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Show j cato thnt numerous automobiles j come into the region tach wt'ek. to see the sights and fi-sh in thu Colorado. The Riant 450-foot high Hoskinini monument in White's can,- on and named after a famous fam-ous Navajo chief, is a major at-iraction at-iraction of the region. The first men to ever set eyes on this wide spot in the Colorado j river gorge, the climate of which is semi-tropical, was Captain ! John Wesley Powell and party, : Colorado river explorer who ! passed in 18ti! and describes the ' prehistoric Indian fort built of i stone which today still remains ; standing on a high bluff aero. j the river from Hite. j Today, crossings at Hite are made j via automobile ferry guided and i made secure by a heavy cable anchored in the rock walLs of the gorge. j In 1940, Hite had one human j occupant, two buildings and some orchards. Today, the uranium ore found in the area is bringing dozens of prospectors into the re-; re-; gion and a processing mill to ! handle the uranium ore taken from White's canyon nearby is ! now in operation. Only a few , days ago, the new mill was inspected in-spected by the president of the Vanadium Corp. of America, accompanied ac-companied by his vice president and three directors. During the past year the population popu-lation of Hite swelled to several dozen people and a public school was set into operation to accommodate accom-modate the children of the community. com-munity. I Hite is the jumping off place I for the many boating trips down ' the 164 miles of river to Lees I Ferry, Arizona. I Reports from Hite, which is (il) miles south of Hanksville, indi- With this much pay in their jeans the miners and their families fam-ilies were traveling in all directions direc-tions .with Utah's national parks, monuments and fishing areas the prime objectives. Many are visiting vis-iting relatives and friends in other oth-er sections of the state. What two and one half million dollars. will do to the economy of the state is anyones guess, but coal miners and their families are good travelers and good spenders. It is safe to estimate that the cash will be distributed in many directions in all sections of Utah. 30 Million Tons of Coal Found The Kaiser Co., Inc., has an-; nounced that following extensive drilling tests in the rich coal mm-; ing areas of southeastern Utah, ! they have found a new source of more than 30,000,000 tons of high grade coking coal. The company ( is making plans to go into extensive exten-sive mining operations and the coal will be shipped to the Kaiser Kais-er steel plant at Fontana, Calif. The new coal deposits lie in the famous Book Cliffs field which also supplies the Geneva -ti-el plant with coal. Town of Hite Shows Unusual Activity Hite, one of Utah's interesting, but most isolated towns is getting get-ting into the news. The only town in the state to be located directly in the Colorado river gorge, except Moab, Hite has experienced ex-perienced interesting history in ! the past 79 years. j Cass Hite, from whom the place was named, built a house in this wide spot in the river gorge in 1870. For many years he existed by panning gold in the river. Eventually Ev-entually word got out and a gold rush was started. Gold dredges were hauled to the Colorado where they still lie twisted and rusting. Disappointed prospectors tried to find Hite to kill him, however, he hid out until the trouble blew over and the gold fever subsided. Hite's crossing which he named nam-ed "Dandy Crossing" was consistently con-sistently used by the Indians. It is the best of the four natural crossings of the Colorado in Utah. i 1 ' Spotlighting I UTAH Tsurist Bonanza Hits Utah Starting midnight, June 24, live thousand Carbon and Emery county coal miners, drawing fifteen fif-teen days regular pay and ten days vacation pay started to put two and one-half million dollars into circulation vacationing in j Utah. Their regular pay check amounted to $1,500,000 and their vacation money amounts to $100,-' 000 a day for 5,000 miners, this totals $1,000,000. I |