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Show 30 YEARS AGO July 12, 1931 Uintah Basin has made another commercial discovery of oil. The Ute Tribal No. 1 Duchesne Unit "came in" Sunday producing 3113.32 barrels of 42 gravity oil in a 40 hour test. The well is owned own-ed by the Carter and Continental Con-tinental Oil Companies. Plans were being made Wednesday for retesting. The well is the fourth commercial discovery of oil in the Busin and the sixth such find in the State since 1948. A group of reclamation experts recently completed com-pleted a tour through the Echo Park Dam site to select a camping area for Bureau of Reclamation field crews who will gather data on the site. According to present plans, the dam will be located in Colorado, three miles from the Utah border. It will be 525 feet high and will create a reservoir 104 miles in length. Latest news from Washington indicates that there still may be time for the Central Utah project to be presented during the current session ses-sion of Congress, with the possibility that it may be authorized and money appropriated ap-propriated for the construction con-struction of Echo Park Dam. Oscar L. Chapman, Secretary of the Interior, has said in Denver on May 22 that approval of the Echo Park Dam project pro-ject had been given over the protest of conservation conserva-tion groups because the electric power would be used in a new defense plant. Dinosaur National Monument is at present a dry inaccessible area whose lugged splendor is locked between precipitous gorges and only seen by a handful of people a year who are willing to risk life and limb in perilous river trips. On a list of casulties released by the Department Depart-ment of Defense last weekend, reported killed in the Korean area was Pvt. Manuel Lucera, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence A. Lucero, RFD 1, Myton. Pvt. Lucero previously was reported missing in action on April 7. |
