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Show ROY DESPAIN RETURNS FROM THRILLING TRIP Thrilling, educational and a fine vacation were some of the expressions used by a group of sportsmen including one from Springville, to describe a nine-day nine-day trip down t'ne Green river of the Colorado, from which they returned last Friday. Included in the party were Roy Despain of this city; Lee Kay of the state fish and game educational edu-cational department; Dr. D. I. Rasmussen of Logan, director of wild life management at the U. S. A. C, and Wesley Eddington of Salt Lake City and Earl Clyde of Heber. Mr. Despain made the two boats at the Wright Planing Mill, which successfully navigated the swirling waters of the treacherous treach-erous river. The party covered a distance of 'approximately 125 miles of the most hazardous part of thq river, landing early Thursday at the John Wesley Powell tree landing seven miles north of- Jensen. Jen-sen. The men found the Ladore game refuge along the "Utah -Colorado state line to be replete with deer, geese, ducks and beaver, beav-er, as well as many desert big horn sheep, a species fast van- ishing from the western mountains. moun-tains. Mr. Kay took a large number of pictures on the river trip and will in all probability, have them ready to show sportsmen's groups in the very near future. The group traveled much of the time with a company of Frenchmen who had come to the river expressly to try out their kayacks on what they described as the world's most wonderful stream, and to secure pictures of the 1200-mile region lying between be-tween Green River, Wyoming, and Lake Mead. The boats used by the Utah sportsmen on their river journey may be seen at the local planing mill. |