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Show The Western Mineral Surer, Asgist 3. 1956 Salt Lake City. Utah WESTERN MINERAL Sulphuric Acid Plant Nears Intermountain Oil Future Completion at Garfield Editorial SURVEY 11 LORHAWI PIIH dioxide gas The Garfield Smelter of Amer remaining sulphur hews . cibculatioh The past 10 years have seen the emergence of the Rocky can Garfield shelter Co. produced by the and Refining Smelting Phan DC MM Mountain oil industry from relative insignificance to a very fav- s nearing completion of the fifth copper converter operations. Die 431 rhimh Miwl low-cosulphur ADVERTISING orable position nationally. Exploration success, transportation contact sulphuric acid plant availability of waste togeth-3smelter gases from than more XU Bos 2608 increase and percentage of production growth during that period which will increase by - er with the growth of Intermoun- outSuit acid Lake Utah City. per cent the sulphuric are unmatched by any other single region in this country. has justified this tain industry Utah. at Garfield, put aeeond m Entml dm mot ter at Salt Millions of acres of land are now tied up in oil leases. Drillnew expansion, company officials Lake City. Utah, onder Act of March X in1879. Sulphuric acid is one of the said. ing has increased by 800 per cent. There has been a vast of hundreds in has market acid The sulphuric enharrlptlon ratee: IM for two year: crease in crude oil reserves through more than 900 discoveries. key U.OO for one year. processes. as a result manufacturing grown tremendously of Rocky Modem' oil refineries have become an integral part of booming uranium milling opmention Western Mineral Plea now The new plant will use as its oil are and Crude Mountain industry. piped hunproducts wrlttny to advertisers. Advar area. this in erations raw material virtually all of the Minor ratee on application. dreds of miles from outlying oil fields to the refineries. The original Garfield chamber most of them In 1946, oilmen drilled 697 wells in this area process plant in which sulphur dioxide was converted to sulphu- HARRY B. MILLER PnhUeher in Wyoming. There were 24 discoveries. The more remote oil COAL MINE FIRE 1916 and has was ric built in ad(f Editor MIRIAM BRXNTON producing areas had scarcely been touched at that time. since been dismantled. Four imSAFETY Discoveries at Powder River Basin, Mush Creek and Fiddler Adv. Manager . proved contact process plants REX L. MCARTHUR and River Wind Creek followed in quick succession. Wyoming's have been built since that time DEVICES SHOWN of the in in 1939, 1944, 1950 and 1953 to an Horn Basins development important part Big played In the Western All newi for methods Safer installing produce sulphuric acid from cop- Mineral tirveyappeartnr Is ' obtained tram eonreee the oil industry in this area. believed to he reliable bat no reeponeiMU Then in 1949, a major oil lease campaign was set off in the and .operating conveyor belts In per converter gas. le aeramed for arcnracy of etatemonta. ity The fifth unit, now nearing 11 Rocky Mountain states which was to last four years. Rela- coal mines to combat the grow-Reprodnetton of any material from this has a rated capacity I completion, most have written permission o fires and I hazard publication Utah oil the underground tag in dormant oT eenTaul. interest, growing "5 tone 10o per" figures tively from he pqbNaher are described in a Bureau of phurtc acid per day.' It will Colorado began to become active. report released today by I crease the daily capacity output Ceophysical exploration has played an important part in the regions large scale operations. Rapid evaluation of the mil- Secretary of the Interior Fred A. 4 Garfield from 750 to 1,000 tons. As a part of the construction lions of acres under lease was essential. program, an additional 9000 tons In, each of the successive hot areas throughout the region, of storage facilities are behq: a rush for there has been a somewhat typical chain of events erected at the Garfield chemical tank farm at Thompson, Utah, acreage holdings, prospective blocks, wildcat drilling and finally The Thompson storage tank farm the development of drilling programs. was first placed in operation For a time lack of adequate crude oil transportation and The uranium boom hasn't gone 1956, to serve tank truck January, the distance from oil markets hampered the development of the The danger of conveyor-bel- t customers in the western portion bust yet, but a cooling off on oil industry in the Rocky Mountain area. The building of the fires is increasing, the report of the uranium-ricColorado land speculation has cost the Utah the 1950 Plateau. was Land Board more than $140,000 in because northwestern medianfrom Platte Pipe Line adds, spreading Wyoming ization Even with increased the has been pro- in mineral lease revenue, accordaccompanied by first favorable break in this situation. Transportation is now only from new duction at ing to Lee E. Young, director. the use unit for of belts moving a temporary problem for most producers. Pacific Northwest greater more coal underground. be Garfield, capacity may That figure comes from a tabuneeded to meet the growing de- lation of land transactions comPipelines proposed $15 million line from the