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Show THE SAX JlAX RECORD .V . p, Thursday, March 17, 1953 Page 2 CITY WALL VC. CONSTRUCTED au3iwn jScroi5 OlKp 'n7 'bZT? , 5- Thu ..... .... .... .... Editor-Publishe- . 111-11- 2 111-11- 2 111-11- 2 In agreeing with the city council in their belief that this service could be part of the answer to the problem of a uniform health code, we strongly urge that everyone attend the city meeting Thursday night to determine if a better plan exists, or if this service might not be tailored to our present needs. Some concern has been expressed by the council members that the cost might be prohibitive. However, if the contract would be identical in cost to that between the contractor and the city of Moab, I doubt that I could personally afford to run my own garbage service for the same price even once a month, let alone several times a month. Above that, its the least expensive health insurance on the market. The Holder Engineering Service 4th Str., Grand Junction, Colo. yonr surveying and engineering needs, Formerly a partner in Western Engineers, Dave Holder is fa- miliar with San Juan County and its Engineering problems. For honest reliable surveys write Box 571 or call 957, in GrandJunction. We are licensed by the Utah Dept, of Business Regulation. 126 So. Is ready to serve xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,. -- 03 03 OS: as TTlfflBE SB "7BQ0BDSE 1 JHBB, f $ 5 S g S g J 3 ctiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiimiiiiiiiiiimiiiiimiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiimimimmiiimi!: 3C3C ICCIBCQ boaar ILujCUGBCUL JaaaaaaDliDu gg SEE Eg 'BflIHQGiffl 1303 TgaaaaDaaaon OPEN A CHECKING ACCOUNT WITH US I I j I DOVECREEK STATE BANK I Congratulations To L. J. Stull, Jewelers, on Their Grand Opening in Monticello Member F. D. I. C. 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The big question, however, is what can the Upper Basin states do now that they are beginning to prove their point about the true nature of the opposition. There are people who just must play polities, and when you have the power and influence on your side, it makes it easy to play. It is a sad, but true, fact that Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming combined cannot match the numerical strength of California in the BlgSBDQHQaHIHBHgSE HBHiBHSBaESaaDff m . iwi s Q0 m no u imramsi a 00 m ra m House. o However, if this were the only stumbling block, mounted. There are a few others. The Old Settler By Albert R. Lyman My dear San Juaners: All the apples and pears, all the plums and peaches, all the melons and pumpkins anJ grapes and figs, and the seemingly endless list of splendid fruits, vegetables and flow-ers- , By Walter Chamblin, Jr. WASHINGTON At ths instihave been ' ' revived from the gation of the Secretary of Labor, t L I original stock of Senator Smith of New Jersey, the " ranking Republican on the Senj,! 'which we have ate 1 Labor Committee, has intro'spoken. Not only va-- i duced two bills of vital' concern. our but that, 4 One bill known as the ConA t kinds of , rious sheep tract Work Hours Standards Act ' and cattle have proposes a codification of all law's. The other, known as been developed from the runty the Industrial Safety Act, would creatures found in the wilderness. give the Secretary of Labor au-The parent stock of our great va- thority to regulate safety in in-- ; riety of chickens is still carrying dustry. Both bills are presented as in on in its wild statet in India; and By Oris Rudd This mornings mail brought the March 1 report of snow surveys and water supply forecasts. It looks like the state in general will be faced with another year of serious water shortage. Espe-- ' dally in the North e r n irrigated "areas where reservoirs are low and snow pack is ' J below 1 the degenerate horse, weighing eight or nine hundred pounds, is running wild in different parts of the earth. All this is interesting; we would like to know the true history of our dogs and cats, our tomatoes and eggplants, our pansies and carnations, but another phase of this line of thought is more interesting still. Suppose we had never known such a thing as a potato, or an apple, whaf would our sour little apples on these hills mean to us? What would the little potatoes in Recapture mean? Probably just nothing at all. Yet in them is the potentialities of our apples and our potatoes which are such an important factor in our diet. Now the thing that intrigues me, is the endless list of valuable things right here in our country which have come down from Eden, but are not yet recognized for their possibilities. Fruits and vegetables, flowers and grains, nuts on trees and on bushes. Thev are much more promising, even in their degenerate state than our wild apples and wild potatoes, but it remains with some one vith imagination and with faith to take them up, one or more at a time, and give them as a valuable part in the inheritance of all coming