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Show Lg Cie Cimes-independent MOAB proposed Basin sax is Colorado project being ‘jects that $Mthe msites per, are to feasible, Canyon on in the pushed Dark the the -_jman, on River- benefit Green all principal- Dewey Colorado opinion Greenriver river of B. rancher, J. who » Wite The Times-Independent _iterday urging that the people southern Utah Sibilities of wake up to reclamation Colorado. ‘fr. Silliman quoted ll oeineer as saying the the along the Great state Basin ject would cost a tremendous Haeunt of money, far beyond what population and wealth of Utah tify. On the other hand, Mr. iman states the Dark Canyon ject in Cataract grado river canyon on proper, the the located Hl durces. the Greenriver citizen's letter Ows: nil Greenriver, Utah, April 30th, 1940 Taylor, and Utah Moab and power®bill for and western This Esq., is old stuff to you, but I will remind you that the Dark Canyon project is second only to Boulder Dam in power possibilities, Mmioab, Utah ir Sir: Yerhaps you noticed it and per9s not, as it is sort of hidden ay on page 17 of the April 17th ie of the Tribune, under the and cheap electricity would pro- felopment of feasible projects, h as the Dark Canyon dam in faract Canyon, which wovld, bably unlock southern Utah's alunite into its components. of rotash and aluminum, both of vital importance in national defense and commercial eccnomy. I would urge that this admission of the state engineer be given wide publicity, and I would like to see every member of the Associated Civic Clubs give it their very best attention. Yours truly, B. J. SILLIMAN iver Dam Sites HONORS AWARDED HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AT CLASS DAY PROGRAM , "The Scrugham Bill, etc.-") & concerns the much publicized| orado River-Great . Personally, I Basin have _ pro-| insisted | t this project was not feasible | i was being used to prevent any. ible money going to the) Will Be Explored Class day exercises of the 1940 eraduates of the Grand county high school were held ‘Tuesday evening at the auditorium. A large crowd was present, and an aprrovriate program rendered. The exercises opened with a Projects to be Dlavlet, "The W®dding of Miss Started; Dark Canvon Senior Class to Mr. Life of SerSite to be Studied. vice." the following graduates tak‘ ing part: Freida Allred, LaVar Barker and Peter Eberle, with Hal iamond drill exploraticn of dam Wendell Bailey and 'Ted Christenrendering a vocal dcuet, "I Ndations located on the Green sen You Truly." Miss Lois Peel 2r which will furnish informa- Love accompanied on the piano. a1 relative to costs and feasiThe last will and testament of ty of proposed projects in that on will be resumed within two the class was read by Miss Florence Heywood, while the class jiistory "ks, State Engineer T. H. Humwas given by Miss Evalyna Taylor. cilbry s announced Tuesday. Miss Kathleen Roweil read the ei Feasibility of the proposed Miss Nora Harbi000 horse power electric plant class prophecy. presented the hereditary be used for pumping water to| son spade, emblem of toil, to a on the Bear, Weber, Ogden, | senior Westwod, president of the ifivo, Virgin and Green rivers, Melvin of the Colorado River-Great junior class. Superintendent Helen M. Knight pin project, will be investigated. sin presented awards to members of the explorations will be conductGold under supervision of E. G. the senior class, as follows: "G" with pearls, Kirk Nielsen and ‘lsen, United States bureau of Newell; gold "G," Frieaa mation engineer in charge of Lenna ‘ --ah investigations, mg2rys said. Mr. - Hum- i crew of U. S. bureau of reclation workers, headed by Lauice Kreager, driller, arrived in , t Lake City Monday from Ari- la. and will be dispatched to the Pen river to do the diamond lling. The crew has just ted operations on the Bull site in comHead Arizona. ror will start on the Echo : tk dam site located below the 1 fluence of the Yampa and fen rivers. Arrangements have m completed by Mr. Nielsen for ul air of the Blue Mountain-Chews | ch road, outfit Ws over will be ranch. which the taken as From there and contest of the staff will begin Price and Green the crew rivers join. er except site, for largest Boulder on dam, the is ected to be made by the recla‘tion bureau in cooperation with feologist from the U. S. geologi- survey. Dark canyon reservoir is located on the Colorado er a short distance above the ‘Aah-Arizona boundary line. . and Mrs. Henry G. Schmidt Dred to Salt Lake City Thursyi, returning Saturday. a -_- $3000 BETTERMENT PROGRAM ON RIVER ROAD IS STARTED explorations Yiamond drill explcrations have Wn completed at the Swallow -Byon, Split Mountain, Juniper ‘Mi Dewey reservoir sites, and a -Mber of years ago an extensive (estigation was conducted at yyming Gorge by the Utah Power " Light company. 