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Show Townspeople, Students Asked To Write Congressmen Favoring Echo Pork Dam Word has teen received in Utah to the effect that politicians in Washington, D.C., are receiving about ten letters from outside interests in-terests against the Ecko Park water wa-ter project to one for the project and this is having1 some effect on Congressmen, it is stated. So, in order to offset this, Utahns are making an effort to have as many people as possible write to federal authorities and explain why they are in favor of the project. Sterling E. Price, who with others is spending every effort to get approval of the project, said Tuesday that he had contacted school authorities in Nebo district and they were going to cooperate in having students write Washington Washing-ton D.C. authorities asking that they approve the project. Such letters do have considerable weight Mr. Price said, and he further asked that all citizens of Springville Spring-ville and Mapleton write to Washington Wash-ington in support of the project. Letters should be sent to the following: John R. Tillion, House office Building-, Washing-ton, D.C; Congressmen, Craig Homer, Claire Engle, John P. Saylor, Washington D.C. A copy of letters should also be sent to , Greater Utah Valley, Inc., and also to our members in Congress. To assit anyone who desires to write Washington, D.C, men, Mr. Price has submitted the following information concerning the pro- because of lack of water and electricity. elec-tricity. 8. ' If we make electricity by coal or gas we use up a natural resource re-source to do so, and it takes a lot of labor and steel, so much needed for national defense, to produce it. Water from Ecko Park dam would produce it as a byproduct. by-product. 9. If we have to ship these strategic stra-tegic ores long distances to be processed, then we tie up our transportation facilities and man power, both of which are critical in time of war. 10. It would be much cheaper to process these ores here or the function of national highways and railroads than to have to ship for example 100 lions or ore a long distance to obtain 5 tons of much needed strategic material from it. 11. Our people are very patriotic. We want to help in every way on national defense. Won't -you let us by authorizing Utah Central Project Pro-ject and including Ecko Park dam. Flood Control 1. Flood control has been one of the most expensive items of government help all through our nation's history. . 2. Nearly every section of the country has been helped especially the East, the Midwest and Mississippi Missis-sippi states none, of this has ever been paid back. The money spent and the loss of property are a dead loss, besides the suffering loss of life. used in the letters: National Recreation 1. The sight at Ecko Park dam is over 3000 feet high. Only 525 feet of this is to be covered by building the dam. 2. Very few people can gain access ac-cess to this vast wonderland at present. 3. It would cost millions of dollars dol-lars even to build a road overlooking over-looking this one spot. 4. There are many spots like and equal to this canyon near by that would show more beauty and a greater variety of beauty. 5. By building Central Utah project, pro-ject, especially Ecko Park dam, these beauties would all be made available and very comfortably accessible for many millions of nature and beauty lovers. 6. It would develop a beautiful water way, roads, riding lanes, walks, motels, hotels, restaurants, fishing resorts, fish, hatchery and animal refuge, all of which are included in-cluded in the cost of development of these projects. 7. Over 21 million dollars of the cost of this development is to be spent for recreational facilities. 10. Wildlife, especially water- R. Basin have shared, without complaint, com-plaint, this expense year after year. 4. We, too, have flood problems, prob-lems, serious ones. In '52 many of our towns had enormous damage and inconvenience. All America helped us or some of our towns could have been destroyed. For this we thank our government, i.e., you of our congressmen. 5. Why not now, help us build our dams, known as the Upper Colorado River Development which must include Central Utah Project and Ecko Park dam, thus storing these flood waters in our mountains moun-tains in time of flood. 6. This would allow us culinary water for our cities water for industry in-dustry to develop our vast strategic strate-gic materials arid to help feed the many millions of increase in popu-lation popu-lation which is expected before these dams can be finished or used. 7. We believe in our future, we would like to stay among our people, peo-ple, not have to go elsewhere to find a living. 8. We need electricity. In 'some towns the sale of electrical appliances appli-ances has had to be discouraged because of unsufficient electrical accommodations. - y. To build Ecko Park and Glen Canyon dams and the power plants as designed by the Bureau of Reclamation Re-clamation would largely eliminate much want and suffering, create a lot of labor, raise our standard of living and in the end save all taxpayers our government a large expenses. 10. We will pay all the expense with interest of building these dams and power houses, besides the enormous accruale to our nation's economy while doing so. Our Nation's Honor 1. We believe that our nation has upheld its honor throughout its existence. 2. Our educational systems and our family traditions are based fowl and fish, would be many times enhanced. 8. Boating, swimming, riding, skiing, hiking and many other forms of outdoor recreation would be part of the project. Today river running is the only recreation available, and that to just the few who dare run the rapids. 9. There are over 100 miles below be-low the Ecko Park dam that is more fascinating river running than the part made lake by the Ecko Park reservoir. . 11. The development of all these recreational facilities" would open up many other sources of study for the scientists, such as geological, zoological, minerological, industrial, indust-rial, etc. One of the largest deposits de-posits of phosphates and other fertilizing minerals in the world is adjacent to this development. National Defense 1. Central Utah, surrounded by a series of high mountain ranges, is one of America's best defense areas. 2. It is therefore, a natural place for defense plants. 3. These plants or other industrial indus-trial plants cannot be developed unless we get more water, and electricity. 4. Six companies are investigating investigat-ing possibilities of expansion to Central Utah, but are waiting the upon nonor first." . ; 3. Our government, through its ' agent who was authorized by our ! President, gave solemn promise that the creation of Dinosaur National Na-tional monument would not interfere inter-fere with the constriction or development de-velopment of Ecko Park dam and our other water resoruces. 4. This representative has given a sworn affidavit to that fact. 5. To those who say he had no authority to give that promise, we say then he had -no authority to represent the President, who upon his recommendation created that monument. 6. We do not believe that the few objectors to the Central Utah Project and the Ecko Park dam, know the truth of this undertaking, and are objecting from a highly sentimental attitude brought on by selfish interests who have told misleading stories and half truths, and; are so selfish that they would sacrifice National honor and national na-tional interests for their own. 7. A few of those objecting are trying to sell our nation's honor along with their own. All we ask is, that any one of them would add materially to national defense. 5. These companies would furnish fur-nish labor for many unemployed, as well as jobs to augment the many farmer's income whose farms are too small to support their families. fam-ilies. More than 30 per cent of our farms are less than 20 acres. 6. Utah has more strategic materials ma-terials than any other spot in the nation. 7. If we do not have Ecko Park dam we cannot build plants in which to Tjrocess these materials in uuuui ui- misiniormea, credit both sides and find the truth, or withdraw their objections until they know. 9. We do not feel that our public representatives should sell our national na-tional honor for the few objectors that would amount to less than one of our largest cities. |