Show TTtt ' pmyip ye A" v "" r 'r -r s r ' r f w - r ‘ ' ' ' VI 'r 41- 7- '£ I— ( t ‘i : - i 15 ioiVISo§1 SltLake ‘56 moro“lnls City Utah vV"- w - J corp 84110 - A Ij1'' By Sam Taylor: first Valley’s settlers had no more begun to arrive in the 1880’s when first ideas were put forth relative to utilizing waters of Mill Creek in upper Spanish Valley The Valley filled with relatively good soil and Moab jcfcafi requiring little in the way of clearing appeared to be natural for farmland But - Pack Creek the stream flowing ' through the Valley was not nearly large enough to supply ii ligation water for more than a handful of acres In the middle 1880 John Loveridge began work on the first project to bring Mill Creek wa ter over ‘‘Flat Pass” into the Valley He and his crews built hundreds of yards ' of wooden flume from a point upstream from Flat pass in Mill Creek The flume was hung on solid sandstone walls for much of its distance A little evidence of this large project is ’ - t'w'r jrtinM if -f u m"r r VJ The tentative 1975 bud- - District Court $51)00 for Grand County City and Precinct Courts 'A i approximately 179039 $17800 Juvenile Court 6 over the estimated budget Legal Aid $5000 for 1974 mainly due to County Clerk' $21000 areas Promotion Community $13000 Moab Museum which ran $42534 for 1974 compared to the ten- still intact Steel pins $5500 Economic & tative Bulland occasional : bits of £§3 $26000 for 1975 velopment $16000 Monies wood hanging on the rock for elections are Grounds and $45' diis factors tell where the flume went Elections' $500 proposed tj decrease 0 000 County Recorder from $4481 for 1974 to Icial budget History does not reCounty - Attorney Audit $3350 scheduled to be $22300: County Treascord whether or not the $26000 She- - $500 for 1915 and Colw&l ‘I held Monday December 2 urer $14200 project was ever sucCounty riff $68000 Fire Con-8- 2 lector Road monies will at 10:00 am cessful Last week we 000 Civil De also decline more than by the Assessor $28700 Plan below the 1974 followed the route of the County Commissioners ning and Zoning $6000 fense T$5500 Health and $11000 Revenue sharing mo- Agriculture flume from where it di- Extension Public Welfare $23000 budget The most substantial nies will increase for the $4000 verted water from Mill tax revenue Exhibition and ' Hospital increases Refor next year’s : Creek all the way to the and county from $74993 for : Park fv-$4Cn00 1974 to a total $78800 for crooxlaa $14000 Senior budget are' proposed for top of Flat Pass From Report Citizens: $2000 County the airport with $34400 next year The following there the sign disapprojects are tentatively Tvva Anitt $186000 Airport appropriations for 1975 peared wav fnlSMpS Road revenue under Later in the first de34 Couector Road over $4600 last year planned ' Sheley Tunnel was begun in the early part of the 1800’s but was never - jgyjM tax revenue monies: building cade of a new century sharing Patrolman $6000 Highway completed completely through the cliff toMillCreeklt would be completed and improvements within Ron Wood investigated $48000 for 1975 over is tentatively $18000 visionary engineer Horj and used under a plan now being proposed by the Grand County Water $20-00- 0 the District ace Sheley had a ‘more Fire to be approprla $29i 600 for 1874 and an accident Nov 13 at planned ‘ Conservancy District v aiicf grounds with another $10000 2:00 am 12 miles north ted for' the ' library for buildings grandiose plan The de- with an De-' of more inert allowed for the of the historic over opera- of Moab A 1973 Inter- -' 1975 slightly being signer 1 than $13000 ($45000 for ting costs $20000 for the national Scout owned and $17892 for 1974 wey Bridge obtained conMill Creek Bridge $20-00- 0 driven by Vance Morris are 1975 over $32047 'for siderable acreage in upSignificant cuts ' solafor the in 1974) and made be to 1 hospital Valley per Spanish 18 rolled over 34 proposed rium $8000 for capital times after the driver began work on a tunnel the : sandstone improvements in the apparently fell asleep and through cliff Thompson Water Disseparating Mill crossed