Record copy REMARKS BY E. W. LITTLEFIELD BEFORE INDUSTRY PANEL WYOMING GOVERNOR'S CONFERENCE ON URANIUM. 11/1/68 GENTLEMEN: Perhaps it is significant that the first Wyoming Governor's Conference on uranium is being held approximately 19 years after the uranium industry came into being. Had it been held earlier, the hall would not have been large enough, for in 1954 an investment firm in Salt Lake City published a bulletin entitled "The Original Uranium Digest, Facts and Figures on the Uranium Mining Industry, Special Situations for the Discriminating Investor". It lists for consideration 130 companies. Only 5 of those are in existence today, and only two are engaged in the production of yellow cake. Only companies represented here at this Conference made the list, and Utah Construction & Mining Co. was not one of them. Considering the casualty rate in the uranium industry, those of us who have survived and prospered are the fortunate exceptions. We must be thankful, like the turkeys who survived Thanksgiving. Out of the many who started, only 15 companies now are producing uranium concentrate. The list of survivors is an exclusive list and bears some comment, for conspicuous by their absence are the names of the giant companies one might have expected to find in what now appears so promising a field. Of the larger and older mining companies,