generations. No time or space here to mention even one per cent of the things in San Juan which could be developed to grow here probably better than they would grow anywhere else, since they are native to the country, but in time they could be introduced to other countries and be useful to mankind generally. Of our wild fruits which do remarkably well, having no care or attention, is our wild strawcurrents, berries, raspberries. gooseberries, choke cherries, service berries, thimble berries, to say nothing of what our pricklypear apples could become with care and selection. On the bald, blistered south rim f the Elk Mountain, weak and veary with hunger and thirst, I found a bud of thimble berries, lelicious to eat. and very refresh-ng- , but what intrigued me, was the thought of what that bush would do with half a chance. Considering what the wild sego has become in the hard, thirsty wliderness, and how sweet its little bulb, who can doubt that it would pay well for being cultivated and improved. And in this connection, what finer flower is there than the sego? Indians have lived and thrived on the wild pricklypear, and there is no reason to doubt that with care it could be improved to produce an abundance of food where it grows rank on the desert. The Indians have made nourishing bread out of the seed of our native sand grass which grows rank with half a chance. Also a yellow seed which goes to waste by the tons every spring. Of nuts; the delicious butter plum-size- d bean-size- d line with the Presidents legisla-- I tive program. For more than ten years the Department of Labor has been trying to get legislation to en- able the Federal Government to pressure the states to step up industrial safety programs. The bill now before Congress is the usual state proposition, with the Federal Government paying from to of the cost of state safety programs. Such state programs must be in accordance with standards to be established by the Secretary of Labor, or else the Secretary may withhold the federal payment until the state does comply. The appropriation authorization is unlimited; the President's budget requests $2,000,000 for the first years operation. The passage of this measure cannot be justified. As a result of state safety programs and voluntary work being done by industry and various other groups, the general trend In industrial accidents is downward. Industry can be expected to oppose enactment of this legislation (1) It gives unnecesbecause sary authority to the Federal Government (2) The cost cannot be justified. The Contract Work Hours Standards Act will affect all employers, with certain minor exceptions, engaged in fulfilling any contract or subcontract or subsubcontract, etc. for anything to he paid for either wholly or in part by federal funds, or from loans, insured or guaranteed by the federal government. Covered employers would be required to pay all laborers and f after meehanies time and eight hours in any one day, and after forty hours in any one week. Damages, fines and imprisonment are provided for violations. Industrial opposition can be ex(D pected for three reasons . The unwarranted extension of federal bureaucracy into the operation of additional hundreds of thousands of employers; (2) The unnecessary and unjustified burden on hundreds of thousands of additional firms in keeping the additional records which the Department of Labor will reauire; and (3) the vast raa jority of firms are already doing what the Act would require. Natural Gas: Rep. Oren Harris, of Arkansas, ranking Democrat on the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee has introduced a bill designed to clarify the status of independent producers and gatherers of natural gas. Such firms were originally thought to be outside the field of federal regulation by the d grant-in-ai- d one-hal- f three-fourth- s ... ... one-hal- . . day-flto-da- v j it could be sur- One is the apparent inability of the four upper basin states themselves to get into step on this project. There is always someone, like Gov. Edwin (Big Ed) Johnson of Colorado who is left out in left field and hollering loudly about it. of the uncertainty existing in the minds of some people, concerning the wall that wet built around Salt Lake City in 1853 and I8S4, we are publishing for the first time e map showing the location of the well with the Jordan River serving es the western inclosure. This well extended on 9th South, east to 9th East; north to South Temple: east to End Street: 'thence to 4th Avenue; thence west to State Street; thence northerly along Wcl. Si.ce. io '.'t i rh; hence west to the Jordan River. This wall was 6 ft. wide at the bottom, 30" at the top and was 12 ft. high. Because bull-berrie- IS THE TIME TO al& HSBSHSHHBGSSBSilQI SSElOHIBBBlIBEHEIIS dOGSI tasaaaaaaan Ufoh SSfflaeESHSHBHfflHOlS asss jaa fp 1 Li take Cq TO LgranaHR! DO 1853 wd IC5 o a $upompoacd pen IN 3333 la adopted soon. ANNOUNCING 108 PIONEERS Cdvj Uloll QEB s 1j3gffiGBQ0 SE N -- In