Show quiet quid unmolested desert yields T to 0 man 1 the strong builder it was a semi desert wild erness with an age old silence broken only by the bleat of an occasional sheep the whir of a grouse or the chirrup of a cricket at night the moon gaze gazed d and the stars blinked down for centuries on tho the flats and the hills while the breezes a melody through th sagebrush the lane lanc was broken by the winding green river that in summer lapped gently r the bright rocks and provided life for the elation and the deer and other r denizens of the wild then came man now puffing chugging sounds of diesel powered giant earth movers and squealing power shovels rip through the normal autumn silence the roar of trucks reverberates reverberated rever berates through the mills as the ed zt t goes forth here we will build a dam and a city face change slowly but inexpiably the face lace 01 of the ule land changes later the course of the river will be changed then it will I 1 be dammed arid and the land will disappear under many feet of water the parched desert will be transformed into a life giving reservoir that will irrigate irrigate and provide babu lous ous power tor for industry dut but now it is just the first stages of the construction of naming gorge dam and the final stages of dutch john townsite te access roads gradually are beginning to snake across the rock and the brush toward the place where with in five to six years a towering lain dam will rule the formerly uninhabited land work has begun on oil a diversion tunnel which will carry tile the white capped water around the site while woi workmen kinen sink foundation for the foot plus high dam the symbol of the astonishing change took place last september 11 when with massive muscles dynamite ripped rock and rubble out of the side of the canyon on the green river next summer there will be little ot the original area left six years and nearly later when the dam is completed m man an will reign supreme and unchallenged over the entire domain |