the center line trict $800 for miscellCreek Canyon from SpatrfKing a britfee railing nish Valley Under conGrand County Com- - proved a $2500 budget for 25 of what the ‘study aneous itejns ie audit jje driver was charged tract with pioneer pros-- - missioners hadabusy day Fire Control presented would originally costRifo pbNwhing reports etc rwlth driving' without a n Dick during pec tor and miner regular byEdLjSforey jvhifh:i will iiNpwell moved jthatrflg driyeri license c and-o- the 'Winbourn the tunnel was' monthly:their rof meeting Tuesday change the tentative bud - ' Brewer find out San Jiwn toe 197& proposea Duaget : at the SunDo it ResiV scheduled as better than half about pushed 1975 and Roberta :rv for vf get County’s opinioai - way committM-'for'uret5faccident was bating through the cliff when Anderson met with the such a study and then pommfoabrirtsOjpO A Memoers of the nom- ' inve secnn(i of the the project- - was stopped Commissioners ‘to dis- - - meet with them Again All Li: ': ligated by Trooper the selectionYear ' inating committee indu-fAward from lack of funds zen the of gald and assisted by first cuss a voted! 16 ten proKimball Nov The remains of the She- - Don Hoffman and later ject and offered to help Moab met on Tuesday ded Ray Branscom Sr Chris Jouflos discussed miles south of Crescent week and selected chairman Jim Wanielis-recipie- nt of this on the housing authority the budget for Law hx- ley tunnel are still intact Ev Schumaker directors Junction At 5:20 am economic vtor that ta Bob Kerr Sim "V of s and jmr rent Tlaime r of development forcement and Planning DImmc program a 1963 Ford Van driven the L the" newly proposed Mill for Grand County is This thefirst VOII reThe Commission Association for 1975 and mOIW K Ivan J Madsen 28 work has gone through the fused an adjustment to also reported studies on Creek project anticipaSdlup New Mexico ran time in recent years ttwitA good response was by members of taxes requested by Cliff Spanish Valley’s waer ting using the existing preliminary planning staany one perron has been given highway into honor the Chamber ar by other this tunnel completing it to ges What remains now is Carter for his motel and and sewer are being taken for out singled charged rtajewas Mill Creek' and diverting 'Ihd' involvement of the Kent Johnson discussed a care of The award will be pre- citizens of :Mk b during ' failutT UMnaiotain For' fiscal water through culvert laid general public in the ba- - meeting he attended in its at next week’s the drive to locate the sented year At the request of Fred r control of his ve sic decision of whether Phoenix Arizona on Ce-t- a Lathrop and of Commerce Citizen of the Year reinslde the tunnel Chamber Howard ending June 30 1974 At- which received $400 cle to net AH If had at noon cipient las not or that the first Tuesday proceed Corporation meeting during Program Young Hub Newell moved worth of damage of Moab’s is the general feeling of Julie Waltqn discussed the County to accept Jim income of $1563765 excommunity with the Commissioners Fay’s bid for work need- compared to a loss of history attempts have the the prior been made to get the pressed at a public inthe possibility of setting ed to be done at the Sen- $2446106 for fiscal year ' For fiscal in humane a His project off the ground formation meeting scheCitizen’s ior society building duled for this Friday at ip net income inThe Bureau of ReclamaMoab and the Commisbid was $1500 All voled 1974 cludes a credit of $488-00- 0 tion studied the project 10 am then final plans sion asked her to get all aye-Instructor Val Maughan Senior boys end girls over the past three years while the figures for on several different ocwill be made a funding the information necesCommissioners The been working with the has will be teams will The trying casions Later the Corps package worked out by sary before meeting with abated foil taxes on the the prior year included teamO from Moab an extraordinary charge contest for honors this to surpass the scores of students who will have a of Army Engineers looked participating agencies and