Show REQUEST RENEWED FOR RIVER IMPROVEMENT Six Eastern Utah Counties Urge Dredging by C C C Camps The request made last spring that the navigation of the Colorado and Green rivers between the towns of Moab and be improved by removing obstructions from the chan chan- channels channels nels and dredging was this week re- re renewed when H G Green chairman I of the Grand county commission wrote to Governor Henry H Blood again agam urging that he use his influence toward inducing the federal govern govern- government government ment to locate several winter C C C campS along the streams Last spring the commissioners ot of Grand San Juan Emery and Wayne countieS adopted resolutions asking the governor to get behind the pro pro pro- project and commissioners from three counties met with the chief executive to personally present the resolutions Governor Blood at that time indIcated that he looked with favor upon the proposed enterprise I Since that time the commissioners of GarfIeld and Carbon counties have 1 also joined in the request for the Im- Im Imi Improvement improvement provement of the rivers The Carbon county commissioners this week adopted adopt adopt- ed cd a resolution urging the governor to push the matter The siX southeastern Utah counties are arc now standIng as a unit in urging that the navigability ot of the rivers be improved ed It Js is pointed out that several O C C O C camps could in one season make the rivers between Moab and Green rIver navigable for large craft which would make too the river canyons with their wonderful scenic features accessible sible to tourists Du DuA to the loW d ele- ele c- c and th the mild winters the river Ean ari ions ons be ideal for tor wint winter C- C CC C C O work the commiSsioners have P emphasized i i |