Show r I Spotlighting UTAH Vies Utes Await Awalt Court Decision If the Ute Indians win a suit now now- pending before the U. U S. S Supreme court in Washington the money mone recovered will be distributed be bt between between tween the Ule White River and the Un Un- Uncompahgre Uncompahgre Utes in eastern Utah and the southern Utes in Colorado Many years ears ago the first mention mention- mentioned ed tribes were moved from Color Color- Colorado Colorado Colorado ado into Utah The legislation in in- involved involved involved concerns the sale by the government in 1880 of acres of disputed Indian lands in inthe inthe inthe the State of Colorado The Indians charge through their attorney Ernest lt Wilkinson that no account account- accounting ing was ever made to the Utes by the government for the land sold i The fhe Utes are suing to recover the price of the land with interest from the time of the sale The disputed lands are in the vicinity of the Rangely Rangel Colorado oil fields If the Indians win the suit the amount of money involved may run into high finance t I Smith Brothers in Utah Of the hundreds of letters leech received I ed by the Utah Department of I Publicity and Industrial Develop Develop- Development ment from all sections of the Uni ted States asking for information on Utah one of the latest proved the most interesting Written from Atlanta Georgia the letter says please Gentlemen Gentlemen please send end me information information information mation about industry agriculture and nd md minerals in your state Also about the Smith Brothers and the Sea Bea Gulls Undoubtedly the writ writ- writers writer's writers writer's writers writer's ers er's reference to the Smith Broth Broth- Brothers Brothers Brothers ers meant Joseph and Hyrum H IUm Smith famous Mormon leaders of early days and not the well known manufacturers Europe Bids For U S. S Tourist Traffic European nations are now bid bid- bidding ding for a share of the expected U. U S. S S national tourist expenditure of Jf f ten billion dollars that will be spent pent by an estimated fifty f ty million American the coming season While Utah's tourist business will not suffer from European com corn competition petition this year it must be re rt remembered remembered that as time passes Eur Europe's Europe's ope's bid for the American tourist business now business now the fastest growing industry in the nation will nation will be be- become become become come stronger and stronger Even now twelve major steam steam- steamship steamship ship lines are either starting trips to Europe or scheduled to start this spring These lines operate 21 big ship and could move passengers in one trip to Europe if they all left at once In addition about trans-atlan trans transatlantic tic flights operate on an average 3 per er month out of La Guardia Field in New York for Europe Their carrying capacity is around passengers The flights will be stepped up by summer Congress To Study Utah Projects A report of the potential projects of f the Colorado river basin has been prepared by the Bureau of in Salt Lake City primarily to acquaint the U U. U. U S. S S Congress with the overall plan for utilization of the river for irrigation tion electrical power and other uses The report emphasizes the ur 1 ur- ur gency genet of harnessing the rivers river's wealth some sonic miles of which is in Utah Tomorrow the Colorado river will be he utilized to the very drop the report declared Its water will convert romert thousands of additional acres of nf sagebrush desert to flour flour- flourishing flourishing farms and beautiful homes for service ice men industrial workers and who seek to build per per- permanently permanently permanently in the west Will Attempt Unusual Experiment One of the most fascinating river trips in the world is from lute Kite in Garfield county down the Colorado to Lees Ferry Arizona a distance of miles Some of the finest and little known scenery in the state is located on this river and the trip is not dangerous Now N ow comes Hazy Hary Aeson well known explorer and who is well acquainted with the Colo Colo- Colorado Colorado Colorado rado and und says sas that this spring he will attempt to said up the river against the current from Lees Ferry FerIJ to lute like a feat that looks im impossible im- im impossible possible and never ne before propos propos- ed Aleson claims that the trip is a natural that powerful winds wilds travel up the river gorge strong gorge strong enough to move a light said boat up stream Should the breeze occasionally fail Ill do like any an sailor would do wait do-wait wait for a favorable wind he said In support of his theory Aleson pointed out that Lewis and Clark sailed up the Missouri in 1804 in I canoes and dugouts fitted with sails saUs Utah Dairy Dair Income Highest The highest prices ever received for their products in history is now being enjoyed enjo ed by b Utah dairymen the Bureau of Agriculture Econom Econom- Economics ics reports from Salt Lake City Despite rising feed costs Utah's dairy farmers are arc receiving satis satisfactory satisfactory satisfactory factory returns it was pointed out The sum total of Utah's grain vegetable fruit and hay ha crops dur dur- during during I I ing 1946 was nearly nearly I more than during 1945 1 the bureau reported The total pro pro- production production of wheat barley barler oats corn cornand cornand cornand and rye in Utah during 1946 was compared with a 1945 total of Wheat production production production tion alone jumped from in 1945 to in 1946 |