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Show ilW"Ti,"48W''P"rliTPrrtiriut,'llUJ:i-p- i ig ryirr f&vW0r'Wtr0Pv'9rfri yw' W'enFSw County selling real estate to build financial reserve byKenDavey In an effort to build a financial cushion, Grand County is just about ready to get into the real estate business. Monday evening the county council discussed selling 90 acres of land in San Juan . . . Vanessa Pierson, second from right, was named Queen for the upcoming Butch Cassidy Days Rodeo, in County and a small parcel within the city of Moab. extremely close judging which took place Monday night at the Old Spanish Trail Arena. Vanessa will be joined The city lot is at the southwest by Dawn Boyd, second from left, as Princess, and by Tiffany Holder, right, as attendant. Contestant Elizabeth of 4th East and 3rd corner Whitney, left, was named Miss Congeniality by her peers in balloting during the competition. and or carries a South, descommercial neighborhood ignation. The San Juan acreage is off Spanish Valley Drive, about half a mile south of the county line and next to the old Spanish Valley airport. According to county offitions from 11 to 4 and 6 to 10 Its Butch Cassidy Days in youth of the community, feathe aim is to build up the cials, p.m. on Saturday. turing Lani Parker, Miss Moab, with activities during countys financial reserves The annual rodeo will be rodeo Arizona, who is a special the week leading up to the anwhich in recent years have held at the indoor arena, and guest in Moab this week. nual Canyonlands Rodeo, reduced to almost nothbeen ticket sales have been brisk, Friday features a Cowboy slated for Thursday, Friday ing. Independent auditors Gold golf tournament at the according to rodeo officials. and Saturday nights, beginsaid the county should have Reserved seat tickets are Moab Golf Course. ning at 8 p.m. each evening. about have $850,000 in savings, available at Brigs Moab Running concurrently with Monday, judges selected 15 of the countys anabout Outdoors, and general seating the rodeo this year will be the Vanessa Pierson to reign over tickets available at many nual general fund budget. The Show at Livestock annual She festivities as Rodeo Queen. money would be available to Moab merchants and motels, the Old Spanish Trail Arena, will be supported by Dawn make up any revenue shortincluding City Market and beginning at 1 p.m. Saturday. Boyd as Princess and Tiffany falls or for emergency exTo add to the weeks festiviSpanish Valley Trading Post. Holder as attendant. Elizabeth penses. Residents and visitors alike ties, Johnnys Kiddie Rides Whitney was chosen as Miss County administrator Earl are urged to attend any or all Carnival will b set up at 1331 Congeniality during the said he hopes to sell the Sires festival week activities. Its So. Hwy. 191, with evening Monday night judging. Spanish Valley land as five Butch Cassidy Days in Moab: runs during the week, and Festival Committee memseparate parcels of between 15 Lets all enjoy. bers have completed work on a Saturday and Sunday opera and 20 acres each. He proposed western town between 1st and a procedure where sealed bids 2nd North on Main Street, and on the parcels would be acactivities and entertainment cepted, with the top three bidwill be offered there each ders then bidding against each evening during the remainder other. of the week. An appraisal of some of the The annual Rodeo Parade property last year listed the will be held Saturday at 10 value at up to $10,000 per acre, Arch is one of the longest natuOnce again, cracking, popa.m., and crowds are expected world. With in but the experience of the State of arch the rock. ral and spans falling ping, snapping to line Main Street to watch the the thinnest section of the span Utah in selling trust lands These sounds and actions were event. Moabs Citizen of the heard at Landscape Arch in being only 12 feet thick, it seems indicates that competitive bidbe will Clark Year, Ginger Arches National Park on that barely anything is holding ding often drives the final it up. When asked how long will Grand Marshal at the parade. Monday, June 5. At approxisignificantly higher the arch remain in place, Poe price of Lin P.M. clowns will Jim 3:00 rodeo Thursday, mately value. than appraised be entertaining children at the Webster, New York, witnessed a said "It is impossible to say. some But people at the meetlarge slab of rock fall from one of Because geologic processes of Community Day Care Center concerns that the raised erosion and collapse are so slow ing the world's longest arches. in the morning, and that could be worth more in the compared to a human's life time, land Lin reported hearing loud evening, beginning at 7 p.m. it's exciting to be near a rockfall future, and that it might be a pops and cracking noises just beat the Old Spanish Trail better idea to sell off parcels from a major arch." fell. He reported to slab the fore o proArena, a special The one at a time, over a period of natural asso was geologic he process that park rangers demands that all arches will years, rather than all at once. gram has been arranged for tonished that he didn't remember to take a photograph until eventually collapse. Since accu- And others, pointing out that the dust was settling. rate records have been started at the land is in San Juan County Arches National Park, 42 arches Interesting enough another visiand not subject to Grand tor at Wall Arch, approximately have collapsed in the last twenty County regulations requiring 0.25 miles north of Landscape years. The longest collapsed arch Arch, reported hearing what was Overlook Arch with a span sounded like gunshots at 3:00 of thirty feet. The second longest was Match Arch with a fifteen