Four Comers area Because most such fires are mand for to Salt Lake City over a distance of 350 miles shows that transsulphuric acid. pleted during the last fiscal year. caused by friction of the drive market the from no distance can and difficulties longer In addition, mineral royalties portation a stalled or slip pulley against for fiscal 1956 dropped by $23,166 seriously hamper the industry. ping belt or by the rubbing of principally due to a temporary In 1946, crude oil production in the Rocky Mountain area a misalined conveyor against lull in mining operations at Contotaled what was then an high of 200,000 barrels of oil combustible material, .many of . tinental Uraniums San Juan precautions suggested are de- MBrG6fS daily. A5, crude oil production from the mine producing the mine, Young said. County states unwtarea reached an average of 540,000 barrels per day. signed to keep belts constantly Continental is the principal in alignment and to stop the drive New Mexico Survey Bureau disconsideration oil was 10 under the During year period motor automatically in an emerg- Several mergers, involving prop-enc- producing uranium mine on Utah covered for the first time in Nebraska, South Dakota, North Da erties in five states, were an-- state school land. It slowed down. Ariin mining operations to go into strip-Nevada. kota, Utah, Arizona and Although production k. C. L. Brown, a nounced this week by Ambrosia ping operations. Next years royMinerals, Inc., of Albuquerque, zona and Nevada has not been really significant, the two states n,Paredi electrical engi- - jjm. alties are expected to go way up are considered important in the future of the oil industry in Rocky neer stationed at Pittsburgh, Pa., as the tonnage of uranium ore inMountain states. . the report also discusses methods Officials reported that . creases. . that belts making up brosia has taken over the proper-Much of the credit for the rapidity with which the industry complete haulage system will ties of the Five States Uranium has developed in this area lies in the quick availability of infor start in proper sequence and that Corp. in Emery County, Utah, on Kennecott Employee mation of all types geological, land, well data, etc. stoppage of one belt in such a which there is a producing mine, The rather limited activities of 1946 in the oil fields of the system wiir Ambrosia also has effected a Retires As Comptroller automatically halt Rockies has been replaced by an intense, systematic search for any belt feeding toward it. dual merger with Gulf Uranium L. J. Farrer of 124 U and Development Co. and Fron and development of oil producing areas. Salt Lake City, assistant to St., The report emphasizes the need tier Uranium Co. The three way-foCentral and northwestern Montana is undergoing new exDivision the Comptroller, Utah adequate roof support over deal involves more than 8000 Division Wildcat this of Kennecott continues to time. in increase at drilling ploration conveyor belts, noting that fall-- 1 acres of uranium leases In New Copper the Green River Basin of Wyoming. And the southwestern par ing roof material often overloads Mexico and Colorado, along with Copper Corporation, retired 33 years of service. western Colorado, eastern Utah,. northeastern a belt, causing it to stall or slip oil and gas leases in Texas, of the Rockies Farrer joined Kennecott Copalso points out . It Arizona and northwestern New Mexico gives promises of be- dangerously. in March of 1923 as a bookCompany officials said that the need for preventing the ac- per coming one of the most important oil and gas producing areas in of coal spillage along brosia also has acquired all of keeper in the Salt Lake Office. the United States. positions until conveyor lines and of. coal, coal f outstandingstock of Heralde He held various becoming assistant to the diviTen years of diligent searching out of oil properties and sys- dust, and grease drippings near Jning Corp., which owns a ton manganeses mill at Augila, sion comptroller in August of units. tematic development of oil finds have brought this area to die Ariz. 1953. forefront of the oil industry. The future for oil and products anc many other allied industries has never looked more favorable for Mines Director Takes the Rocky Mountain states. I I st 0 - Bnr-wh- en . s Utah Loses Money As Speculation On Ore Land Drops I h all-ti- . 56V6rOl y. I I Am-for-assuri- -- r - Tues-dayaft- Am-cumulatio- ns . 1500-driv- Oath of Office KEEP ABREAST OF NEW DEVELOPMENTS Marling J. Ankeny of Bethesda, Md., took his Ankeny, whose nomination was confirmed by the Senate .on July 19, is the 10th Director of. the. Bureau. He succeeds J. J. Forbes who last November. Thomas H. Miller, deputy director, has been acting director since that time. retired Rocky Mountain oil comes into its own. Subscribe to the oati of office July 20 as Bureau of Mines Director during a brief ceremony in the office of Secretary of the Interior Fred A. Seaton. Thef oath was administered by Floyd E. Dotson, chief clerk of the Department. As Director of the Bureau of Mines, Ankeny returns to the agency he served for 24 years until his resignation in 1952 to become safety director for the Bituminous Coal Operators Assn. 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