4 careful investigation of the ‘Tk- canyon Magazine. was The concluding number girls. as) song, "Aloha," by the senior completion at Echo Park. ‘The tlesnake site is located where + American Moab _ Lions behalf of the On club, L. L. Taylor presented bronze Clark Marguerite plaques to Miss adwere who Nielsen, Kirk and students outstanding the judged standpoint. achievement an from snake dam site will be made and #@ Heywood; silver "G,' LaVar Barker, Evalyna Mary and Brown Ruth Taylor, Mascara. Lloyd Parriott was awardLomb & Bausch special the ed in work outstanding for medal science, and Miss Kathleen Rowell received a certificate of honorable for an essay she submitmention youth forum ted in the American drill-| far go by barge to the dam site. topographic map of the Rat- » Florence Allred betterment A program the on between highway river Colorado started this Moao and Dewey was scommi road state the by week be $3200 Approximately sion. will grade the in widening expended road in many and straightening the with being done places, the work bulldozer. a large D-6 tractor and this equipIt is believed that with ble, availa funds the and ment can be immany miles of highway ous turnproved materially. Numer of out places the highway The work on the will narrow be is being parts provided. financed with accumulated some $1600 which has of fund highway state the in years. recent Grand county during is commission road state The a providing fund, the matching the for ion appropriat sizeable betterment pro; gram. The work is being supervised by district highway D. F. Larson, 2, 1940 NUMBER Del Norte VISITORS the Price CCC camp. Cclorado river. A road to set up tents to house *, § the his crew, who' will be located at the campsite during the erection of the build- | ings. The first work to be undertaken will be surfacing of the camp highway, the installation of| a pump on the well, erection of| a storage tank and laying of pipe| lines. The camp buildings will be ot the latest portable type. Materials for the first building will arrive | about May 15. Salt Lake Good Will Tour Is Announced * Bi ty as guests. Lunch will be served in Salina, where 125 will be entertained. At Richfield that evening, a parade will be staged and dinner will be served to 200 businessmen of southern Utah. Arriving at Helper at 7 a. m. May 25, a short parade and meeting will be had, going from there to Price, where breakfast will be served to 200 people from Carbon, Emery, Grand and San Juan counties. The sp:cial train will leave at 10 a. m. for Grand Junction, stopping at Greenriver where a brief meeting will be held. At Thompsons, a stop will be made where guests frum Grand and San Juan counties will be picked up and taken to Grand Junction. A parade through the business disbe will Junction Grand of trict staged at 3:30 p. m. May 25, and be will dinner' a evening that served to 225 businessmen of Grand The towns. nearby and Junction special train will start on the reat City Lake Salt to trip turn 12:01 a. m. May 26. MOAB CCC REMAIN CAMP TO TWO MORE WEEKS The Moab CCC camp-SCS-6U- two least at here will remain to orders according longer, weeks recently received. The future of the camp is unknown, but it is thought likely that it will remain at Moab permanently. The Monticello and for scheduled recently was camp abandonment, but recent action by curthe that indicates congress tailment program may not be carwill permit which ried thraugh, the local camp to remain. If the SCS camp is not abanmove to doned, it will shortly seaMonticello for the summer son, returning to Moab in the fall. Key West, ernmost city engineer, Florida, is the in the United southStates. a vast who believes amount of improvement be accomplished. work can