Show RACE PROBE HALTED on account of the death of james W waters secretary of the state racing commission the investigation byj a house committee of tho acts of the commission during the past two years has been abandoned the probe was ordered following charges made against the commission on the floor of the bouse of representatives by charles redd of la sal representative from san juan county mr waters was a material witness he was manager of the newhouse ew house hotel at salt lake and a prominent utah democrat death resulted from injuries received in a tram wreck when he was hurrying to salt lake city from california to answer the charges made against him representative and mrs W D returned saturday from salt lake city where mr attended the recent session of the legislature as grand countes coun tys representative senta tive in tho lower house they motored ahme in their car being accompanied compa nied from salt lake city by mrs west hammond and children who had visited relatives in salt late for a week john L went out ta gibson dome on indian creek the last of the week where he win remain for some time at the deseret well A J turner of grand junction and J tracy wootton and E J franz officials of the gibson dome oil and the deseret petroleum companies which have drilled a well to a depth of feet on n rose permit on gibson dome were in moab the last of the week they started out to the well but pot caught in a blizzard bliz aard on indian creek and as a result had to spend the night around a camp fire when their car got stuck in a mud hole the utah petroleum corporation has completed the erection of its loading pier just above the bridge on the north side of the river and a hoisting crane is now being installed the company has commenced moving a large quantity of casing in from and is making pre to start the e down the river to Lodi Lart canyon from where it will be moved by wagon to the companas comp anys well on gib son dome the company will operate its own freight barge |