Show 4 1 1 0 what about our stock stockpile P ile before congregational committee mr V IP g a i JL stuart symington chairman of the national cecur itice resources board said that steel aluminum and rub 1 ber are commodities in short shor supply and in addition I 1 acre there are a number 0 ot other materials of strategic im por tanco col I 1 which this country needs many americana will recall that hat in the course of made strenuous efforts to ox ex 1 world war 11 II this country f ri haild its facilities for tho the production of steel aluminum j ana rubber rull bor there was a 0 campaign instituted to secure appropriations for the purchase of a stockpile stock pile of strategic commodities comm aties 11 the synthetic rubber plants could we presume supply some atra amounts of rubber but mr suming 4 ton thinks that wo or more tons of nit natural tural rubber as rapidly as idi possible ible apparently despite the experience of the las and ald the shortages that the nation experienced there has not been sufficient progress a made on ta the to stockpiling program if one looks look sinto into the matter long enough it will be r discovered that wi stockpiling for defenso is a program that costs money with the great gnat demand in this country for reduced taxation after th ewar there was a natural tendency to put off all spending that could be postponed the stockpiling till ing program got caught in the economy pro jam and wo we now find rind ourselves short of a number of described bed as being of strate strategic im i L m poi tance y ILI L I 1 A reader writes 41 4 ii Un Unten nann presents echo park boad road picture the approach roads park dam in both colorado ys and utah continue ti to be a live subject of discussion and concern x by their respective adherents adhe rents artesla artesia and other western coloa i rado naturally plug fo fola a colorado access road while vernal boosts the utah t approach this Is the healthy competition which can be logically expected from all these com muni tift each Is striving to become the gateway to echo park dam daml and win the rewards which such a title brings even if 11 athe the colorado utah state line didiot did not intervene even it if all these communities were in the same state such competition for this y f rich prize could be expected n but wha tare the ue cold coid facts which of these competing communities Is the logical and natural contender lor for the covet ed e d title of gateway to echo Ech park dam daft the blunt t truth ruth Is that v neither the highway department of colorado nor of utah will build the access roads to echo park dam the road over which 7 equipment and material will be hauled will be built by the bureau of reclamation and the construction companies which build echo park dam the location of this road will not be dictated by community interest but by b r feasibility and practical ity what these groups want to know Y is which 1 Is the b best t all year route with the easiest grades that is where w here the echo af park road will be built and on this basis which state wins utah i I 1 or colorado nature has favored utah giving practically a water jete grade gr ade from vernal to island park and up whirlpool canyon to ty echo parkham park dam nature has already decided the issue over which utah and colorado are competing any road from a colordo color do A point must cross blue or the yampa lampa plateau this means climb of approximately 2500 feet from the main highway only ile i a to drop back down to about the same level at which the haul began no contractor Is going to haul heavy equipment and thousands of tons of material over a mountain blocked half the s year ear by snow when be he can travel a road at low elevation which is s open the year around and nd which gives him a gentle water grade the presen troad from vernal to island park is already better than any road the state of colorado could build to echo park dam because of the nature 0 the high mountain area such a road toad must cross road building Is ft further arther corn complicated on the yampa river rim by two major fruits faults which produce sheer i drops which a road must cross to get down ino echo 0 park the echo park damsite and the logical means of access to it have ve both been decided millions 0 years ago by geological processes es the bureau of reclamation taking advantage of what geology gy has J created has already surveyed roadsides road sites out to island park and up whirlpool canyon it has no intention of going over a mountain a when it can go around aroun it on a low owe level e water grade up the e green I 1 river even if craig colorado were the ra railhead ead for or supplies and equipment for the construction of echo park dam da the utah green river route to the darn damsite site would be the logical one to tako would you haul heavy loads over blue mountain when you could go around it in an editorial on august 24 1950 the vernal express ae A voiced the opinion that colorado may have stronger assurances that echo park dam construction la Is imminent than has utah and that this accounts for the road activity on the part of artesla artesia v and other western colorado communities which want to keep 4 the echo park development in their state the writer does not believe that colorado has hat any preferred information with re to echo park dam darn which is not also in the possession of sf utah or any other interested state ni ii individual 1 the frantic J road activity of western colorado is born of wishful thinking 1 I and desperation artesia Is another pa pathetic example of a ghost town created by the boom and bust of f on oil field drilling activity the echo park road Is artelias Art esias last chance for survival and if f checan she can sell the colorado highway department on the proposition that by making her the gateway to echo park dam the entire development will remain in tr that state she Is 19 the gainer it Is a good try and artesla artesia has nothing to lose the colorado highway department was not that considerate of artesla artesia when ht it refused to improve highway 64 from tom artesla artesia to rangely langely Ran gely and built the blue mountain city cutoff cut off instead this cu cutoff cut off lof awas As constructed with the idea of funnelling fun nelling rangely langely business unto craig instead of coming comin gover over no 64 into vernal however this attempt to keep colorado business in colorado was not too successful because when the motorist reached highway NO 40 mountain city he still was only 40 miles from vernal and 80 miles from craig in any event artesia was left to die idle 61 t on the vine by its own state road commission the present plan for a road from artesla artesia to echo park may serve as a summer tourist road to that area and to a ome of the wilderness sections 41 of dinosaur national monument but it will not be a suitable road to echo park dam for construction purposes 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