Will Tour to Salt Lake City to be Staged June 17-18-19 Important future matters affecting the improvement of the Navajo Trail between Crescent Junction, Utah, and La Junta, Colo., were taken up at a meeting of the board of directors of the Navajo Trail association held at Del Norte, Colo., last Sunday. The meeting was attended by R. J. Fletcher, D. RB. Baldwin and L. D. Heywood, representing the Moad Lions club, and Donald T. Adams: and Noel |Sitton, of the Blue Mountain Civic club of Monticello. Citizens from practically all communities along highway No. 160 in Utah and Colorado were present. Plans for construction and installation of signs to be placed along the trail. were discussed, and it was decided that this work probab- DRAWS FINE OF $100 FOR POSSESSING ILLEGAL WINE John Farres, proprietor of a club! ly would be so involved that anThompsons, was arrested the| other year will be required to get last of the week by agents of the| the highway properly signed. It REE | |Utah state liquor control ¢om- was decided, however, to issue a Thirty-two graduates of the Grand coun ty high school-18 boys |mission, charged with having in | large number of scenic folders deand 14 girls-will this evening receive their diplomas at the annual his possession a quantity of wine | scribing the area traveresd by the commencement exercises tc be he Id at the auditorium which did not have the state) trail for circulation this year. commencing at 8 o'clock. The class of 1940 is the largest in the history of the revenue stamps attached. He was The directors authorized a school. brought to Moab Monday for a/| change in the association's by-laws On Tuesday evening class day eexercises were held, and during hearing before Justice of the | to permit the acceptance of conthe past week there have been Peace Dave A. Johnson, and plead- | tributions and grants of funds for various functions commemorating the end cf secondary school work for the graduates. ed guilty to the charge of illegal | publicizing the trail. The following prcgram will b e rendered at the commencement After considerable discussion, it possession of liquor. Judge So] decided to make Price the exercises this (Thursday) evening: son assessed a fine of $100 and/ was western terminus of the Navajo March of the graduates costs, which Farres paid. Processional music, ; Miss Lois Peel Invocation °. .':°. Trail, instead of Crescent JuncMrs. Emma Dalton , Vice president board of Education tion, as at present. -Saxophone solo Lloyd Parriott The directors completed arrangeWelcome gadress .........s500 Senior President Miss Nora Harbison ments for a good will tour from Speech by honor student Miss Lenna Newell La Junta to Salt Lake City on Piano duet Miss Lenna Newell, Miss Florence Heywood June 17, 18 and 19. It is expected Speech by honor student Kirk Nielsen that a caravan of at least 100 cars, Recommendation of seniors for graduation with representatives from every Superintendent Helen M. Knight city along the trail, will make the Presentation of diplomas . C. S. Thomson, president board of education The Cane Creek Oil company is | trip. George W. Thurston of WalSong Ladies' chorus making preparations to resume! senburg, Colo., will be captain of Benediction H. W. Balsley, treasurer board of education drilling operations on its well on | the tour, and will be assisted by Recessional music Miss Lois Peel Cane Creek dome down the Colo-| the director from each of the The class motto is "Out of School's Life Into Life's School," rado river, according to H. L. Rath, | communities on the route. and the colors are blue and gold. president of the company, who arThe caravan will start at La rived in Moab Wednesday evening Junta the morning of June 17, from Los Angeles. He was ac- picking up additional cars en companied by George S. Whipple route. The night of June 17 will of San Bernardino, Calif., and E.