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. 00.2U018. . Coal operators throughout Utah are l\()t optimistiC. They be1i$ve t~e domestic ooal ma~ket, roughly 45 percent of present produotion, will suooumb to the mounting Iliompetition of oil and gas. Their only hope is in wider use of coal in the ~i'therindustrial developlllent of the West and Northwest. The ooal washing and blending plant of the United States Steel Corpora- tion, Geneva Steel Division, began operation durir..g April. The plant is on the D&RGI"1 Railroad about 3 miles east of Wellingtcn. Capacity is reported as 600 tons of mine-run coal an hour, from the corporation's Columbia, Geneva, and' ' ", Somerset (Colorado) mines. The Kaiser Steel Oorporation closed davrn its banks of beehive coke ovens late in February. Each of these ovens, j.n operation for about 40 years, has a oapaoi ty 0:( 'l-lt2 tOns of 72-hour coke. Uranium mining on the NavajO Reserration has diminished; in 1958 only one mine (Taylor..Reed No.1) worked intsrmittently. This oould be due to lac~ of interest, and the attitude of AEG and its milling problems. l1ineral LE!a~ing, Idaho~- T~ere he.s been no new production from phosphate leases in Idaho. ~ew la-year leases are being negotiated between the Fort Hall Tribal Council and Food MaChir"ery Company with the Salae terms as the leases just negoitated by J. R. Simplot. Monsanto Chemical Company expects 'to begin mining al"01md June 15; it contemplates mining lass than in 195'1$ al': t.bere is consj,de::-able oarry-over of ore in the plant stookpile at Soda Springs. Geolo~o and mineral resource l!lUrveys and mapping During the report period about 130 projeots were investigating mineral and mineral fuel resources and general geology".. Effort was large1:y in the , laboratory and preparation of reports. the following were published in the first five months of 19~8. "Preliminary geologiC map of the northern part of the Raton Mesa region and Huerfano Park in parts of Las Animas, Huerfano, and Custer ,Counties, Colo.", OM 183. This map of about 1,800 square mi1.<$s will aid petroleum exploration in the Raton bas:l.n. "Prel~nary teotonic map of northern Colorado and north- eastern Utllh, showing the distribution of uranium deposits", MF-130, scale 11500,000. "Geologic map and sections of the Pioche Hills, Lincoln Oounty, Nevada", UF-l36. "Geolog:l.c map of Clark County, Nevada", M1"-138, scale 11200,000. "Miocene arthropods from the Mojave Desert, California", Professio~ Paper 294-0. This report described and illustrates some excellently preserved fossils frOta lake beds in the Calico Mountains. 3. ". "