Show LOCAL URANIUM prospector HERO OF DIGEST ARTICLE slight balding 33 year old charlie steen today has anywhere from 10 million to million worth of uranium and vanadium in 12 claims near moab utah says J P mcevoy in the november readers digest mcevoy condensed from the american mercury hails hot rock charlie as the man who and in the face of obstacles that would have discouraged cou raged anyone less hardy ferreted out one of the richest uranium deposits on this continent little more than a year ago steen and his wife and four children were next door to starving on the wild colorado plateau other men were finding uranium but not charlie stubbornly however he kept borrowing and burrowing bur burrowing rowin g spending 90 per cent of his time raising money and ten per cent prospecting finally his wife down with pneumonia and his credit for groceries exhausted steens borrowed geiger counter went crazy cr a zy today his 12 claims hold ore that is 40 feet thick in some places one named mamie others are ike nixon etc is said to be one of the best bes lodes in the united states since steens strike thousands of amateur prospectors plus several hundred trained geologists and mining engineers have been scouring the colorado plateau but to date no one has ma made dl I 1 a comparable strike having worked his way through texas college of mines 10 years ago he has since prospected for tin in bolivia and for oil in the amazon jungle he began hunting uranium in 1950 |