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Show Vahuae 10 - Nwbcr 2 First hi Now Comdex Ute Plant Awarded Largest Contract in Eastern Utah One of the largest single contracts for any manufKiured item in the Uintah Basin was awarded Jan. 29 to the Ute owned cabinet and mflhrork plant in Fort Duchesne. -- A 8547.680 contract was given to North and South Dakota, Wyoming and UTEFAB through competitive bidding to Montana. It was also one of the six finalist in ceremonies at Washington, 'manufacture 1,900 large wardrobe D.C. closets for Fort Carson military installaRichard Jones was also named the tion in Colorado. The 88 x 84 closets Small Businessman of the Year for the' will be fabricated by UTEFAB then transported to the site and installed in same region. the barracks. UTEFAB Manager "RIehard 'Jones related, the contract will take approximately a year to complete. He said it accounts for one-haof the projected production for fiscal year 1975 for the Ute company. The general contractor for the 86 million account is the R. M. Wells Co., Inc. headquartered at Quanah, Tex. This summer will mark the completion of the UTEFAB complex located in the industrial park south of the BIA campus. The wardrobe contract will be the first Ute Leader Ranted . lf RECOLLECTIONS recently with tribal S the grasp. Mr. Cantab ia a baak aa Uta history. Former Ute Official Named To Head Research Project An oral and written documentation of Ute history covering the 1800s to the present will soon be a reality through an eight month endowment grant given to the Ute Tribe. Fred Conetah, former Uncompahgra representative for the Tribal Business Committee, assumed the responsibilities as writeirtaearcher for the Uintah and Ouray cultural studies project last month. The project will entail research of records, papers, and collections from several sources including the federal records in Denver, the national archives Washington, D.C. and personal interviews. The end result of the research project will be the establishment of Ute archives where the history will be made available to tribal members and others who seek information about the northern Utes. Conetah reviewed the Dawson Collecin information relating to the movement of the White Rivers to South Dakota and other related subjects. The new historian is located at the tribal offices in Fort Duchesne and at the University of Utah Western History Center in Salt Lake City. Conetah resigned from hia post on the Tribal Business Committee last month after serving for the past eight years. While on the council he worked in several arras including being responsible for the tribal education programs. He The increase of building space from ft. in the present location to 40.000 aq. ft. in the new facility necessitates additional work force. Sixty people are now employed in the cabinet and mQlwork plant. Jones predicts 100 employees are needed to accomplish the work. He stated they will start hiring people as soon as they move into the new facility in July. UTEFAB was honored last June as Small Businas of the Year for Region 8 by the Rm,n Business Administration. This region indudes Utah, Colorado, 16.000 sq. Inter-Triba-l. School Board and was also coordinator for the Upward Bound Deadline Announced The deadline for the March issue of the Ute Bulletin is March 6. Please submit articles to the Public Relations Office or caD ext 81 if you want us to write the article. community building and other programs. Fred is married to the former Rosella Myore and they reside in Myton with their children. Research Lab, Livestock Enterprise, Domestic. Water System, the new fair TTirfcil Shell OH Co. paid for an off and gas lean on 1400 acres of Ute Tribal land during .a sale at the Uintah and Ouray Agency Jan. 29. The three-traacreage brought the highest bonus every received fay the Agency, according to AdelynH. Logan of the U A O Agency Realty Office. The previous record bid, also paid by Shell, amounted to S810 per acre in 1971. Located near Roosevelt, the tracts are in Township 1 South and Range 1 East and wiQ be included in a proposed extension of the Bluebell Arid. Including the 8568,162 boms paid by ct .. Post By Tribal Chairmen - Ute Business Committee Chairman Honey Secakuku was named to head the Trust Protection Committee of the Phoenix Ana Bureau of Indian Affairs last week. Mr. Secakuku wu unanimously elected to the post by 42 tribal chairmen representing reservations in the Phoenix BIA Area at a conference in Arisons. The work of the committee focuses on the protection of Indian rights to the natural resources on their lands and handles disputes concerning resource claims. In his new position, fafe Secakuku win be working with Stanlqfljnn, former, U A O superintendant and now Trust Protection Officer for the Phoenix Ana BIA. 11, a record $406.88 4 To Resource Shell IPeiys Efeeinl helped organise the Phoenix Area Program with Weber State College in Ogden. The youth ramp and the tribe BIA days were also his areas of interest. He represented the tribal council on the Ute Trails and Rivera Enterprise board of directors. The Western Small Schools Project for Uintah County was another program Conetah helped to set up. During his right year tenure on the Ute Tribe governing body he say major projects come into exiatana tweimHwg the Bottle Hollow Resort, the Ute tion, books at the Denver PubHe Library , and other documents in Denver last week. He reported these papers indudsd accomplished in the new building. Miscellaneous contracts amounting to 8600.000 will also be run concurrent with the military order according to Jones. V Mee Gas Lease Shell, the Agency recorded a total of 8778,882.46 in boms bids on 21 tracts of Tribal land. The tracts, covering 11,070 acres, brought an average bid of 870.85 per acre. A lease for six tracts of allotted land, covering 800 acres, wu sold to Sun Oil Co. for 810,401. Other suecesafU bidders were Shenandoah Ofl Corp. which paid 812,677 for 1,297 acres. Western Reserva Ofl Co., 86,400 for 1,922 acres, and George W. Hunt, Midi far 20 sens. In to the paid at the time of the lease sale, the leasa will pay a 81.25 pa aero annual rental ana 16 on production. royalty fa |