| be spent at- Durango. Leaving that J. Stevens of Arcadia, Calif. city early the next morning, a prominent stockholders of the! stop will be made at each of the company. They left this morning | towns, and the party will have Arriving at Price by motor boat for the well, to lunch at Moab. make an appraisal of conditions the evening of June 18, a meeting will be held and the night will be and an inventory of equipment, The grading, draining, graveling tion funds. scent there. On the morning of preparatory to starting work. In addition to the street work, and paving of seven additional 19 the caravan will proceed It is the intention of the com- June county has also commenced| blocks of Moab city streets will the laying of some 2000 feet of| pany to carry the well, now stand- to Salt Lake City, where the Salt commence next Monday, according the ing at around 3300 fet, to the 3740- Lake chamber of commerce will be 12-inch culvert in the| to the board of county commis- perforated foot horizon, where a gusher flow the host on a sight-seeing tour and of the "town arroyo," to) sioners. The blocks to be improved| bottom in the evening. All cars encountered in the banquet the swampy condition. | of oil was are those lying immediately south eliminate in the caravan will be decorated Shafer No. 1 discovery well. This work was necessary bhefore| of the main oiled highway through banners advertising the The company is completely fin- with the grading and surfacing of| the city and east of Main street. anced to complete the test, being Navajo Trail. A sound wagon will of the streets could be| In several places where the several backed by prominent oil capital, also accompany the tour, and there Laying of the culvert | old "town arroyo" cuts through undertaken. Mr. Rath states, and the end of will be a delegation of Ute Indians | the streets, considerable filling and is being done by a WPA crew. the long battle to place Cane who will stage dances at each of During the past two years, a| levelling will be required. A fleet Creek dome back into the oil pro- the stops. Parades will be conduct= of four or five dump trucks will total of 15 Moab city blocks have ducing column now appears to be| ed in ail of the principal towns. be used in hauling material with been paved to a width of 60 feet,) Each community along the highthe work being done by county| in sight. which to fill in the arroyo. will be requested to provide | way Practically all of the engineer- "Class B" funds with the coopera-| an entertainment feature for the ing on the streets has been com- tion of the city. The seven blocks! Price and Salt Lake meetings. this year will enable pleted by the state under the 'to be done The purpose of the good will direction of Claud S. Batty, resi-|the county and city to complete) Navajo the advertise tour is to of virtually all city dent state road engineer. The ‘the paving road interesting most "the Trail, streets will be thoroughly leveled streets next year in America," and to impress on the In addition to the seven blocks and drainage will be provided beand of Price interests. business be paved this summer, it is, fore they are graveled and oiled. |to Salt Lake City the importance of The work will be done by the; hoped that five or six additionat| | Grand was one of the first) the southeastern Utah-southweststate road commission. An engineer ‘blocks in the south part of town ‘counties in Utah to go "over the| ern Colorado district as a potential and foreman will be supplied by can be graded, drained and level- 'top" in the "Fight Cancer With) source of business and as a scenic of the state, and all other labor will ed this year, preparatory to grav- Knowledge" cooperation The drive staged in Utah | playground. eling and oiling next year. be obtained locally. during the menth of April, an- the state of Utah will be solicited The county has also purchased The work will cost in the nounced Mrs. Wayne R. McConklie, | toward building up closer business this between neighborhood of $11,000, which is a large quantity of 36-inch culvert county chairman, Tuesday. relations social ‘and will be used for conveying being provided by Grand county which A sum exceeding $50 was raised state and southern Colorado. from their the large irrigation canal where it in this county by Mrs. McConkie's N. Case, presiLloyd the city of Moab and Recently, allocation of state auto registra- cuts through three streets in the committee, part of a national! | dent of the Navajo Trail associaWomen's Field Army. This money ‘tion, took up with Gus P. Backman, Salt of the secretary will be retained locally and will executive the of commerce, chamber be used in cancer educational