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Show iTii j.1.1!'.? !'!! jijijiji j) jiji!iT j) jij jijijiji jijijiji' The Old Settler 7Yte Wt-M- MR. AND MRS. GEORGE E. JONES, Owners and Publishers at Monticello, Utah Entered in the Postoffice at Monticello, Utah as Second Class matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published every Thursday SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Outside San Juan County Box 428, Monticello, Utah In San Juan County a year a year $3 $4 JU Phone dear San Juaners: In my collegiate years, specializ-a- s I was at that time in the rugged art of cowpunehing, and nding and Community development you . . . the rugged fastnesses of San Juan, The first session of the Monticello Community Develop- I was ever looking for and finding ment group coming up tonight at the high school offers an places w here a home, or homes, excellent opportunity for all residents to taks an active could be made. I knew it was and fantastic for me to part in the planning and development of the community. dreamy And the organization deserves and must have the whole- be cherishing a fervent desire to stop in one of these places, and hearted support of all if it is to succeeed. At the opening session in 1960 some 350 persons signed frame into the wild terrain the a garessential features of up to participate in the program but interest lagged through- den, a little field and home, domestic the out the year until only about 50 individuals were attending animals with which out-dothe meetings at the close of the year. Such a drastic loss in people like to live, but fantastic attendance can only increase the problems of the organiza- or not, it was a passion which tion and make it extremely difficult to secure the better gripped me wherever I went. I saw how the little spring could be community aimed for by community development. A repeat of last years initial attendance will be just developed, and its water one step in getting community development off to a good channeled into profitable use. I start for 1961 and if you are interested in living and work- saw where the rain could he stored instead of being left to run to ing in a better community your presence at tonights meet- waste places for ponds and water to do will assure much that opportunity. certainly ing holes, and I wanted to swing down from my weary saddle and make ji.i jij ? j fi?? ? fi f.! .li.iif? .ii? ? j M ! ! ! ?? f f M .'i f ? ? j f ! f f.1 My life-givi- - "To be or not to be?" permanent camp. Many of these places may yet With the deadline for filing nominations for the Nov. become villages, or at least a home 7 city election fast drawing to a close it would seem that for one or two families who could there is a strong possibility of no election at all since there dig their independent living from the ground, supplementing it with have been no nominations filed to date. Oct. 21, less than a month away, is the deadline for livestock that could live on the hills around them. an unfiling nominations for the three vacancies resulting from developed seap on a Many or in hillside, and Morris Nelson Councilmen a the expiring terms of Mayor or canyon, seemed to he gulch E. P. Corbin and A. Jay Redd. calling me to come and make it Should there be no nominations made by the cut-othe useful and beautiful place it date it will then be the responsibility of the remaining was destined to be; places already council members to appoint a mayor and. two councilmen to inviting with friendly trees, and fill the vacancies. sheltering cliffs. I found them at No doubt that appointees could and would do a good infrequent places along the San job but the fact remains that the officers of our community Juan and along the Colorado hidshould be elected as is the case in any democratic form of den in comers which are not yet government. All our ideals in a free government demand approachable by jeeps. that we be given a right to choose who our city officials A solitary dwelling in the rewill be. If we had no choice there would most certainly' be moteness would have been much at that time complaints. The revolution which laid the groundwork for more impracticable the nation in which we live was begun for just such a lack than now, in this age of cars and trucks and jeeps and planes. The of choice in government. expanse is crossed Yet if we sit idly by and refuse to meet the obligation now with enough highways from and privilege of nominating and electing, this freedom of which roads could be made jeep choice is denied us just as surely as if had been removed to places which were once unby law. thinkable. With these short spurr-roaDemocracy is no place for complacence. to his hermitage it would be quite passible far a man and his family to live at some distance from any community, enjoying its Library needs protection . . . advantages without suffering what semi-trail- City election ff once-roadle- ss ds loaded with After being clobbered by a huge pipe Saturday the Monticello