| Show green river is boom town with uranium companies working ed mote reprinted from the eat onville dispatch july 24 1955 eat onville washington don murphy has recently returned from utah and reports the uranium boom and work on uranium mines and claims is continuing dished green river is the loading point for railroad cars of uranium ore a month with much of the cranium banium rani um production being trucked direct to the mills green river is slated to relieve two uranium mills as well as an atomic powered steam gener abing plant green river is a real boom town lots that could have been bought for taxes of a few dollars two years ago are now worth thousands of doll ars now enough ore is indicated ne ar green river to assure a long te rm mining and milling program of uranium columbia uranium alabama calif I 1 oma orria gold mines cornucopia gold mines mmes old frontier uranium and emata exploration co all pooled resources to do the necessary assess ment work on their claims four cats were eed sed several sets of corn com pres sors as well as jackhammers jacklegs and other construction eq A diamond drilling pro gram was well under way by corn com utopia gold mines and emata ex co on june 30 A total of 60 miles of road was put in during the last 30 days of assessment work for the 1954 55 fiscal year by the five companies vast heretofore inaccessible areas are now open for drilling and further exploration many highly radioactive areas have been exposed on many of the claims by the bulldozers walt melrose geologist from gra nd junction colo was in charge of operations for cornucopia gold mine mme while lloyd thomas of eatonville Eat onville was in charge of the other four op orations erat ions after the worst was over all lloyd had to say was I 1 traded my bed for a lantern some idea of the diff difficulty cu I 1 t y can call be gathered by the distance to the drinking water columbia camp was 92 miles nales from green river which had the nearest drinking water then with ith two more camps to service with supplies and water as well as to su gervise the jobs lloyd was kept ve ry b busy ausy hattie thomas spent her tune time cooking making out checks for the sheepherders while lloyd had to let go and kill rattlesnakes the E C johnson oil co of long view texas had a very nice mine opened p for them in the new strike area in the morrison formation near green river while checking the cl aims alms of emata exploration co near these claims don murphy checked the drilling of big bend uranium and found 30 feet of ore had been hit near johnson claims on big bend bends s property A phone call was made to longview texas a price was set on the claims by the johnson oil co and the claims were purchased these claims murphy said have indications of two ore zones under the he present mine level bic big reef U banium has ore blocked out ut very close by as has U beva uranium the companies participating in the purchase of the johnson claims are columbia uranium inc american silver mining co uranium chief alabama california gold mines and dinosaur uranium corp these corn com banies expect to start shipping ore from these claims in august of this war year |
