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Show 30 YEARS AGO NOV. 22, 1951 As the I'pper Colorado River Development Project is being shaped to go to Congress, Oscar Chapman, secretary of the Interior and his assistant come out in different part,s of the nation before nature lover groups and almost reversed the department's decision on the important Echo Park Dam Project. Top prices were received by many Icx-al stockmen at a highly successful bull sale held at the fairgrounds last Friday. This was the first annual bull exchange and sale sponsored by the l intah Cattle Growers Association, and will become a yearly fall event. Members of the Vernal Chamber of Commerce swung into action Monday, as they fired the opening guns of their campaign to counteract Chapman's new stand of apparent opposition to Echo Park Dam legislation. Pans were 'announced here for the drilling of some 50 wells in the Uintah Basin of I'tah and western Colorado during 1952. The announcement emphasizes the growing importance of the rocky wonderland of northeastern I'tah and northwestern Colorado. which geologists say may become one of the world's most prolific oil fields. |