work. ‘Lake the It will form the nucleus of a fund matter of a goodwill tour to at ence. 918 a pie eee os ote oreo 6 eeeceerecenes cee eee 9.0.0 Ce The Salt Lake chamber of commerce will sponsor a _ friendship tour to southeastern Utah and western Colorado from May 23 to 26, according to Weston E. Hamilton, assistant' ‘secretary of the chamber, and Willard Richards, traffic manager of the Rio Grande Motor Way, who last week acted aS an advance committee to arrange details for the excursion. They were in Moab Thursday and conferred with businessmen here. From 100 to 125 Salt Lake City businessmen will be on the tour, and the trip will be made _ by special train over the Rio Grande. According to Mr. Hamilton, it will be an all-expense tour, with the Salt Lakers providing entertainment for the various communities visited. "We _ will sell only friendship on this tour and try to show the rest of Utah that we of Salt Lake City are interested in all parts of the state," he declared. The first stop on the tour will be in Provo the night of May 23, where 200 businessmen of Utah county will be guests at a dinner. Breakfast will be served the morning of May 24 in Ephraim, with 100 businessmen of Sanpete coun-| | | Good ARCHES STEADY INCREASE From October 1, 1939, to May 1, 1940, 1286 people visited Arches National monument, compared with 677 visitors from October Re 1938, to May 1, 1939, announced Henry G. Schmidt, custodian of the Arches yesterday. During April of 1940, 467 peorle visited the monument and enrolled their names in the registration booth. This number showed a _ substantial increase over the visitors in April, 1939, when 400 people motored to the monument. Last week's registration. was 54, with visitors from Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, Massachuettes, California, Wisconsin, Missouri, Michigan, New York, Arkansas, Illinois and Alberta, Canada. | | | The new park service camp will |be located at the mouth of Moab | canyon about half a mile west pf |campsite from highway 160 was graded a month ago by Grand county, and the park service drilled a well, which will supply water for the camp. Lieutenant Coffin temorrow will TO ON } ‘of 18 _ Rousing Navajo Trail Meet Held at Work Ser- Erection of the new CCC cam in Moab valley, which will be administered by the national park service to carry on the development of Arches National monument, will Friday. commence Yesterday a crew of 40 enrollees from Dalton Wells camp were moved to the new campsite, where they will be employed on _ the clearing of grounds and erection of camp buildings. They will be un| | der Lieutenant of direction the |Edward C. Coffin, Jr., commander let 'the pumping MAY Buildings. vice alone operation and maintenance." He further charged that the agitation had been _ started to "OBSCURE PROJECTS THAT ARE FEASIBLE." The people of southern Utah have been led to believe that they would receive benefit from this Great Basin project to pull wool over their eyes and obscure the fact that a fraction of the cost of the Great Basin project would build projects of vital importance to them. mut 125 miles below Moab, is ond only to Boulder Dam in ver possibilities, and the cheap tricity it would generate would ock many of southern Utah's -L. Greenriver southern Crew of 40 Begins Tomorow on Park Colorado immensely. The article quotes the state engineer as Saying "he did not see how a project costing as much as the proposed aqueduct would cost could be a feasible project for aeSparsely settled state like Utah." He further stated that it would cost almcst twice as much as the Los Angeles acqueduct serving a population of almost 2% millian people, further that it would cost $500,000,000 "if it would cost a cent." "If it were turned over to to us complete we couldn't pay obscure and of UTAH, CCC Camp Starts eenriver Citizen Quotes State Engineer to Effect That Great Basin Scheme is Being Promoted to Qbscure Projects That ar e Feasible; Says Cost Far Beyond Ability of State to Pay. tat COUNTY, Erection of New BE PUSHED BY SOUTHERN UTAH the GRAND €..0°6. ee WS: ee ek 6/6906. 