library again experienced a k and the event raised a question as to whether adequate protection should be provided to prevent further collisions to the building by wandering trucks. Inasmuch as this is the third time in recent months that trucks have rolled out of the parking lot by the Out West cafe and across the road it would appear that more such instances might occur in the future and if the library were hit after after its completion, the ultimate damage could be much greater than at present. Many suggestions have been aired as to what measures would adequately protect the building concrete wTalls, brick walls, etc. One of the best we have heard to date is the use of concrete pillars with railroad iron firmly anchored within the pillars so that the pillars would actually act as posts and the iron the fence. Such a fence should stop all but the heaviest trucks and even those would be considerably slowed by meeting with the concrete and steel structure. y A truck may not wander into the library for some time to come but an ounce of prevention might save er set-bac- run-awa- several ounces of library. This little world of ours, with its prolific races of mankind, is not going to be left with great vacant spaces, prepared and intended for men to occupy. There was a time when our San Juan County, Utah, supported at least 50 times as many people as we have here now. I have found the crumbling and half -- hidden vestiges of their homes, and their improvements on desert and mountain, in gulches and on prairies, which our fastidious generation regards as eternal worthlessness. These ancient San Juaners lived here for centuries, digging their living from the ground, even with the crude and primitive kind of implements with which they had to work. They made little dams across the draws and terraced the hillsides, and saved every drop of rain which fell on their land, and all which could be arrested from the slopes or rocks above it. I am saying these things with no fear of successful contradiction. I have been investigating along this lino 65 years, and I have much more to say than I shall ever find time and occasion to put on record. Our canyons and our mesas were once very much alive with these ancient dwellers. They were superior to us in that they verily lived by the sweat of their own brow and the bracing of their own brawn, meeting the challenge of an honest existence as few of us have courage to undertake. Time fails me in trying even to begin an account of what is to be read in the earth-recorthey have left behind. When I was in the Hopi country, and among the Pueblo tribes living along the Rio Grande, I saw them availing of possibilities wThich so far have not appealed to us. In Moencopy Wash I saw caves in the cliff where enough water had been oozing from the rock to sustain a jungle of useless brush and weeds, but the Hopis had cleared all this growth away and planted fruit trees, making a place of pleasure and profit. We have in our country thousands of such places, producing brush only. Going from Moencopy to Oraibi, I came to a place where the rocks were covered for a long distance with peachstones, and I remembered that in 1893 the Wetheril Brothers were bringing pack-load- s of dried peaches from the Hopi Country to sell.. I saw these peach trees growing in the sand hills, some of them with only the tops visible above the drifts, but still bearing. These people hid discovered that where rain falls on the slopping surface of bare rock, it percolates along that surface under the seemingly-drsand, to become the living food of trees growing above it. These Hopi people, who by the way are descendants of or very closely related to the ancient dwellers of San Juan, have subsisted in what to our pampered taste, is about the most forbidding country on earth. I found com patches in the dry and bumt-u- p sandhills where we wonder how the little gray lizard succeeds in keeping alive. Considering what they have done and are doing with their limited understanding and their primitive equipment; considering their vigorous and helathy bodies and rugged physiques able to endure toil and hardships too much for us what wonderful things might they do with our and our suscientific know-hoperior machinery. Yet we may lack one essential which they have; the tions. EDITORIAL gQAc8Tlfwtfi n , . . . By Albert R. Lyman NATIONAL M.1? La Sal News once would have been its penalties. Being warped with this homemaking' mania, I was simply set afire with my first view of White Mesa, as a place for homes in the dry wilderness. It was really no more promising then than other prairies over which I had ridden, prairies which are still waiting for people who have an obsession for replenishing and subduing the earth according to the purpose for which it was created. Many men, reputed to be safely practical, were cocksure that no town could be made on White Mesa. They said the idea was visionary, fantastic, impossible. What they said would have dampened my zeal as the first