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Show SPOTLIGHTING " UTAH Pertinent Comment About Utah from the State Department o! Publicity and Industrial Development. De-velopment. Red Men Lament Bead Shortage A war-born bead shortage Is seriously ser-iously handicapping Utah Indians in their efforts to get back into the business of making beaded gloves, hunting vests and tribal regalia. Only a trickle of bright colored beads now reach America from Europe. During the war, bead imports ceased entirely. Full Indian tribal regalia calls for the use of thousands of beads, and due to their lack, Utah Indians In-dians are short on Indian costumes. cos-tumes. From Duchesne County, it is reported that there are only four or five complete Indian costumes cos-tumes left on the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation. This is exlpained in the tact that when high ranking Indians pass to the Happy Hunting Grounds they are buried in full tribal regalia. With no beads available to make new clothes, the present costumes will pass to the grave with their owners own-ers as burial clothes. Even in this modern age, Red men who bury their dead are fearful of grave robbers who fiendishly open up the burial place of a recently departed de-parted Indian to steal his elaborate elabor-ate costume. Colorado River Has Piscatorial Wonders "Are there any fish in the Colorado Colo-rado River?" tourists and visitors to Utah frequently ask. The questioners ques-tioners imagine that because of heavy load of silt carried by Utah's biggest stream, that the water could support no fish life. The fact is however, that at Moab, soirie eight kinds of fish have been caught by fishermen on the river. 'T'he r.iost interesting ;b'.:h is the Colorado River salmon, ao named by Major Powell who first navigated the stream through Utah in 1896. This fish, sporting a huge head often reaches a lengtn of 3 6 inches. And then there is the Channel Cat, which often reaches thirty inches in length and weighs fifteen pounds, and his cousin the Mud Cat, a smaller fish. Then there is the Boney Tail, a ten-in-cher, the Hump Back, a twelve in-cher, in-cher, and the last, the common Carp Suckers and Perch. Oil Jitters Hits Basin The oil well jitters a high state of expectancy has hit the Uintah Basin. The excitement started a few weeks ago when a big drilling outfit struck a huge flow of gas 54,000,000 cubic feet every 24 hours enough to supply the city of Los Angeles. The gas was reached at 5200 feet, a few miles northwest of Vernal. Operations Oper-ations went right on however, the drillers were seeking oil, and they had the facilities to go down 8,000 feet if necessary. Within 24 hours after the gas was struck, 36 additional oil men arrived in the Uintah Basin almost every square mile of which has been charted by crews of seismograph seismo-graph men during the last 18 months. At this writing, all the land that can be leased by oil men and others has been grabbed up even acre and half-acre tracts. Residents of Vernal, Roosevelt, Duchesne and other towns in the Basin are keeping watchful on the independent drillers rather than the big oil companies. If an independent in-dependent operator hits oil, he will tell the world about It. The big concerns might cap an oil strike and announce it later |