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Show PARK PETITION SENTFICIALS Machinery to create the Esca-lanta Esca-lanta national monument along the Colorado, Green and San Juan rivers riv-ers waa in operation Friday. If the area is aet aside by the department of the interior, one of the last primitive areas in the United States will te opened for development. Officials were leaving Salt Lake City Friday after conferences here and after drafting a resolution which will be forwarded to the di- rector of the division of graxing and the secretary of the interior in Washington, D. C. The area sought as a monument extends from Moab. Utah, on the Colorado river, to the San Juan river, and one portion of it to the Arisona-LHah line. It is a strip approximately 125 miles long and six miles wide. It lies in the center of 30.000 square miles of the last real frontier of the old west There are scarcely any trails or roads of any kind in the trea and it Is sparsely settled. Officials who are membera of a special committee appointed In June, 1934, to consider the area aa a national na-tional monument are C P. Seeiy, acting regional grazier; P. P. Pa-traw, Pa-traw, superintendent of Zloa and Bi yi'f national parks;-Jens L. Tf ne-baum, ne-baum, superintendent of Mesa Verde national park; J. M. Macfarlane, president of tha Utah Cattle and Horse Growers' association; Frank G. Martinea, representing the Associated Asso-ciated Civic Clubs of Southern Utah; Very Pace. U U Taylor and J. M. - Con over, chairmen, respectively, of Utah grazing districts 0. and 7, and Sumner G. Margetts, director . Of the sute planning board. The national park service several years ago recommended a much larger area be aet aside as a national na-tional monument, but objections came from stockmen raising sheep nd cattle in tha area. |