10.8 A es Wee Caio ee Gite ee Ulae 0:6 A 6 le a 6s O50 Die ew eee ew 6 Cane Creek Prepares To Resume Operations serene 04% a ee a. 9 6-0 «a 5 bse. Mee Ohh Bae 0-61 6 * on 0 @ | © laxmad 106 Wie © Moab City Street Paving Will BeResumed Monday Grand County "Over Top" in Cancer Driv e 1500 Trees Planted On Woman's Literary Club Pack Creek Drainage Elect Officers May 11 the on trees 1,500 of Planting forest was comSal National La to according week, last pleted of the U. DeSpain Owen Ranger S. forest service. from obtained were trees The nursery in Colothe Monumental and service, forest the by rado, soil conserby the planted were superthe under service vation visicn of Forester Tom Evans. CCC were camp local the from boys used in the planting. The trees consisted of 500 Colofir rado Blue spruce, 500 Douglas and 500 Ponderosa pine. The trees Pack of mouth the were planted at reCreek canyon and will help to duce erosion and flood damage and this on n productio restore timber area. The last regular meeting of the Women's Literary club for. the 1939-40 season will be held at the Baptist church on May 11, commencing at 2:30 p. m. Officers for the ensuing year will be elected. Other business of the meeting will be presentation of a detailed re- port of the state federation convention by Mrs. J. W. Corbin, and the appointment of delegates from the Moab club to attend the eastern district's annual convention to be held at Greenriver on May 18. The final social event of the season will be held at a date to be announced later. The party will be given in honor of Mrs. R. Lee Kirk and Mrs. Lula Goodman, who of the have been active members Literary club for 42 and 41 years, in committee The respectively. charge of the affair is composed Mrs. R. J. Paul V. McNutt, federal security of Mrs. Laster Taylor, S. Andrews y 14s James Tuesda Thomson, d propose administrator, Ballinger. that permanent citizens'» commits iattd. Mrs. Sanford meeting was held tees be established in each of te ~ ‘The club's last Prof. Maude May nation's 3000 counties to find jobs April 25, when of Utah University the of for the idle. x ve > Babcock oh a etal gave a reyiew of the book, "Mamaudience. large a H. W. Balsley returned Tuesday bh's Daughter," to Grand Tea was served following the profrom a business stay at gram. Junction. Propeses Job Committees. | which will be available permanent- ly to fight cancer in this county. Mrs. McConkie requests The Times-Independent to express her| appreciation to the committeemen who worked so loyally in raising the funds and also to the public who contributed so generously. In presenting their message to the public in support of the request for funds, the women's army stressed the following facts: "Cencer is curable in its early stages and it is possible to save approximately 60,000 lives each year. The lives of over 145,000 American men and women are sacrificed annually because of this disease. Fear and ignorance are cancer's greatest friends, and konledge is cancer's worst enemy." Over 100,000 individual women were enlisted in the ranks of the Women's Field Army during the April drive. Hundreds of national, state and local organizations participated in the campaign. In honor of the girl graduates of the class of 1940, Grand county high school, a tea was given Wed5 of Mrs. at the home nesday E. Baldwin. Mrs. Baldwin was as- by sisted Mrs. R. Don't Mrs. Lee J. Kirk, W. Corbin Jr. borrow-subscribe, and Utah capital, and received an enthusiastic resconse from the Utah the It is expected civic official. friendship tour will be the most get-together successful states the between staged of and Utah affair ever neighboring Colorado. ee LEGION PLANS DANCE FOR FUNDS RAISE TO "IRON LUNG" PURCHASE 54 of No. post county Grand is making Legion American the be to dance a for preparations raise given in the near future to to funds of hospital, as the in assist "iron an purchase the Price for lung" in explained The If week. last Times-Independent can be raised in sufficient funds Utah, eastern the drive throughout respirator will the will lung" for the Moab hospital and later also be purchased, Legionnaires county Carbon assist in purchasing an "jron for the Moab hospital. The date for the Legion dance states later, will be announced the Carroll J. Meador, chairman of committee. county Grand Utah the of The Daughters Pioneers gave a party Friday at ting interes An rooms. club their program was greatly enjoyed by those present. ; |