reading the contract entered into between the same contractor and the city of Moab, we note with pleasure the many services to both the city and the townspeople that the contract carries. Nor do we feel this same service could be duplicated in cost alone were the townspeople of Monticello to remain on the carry it yourself plan that has created a health menace in the past. As the city grows, so do the health problems. And what has been standard procedure, in many cases, could boomerang into a serious typhoid or, even worse, polio epidemic if definite precautionary measures are not , Shews Lecetiofi ej ef dMSOQ .UfflaDQ Montioello Montioello Montioello Montioello 27R2 Montioello . Blanding 34R5 Blanding 3R4 Moab The Monticello city council is faced with another serious problem, that of a uniform an adequate garbage disposal system, and is enlisting the aid of the townspeople at a public meeting to be held Thursday night, March 25, at 8:00 p.m. in the county courthouse. Recently the city council was approached by the same contractor who is presently serving the city of Moab, for an agreement between the contractor and the city council that would make garbage service mandatory under city law. 1 THE UTAH Id Garbage Service Proposed I I BY Porio - THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF SAX JUAN COUNTY, UTAH Published Every Thursday at Montioello, Utah Entered at the Post Office at Montioello, Utah, as second class matter under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879 r Larry M. Roe, Betty L. Roe, Business Manager Dorothey Blake, News Editor Cornelia Perkins, Society Editor Sirs. H. E. Blake Montioello Correspondent Minnie Johnson, Blanding Correspondent . Leah Lyman, Blanding Correspondent Mrs. Wm. Barnhill, Moab Correspondent DrftMHfta GREAT SALT LAKE CITY AROUND normal. The annual snow measurement on the Blue Mountain is lated to be taken on March 19 and will give a good indication as to water prospects here in the county. Prospects appear promising at present for a good irrigation and culinary supply. In view of these good prospects Im wondering how many farmers are preparing to take full advantage of this valuable water. Now is the time to get those diversion structures repaired or replaced, if you are interested in obtaining your just share of available water. Control structures should be repaired and ditches cleaned and repaired so that when the water starts you are prepared to take it and get ; the most out of it. Leaky shallow, poorly placed ditches; poorly designed distribution systems; lack of proper supervision; old fashioned ideas; and other seemingly small items rob farmers of Utah of fifty per cent of their irrigation water every year. In this area of relatively steep, undulating, hard water country the loss is even greater. Poor supervision, and distribution systems poorly designed and improperly maintained are two of the chief water stealers. How many times have you driven past a hay field on a warm evening and smelled the sickening sweet odor of stagnant water Or alfalfa? and watched a small stream of water escape around a leaky headgate and get lost down a dry ditch? Or seen three or four furrow streams, blocked off by debris, all concentrate together to cut a small gully through a newly seeded grain field? Or 'watched an unattended stream, too big for its channel, cut over the ditch bank and run to waste. These are some of the reasons why Utah irrigators realize less than fifty per cent beneficial use of their available irrigation water. I was in an alfalfa field last spring which smelled as if the water had been on it for two weeks. Upon questioning the owner I found that it almost had. His theory, one shared by many others, was to fill up the soil against when the water was gone. The theory was sound enough but this farmer seemed to be working on the idea that the soils moisture retention capacity was unlimited. A normal soil profile eight feet deep in Blanding-wilhold approximately 11.75 inches of water. Since the profile never completely dries, it would take 11 inches to completely saturate the first eight feet of. soil. Irrigation experts tell us that there is little use to irrigate alfalfa below eight feet since most of the root system is above this level. head-gates- over-irrigate- d d l Federal Power Commission, but a FPC ruling to this effect was reversed by the Supreme Court last year. L'nder the Harris Measure the original FPC rule, would be reaffirmed. At the same time, however, the Federal Power Comnut growing in patches along hill- mission would be granted some sides, and, not least and with big authority to limit the price to be our pinon nuts, paid for natural gas produced and possibilities, which grow much larger in fa- gathered by the independent provorable zones,' and thus indicate ducers. The bill prescribes certhat they would respond to tain standards to be followed by FPC In regulating such prices. If the Upper Basin states cannot unite themselves, they