them again Community Btptist schools and week to study the Salt at the project purely from an environmental impact A beer license was apChurch as it was assessed of $3349088 relating to Saturday in the popular other nigh win the Enthus Editor the the statement right to vie Tribune sale of Merit of flood written the standpoint Inquiring proved for Frank Wood- erroneously Stacey Lawstate for champion- the 2 on Channel Division Salt in control But it wasn't unThe meeting is scheMay Quiz Alibi ard to be used at the rence reported on the terprises Lake City ship til the past year when duled at either the Grand Club The Commission work she has been doing 1973:'' in 1972 a boy’s team Fiscal 1974 can be rethe Grand County Water County Courtroom or Star informed Courtney BreAlthough the contest with the drug and alcohol Hall whichever is needgarded as a good year on matches the boys against from Moab went all the Conservancy District bewer that Grand County' program way to the title and last Thursday and tape the gan planning the project ed and the general pubwill hold off on the reBill McDougald also balance for the Company the girls it offers addiMoab ranked among show It will be aired chance and a tional honors these because year imearnings again and were able t) lic is urged to attend monies creation for met irith the Commission the fine local record of to a were maintain of the Officials achieved despite the enlist the assistance highest for both boys Saturday 11:30 proving rodeo grounds to discuss several items Channel 2 TV and achieved state and federal agensome Moabteams Divisions the Utah Division of fact that for girls and Thompson parg at one of them being the poster Resources and the cies will explain what has this time After this dis- sibility of using theSher of the Company expertCorps of Engineers that been done to this point cussion the matter of an iffs dispatches for water enced material shortages the Mill Creek Project will explain the benefit- - environmental study ' and sewer emergencies and rapidly accelerating actually looked as if it cost ratio" of the project which may "be made for The Commission agreed prices for raw materials and will answer any quesmight be built the area was brought up this service would be which arc prevalent La ' the national economy toUnder the guidance of tions which ire raised It would cost the County supplied Chairman K F VUnu- - st the gathering day Also the Moab urranium processing mill of 'Bigwa“MSSr ML the Atlas Minerals Divij:- 's V sion was closed from October 11 1973 through the end of the fiscal year so from October 11 1973' uuougn uie eiHi oi die fiscal year so the Min- 'v get De-$5- 00 $29-00- : ' &£ i Patnlnen - -- - : YH : ‘ & U - Winner - - or self-housi- ng -1 antehliams for Expansion ? 'rH - : half-centu- I - ry Six to Vie for Honors In YV Quiz ' ‘ : - P - i- - i'rr' Il' erals Division had only s: minimal sales The Company negotiated successfully during fiscal 1974 an agreement which enables It to boriMiik up Ui row from $10090000 for the prin cipal purpose of expanding the operations of its Minerals Division including the expansion of its i Moab processing mill and the opening of new mines While current economic conditions are difficult both domestically and throughout the world it appears to Company Management barring un- foreseen drcmstanrs that the Company should achieve profits in fiscal 1975 In excess of those for 1974 Remains of an old wooden flume still cling to the cliffs in upper Mill Creek Canyon Flume was built in ihby John Loveridge in an attempt - I vf £ T PROBLEM DRIVERS Problem Drivers School to bring waters of Mill Creek over Flat Paws for will be held this Thors o 21 at 7:00 pm irrigation use in upper Spanish Valley diy -- :::SaV: These six outstanding senior students at Grand County High School will appear on the Salt Lake Tribune Inquiring Editor program this Saturday L to K the boys team of Donnie Knowles Kevin Daniels and Bruce Raymond will square off against girls’ team members Shauna Newell Sue Olsen and Tonja Slocks v wy 'h' "7 'w:'' v — A'- - EtS 'fcsi 'la'"' 'A w |