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<br />.. " ... <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />003010 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />In Wyoming, the Utah Power & Light Company started \lonstruction of <br />a dam on Ham I s Fork. This is the forerunner of con$truction of a power <br />plant near Kemmerer to be completed in 1963. <br /> <br />Several Companies holding pe:rrnits or actively drilling in the area <br />of the Seedskades Reclamation Project are concerned about the apparent <br />conflict between the project and the sodium lands involved. The trona <br />deposits lie at relatively shallow d eptha in the southern parts of this <br />project. <br /> <br />In California, prospecting permits and leases for sodium are in the <br />process of being issued on areas of Danby Dry Lake. <br /> <br />Two uranium mines on allotted Navajo Indian leases in the Gallup, <br />New Mexico area have started production. The mines, Black Jack Nos. 1 <br />and 2, operated by Lance Corporation, have been developed by shafts <br />750 feet and 250 feet deep respectively. <br /> <br />Two copper leases werespproved by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, on <br />September 1$, 1959, to the American Smelting and Refining Company. . The <br />leases are located on the San Xavier Indian Reservation in Arizona and <br />involve allotted lands. A 25-year business lease on 2,560 acres of land <br />on the same reservation has also been approved. The business lease is <br />for the. purpose of obtaining lands to be used for storage of mill tailings. <br />The copper and business leases are a part of the Asarco Mission Project <br />under whioh they have started' development of a large open pit copper <br />mine on the reservation and adjoining private land. The Mission Projeot <br />embraces a copper deposit in excess of 65 million tons oontaining <br />approximately e.9o percent copper. Some $43 million will be spent in <br />bringing the project into production and production should be obtained <br />in about three years. <br /> <br />The New Mexico Public Service Company has started prospecting by <br />drilling on public land coal permits held by them near Farmington, New <br />Mexico. The prospecting is for the purpose of finding sufficient coal <br />reserves for a power plant to be built in that vicinity. <br /> <br />Continued drilling by the Pittsburg-Midway Coal CompaQy on Santa Fe <br />railroad and public land in the vicinity of Gallup, New Mexico has <br />indicated the coal deposits extend into the Navajo Reservation to the <br />north of their project land and have mads application to the Navajo <br />Tribe for a coal permit covering approximately 19,000 acres. <br /> <br />-11- <br /> <br />