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Show Statefiouse Report . . . Grand and Iron Counties Show Gain In Minerals, Utilities Valuations by C. Sharp Grand and Ircn Counties arc two southern Utah counties in which mining, gas and oil and public u-Ulity u-Ulity properties valued by the Slate Tax Commission increased in valuation during dur-ing the past year. Increased iron ore and uranium mining and higher high-er valuations of utilities helped the tax positions of the:-e two counties. San Juan, afflicted by declining oil and gas pro-: pro-: auction, Carbon and Emery Em-ery counties all showed declines de-clines in valuations of mining min-ing and public utilities properties. Grand had an increase ; from $11.7 million to $11. 75 million while Iron Co. showed a sizeable increase from $19.75 million to $20. 85 million, all in properties proper-ties valued hy the State Tax CoriTmission. $22 Million Gain Statewide there was a gain of $22 million in mining, min-ing, oil and gas and public utility properties valuations, valua-tions, from $479.47 million to $501.56 million. Mining properties alone showed a gain from $191. 15 million to $209.48 million. mil-lion. Increased copper and iron ore mining made this possible. Oil and gas properties dropped from $50.89 million mil-lion to $49.58 million. Carbon's valuation of state assessed mining and public utilities properties dropped from $22.06 mil-1 mil-1 lion last year to $22.21 million this year. Emery's . valuation of state assessed properties dropped from $5.85 to $5.47 million. San Juan had tine biggest drop, ; from $51.1 to 45.1 million. Liguor Clubs Charged : Six private liquor lock- ; er clubs in Salt Lake City were charged with possessing posses-sing liquor which had not been bought from state liquor stores or agencies in complaints signed June 28. Among the elite clubs charged with possessing liquor bootlegged into the state were the Alta Club University Club, Country Club and Ft. Douglas Club. Filing of the complain is followed Salt Lake City Police Department raids June 9. . Moss Criticized ,Sen. Frank E. Moss, D-Utah, D-Utah, was criticized severe ly for accompanying Sen. Robert Kennedy to . Utah while the Senate Committee Commit-tee on interior Affairs of which Sen. Moss is a mem-tier, mem-tier, reported out favorably favor-ably a. bill to authorize the :$1.2 billion Central Arizona Ari-zona Project. Utah water leaders contend con-tend that the bill was conceived con-ceived to give Arizona the water it wants, leaving Upper Basin states to face water scarcities in years to come. "It is devoid of essential essent-ial demands to protect this state's interests," said Jay R. Bingham, Utah member of the Upper Up-per Colorado River Commission. Com-mission. He predicted that if passed, the bill would lead to continued interstate bat-ties bat-ties the reserve of the regional re-gional cooperation needed to attain full use of available avail-able water resources. No Dam The bill deletes the Hu-alapai Hu-alapai Dam at Bridge Canyon Can-yon Which had been relied upon to supply power revenues rev-enues to bring waters into the arid basin from areas with water surpluses. Last year's bill provfdfing for the dam and other safeguards safe-guards was supported by j all. seven Colorado Riv'eV states. Instead of providing a dam to supply power for pumping Colorado River water into a central Arizona, Ari-zona, the new bill would provide power from .' a giant steam electric plant to burn Arizona coal. Utah and other Upper Basin states would stand a poor chance to win Congressional Con-gressional .appropriations . to building projects in their states . in future years when Arizona and California would be using all available river water. Two Mbato National Park Service officials June 27 approved release of $34 ,960 to help pay for a dam which will create an oasis oas-is near the entrance to the lower pprtion of Canyon-lands Canyon-lands National Park. The sum is the estimated estimat-ed cost of building a cir-crui'tous cir-crui'tous road around the damsite on property of the Dugout Ranch. It is reimbursement reim-bursement for an improved improv-ed road across the crest of the dam built by Charles Redd, LaSal, ranchowner. Mr. Redd, a former chairman of the State Water Wa-ter & Power Board, and Jay R. Bingham, beard di-. rector, negotiated nine months before obtaining clearance to build the dam Their task included persuading per-suading the U. S. Bureau at Land Management to swap some of the Redd-owned Redd-owned private property for BI.M land required to build the dam. Approving release of the $34,960 after inspecting the dam and road were Roger J. Contor, assistant superintendent of Canyon-lands, Canyon-lands, and C. Richard Steeves, landscape architect. archit-ect. The dam will impound a. reservoir covering 40 acres ;and containing 600 aero feet of Indian Creek water. wa-ter. It is expected to fill the equivalent of once and a half to two times a year. This will save up to 1,200 acre feet of water annually annual-ly which otherwise would flow down the Colorado River and Ibe lost to Uta.h. Cost of building the dam was about $75,000. A boating boat-ing namp is part of the facility. Mr. Redd was noncommittal noncom-mittal whether tourist developments de-velopments will be built as pant of the oasis. |