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Show t tfifor IliVO f siit S3MOZ-o- f i i I Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday, May 31, 1957 Vol. 28; No. 14 Convention Plans Mi Seen As Power Gorge To Be Discussed For Phosphorus Mill At we Meeting Tt dustry Suggests .'or Wormser Post I t Major chemical companies are discussing a firm offer to purchase energy from the Flaming Gorge Dam for use in production of elemental phosphorus near Vernal, it was learned today. This came to light with the disclosure that San Francisco Chemical Co., Montepelier, Idaho, had solved successfully the beneficia-tio- Th United States to commercial use. That problem is electrical en- ergy of sufficiently inexpensive price which would compensate, in part, for the isolated location of the deposits San Francisco Chem- ical holds under option from the Humphries Phosphate Co. successors assistant Frogram plans for the 1957 Metal Mining and Industrial I Minerals Convention, American Mining Congress; will be blocked out during June when committee meet in Salt Lake City. Presiding at the session will be A. H. Shoemaker, general ager Homestake Mining Company who heads the national program committee. suggestions concerning speak-potorttm b welcomed .houW I man-Flami- to D.C., also Felix retary of the interior for minerals, are being mentioned in the western metal mining industry. Mr. Wormser has indicated on several occasions his desire to retum to private life upon completion of submission of the long range minerals program to Congress by the administration. And at recent meetings of the Lead Industries Assn, and the American Zinc Institute in Chicago, it was reported that Mr. Wormser shortly would retum to the employment of St. Joseph Lead Co., a firm he served as vice president before joining the administration in Washington, D.C. Before that, Mr. Wormser was executive officer of the Lead Inx.. ng sec- Gorge, located over problems necessary to utili- the Utah line in Wyoming, has zation of some 700 million tons a potential of about 80,000 kUo of phosphatlc material, 15 miles watts of energy. This is a variable north of the Uintah County comof course, as the dam, munity. while producing energy, The affiliate of Stauffer Chemical Co. is now faced with only one other problem necessary to plan of Upper Basin development. BuildlnR Washingtons, D early conversion of one of the eleC. of However, operation largest phosphate deposits in The America Mining Congress mental phosphorus furnaces can to scheduled its 1957 con-pli- es seasonal supbe adjusted easily has dustries Assn. of big energy blocks of in- - vention for Salt Lake City, Those now mentioned as pospower, as it is called, tember successor to Mr. Wormser sible Hotel reservation forms have include John Leibert, WashingIt is understood that Stauffer been distributed and the first assistant. Mr. Wormsers D.C., ton, and San Francisco Chemical assignment 0f rooms will be made An attorney and native of Kanwould be prepared to build a in June Mr. Leibert has had considAdventours youngsters and in- first unit of an elemental phos- - Mining men who have not done sas, erable governmental experience, orus furnace plant 17 miles to- send their re- quisitive adults today were warnurged particularly in foreign commodity Flamed to advoid the hazards of aband- frorn the generating site at hoterbmotel Becom- matters. This is now, of course, oned mines and quarries, whch ing Gorge. mtfdatitas'prompylR)' the Hous a principal problem of the doling Bureau, Convention an mestic mining industry, injured frequently become death traps for warm-weath- er explores. Visitors Bureau, P.O. as it is by excessive imports from outmake low-cosummer and Lake Iltah. Salt Spring City, foreign prodoor activities especially inviting.' ducers of metals. Mr. Leibert reu said Marlng J. Ankey, director, ,v .... .. f portedly has support among cerof Bureau of Mines. Idle quarry tain important forces in the Conferencfe or stripping pits or the entrance American Mining Congress. to an old mine seems to present Sam H. Williston, vice president an irresistible urge to many hikers of Cordero Mining Co., Palo Alto, are developing Arrangements thi3 and picnickers. Each year at Calif, chairman of the western for the annual meeting of the advisory council on time, the Bureau receives reports Society of Mining Engineers and was reported n iv,. It Jjnetals beand minerals and a spokes- of persons injured or killed the Southeastern States Mining the ration's cabinet was to 8trategW and critical cause they were unwary enough Conference scheduled Oct 15, 16, last in consideration metals fQr Friday interest in the American to enter one of these places1' 17 and 18 in Tampa, Florida. of the long range min(again) informed Eisenhower dining Congress, has Ankeny cautioned especially the of erals program Mr. discussed who have riends Highlighting four days of tech- Administration. against going into abandoned was he successor underground mines, where the nical sessions and field trips will , There is probably no other Wormsersin the proposal. chief danger is bad air. The at- be a tour through the bone valley iece o legislation proposed by mercury-producin- g a is Cordero field-anprod Administration in Washington mosphere of such a mine usually phosphate mining Co. lacks enough oxygen to support cessing centers adjacent to both in recent years as vital as this affiliate of Sun Oil has many also Mr. Williston life, Ankeny explained, and vie Tampa and the heart of Floridrs pian o the U. S. Department of friends in the industry and with-tims often are overcome quickly. famed citrus growing highlands. interior. the American Mining Congress. Not only is the raw materials S. (Spike) Shannon, imSpencer industry looking toward an Office of Minerals the of director its mediate solution to some of Mobilization (OMM), Washington, problems, but most important, esas such a program is regarded n al, alisaL . Sept-terrupti- Director Warns ble 9-- 12. Of Mine Risks - -- - low-wag- e, with the activation of the ised long