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Show THURSDAY, SEPT. 19, THE SAN JUAN RECORD 1957 BLANDING THE with OBSERVER by Mr. and Mrs. Albert R. Lyman It Is not humanly possible, with all the other fish we have to fry, to verify every item by personal observation. Some of it we are able to see only through the telephone or over the grapevine, and then with out finest seive we have to sift out of it as best we can the inevitable elements of gossip and scandal which has an uncanny way of gripping the attention. It gripped the attention of James Russell Lowell who wrote, 'Strong tea and scandal bless me, how reTo who like to those freshing! read the news, and to those who may be annoyed by the way it is garbled, or by the way their meritorious doings are left out we would like to say: Our phone number is 2172. Delores Hurst has forty acres of matured barley on Deer Flat. In the early part of the summer a horde of crickets descended on it and made a sorry rim of desolation all around the edge, and then, because it was not yet fenced, the cattle got into it and left it a rather unpromising prospect from which, after fencing it. came away to re6t his eyes on things more encouraging. When he went back, after a months time, behold the crop big and ripe, the most wonderful thing of its kind In all the thousands of years through which Deer Flat has been waiting for cultivation. People who have seen it say the pity is that in all the wide flat there is but forty acres bearing crop. It is quite difficult to envisage a field of barley on the wide flat where we used to bum the earth on the heels of wild horses. De-lor- Mrs. Cathie Stevens, who grew up among us as Cathie Johnson, has come with her children from Delta, Colorado, to make her home again in Blanding. Since the death of her husband, Wayne Stevens, and the start of her older children to go away on their own, she comes like Naomi back to the home of her birth and the friends and kindred of her childhood. A caravan of nine jeeps and twenty to thirty men are due to leave here the latter part of the week for Halls Crossing, and Gray Mesa. About half the com an assessed valuation of twenty or thirty million each. Our streets are alive with ponderous vans, gigantic machinery, cars, trucks and palatial trailer houses till we wonder whether this is really the That the "discovery of Ham- remote desert to which we came mond Canyon, as a place of un- among wild horses and wild catusual beauty, interesting ancient tle, or whether we have been ruins, delightful water and invit- transported to what we used to ing climate, is becoming a boom- think of as Chicago or New York. ing attraction, is proved by the caravan of eight jeeps that went Even the weather schedule there Saturday, carrying 35 peo- seems to have been upset by all ple. Theres not space to relate this change of human affairs. If what a whale of a time they had, it isnt more rain, more heat or nor just who they were, but the more cold than hitherto, it is all proprietors of the jeeps were: three of them at unprecedented Lynn Lyman, Lisle Johnson, times and In unprecedented deKline Black, Alma Redd, Norwood gree. We have plunged off from Porter, Loren Hawkins, Bart Ly- the usual hot days of August into man, Bruce Stevens, Saun Bohn. the unduly cool nights and mornAs related in a previous issue, ings of October with threats of the canyon is due to become a frost We are kept wondering, park. what next? ary teacher; Les Graves, the jeweler, the Olsens, the Morrels, the Marions and a long string of men with families to whom we offer a welcome. . . . gamboling around . . . . pany is to be made up by Professor David Miller, of the University of Utah, with his friends and four jeeps they are bringing with them Professor Miller, who for a number of years has been collecting material for a history of early San Juan County, has been to the crossing from the west side, and now wants to see the approach from the east side. He has already been to from both sides. The San Juaners taking jeeps are: Lynn Lyman, Norwood Porter, Karl Lyman, Norman Nielson, Lisle Johnson and Edward Lyman. Halls Crossing is of interest to San Juaners because of the tragedy there in the very early eighties, when Joseph A. Lyman was shot on the bank of the river by horse thieves crouching on the opposite cliff. Professor Miller and his company may come straight back from the crossing, but the others will turn south among the big rocks and find if they can, a way to go with jeeps up old Slick Rock on to Gray Mesa. If and when such a road is found, there will be a big jeep pilgrimage to The jeep everybody is falling for the jeep. Oh the little old jeep, It travels right along! Do you remember the tune? It is a catchy jingle. The jeep can follow the Invincible burrow right up the hill over the rocks, and run also over the burrow himself if he doesnt wring his tail and get going. ! o-- 1 new-comer- s - ANNOUNCEMENT Attention Miners and Welders WESTERN MINE SUPPLY COMPANY MONTICELLO, UTAH - PHONE 59R1 will be distributors for SUPPLY CHARCOAL AND HICKORY CHIPS at MONTICELLO LUMBER Dr. R. W. 