p.m. Butch Cassidy Rodeo Royalty C-- Butch Cassidy Days tops the agenda this week 4-- H Landscape Arch loses another splinter from its delicate span pre-rode- After an investigation evening, Monday Superintendent Noel Poe reported that a slab approximately 20 feet long fell from the front of the arch in the thinnest section. This is the second rockfall from Landscape Arch in 3 weeks. On May 18th, approximately reported hearing pops and cracking noises just before a small piece fell from the arch. Because noises continued to come from the arch, Poe closed the Landscape Loop Trail that goes underneath the arch. At that time the rangers estimated that less than six feet of rock fell. Grand Marshal . . Ginger Clark, Grand County School District choral music director, will be Grand Marshal in the Butch Cassidy Days Rodeo Parade this Saturday. Ginger was named the 1994 Citizen of the Year by the Moab Chamber of and is known Commerce the community for throughout her dedication and willingness to serve the youth of Moab, through her good works and musical activities. The parade will Street at 10 proceed down-Maia.m. Saturday, June 10. On September 1, 1991, a large slab fell that was approximately 60 feet long, eight feet feet wide, and thick. There were a couple of smaller rockfalls during the next few weeks but since October 1991, there have been no known rockfalls from Landscape Arch until the small fall on May 18, four-and-a-ha- lf 1995. Prior to 1991, the only known rockfall from Landscape Arch occurred in March, 1941, and was reported by Park Custodian Henry Schmidt. At 306 feet long, Landscape 5, sewer hookups, feared that a big increase in septic tanks in the lower end of the valley could contaminate the groundwater. The council took no action, and will discuss the issue again. In other business, the council turned the dispute with the Moab Sportsmans Club over to attorneys. The club says they paid a patent fee to the Bureau of Land Management in 1958 for land along Sand Flats Road that was subsequently deeded to the county as a shooting range. The club also says they were (Cont. on Page A-3- ) Wilderness bill now before Congress After two decades of wrangling, Utahs Congressional delegation has completed a wilderness proposal, which was introduced in the U. S. House of Representatives Tuesday. The bill, jointly sponsored by Rep. James Hansen and Enid Waldholtz, and supported by other members of the Utah House and Senate delegation and by Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, calls for creating 1.8 million acres of wilderness on Bureau of Land Management and state lands in Utah. That is nearly double the amount recommended by Uah county officials, but falls way short of the acreage proposals offered by Utah environmental groups. Rep. Bill Orton, whose district includes most of the wilderness proposal, says the bill is pretty good, but stated he plans to offer his own bill as a compromise, should the HansenWaldholtz bill fail to pass the House and Senate and gain the approval of President Bill Clinton. Ortons bill would create, in addition to pure wilderness, a large block of sensitive Utah land as National Conservation Areas. Tuesdays bill includes 49 wilderness areas which would protect thecrown jewels of Utahs public lands, according to Sen Orrin Hatch. Included are parts of such scenic areas as the Escalante River canyon, Grand Gulch, Deep Creek Mountains, San Rafael Reef, Book Cliffs, Desolation Canyon, Henry Mountains and Dirty Devil River. It represents a reasonable approach to a very complex said Sen. Bob problem, Bennett. I like the methodical way in which we went through it, parcel by parcel, and came up purely by coincidence with a result very close to the Bureau Land of million acre recommendation. It gives me a sense of comfort that our methodology was pretty good. Rep. Enid Waldholtz said she plans to offer some amendments, adding some 300,000 acres of additional Managements 1.9 wilderness. Its a very good bill, but there are some areas I would like to see included and some boundaries I would like to see drawn a little larger, she said. The bill includes language which would provide for the trade of state lands within the wilderness areas to the federal government. It does not include, however, hard-releas- would language that e bar any land not on Page A-- desig-(Co- nt 3) WEATHER foot span. Chipseal work planned on park roads Canyonlands National Park will apply a new chip seal coating to paved roads in the Island in the Sky District beginning June 12, according to Park Superintendent Walt Dabney. The project will require eight or more days to complete and will affect traffic to the most popular and northern district of the park. While access will remain open to all the viewpoints and destinations in the district, traffic will be controlled. Crews will be working from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily. At times, only one lane of traffic will be open requiring delays lasting no more than 15 minutes. Work will begin at the Grand View Point parking area and proceed north to the junction with the Upheaval Dome road. Crews will then chip seal the Upheaval Dome road before finishing the entrance road to the visitor center, resurfacing 18 miles of pavement. New roadside exhibits at Arches . . . Volunteer workers from the Sierra Club recently completed the installation of new porcelain and enamel roadside exhibits throughout Arches National Park. This particular panel, at the top of the entrance road switchbacks above the Visitor Center, graphically shows the geological differences on both sides of the Moab Fault, which crosses the road just above the Visitor Center. See Kris Taylor feature, Page 1 this issue. B-- |
