Show Pres Johnson Asks For Foy Hatchery ery Ro Road aker President Johnson in his budget submitted to Congress Tuesday asked for for lor the road to the proposed Jones Hole Fish Hatchery He also asked for for work on Ser Ser- Service Service vice Canal Sen SEm Frank E Moss sent the budget information by tele- tele telegram telegram gram to The Vernal Express office Tuesday PRESIDENT Johnson re- re requested requested quested CongresS to i m n the Bureau I of Reclamation budget to be used by the Bureau of Sports Fisheries and Wildlife to build the first phase of the road to the propos proposed Jones Hole Fish Hatchery Senator Moss reported The funds would be used to grade gnade gravel and surface a new entrance road to Jones Hole where the Bureau of Sports FisherIes and Wild Wild- Wildlife Wildlife life plans to develop a new federal trout hatchery to tostock tostock stock Flaming Gorge Reser- Reser Reservoir Reservoir voir Surveying work WM was com com- completed in July 1963 on the road which will connect with the road from Vernal and make the hatchery site at the bottom of the canyon accessible accessible ble The surveying sur crew staked ed cd out the center line of the road from the junction of the Jones Hole road and the road that goes into Clay Basin PROJECT Engineer Merlin Walker of the Bureau of Pub Pub- Public Public lic Roads survey crew report report- reported reported ed that it was a very good route until the last three miles when the road drops oft off into Jones Hole with a very steep grade In August 1962 Assistant Secretary of the Interior John JohnA A 1 signed Carver Carver an application tion of the Bureau of Sports Fisheries and Wildlife for tor forthe the withdrawal and reservation allon of acres of public land in the Jones Hole area THE LAND is 23 miles Wailes from Vernal and adjoins Din Din- Dinosaur National Monument The proposed federal fish hatchery will cost about 2 million to develop which will include the improvement and extension of the necessary necessary ac- ac access access cess road from the rim to the location of the hatchery The Bureau of Sports Fish Fish- Fisheries Fisheries eries has said that that this is the only good site for a fish hat hat- hatchery hatchery chery in the entire area Jones Hole has an excellent water supply of 30 second second- feet wIth an ideal tempera ture of 53 degrees IT WOULD be a large hat hat- hatchery hatchery chery and would serve the area of Utah plus the Cola Colo- rade rad River and adjacent areas of Wyoming including supply supply- supplying supplying ing Flaming Gorge ReservoIr It is anticipated that the proposed hatchery would em em- em employ ploy five families the year around The establishment ment of the hatchery would not prevent use of the water by livestock using the adjoining range rangeland rangeland land but grazing would be restricted in the construction area according to Continued on Page 8 J Continued train from page 1 officials AS SOON AS the road was passabLe it would be J possible if funds were available to undertake the second phase of the work This would consist of the construction of the hatchery buildings the water intake structure and pipelines con con- concrete crete raceways and other ap- ap appurtenances ap- ap appurtenances necessary to the propagation of fish for fol Flam Flam- Flaming ing Gor Gorge Reservoir and andI I other nearby streams President Johnsons Johnson's bud bud- budget get also requested for Service Canal to be included In the Bureau of of Reclamation activities for 1 s 's 1 b I al rt b i u j July l r 1 1964 SENATOR MOSS chair chair- chairman man of the Senate Interior Subcommittee on Irrigation and and Reclamation said Con Conn will be continued on the canal lining and miscellaneous laneous structures of the I Canal A contract for construction of a drain is scheduled for award and the collection of information on the overall drainage system will be continued I Senator Moss also reported that the budget includes for Investigations of the ultimate phase of the Central Utah Project and this amount with the appropriated for fiscal year 1964 will make it ble to complete the Ule preliminary ary appraisal of the overall project in fiscal year 1966 A feasibility report of the Uin Uin- Uintah tah Unit will b be completed after that THE EAU BUREAU of Reclamation tion asked for the UPI Upper er Colorado River Pro Pro- Project Project less than the appropriation or the current year I 1 I lI lIThe The decline reflected com com- completion of Flaming Gor Gorge e and Navajo 0 dams and reservoirs and approach of the end of construction at Glen Canyon the largest unit Biggest item in the Colo Colo- Colorado rado River bud budget et was 21 for construction of power transmission linEs linE's to link Flaming Gorge Glen Canyon and power power market areas |