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The biggest claim buyer of all is Atlas Corp.'s Floyd Odlum, who bought out Vernon Pick's Delta uranium mine for $9,000,000 (TIME, Sept. 6), is now on his way to gathering up the biggest acreage. His Federal Uranium Corp. will combine his Federal Uranium Co. with six companies (Kentucky-Utah Mining Co., Western States Uranium Co., Interstate Uranium Co., Utida Uranium Co., Howell Mining Co. and Uranium Inc.) holding total claims with an estimated $6,000,000 to $7,000,000 in ore reserves. Much of the new buyers' rush is for Federal or one of the companies that it will gobble up, and Federal stock has jumped from $3.25 to $5.25 in a month.