Show defense in dollars the pentagon came up with a big answer to a big question what is the worth of its worldwide holdings of property equipment and supplies 7 after six years of add ing and appraising it was reason ably sure that the figure came to the navy accounted for 56 4 billion the army for 34 1 billion and the air force for 33 4 billion but the pentagon conceded that its figures were deceptive in sett mg ing a value of nearly 30 million ac res of land it owns or uses at home and abroad the pentagon merely totted up what they had cost origin ally A substantial amount of that land cost the government little or nothing and is now valuable prop pro P erty the old spanish trail which was blazed at a different time than fa ther escalante s trail of 1776 came northwest from santa fe through san juan county utah and crossed the colorado river at moab it pro ceedee across the country to where the town of green river utah now stands then wound through the san rafael desert into castle vally the t trail rad then wound into the southern utah through salma salina canyon and on into california |