equipment and Electrical Apparatus It Pays Dividends to Call . . . GENERAL ELECTRIC SUPPLY COMPANY A DIVISION OF GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH; BOISE. IDAHO; BUTTE AND BILLINGS. MONTANA; CASPEB WYOMING; DENVER, COLORADO; AND ALBUQUEBQUE. NEW MEXICO; OGDEN. UTAH A NEW OFFICE IN GRAND JUNCTION COLO. SERVING THE COLORADO PLATEAU Stripping underway at Comstocks Bretz Mercury Mine. Vitro Absorbs Aircraft Company New York, N. Y. According to an announcement here today by J. Carlton Ward, Jr., president of Vitro Corporation of America, and Armand J. Thieblot, president of Thieblot Aircraft Co., Inc., of Bethesda, Md., Vitro has contracted to acquire the majority interest in the latter company. Previously Vitro has held a sizeable minority interest. Vitro will exchange 51,000 shares of its authorized but unissued common stock for 204,000 shares of the common stock of Thiebolt Aircraft, which represents the holdings of Thieblot and others. Thieblot Aircraft will become a whollyowned subsidiary of Vitro. Thieblot Aircraft is an engineering and manufacturing concern engaged in the design, development and production of compon ent parts for aircraft, and ordnance systems of aircraft use. The company employs about 400 personnel, and in addition to its engineering, experimental and manufacturing activities, operates the Municipal Airport at Martins-burW, Pa., where it has recenta large new proconstructed ly duction facility. Vitro Corporation of America is a diversified industrial organization engaged in the various technologies of the atomic age. It is one of the earliest companies in the field of nuclear energy, and probably the first to operate across the board in that field. The corporation is engaged in the mining, milling, processing and refining of uranium in the western states. It has a branch office Vitro Minerals in Salt Lake City. g, One of the larger Independent Rocky Mountain Oil Producers ped. According to the report shipments are now being made from the Palo Alto property and mine development work is being carried on at the Helen Smith property. Gas and Oil, Too Taking advantage of the construction of the Pacific Northwest Pipeline, Comstock has acquired interests in gas and oil properties in the cottonwood and Westwater Grand structures, Utah. county, The company has a 8.75 per cent in the Linney No. 1 well northeast of Cisco, Utah which is now capped at 2,815 feet. A recent test gauged one million cubic feet of gas per day. Main objective of the well is five million cubic Phone EMpire Utah Oil Building 4-56- 69 Salt Lake City |
