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Show """r"ftJiriii uttma imiiiwii mm 11 iin inni n , In The Bood Old Says 20 YEARS AGO January 5, 1950 Vernal Chamber of Commerce plans to contact D L. (Scottv) King, president of San Francisco Chemical Co., by the end of the week to discuss a proposed meeting on development of the vast phosphate ore bed in the Brush Creek area. Economists have predicted that the Intermountain phosphate industry in-dustry offers a future of unimpeded expansion and that in that industry the biggest project envisaged for 1960 is the start of work on the huge Humphreys deposit 15 miles north of Vernal. The ore beds contain some 700 million tons of phosphate rock running between 19 V2 and 20 percent P205. San Francisco Chemical Co., which acquired this deposit from Denver interests early in 1959 in a cash transaction, will operate a big open cut mine and upgrade by selective flotation the phosphate to elemental furnace charge. Stauffer's Victor Chemical Works Division will construct a 60,000 kw plant which will use the Humphreys rock to turn out 30,000 tons annually of phosphorus for shipment to the chemicals trade. More than half a million dollars will be spent within the next three years to develop Forest Service recreational facilities around Flaming Gorge' Dam on Ashley National Forest in Utah, Regional Forester Floyd Iverson announced an-nounced Thursday. In 1962 the finished dam will be surrounded by 13 campgrounds geared to accomodate 1,200 people at a time, 3 scenic overlooks, and 3 boat ramps. Ultimate plans call for 66 campgrounds to accommodate ac-commodate more than 9,000 people simultaneously. The damaged section of the compression com-pression plant at Red Wash oil field was being tcr down Wednesday following an explosion that caused up to $100,000 damage early Sunday. The cleaning and rebuilding operation is expected to take about two weeks, officials said, unless the compressors are badly damaged, then it would take longer. A cracked piece of pipe that was leaking gas was blamed for the blast although the cause of ignition was not known. One half of the students at Ashley Valley Junior High School study less than an hour each evening. At the top of the list of activities interfering with home studies are radio and television. Church work was a close second. This is part of the recently released "Opinion Survey of Junior High School Students Concerning Home Study Activities" that was conducted last winter. It was strictly red-flannel weather in the Vernal area throughout the past week with low temperatures substantially sub-stantially below zero. A total of 233 off-the-road high mountain lakes were planted by airplane air-plane this year with more than three-quarters three-quarters of a mM'ion small trout, according ac-cording to a report coming from department of Fish and Game offices this week. Despite "spotty" bag limits of pheasants during the season just past, this year's hunt for the brightly colored birds fared out slightly better than average, according to a preliminary report coming from department of Fish and Game office. Utahns paid a total of $434 million in taxes (Federal, state, and local) during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1959, according to a year-end review of government, just released by Utah Foundation, the private government research agency. Taxes, both direct and hidden took nearly 29 cents out of every dollar received by Utahns last year, the study continues. 30 YEARS AGO January 7, I960 ' At a joint meeting of the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce and Uintah County Commissioners held Tuesday at Hotel Vernal definite plans were laid to have the Vernal-Lapo.nt road straightened and improved, ine commissioners presented a report on their meeting with the State Road Commission on Dec. 16, which concerned con-cerned the State's proposal to build a road from Lapoint south to Highway 40. All citizens of this area will be called upon to help raise $3,400 for the purpose of defraying expenses in shipping back to Uintah county's Field House of Natural History from the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburg valuable prehistoric fossils taken originally from the strata of the Basin. This was tentatively decided upon at a meeting of the Field House Committee held Monday afternoon at the Field House. It was the consensus of opinion, as expressed by members of the committee, com-mittee, that the expense of reclaiming the fossils should be paid by all of the people of the area, rather than by a few service clubs and other organizations, since all of the people benefit from the museum. First baby to make its bow in 1950 in Uintah County was born at the County Hospital at 6 a.m. New Year's Day to Mr. and Mrs. Cleo Evans of Vernal, The new