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Show 1 Spotlighting g UTAH Southeastern Utah Declared Hof Speaking in the uranium prospector's pros-pector's language, southeastern Utah U "hot". All of which means means that the Government Govern-ment wants the uranium ore, and southeastern Utah has not only produced a lot of high and low grade uranium arc but has more. Just where it Is, remains to be found and hundreds of uranium prospectors are now in the field searching canyons, deserts, bluffs, and out of the way places tor the precious mineral that goes to make the famous "A" bomb". w At Denver. Sumner T. Pike, speaking before the Colorado Mining Association declared that the Atomic Energy Commission was hoping for a big strike In Utah or Colorado; that it would not only be "Immensely Important Import-ant to the nation, but tremendously tremen-dously profitable for the owners". "What we need", he continued, "is a uranium discover comparable compara-ble to the copper deposit at Bingham Bing-ham Canyon, Utah Taking cognizance of the situation, situ-ation, an eastern engineering corporation cor-poration has already sent two engineers to Moab where they will make their headquarters while prospecting the region with special equipment. Insted of using us-ing the time honored burro, these modern prospectors have a plane equipped with a ray detector similar to a Gieger counter. The ray dectector tube Is suspended from the bottom of the plane and detects the presence of bodies of ore as far away as a thousand feet. Engineers spent four years In perfecting the apparatus. . |