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...Raiders (Universal-International). According to this pseudohistorical western, California might never have become a state had it not been for hard-fighting Prospector Richard Conte. Backed up by a group of angry miners and homesteaders, Conte kills off crooked Land-Grabber Morris Ankrum, who is trying to keep California from statehood. Fortunately, just as Conte is about to be hanged for Ankrum's death, California joins the Union, a general amnesty is declared, and he is free to rejoin beautiful Viveca Lindfors, who plays the daughter of a dispossessed old Mexican family but speaks with a charming Swedish accent...
...Prospector. After war's end, the Atomic Energy Commission gave uranium mining a big boost by a system of bonus payments. In one month, 1,133 prospectors checked in at AEC headquarters in Grand Junction, Colo. "For a while," says a resident, "we were swamped with guys with Geiger counters and shovels. When you went up on the mesa they popped up behind every bit of sagebrush like Indians. But few did any good...
...reason was that it was a new kind of mining, requiring a new kind of prospector. Trained geologists, equipped with gamma-ray logging units and other instruments, prospected the area by helicopter, horse and jeep. The number of uranium mines jumped from 15 to more than 200, their employment soared to 5,000. In 1951 alone, some $30 million of private capital was poured into the area, and uranium mining, though still wrapped in AEC secrecy, is thought to be Colorado's biggest mining industry. The uranium that is transported through the streets of Grand Junction every...
...towns of yore. Since most of the prospecting area is in the public domain, few have cashed in on leases or land sales. On top of that, uranium mining and processing is a hot and dirty job which promises few big bonanzas. "In most eight-hour days," says one prospector, "it just isn't possible to recover enough high-grade ore to pay your expenses. Maybe after you have moved 75 tons of rock your vein peters out and you have to drill around and start a new shaft. Then, after days of back-breaking work and futile drilling...
Kraft thinks his church's new window is a fitting climax for his rugged hobby. Ten years ago no one thought there was enough good jade in all the North American continent for such a thing. It took Kraft and a small army of prospector friends five years to prove them wrong. Roaming the U.S., they found the bright greens in tiny pockets from Alaska to Wyoming, discovered the rare rose jade in a single small boulder in California, the even rarer white jade in a steep Arizona canyon. Kraft studied great windows of the past, decided that...