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In Monticello CALL ART ADAIR AT CITY I ; f OFFICES, PHONE 70 In Blanding Cali JESS GROVER, Ph. 2S22 FOR VETERINARY SUPPLIES 1 Go to the Town and Country Market in Monticello land to Mr. Grover in B landing! aMMansA Land of Untapped Wealth and Awesome Wonder Superintendent Horton of the Price LDS Seminary, who is also for the seminaries ni San Juan Stake, called on us Saturday, and expressed his satisfaction with the seminary teachers in Moab, Monticelo and Blanding. The persistent report of oil having been struck in the Porter field five miles north of here, seems to indicate that the oil is really there. It is reported that 85 oil rigs are in operation In this general vicinity, and more on the way. It is reported too, that in 1954 the assessed valuation of San Juan was about $3,000,000; in 55 it was $6,000,000; in 56 it was about $13,000,000, and now in 57 it Is somewhat over $22,000,-00Who dares predict where we shall land with such fantastic plunges? Who knows but that our wide San Juan will be cut up into half a dozen counties with PLANS ' ORGAN CLASS A beginners class for adults HIMLzaiXJE) who wish to learn to play the organ has been planned by Mrs. Sarabeth Blanck and anyone who is interested in enrolling is asked to call her at 34R1. The class will be held in the evening in the Monticello Community Church. oy Under the broad surface of Utahs largest county lie millions of dollars in undeveloped natural resources uranium, oil and gas. It is estimated that there is more uranium here than in any other area of similar size in the nation. Recent oil developments indicate one of the nations largest potential oil fields. Above the surface of San Juan County Bit many awesome children of Mother Nature Natural Bridges National Monument, Rainbow Bridge, the Goosenecks of the San Juan, and Moki Houses of a prehistoric culture. In San Juan County, the United States Brewers Foundation constantly endeavors to assure citizens and visitors alike of clean, wholesome gathering spots where beer and ale can be enjoyed. Electrical Contracting Sales, Service on All Types of Electrical Installations Radio Repair LM cf ! fltfi quality SAN JUAN ELECTRIC PHONE 90 BEER and ALE . . . fkbvuwlioatoio.. BOX 23 ww MONTICELLO, 'i4 M - M2 iflfftirrrr. riTt, UTAH Ml Ml uwuuw FRIDAY and SATURDAY Sept- SUNDAY Sept. 8 a. m. to 9 p. m. 20-2- 1 22 2 to 6 p. m. STANDARD SUPPLY APPLIANCE DEPARTMENT - Jca&viuufr - Whirlpool General Electric and Piiilco Appliances 0. DELTA, COLORADO Oxygen, Acetylene Welding Supplies mmi sum Cortez, Colorado NOW PAYING RCA RCA LARGEST RECORD SUPPLIES FOR BANK-BY-MAADDRESS BASIN INDUSTRIAL BANK Hi--Fi BAR IN THE FOUR CORNERS AREA Also Tape Recorders, ee BANK INTEREST ON SAVINGS Victor and DuMont Television Victor, Vebcor and DuMont Pre-Record- ed Tape, Accessories frvi Svenyouc STANDARD SUPPLY COMPANY IL 2 EAST MAIN ST., CORTEZ, COLO. MONTICELLO, UTAH 1 I Salute to SAN JUAN COUNTY DONT UE . . . Janet Reader, 19, Upaala College sophomore, will represent New Jersey In Atlantic City MIRRORS j I WILL BE IN MONTICELLO! . The Rass Burtenshaw family have been enjoying: a .visit from their daughter Frankie who, with her husband, Richard Swanson are here for a while from Salt Lake. Dorothys husband, Dee Hancock, is back from doing service in Japan,' and they are to make their home here. Afton Montella and her family are just That football game Saturday, back from Salt Lake, where they between Blanding High and Span- went with the children on a vaish Fok, came out 7 to 27 in fa- cation. vor of Spanish Fork. Blanding is delightfully clean Professor De Alton Partridge, now as compared with the days the head of a college in New before the roads were surfaced, Jersey, had us take him and his and the speeding cars stirred up wife and sister to the big ruin a continual cloud of dust to be in the northwest corner of town, falling all the time on everything. and he was .astonished that it had Our nights are never still again been left to waste away all these as they used to be; the roar of years without being excavated cars is heard at all hours, and and restored. As to us, we had with many of them traveling little to say. We do wish that old without mufflers, it is only the community castle could be pro- good sleepers who are not awaktected and preserved as it de- ened. serves to be. 0 About 240 people enjoyed the Among the many banquet Saturday evening, where to Blanding, we are especially in- it was demonstrated that people terested in those who like the could live very comfortably on country, who buy or build homes dehydrated foods. The missionary and are in sympathy with our farewell dance which followed, is cherished ideal of a town of peace said to have been the best attenand good order where children ded of its kind so far, and the will grow up to be valuable citi- contributions for the missionaries zens. We thought of this Sunday more generous than ever before. evening when Dr. John Bourne and his wife, and Nelden Holt Little Suzanne Nielson celebraexpressed in meeting their plea- ted her sixth birthday with 29 sure at being with us. We thought guests, and the kind of refreshwith pleasure also of Dr. Frank ments that made it a time to be Flom, Bud" Draper, the semin- remembered. COLORADO WELDERS PAGE THREE PHONE 56 |