settler, if I had not been nursing the thought and cherishing it to my heart for years. I am a firm believer in the inevitable spread of human habita- - y By FRANCES WHITE Pack 3319 sponsored by Home-stak-e Mining company from La S'al held their pack meeting Friday evening at eight p.m. at the Helen Knight school in Moab. The big attraction of the evening was the third annual Pine Wood Derby with 38 entries. The winning car of the big event belonged to Kirk Van Noy from Moab. A barbecue dinner sponsored by the Boy Scouts from La Sal was held Saturday evening at the LDS Church. Weekend visitors at the George White home were Virginia and Reddy Jameson from Prove and Larry Baxter from Payson. A tiny four and 2 pound baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Perry Younger September 25 at the I. W. Allen hospital in Moab. Sunday school services sponsored by the American Sunday School Union Interdenominational group for rural areas are being conducted each Sunday morning at ten a.m. at the Hidden Splendor boarding house. The Rev. Hamilton from Montrose, Colo, is the missionary in charge. Every one is invited to attend. Mrs. Dee Bond is a patient in the I. W. Allen hospital at Moab this week. Mr. and Mrs. Theo Shultz and Ronny and Mrs. Grace Schultz from Grand Junction were Sunday visitors at the Frances DeVries home. Speakers at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saint sacrament meeting were missionaries Smith and Mortenson from Monticello. Leonard Dennison from Cortez is visiting with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Eph Wilcox this week. Principal Leland Teeples attended the administrators conference in Salt Lake City last week. Mrs. LuDean Teeples taught the fourth grade while he was away. Julie Titensor has been ill the past week. Johnnie Fulmer left September 22 for Logan where he will continue his studies at Utah State university. LOCAL mine Dynamite stolen from Dove Creek Thieves should get a big bang out of the loot taken from the Deremo Mine near Dove Creek over the weekend of Sept. Approximately 5 tons of dynamite, 20 rolls of fuse and primer cord were reported stolen from the powder magazine near the mine Carbide to Union according Nuclear Co., owners of the magazines. 16-1- 7. The San Juan heart attack. has been recovered. Register Forms Triplicate Duplicate Record UTAH MONTICELLO. Thursday, September SAM JUAN RECORD 28, 1961 Page Two I WITH PAINT EAIDRCEER ... on all types of stamped good with Craftint DECO-WRIT- POINT BALL E CRAFT-TU3E- S Brilliant WASHABLE colors that flow right on from the tube with the ball point tip. Dries and sets immediately. Assorted colors 59c San Juan Record HAVE COMFORT "ON TAP" WHENEVER YOU NEED IT! Dont let cold weather catch you with your fuel oil supply down! Let us fill your tank now and be ready to turn on the heat at the first drop in the temperature! Call us. ( PROMPT NEWS NOTES Mr. and Mrs. Rell Argyle went to Salt Lake City to get Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Blackwell who had demonstrated sand painting and rug weaving at the State Fair. The Argyles also brought borne with them their two grandchildren, children of their daughter, Mrs. Karen Price, who had just undergone an emergency operation. Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Bronson went to Salt Lake City Tuesday to visit Joe Cooper who is in the hospital there after suffering a rains in the area obliterated all tracks which might have been left by the thieves and as yet none of the explosive loot Heavy SERVICE Phones JU 0R 1 lalll 7-24- 42 8-36- 81 BLACK OIL CO. Monticello Blanding w faith to try. Their country lacks much of being as good as ours, yet in response to the stem and unrelenting demands of its necessities, they have given it a unique charm, the charm of homes, of busy and peaceful communities. I am drawn to them with a profound respect for the excellence of their achievements. With the Hopis, the Zunis, the Acomas and other tribes in Arizona and New Mexico, I see the wondrous demonstration of my y fantastic dreams as a cowpuncher, toiling on by so many places where I longed to stop and begin a home. saddle-wear- OFF 30 on Mud and Snow Tires - ZEREX - TEXACO PT SSyolBdD (Eallflo PRESTOHE In Your Car MONTICELLO TEXACO JU PHONE IN YOUR NEWS QGOOOQOOOOC Freshen-u- p ATTENTION housewives thrifty fall finery Did your You Kno vi Get your family set for a festive fall. Give their wardrobe a lift with dry cleaning that keeps their clothes looking crisp and bright as an autumn leaf. And, of course, reasonable deep-dow- n prices. the average weekly wash costs $3.00 or less at the Silver Coin Laundromat? A new washer and dryer will cost you $588. Figure the two costs . . . not to mention utilities, and repairs. Can you afford to own your own washer and dryer? SILVER COIN Abajo Cleaners LAUNDROMAT iiiiUiiiiLhuiuuiLiiitieulUilllumiiiiiii.iitauuuitiuiiiiiitiUiliiuiujJ )DOOOOOOOOO Will pay $3.00 for black wall tires, $4.00 for white wall tires that are recappable. |