Show vernal express articles among hearing evidence among the piles of evidence supporting the U upper er colorado river storage pro project art in washington D C next week will be three photo static copies ol 01 the vernal ex express ress dated july 21 and 28 aff and august 4 1938 the photos of page one of each of the three issues issues carries stories on the enlargement of dinosaur national monument by presidential proclamation one paragraph of the july 21 1938 issue story reads as follows in bringing the square guare miles into the national monument which heretofore covered only 80 acres the park service agreed to permit the division of grazing grazin to continue operating on the fa land nd and recognized izea power and reclamation rights this statement helps to support contentions of echo park supporters that dinosaur was enlarged only after the citizens of this area were promised it would not effect power and reclamation cla clai mation nation rights the third paragraph of the article in the july 28 1938 issue reads J A cheney cashier of the uintah state bank bank has worked on the enlargement and the development of the dinosaur national monument for a number of years representing the vernal lions club it was through the efforts of mr cheney that the power and grazing rights were protected in the forming of the new scenic region and finally a para paragraph ph in the august 4 1938 I 1 issued reads under the order analar enlarging g the monument grazing will continue in areas ahil which previously have been used by stockmen stoc kmen and power and irrigation rights continued on page 8 VERNAL EXPRESS ARTICLE continued from frow page 1 will be recognized these three paragraphs definitely establish proof that back in 1038 it was the common bell belief ef of everyone concerned that the enlargement of the monument would not effect future grazing and reclamation in the area opponents of echo park dam the conservationists say that to build the dam in dinosaur national monument would set a precedent for invading other national monuments si st a are able to prove through such evidence as the newspaper articles the proclamation enlarging the monument letters written at the time and by an affidavit of david IL 12 madsen then manager of dinosaur national monument that this Is an exception and that other parks would not be endangered |