arrival is seven pounds, six ounces and a boy who has been named Robert Eugene. Vernal is among 40 towns in five states that is set to benefit from the recent consolidation of Challenger and Monarch Airlines, which when in full operation, will span a north-south route from Billings, Montana to Albuquerque, New Mexico. Approximately 2,000 Uintah County veterans of World Warll, 1.500 of them in the close vicinity of Vernal, are due to share in the government's huge $2,800,000 G.I. insurance refund which starts Jan. 16, according to Jack Allred, commander of Witbeck Post No. 11 of the American Legion. The county commissioners met at the court house Wednesday, and set a tentative 1950 budget for Uintah Countv in the amount of $177,078. Verne Farmer, geologist for the Carter Oil Co., has been advised by the state bureau of land management that in order to facilitate oil and gas development in Utah the bureau will lift suspension and issue oil and gas leases on acquired lands under special conditions. A different kind of "burning of the books"took place in Vernal recently when mail order catalogs picked up by merchants during pre-Christmas Million Dollar Days were committed to flame and ashes. Convinced that "what Uintah sells, sells Uintah" the Vernal Chamber of Commerce launched a campaign in early December to encourage en-courage people to shop at home. The campaign was given a special punch by retail merchant members offering four rolls of toilet tissue for one recent catalog. As the curtain fell upon Utah's waterfowl season, hunters tucked their guns away with a memory of one of the greatest bird populations found on Utah's marshes, and w ith 44 of the 40 hunting days being the poorest that tney had experienced. Only six days of good hunting weather were tound. Trns was during the early part of the season. The remaining days were warm and without a wind stirring, hunters often going into the marshes in their shirt sleeves. 70 YEARS AOO December 31, 1909 E.H. Belcher has been re-appoin postmaster at Vernal. The appointmea was confirmed December 10. The nev term began December 15. For awhil there was talk to the effect that ap plicants would be pushed and that Mi Belcher might lose out, but there seem to have been nothing to it.. . There U 1 well founded rumor afloat in the valfe and on the reservation to the effect tha Moffat road officials have been makinj inquiries as to the supply of hay an grain in this section. This can only lea, to one conclusion, and that is that cot struction work will begin this side 0 Steamboat Springs next spring. Right on the heels of that, com other railroad news of a more sens; tional character. The Associated Pre , on Monday sent out dispatches froi New York of a spectacular rise in ft price of Rock Island stock on Wj street. Monday morning the stock sol at around $50 per share and before tt close of the day, in fact in an hour, tt price soared to $81 per share. It the dropped back to $50. Last week the Express published a item to the effect that the Moffat roa had been purchased by the Rock Islau people and that it is to be made a part, a trans-continental route. Let us rea the following telegram sent out fna Denver last Monday: "The Times tt afternoon will say that there is goc ground for the belief that the Ra Island railroad has acquired control 1 the Denver Northwestern & Pacif railroad, otherwise known as the Mo fat road, which runs from Denver ! Steamboat Springs, Colo., an ultimately is to extend to Salt Lake." Mr. Moffat this afternoon refusec comment on the report other than say: "There are some big inside doicj You will have to guess what they art The Department of Agriculta recently secured a variety of corn fro: China which seems peculiarly adapted to land where there is lin rainfall. The ears are small, but the s: appears in the angle of the leaves whe: the pollen can settle and fertilize before the silk dries out. This seems make the corn especially valuable f dry lands and by cross breedirj. il thought that the desirable qual::: possessed by the new corn can be i: parted to corn bearing larger ears a: the area of the corn belt extended far : to the arid regions, where now en; can bo raised only by the aid of irh tion. Here is a stunner for readers of 'J Vernal Express: As is known I everybody, man, woman, boy, and f: there are 52 weeks in a year, yet th makes the 53rd number of the Expre this year and it has been published h once a week as you are all well awa: Will some boy or girl please tell be such a thing is possible? Only 52 wee in the year, no extra edition of the pap at anytime during the year and still th is issue number 53. The Express er,:e upon its 19th year with bright antic:? tions for a wonderful prosperity fori entire Uintah Basin for 1910. The pa? will endeavor to keep pace with i times. |