will have a very hard time to convince other eastern states, with no particular interest in reclamation anyway, to come to their support. Fortunately, this unity is coming and this problem is getting smaller all the time. The other major problem is a little harder to whip. California has a large House delegation. Votes of this delegation are needed often by other states, also with large delegations, when they want something. Maybe youve noticed that Pennsylvania and California often have helped each other out. There are two answers to this sort of you pat my back, Ill pat yours attitude. One is to get but and attract some states who need your vote. That is difficult, however, when your vote is pretty small to begin with. The other is to put on the economic pressure and this is where the shoe is beginning to pinch. California needs reclamation propects. They need them bad. And, while they have the power in the Houses to battle successfully against the Upper Colorado and even get some of their own projects through, they havnt got the power in the Senate to prevent the other western states from blocking Californias projects. Attorney General Pat Brown of Caliifornia summed it np neatly when he said that "California wont get any more projects unless she ceases this senseless opposition to the Colorado project. The thing for the upper basin states to do is prove him right. Oil Field Briefs! The Carter Oil Company Scouting Division Summary of Wells Drilling for the Week Ending March 8, 1955 Utah Basin WC NE SE: Rosalyn R. Leonard No. 1:. DST No. 5, 'double packers, lower packer 5050, TD 5110. Tool open 2 hours, shut in 30 minutes. Very weak initial blow. Dead in 8 minutes. Bypassed tool twice to check for Coyote C plugging. Recovered 20 of drill-i- g mud. TD 5475. Making trip. Utah In view of this is it just a waste of water and soil nutrients to apply a lot of excess irrigation wa- Covote Basin WC C NE SE: Rosalyn R. Leonard No. 1: DST No. 6 5623-572tool open 2 hours, shut in 300 minutes. Had weak initial blow, dead in 14 minutes. Recovered 90 of slightly gas cut and slightly water cut drilling mud. '. Running DST No. 7 TD 6441. 6380-6441- NE SW Seiber Pool No. 1: SE; Henroid-Federa- l Staked location 990 north of south line ard 1650, west of east line, Section Grand County, Utah. Grading location and road. Drilling c- awarded to Barron Drilling Company of Farmington, New Mexico. Waiting on contractor. ter. Long form location notices are A length of run and furrow now on sale at the San Juan stream size trial run in Blanclm" Record office. on March 26, 1953, showed that 8.2 inches of water were required to fill the soil reservoir to eight LITTLE feet deep. On an average slope of 2.5 per cent a furrow stream MONTICELLO, UTAH of gallons per minute gave no serious erosion. This size stream, in each furrow, was allowed to Mondays, Wednesdays run for 3.5 hours in order to wet And Saturdays the furrow, then the stream was 7:00 & 9:00 Two Shows reduced to g.p.m. for the reSundays, Thursdays maining 16 hours for a total application of 8.2 inches, approxiAnd Fridays of One 19.5 7:30 p.m. hours. Show in Now, mately, course, the average farmer may not want to take the time to measure his furrow stream and comMatinee Saturday 3:00 p.m. pute intake rate, etc. He can, however, remember these few fun- Sunday, Monday, Tuesday damentals: Keep furrow stream March 20, 21 and 22 size down to where little or no erosion occurs, a good rule of thumb is ten plus per cent of CINEmaScOPI THEATRE 6-- 9 4-- 5 stream in gallons per minute; Demetrius cut back furrow stream size by after initial waabout (MM ter has reached the furrow end: that soils in irrigated areas of this county will hold between 1.25 and 1.50 inches of water per foot; Wednesday and Thursday that excessive irrigation wastes March 23 and 24 water and leaches plant nutrients in GORGEOUS COLOR! rOM out; and that intake rate on average soils in this county is about .am EU7ABETH .5 inches per hour. Remember, GRANGER TOIOR too, that on slopes of per cent, with ROBERT feet is the maximum USTINGV-J.tORlElength of run for efficient irrigation, on our soils. Anything over that results in percolation losses at the head of the field and anything less means exces sive runoff at the ends. I would be happy to assist anyone in determining furrow stream size length of run and intake rate as soon as irrigation water is avail- ""injnTons one-thir- d In 4 Imrt BfjhJidaWv STARRtNO eME Ownws S1IRIOPMONIC SOUND STEWAH. 2-- 3 -- 600-70- 0 PETTTR Y able Armed with these few facts, a good shovel, a pair of knee boots a few canvas or plastic dams and the determination to irrigate and not just herd water, Im sure that this years water can be more effectively utilized. Extension Fact Sheet No. 16 outlines the use of plastic or canvas dam for better water control. A call in person or by phone, or a will get you a copy of this helpful fact sheet and two others on irrigation, from the Extension nnst-car- d office. |