Show UTAH PUSHED AT T DELTA meff MEET salt lake leaders pledge their support to civic group three problems of particular interest to sevier and the adjoining counties cour itle which were taken up at the meeting of the associated civic clubs of southern utah last weekend at delta included further work on the proposed national park or monument for wayne county a road connecting that section with san juan county and the promotion of the alunite mines of plute flute county another feature of the meeting was the attitude of gus gua P backman and J G king secretary wad aad assistant secretary of the salt lake chamber of commerce rg r ively in their willingness to cooperate with the civic club in its undertakings those mose who have followed the interests of southern utah realize that this la is a decided change of heart on the part of our northern friends and herald it as an important step forward for the south to date with the hel help P of senator william H king and congressman s aman abe murdock the associated arg socia 0 ted civic clubs have been successful in getting the federal agencies to go so far as to study the boundaries and the status of the land in the proposed park area it has been a long fight and a hard one but the directors felt that since congress is now about to reconvene for another session that it would be wise to revert back to the original plan and insist on a national park instead of a monument A national park carries with it a definite appropriation each year for the development and improvement whereas a monument does not this was the deciding factor both king and murdock will be notified of this and the state legislature will be asked to mem congress to act favorably when the bill is introduced probably by congressman murdock A committee was wap appointed to make further investigation and seek additional means of getting action on the east west road connecting the eastern part of the state with highway 89 by a route through wayne county the possibility lity of having a trail built by the administrator of the taylor grazing act was discussed and this will be further investigated it was reported that at present cars are driving from the natural bridges of san juan to hyatt the point where the proposed road will cross the colorado this being the case construction ofa passable highway should not be too expensive to consider mr bachman explained the action taken so far by his organization on the alunite project and told briefly of the methods of reducing alunite ore to aluminum and the various products byproducts by the salt lake chamber of corn commerce merce has appointed a committee of three wio who have agreed to give as much of their time as necessary to assist the bohn aluminum brass company in obtaining data necessary before making a decision on the location of the reduction plants he said there is a strong possibility of the plant for the first processing to be located at marys vale near the mines mr bachman promised to cooperate with the civic group in any way possible and in turn was assured of the willingness of the associated civic clubs to help the salt lake chamber many other problems were discussed one of vital interest to southern utah the matter of shooting doe deer caused a considerable sid erable amount of opposition to the plan expressed to combat this the organization will send letters to every civic group in southern utah asking them to assist in a campaign to discourage sportsmen from taking out permits for shooting doe deer |