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Show Bottle Hollow Resort Open On Ute Indian Reservation An eastern Utah gull once filled with empty whisky bottles is fast becoming be-coming one of the state's finest year-round resort areas. More important, the resort is owned and operated oper-ated by Utah's first Utahns, ' the Ute Indian Tribe. It's called the Utah Bottle Hollow Resort. Located Loca-ted at Ft. Duchesne, 22 miles west of Vernal on U. S. 40, the resort derives its name from the customs of the U. S. Army Cavalry unit) stationed here from 1880 to 1912. Whisky wasn't allowed on the Ute reservation reser-vation .'during those times. So the soldiers, following the letter of the law, drained drain-ed their bottles just prior to entering Ute country then discarded their empties emp-ties in a gully just outside the reservation border. Looking at 'the empty bottles, the Utes remarked that they were hollow that they contained no whiskey. They named the gully Bottle Hollow not be cause the gully was a hollowed hol-lowed out area filled with bottles, but rather becau.se all the bottles were hollow. The July 5, 1971 opening open-ing of Bottle Hollow Resort Re-sort will find 42 luxury motel mo-tel units of modernistic jhjexagonal design created by Salt Lake architect Jimmy Jim-my Jones. His design compliments com-pliments the natural surroundings sur-roundings of the arid Uintah Basin with a swim-m;ng swim-m;ng pool,, restaurant, overhead ov-erhead lighting and even double beds that all incorporate incor-porate the hexagonal pattern. pat-tern. But the resort's excellent ex-cellent swimming, boating and dining facilities are only the beginning of this unique development by American Am-erican Indians. Additionally, the resort will have an Art Center and Gift Shop which will exhibit and sell native American Am-erican Indian paintings and jewelry. Each night during the summer, traditional tradi-tional Ute dances will be performed at the resort. The Ute Indian Tribe today to-day is composed of 1600 people from three different differ-ent bands the Uintah, the White River and the Uncompaghre. Historically Historical-ly they roamed over all of easljern Utah's Uinta Basin. Ba-sin. It's a safe bet that no group of people knows this land and its wildlife any better. Their reservation, a one million acre (250 miles-long) miles-long) expanse of land, occupies oc-cupies most of that same thjktorical hunting and tf,ishing area today. The Utes of Bottle Hollow Hol-low have six reservoirs and ten streams stocked with nearly a quarter million cutthroat and rainbow trout. They hunt buffalo, .desert big horn sheep, deer, elk, bear and cougar. They shoot pheasant, chukkars, grouse, geese and wild turkey. tur-key. They're arranging to guide others into more remote re-mote areas of the reservation reserva-tion to hunt the same wildlife. wild-life. John Marshall, director of the Bottle Hollow Resort, Re-sort, states, "A few months ago it was all I could do-to do-to have a Ute tell me his name. Like Charles Red Foot, the man who will take over my job, they were shy and inward." Today Charles Red Foot typifies the change that's come over his tribe. Those who tour the Bottle Hollow Resort Re-sort discover a smiling, enthusiastic en-thusiastic Red Foot eager to describe all phase of his tribe's success story. |