Show craig water meet termed vital vita vernal chamber of commerce board of directors this week opened a campaign to encourage residents of the basin to attend a special colorado river w wa te meet slated for craig color coloa on oct 3 assisting the chamber are the th vernal kiwanis lions and junior chamber of commerce clubs last thursday evening Kiwan ians lans elected a committee to work with the chamber on the pro project act and a any other echo park project lero iero I 1 act that nui rui might come up the jaycees are in the groces of taking the same step the vernal lions club has a standing echo park committee which this year is being chair by B H director in charge chairge of the committee is leon P christensen members are C R hopkins francis feltch veitch and J A cheney delegates authorized at a meeting of the chamber board of directors last thursday directors direct ona ora authorized B H String harn a board member and B frk frank ward executive secretary to attend the craig meeting oct 3 and also a meeting of the upper colorado river compact conci commission next week at grand junction the two men planned to leave vernal sunday Contin continued lied tied on page 8 water meet meef continued from pae page 1 at the arand grand junction meeting the tho commission will be organized to 0 o members can net on decisions of utah and colorado other upper states made at educational meetings being held heid meetings were started in roosevelt and arid were wore aiso also held heid at erice price rice nephi and salt sait lake cit city the mooting oct 3 at craig copeli tiie tile education a al meetings to be rado radii value of tile the inee meetings tings cannot bo over estimated according to men who attended thinking of state officials as well weli as federal fedral officials officio ils and residents has beon brought together for tor conc cone concerted cried action on tile the grent great echo park and arid central utah projects utah attendance business men of vernal and the rest of the uintah basin can an I 1 tafford afford to shut down town their 1 busi bust U 41 nesses lIS SICA if it necessary to attend tit the 1 craig meeting mr wan assert ed wednesday echo park pank dam darn to cost itself will wil i be only the beginning of a 2 I 1 project that pro eject Is right in lit our law lap and arid it will mean more to tho th uintah basin than any of it us can call imn into gme he lie said saia echo park dam can te be corm corn plated and power ready for use ii I 1 by 1055 1955 if it proper support I 1 is s til tit tit i sn sald said F d other oiher meetings mr String liam llam and M mr r ward tuesday were scheduled to meet moet with J A krug secretary of tile the interior to discuss phases of tit tile echo park project secretary krug along with tile the two vernal men and thousands of other gov ern mental business arl art and private privA lv representatives were to operations at the rifle hifle colo coio shale shaie oil plant on monday successful operation of that plant plane also aiso could coula mean much to the uintah area tests are arc proving that shale shaie can be mined and processed on a comparable cost with crude oil in the uintah basin there are great quantities of shale shaie lying on the earths surface and would not have to be mined possibly making costs considerably low er still another meeting in connection with water problems and echo park has been called by the salt sait lake chamber chambor of corm corn merce for thursday sept 22 in salt sait lake city the two vernal representatives are arc planning to attend that meet |