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Show Ufes Use Funds For Family ImproYemenfs Family ImIGNACIO, Colo. funds of the Southern tribe will be used prihome and farm Imthis year under the tribes rehabilitation program, a study of expenditures authorized shows. The tribe will spend $3,000 for each of its 550 members to finance family improvement plans, and this expenditure is in addition to per capita payments made from tribal revenue, which may be spent without restriction. The befamily improvement plans are $5,ing financed with part of the - provement Ute Indian marily on provement URANIUM 500 ' .0 awarded the tribe In Its land claims suit against the federal government. Since last October, when an approval committee was set up to pass judgment on Improvement plan requisitions, about $190,474 has been paid out by the tribe oa approximately 100 requests. n of these expendA itures shows a total of $102,638 spent for home improvement; $43,650 for farm improvement; and $44,184 for miscellaneous break-dow- purposes including investments, insurance and repayment of loans and mortgages. DRILLING & EXPLORATION, INC. PLUG AND CORE DRILLING HOLE PROBING AND ELECTRIC LOGGING Latest Equipment Experienced Personnel 314 URANIUM CENTER BLDG. Night Phone, Day 2978 Grand Junction, Colo. DINOSAUR QUARRY 8 miles east of Vernal, Utah, where dinosaur bones are encased in the rock where the huge prehistoric beasts died millions of years ago when the rock was soil. This rock away' from the bones so they are more easily viewed workman is chipping the granite-lik- e by visitors to the quarry. Uranium Hunf Half Seen If Jeep Use Curfaiied Barring unauthorized use of Jeeps on either private or public land would bring to a halt virtually all . . . prospecting necessary for uranium and oil development, Henry Hough, publisher of an oil and uranium trade journal declared recently. Restriction of the use cf jeeps and trucks to all but established Colorado roads is the subject of a bill introduced in the present session of the Colorado legislature and now being debated. W. JONES R. TRUCKING CO. PHONE 355 Utah Vernal Largest and 'in- d is the claim made for Vernal, largest city between Craig, Colorado and Salt Lake City on Highway U.S. 40. Located 120 miles from the nearest railroad the city has overcome the disadvantages which normally accrue from such lack of transportation facilities, and boasts an excellent municipal water system, a modern sewage disposal system, daily mail service, a modern electrical service, excellent educational facilities and some of the finest churches in the west. Vernal is 370 miles west of Denver and 175 miles east of Salt Lake City; has a population of 3.7C0; altitude 5331 feet; county seat of Uintah county; gateway to Dinosaur National Monument; industrial and commercial center of the Uintah Basin. Geiger Counfers, Scinfiilafors Mineralighf All Models $29.95 o to $2,995.00 REPAIRS SALES CALIBRATIONS RENTALS Free Precision Instrument Catalog Available on Request That Vernal is primarily supported by the production of alfalfa, wheat, beef, lambs, wmol, honey and dairy products, is shown from the of circular Ashley Valley which one gets as he descends into Vernal from the divide on the west. Oil exploration and production and the gilsonite mines furnish other major payrolls. The brilliant, clear atmosphere, the absence of smoke stacks or industrial plants, and the angular hay fields, pasture lands and grain fields indicate that Vernal is fundamentally an agricultural community and that Vernal people are serious about their cultivating and farming. And because Vernal is far off the railroad and until recently has d not been served by highways, it has been able to retain many of the characteristics of the typical frontier town. With its surrounding sheep ranges and cattle country and its nearby Indian reservation. Vernal becomes the mecca for cow hands, sheep men and an Indian or two each Saturday night when the weeks work is done, and the jangle of spurs, the Stetson hat, and the sleepy cowpony are still familiar on Ver- Denver, Colorado (Across From State Capitol) Basin Flying Service 0 Charter Q Flights Rim Flying 0 Sight Seeing Aerial Private Instructions We Specialize In Flying For The Oil And Uranium Industries Phone 4S0-- J Vernal Utah CALDWELL and COUmQTQN Geological Consulting Services OIL and URANIUM PROPERTIES SERVING the NORTHWESTERN COLORAOD nal streets. And yet the city Is not without a metropolitan flavor. The well-light- and compact business sec- tion, the 40 blocks of asphalt-pavestreets, the fine motor courts, hotels and eating houses, the new modern swimming pool, $400,000 hospital. Field House Museum, and service stations tains, Dinosaur Museum, historic Indian pictographs, and the dances and ceremonies of the 1,900 Indians v ho make their homes on the reservation near Vernal, lend color to the fascinating area. Located a few feet more than a mile above the level of the sea the Vernal section has four dis-- ! tinct, although not extreme, sea-- 1 sons. The average length of the growing season is 114 days. The average date of the last killing frost in the spring is May 28, of the first killing frost in the autumn is September 19th. The dry, brisk climate is unusually healthful. The Vernal area has ample water resources (in normal years) and fertile so.il enough to grow any of the staple fruits and vegetables. Vernal dairy products are noted for their unusual quality, and Vernal honey is The MONTICELLO, Utah Prince Albert uranium mine located in the Browns Hole area northeast of Monticello, has been Minnesota and Montana men. 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