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Show Four Comet s Commission Plans Begin of Work ; ... . J 11. - L. I i ' The first report of work proposed under the newly organized or-ganized Four Corners Development Devel-opment program will be released re-leased in mid-January, it was announced this week. Orren Beaty, Jr., federal co-chairman of the Four Corners Cor-ners Regional Commission, promised to report on new roads scheduled in the Four Corners. He commented that the Navajo Indian tribe was particularly interested in completion of a road from Kayenta to Page the city which developed during the Glen Canyon Dam construction construc-tion and has since become the commercial marketing center for the northern part of the Arizona reservation. Mr. Beaty also mentioned widespread concern in the four states that the railroads would fold up in the area. He has been empowered by the governors to present testimony testi-mony at the field hearings of the Interstate Commerce Commission next year on the Rio Grande's application to abandon narrow gauge train service from Alamosa to Farmington. via Durango. The D&RG service between Denver and Salt Lake City is also of concern in the Four Corners area. The Prospector, Prospec-tor, one of two passenger trains servicing the area from the Thompson station. 35 miles north of Moab, was removed from the run last, year. It is now considered to be of prime importance to maintain the one existing passenger train, the Zephyr. Pressure for better bus service ser-vice would also be a service the Four Corners Development Develop-ment group could render for the Moab area. Mr. Beaty indicated he was" following up his proposal to investigating possibility of installing in-stalling a mining research laboratory in the Leadville. Colorado, area, to see if some of the ore remaining near the ghost mining town could not be recovered commercially. commerc-ially. He indicated Dr. Walter R. Hibbord, director of the Bu-, Bu-, reau of Mines, was interested in the Leadville proposal, and a representative of the Colorado Colo-rado School of Mines Research Re-search Foundation was being contacted. Beaty is now reviewing applications ap-plications for the regional headquarters, and anticipated anticipat-ed the controversial selection of the headquarters city should be settled in a coupie of weeks. There will be a staff of about 12 persons, two for each Four Corners state, plus four clerical employees. Farmington, N. M., continues to rate as the most likely selection, Mr. Beaty said. Governor Calvin Rampton, a member of the Commission, has hoped the headquarters could be Moab. Beaty has been appointed temporary staff director to speed up staff selection before be-fore a lid is clamped on federal fed-eral government hiring. No real work at field level can be done until this is accom plished, and the headquarters established, he said. , , Recommendations for new roads in the Four Corners area will be made by thj four state highway .depart;, ments, which for a numSj of years have worked on pn grams to interconnect new. roads in the area. The reau of Indian Affairs has also al-so participated, as much' jt the area is Indian Reserva tion. ',.. Beaty indicated Utah Gov. Calvin L. Rampton had flasH-: ed a go-slow sign regard? efforts to learn the latest ton in cost of the copper strike, now in its sixth month, t |