Mine Mouth Plant Launches 66 000 Kilowatts for Utah
Utah Power and Light announces the mine mouth Carbon plant at Castle Gate began producing 66 000 kilowatts for central and southeastern Utah. The facility uses local coal to supply power to Carbon Emery and surrounding areas with surplus energy sent via high voltage lines to northern Utah and southern Idaho.
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Utah
Utah Power and Light Coy
Castle Gale
Carbon County
Up&l
Up&l Gleam Electric
Northcentral
Ealt
Castle Gate
Carbon Platt
E. M. Naughton
UPA
Gald
Ming
Emery
Naughton
Utah Power
Northwern
Idaho
Utah Power & Light CO
Moab to Build New $415,000 Hospital
A $415,000 hospital will be erected west of Moab in the fair grounds area starting in May or June. It will house 25 beds, five doctors, and a staff of 25, relieving the year round 14 bed Moab facility. Funding comes from mining interests and ANM-Burton Act federal aid amid uranium exploration on the Colorado Plateau.
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Moab
Fair Grounds
Moab Builds New Elementary School in West Moab
Grand County schools superintendent Mrs Helen M Knight announces a new Moab elementary to cost 534625 dollars. The facility will sit on town land near a ural road and include 15 classrooms around a courtyard two gyms a combined auditorium and kitchen with capacity to feed 4000. Enrollment has risen with 164 new students since last year prompting triple first grades and shifted second grades.
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Helen M. Knight
Grand County
Knight
Meab
It's Up and Down In Uranium Mining
Howard Balsley of Moab recalls a long career in uranium prospecting since 1915. He warns that surface deposits are largely found and deep drilling with large investments will be required. Balsley holds 50 to 75 Moab claims and suggests investors buy stock in reputable firms rather than risk one time deals.
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Howard Baisley
Moab
Balsley
Balsley Hias
la Sal
South Africa
Peru
Vitro Chemical Co
Pittsburgh
Army
Atomic Energy Commission
Raisley
U-Search Costs Rise as Prospecting Narrows in West
Uranium prospecting shifts from jeep routes to big business with 130 claims staked by a major firm across Colorado and Arizona. Prospects use air readings to narrow targets to about one square mile, then foot survey with costly instruments. Colorado’s old pit law forces 10 by 10 foot pits on each claim, while Wyoming relaxes rules, leaving Colorado as the remaining constraint on lean operators.
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Colorado Pisteau
Colorado
Arizona
Montrose County
Davis Mesa Cau
Glenwood Springs
Flagstaff
Shadow Mountain Group
Canon Rims
Gergey
Wyoming
Mother Earth
Hesom
New Phone System In Operation Soon In Moab
Bell Telephone plans over $200000 in upgrades to Moab Utah lines to handle surging calls. Midland Co expands with a $50000 dial system while the present Moab exchange processes hundreds of toll calls daily and prepares for seven additional circuits. Uranium ore shipments from six South African and several other plants supply the US.
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Bell Telephone System
Moab
Utah
Colorado Plateau
Midland Telephone Co
Thompson
Ame
Bell System
Midland Co
Belgian Congo
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Gadyb
Salt Lake City
Carbon Gym Company
Gadsby
Hew
Alco
North Main
Realty
Uranium Exploration & Development
Gordon K. Zaraski
George R. Grandbouche
Moab, Utah
H.M. Felts
Lessee
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