range minerals st In News Again in-eres- ted n sential for the future development of the western United The Carter Oil Co. announced east of the Woodside anticline. states located as it is in insular location of an important wildcat Under some theories of oil accum- - areas and not served as other test at , its Sphinx Unit on the ulation in the Paradox Basin, parts of America with waterways east flank of the San Rafael petroleum might be better found Swell on the north end of the on the flanks of relatively old structures rather than within Paradox Basin. structures themselves. those of S. Raymond Sloan, president 4. There has been considerable the western division at Denver of the Standard Oil Company of competitive leasing in this region New Jersey affiliate, said the and other operators and lease Sphinx Unit No. 1 would be holders will naturally watch deTexota Oil Co., Denver Inde drilled in the southwest quarter velopments with an intent eye. Mr. Sloan said that Carters pendent, has scheduled a 3,700 of the northwest quarter of Section 35, Township 19 South and Sphinx unit covered 27,080 acres foot wildcat oil prospect on the Coalville structure at Coalville, Range 14 East, Emery County. and that Standard Oil18 Company per cent Summit County, Earl M. Hender-intereThis wildcat is most Important of California held an son, Texota president said. 1. It will be drilled to 8,500 The area is about midway be- - Participating are Mountain feet to the Molas or basal Penn- tween the towns of Green River Fuel Supply Co., Salt Lake City, sylvanian formations. No recent and Woodside, Emery County, and Maico Refining Co., Roswell, tests in this area of the Para- Mr. Sloan said. During the latter N.M. The wildcat will go to 3,700 feet dox Basin have gone to that part of March of thi year, Carter to the Twin Creek formation at Coons wildcat a completed depth. 2. Decision to drill is in appar- Spring, 23 miles to the northwest where in 1927, Ohio Oil Co. dis-ioil well, ent reflection of considerable geoSection 7, Township 16 South covered a not be was well this in conducted The completed 12 work and East physical Range mechanical area by the Carter Oil Co. Nature difficulty, This test went to a total depth Henderson said. of formations encountered (the of 7,132 feet in the Missippian imUtah Federa be will column) stratigraphic formation. It was not a commer1 portant to science. dal producer. of Section 6, Township 2 North 3. Location is not only on the flank of the San Rafael Swell The Woodside anticline is a and Range 6 East northeast of the but also Is about five miles south- - U.S. government helium reserve, town of Coalville. -- I o Texota Schedules Wildcat Drilling st I I n 30-barr- el I a-d- prompro- gram. Treasure Reports Years Earnings For Carter Oil Co. Plans 'Deep' Test, Creates New Interest in Industry reported figuring in conversations as to a prospective new assistant secretary of interior. A veteran government employe, Mr. Shannon has a coal as well as a governmental background in the metals industry. The post of assistant secretary for minerals in the Department of Interior has in the last few years been concerned primarily with metal, and to a somewhat lesser degree with oil matters. Considerable liaison' work in and among the proliferating agencies on the Potomac is required, particularly the Office of Defense Mobilization and General Services Administration. Certainly the wishes of both the industry, Congress, Fred Seaton, secretary of the Interior Department, and the concordance of the White House are all elements in selection of a new assistant dealing with mineral matters. An early decision on the individual would enable Congress to consider the type of man who probably would have much to do 1 Schedule Shapes fs Treasure Uranium and - Resources, Inc., reported net profits of $90,878 for 12 months ended March 31 before taxes and year-en- d adjustments. Ken Garff, president of the uranium mining company which has branched out into the mobile home sales and financing business in the West, noted in a report to stockholders that while your company made its start in usiness hte previous fiscal year, almost its entire growth came during the period covered by the Superior Oil Co. Wildcat May Prove Vital Link Superior Oil Co. of California Monday announced location of a wildcat test in San Juan County, which might do much toward proving connection between production at Aneth oil field and East Desert Creek pool. will be The firm's Navajo to in the Paradox the drilled southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 23, TownE-- 2 ship 41 South, and Range 24 East, miles This spot is about 2 o southwest of Carter Oil Co.s Creek discovery of last week, regarded as an important extension of the Aneth pool. Superiors new location also is a bit more than three miles due west of the East Desert Creek pool. A validation of oil woul prove a large tract owned nol only by Superior, but a join lease held by Aztec Oil & Gas Co. and Phillips Petroleum Co. Mc-Elm- present report. The report to shareholders was accompanied by notification that shares withheld from trading in formation of the firm are now being released. to original Incorporators and subscribers. the Under the agreement, shares had to be so released by the fall of 1958 at the latest. There are 4,365,272 shares outstanding. A deferred annual- - stockholders meeting will be held June 4 at 10 a.m. at company offices, 551 So. State, Salt Lake City. Mr. Garff said that during 1956 sales volume reached $1,790,151. most of which came the latter part of the year. Sales are continuing at an accelerated pace with every promise of reaching higher totals this year, unless tightening credit polices pinch out the flow of consumer credit vital to the financing of such sales in mobile homes, he said. He noted that from a modest start, the company has now established retail dealerships merchandising house trailers at Yerka and Oceanside, Calif,; Naturita, Colo.; Grants, Gallup and Albuquerque, N.M.; Baker John Day, Klamath Falls and Portland, Ore. |