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Shafter Press

Location

Shafter, California, United States of America

Date

Oct 07, 1954

Page

7

Uranium Fever Grips Kern County Mine Rush

Thousands visit the Miracle Springs mine as Kern County explores uranium with Geiger counters. The Ditto group sold the claim for 35,000 cash and 965,000 in royalties, with tunneling to continue and ore shipments already exceeding minimum assay.

Kern County California Miracle Springs Kern River Canyon George Roberts Hot Springs M. W. Ditto New York Taft Bakersfield Ditto Stewart Patterson Patterson Act One Chris Musick Dis A.E.C Harry Feldman W. R.mercer Joe Feldman

Phosphate Available to Local Growers

A new ammonium phosphate plant at Brea is now supplying growers with a soluble phosphate product. Brea Chemicals, Inc., a Union Oil subsidiary, also produces Aqua Ammonia, a high nitrogen solution. The facilities are located at Brea, thirty miles east of Los Angeles, making the company the region’s major supplier of these nutrients.

Brea Marion May Bakersfield Union Ice Company West Brea Chemicals, Inc Union Oil Company of California Brea Chemicals Los Angeles

Night school classes seek sufficient enrollment

Shafter High School attendance officer Mrs. Kathleen Warren says night school enrollment is short of the required minimum. Welding has 10 students, woodshop seven, typing four, with 15 as the minimum to start a class. Registration began Monday September 27 and continues. except for materials, courses have no cost.

Kathleen Warren Shafter High School

New ammonium phosphate plant completed for California crops

Macco Corp. completed a new plant supplying fall fertilizer in California. Plants at Brawley and Fresno expected to start early next year. Total cost around 500000 dollars. The 8 24 0 solution blends soluble phosphoric acid with Aqua Ammonia producing 8 percent nitrogen and 24 percent phosphate, enabling soil spraying and irrigation applications.

Macco Corp California Brawley Fresno

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