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Show In The M Old Bays 50 Years Ago August 10, l!K!:i Wednesday evening of last week , eon P. Christ ensen returned from a meeting n Salt Lake City of the state Lrd of water commissioners of rt'jchhe is a member. The project for irrigation of the l0.er Ouray Valley from the Duchesne River and for which a preliminary survey was made some Le ago was considered by the board and funds for a government survey and estimate was sanctioned. Funds are being asked from the R. F. C. to complete this project which would give considerable work in this particular section. There has been filed in the county clerk's office by Mayor Rice C. Cooper, president of the Uintah County Coun-ty Commissioners, W. L. Fletcher, chairman, Willis L. Johnson and Leroy Goodrich, to levy for library purposes four-tenths of one mill as sanctioned bv the board of county commissioners ai their regular meeting July 31st. The Toyack chapter of Future Farmers will leave the last day of the U.B.I C. for a visit to the Century of Progress exposition at Chicago. With ideal weather prevailing an immense im-mense throng of people came to attend the first day's session of the eleventh annual U.B.I.C. at Fort Duchesne on Wednesday. Ed M. Oaks, deputy game warden, is busy these days planting trout in the ! various streams of Uintah County. A truck load of the finny tribe arrives daily and Mr. Oaks and his helpers rush them immediately to some stream where they are planted. The varieties are the Rainbow and Native trout. Work on the new building for the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company which will be located between Newton Brothers building and the Uintah State Bank building commenced last week and at this writing the foundation is nearly completed. 30 Years Ago August 6, 1953 About 75 workers are idle at the American Gilsonite Company mines of Bonanza as a result of a strike between company officials and the United Steel Workers of America. A contract for construction of a 4.9 mile strip of road between Pole Creek and Elk Horn Ranger Station in Ashley National Forest east of Whiterocks has been awarded to Uintah Construction I Company. Lloyd's Motor Service, 390 West Main, officially opens next Friday and Saturday, August 14 and 15, when special activities have been planned kail customers. Hyrum Slaugh, Davis, has been appointed ap-pointed manager of Ashley Farmers Union Co-op service station and feed mill replacing Ken Mortensen, who resigned to go into business. Surfacing of about two miles of the Sand Canyon road into Echo Park has just been completed, according to Supt. Jess Lombard, who has been in charge of the project. Purchase by G. S. Ziegler and Co., New York, of properties of the American Asphalt Assn. and the Castle Cas-tle Peak Gilsonite Co. in the Uintah Basin, was announced Saturday. Twentv-one Trail Riders of the wilderness returned to the U-Bar Ranch Wednesday afternoon after a week ride through the beautiful primitive High Uintas. A "Back to School, Dollar Days" event has been planned for Vernal August 27, 28, and 29 by the Retail Merchants Mer-chants Committee of the Chamber of Commerce. The lowest levy in the past seven years was set tentatively Tuesday by the Board of County Commissioners, according to Charles T. Pope, county clerk. The levy of 9.5 mills is divided as follows: General 4.3, roads 2.5, poor .2, library .4, fair .2, recreation .3, agriculture .4, weeds .1, hospital .1, Colorado River .1. |