Leon Frazier, Provo, Utah, Uranium History Series

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LEON FRAZIER #2 lot of them are changing the names of these mining companies and putting a lot of different types of companies into the housing business, the building business, different kinds of commercial enterprises-­chemical companies. We've had one that's gone into a chemical, and one that's gone into a real estate company, one that's gone into a computer company, one that's gone into an electronics company, one that's gone into automotive parts company, one that's gone into a rest home company, one that's gone into a fast food franchising setup. So these old uranium m~ning companies are being revamped and reactivated and recapitalized and restructured and put into a variety of things. MH: This, too, brings to mind another question now. From my understanding, about 70 percent of the land actually in Utah is public domain, land owned by the federal government. LF: I think that's pretty close to true. I've got some maps in there that show what's government and what's state and what's patented land. MH: What I'm getting at is the assets for Utah are considerably less than they could be then as a result of the government owning so much land in the state? LF: Well, what do you mean by that, that the assets are 23