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Show THE SAX JUAX RECORD -- 5, 1956, Thursday, July nobody will ever go up there 2 Page v'' particular fangjuariprori THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF SAN JUAN I'HMV, UTAH Published Every Thursday at Monticello, Utah Entered at the Post Office at Monticello, Utah, as second class matter under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879 NATIONAL IasSoc5"!3n .... .... .... isher Larry M. Roe, Editor-frb- l Betty L Roe, Business Manager Cornelia Perkins, Society Editor Mechanical .Department Monticello Monticello Monticello 27K2 111-11- 2 111-11- 2 An-ma- Battle Far From Overt In order to secure its soil bank program, and to forstall the possibility of even more damaging raids on the US Treasury, the Eisen- price-supporte- "Low-dow- d Investigationitis The Old Settler pene-trat- - ex.-ten- e any inaccessible place for which I start out, and at which I want to arrive on time and in good perking order, I shall, if possible, have Lynn Lyman take me there in his Lochinvar jeep. the Carter Oil Company Denver, Colorado Summary of Wells Drilling Week Ending abon-dane- p jeep-anim- al e , . . . ox-tea- die-hard- Whiterocks NE. Unit No. 2: Ran electric log and micro log. Drilling 7222V Aneth WC; C SW SW Government-Arrowhea- d No. 1: Soud hole at 45 w65 sx. Total 9-- depth shale. 162 Support the swimming pool fund for a better Monticello. Notice To The Public Our contract ore haulers and their truck drivers have been instructed to adhere diligently to all rules, regulations, and courtesies of the highway. Any re- ports contrary to these conditions should be reported. Utex contract trucks are identified by U and a num- ber. Standard contract trucks are identified by S and a number. Reports should be made to: s t Utex Exploration Company or Standard Uranium Corporation 1880-ge- tting iron-tire- 2; NT SW Whiterocks WC No. now-trackle- R. Lyman ceni concerned in keeping your seat, and not just gazing around at the scenery. When we read about the San Juan pioneers driving their aryl horse teams up 'that sloping rock at Rincone in their old wagons to the top of that rim with all their plunder, we had to make a trip their to see it. And some of the people who went with us declared they couldnt see how in it was done But we had to believe they did it, for we had their journals telling about the anguish it entailed on animals and men. They told how their horses jumped and lunged trying to get footing by which to pull their loads up the slick rock, how their feet slipped from under them, and they smeared the sandstone with their ll Utah: jeep-anim- hower Administration felt obliged to accept a farm bill groaning with dangerous and unwanted high price support gimmicks. Now, in addition to the task of administering these provisions with the least injury to the taxpayers and in his traditional effort to encourage the farmers dependence on himself rather than the Government, Secretary Benson faces a new crisis. Right now, the high and are rallying political pressure to pervert the soil bank plan into a new source of direct subsidies. n Editor Glenn Martz, in his vigorous and on Farm Affairs, says this is an effort to "make the new program a mere gravy train which in the long run will bring economic ruin to farmers . . He reminds us that Mr. Bensons suggestion, and the original Administration recommendition for a limited, experimental soil bank plan was blown up by Congress "to an unblievable $1,200 million and had cut off any opportunity for a slow, cautious start in order to elimBy Albert inate the bugs before any real damage could be done. My dear San Juaners: "Mr. Benson, he says, "would like the plan to operate so that evAnciently i t was considered that the only way to travel be ery dollar to spent on it would result in its proportionate share in a rough country was on through dollar so and each would rethat thus in reduction, turn surplus spent sult in a corresponding strengthening of free market prices for farm horseback. That was before the advent of the jeep. Now, if you products. Mr. Benson would have liked to find means of making sure e that idled acreages under the program would not somehow trickle over want ato " ' region into other uses, competing unfairly with vegetable, dairy, poultry and of rocks and 7 . other such unprotected producers. Mr. Benson would have liked to a washes, brush I 'f chieve these goals without creating new armies of Government inspec- and cactus,!. tors to roam the rural areas. pteep hills anriL. ; . - H" The Department of Agriculture has been moving fast, in accor- bare sandstone, ? takes a jeep. Y ou dance with Administration wishes, says Mr. Martz. But it- has not d are in safer caution, as the critics would doubtless prefer. "Now the anvil that chorus has begun, he says, "and it may increase to irresistible propor- ting there get tions. The hard facts are that no Government offical, however honest, way than sincere or capable, can long resist such pressure when there is no coun- you wont. Of course you may need a bucking-straon which to tering pressure on his side. "And the great majority of farmers who hope to earn their own cling for dear life, for while that is bounding from the livings from their own efforts rather than gaining their incomes from of one rock to another, top jagged Government checks have not been awake to the soil bank dangers. They intently to the bottom of have allowed Mr. Benson to fight this particular battle virtually alone. diving a arroya and squirmBut, it should be noted, the battle js not over. Recruits are still ing lizard-likup the other side, needed. youve got to be one hundred per highly-respecte- Ive ridden thirty thousand miles a horse. If there is in San Juans 3 800 square miles of on no-boa- y EDITORIAL tp.llllll II Al.'.IITITH on wneels. Lynn Jy uioji rides a jeep, a bleed of jeep like r o u n g Locnmv ar s inv mcioie steeu tnat stayed not for break and stopped not for stone, and swam tne Elk River where ford was unknown. When it was reported to Lynn Lyman that was ever going to go up San Juan Hill again on wheels, he knew it was a lie as soon as he heard it. He declared that he was going right down there and ride the old scar on the side of that rock from the bottom to the top. Youre crazy people told him, It cant be done; it would be dangerous for a horse to go up there. Lynn got reliable people to go with him to be witnesses, so he s wouldnt be consigned to the Club w hen he reported his ride, and they piled in his jeqp and hit the trail for Bluff, thence to Comb Wash, and on down the country to San Juan Hill. He rode his indomitable from the bottom to the top, not even stopping to puff w here horses and oven had painted the rock with their blood, where old bull-hackers had howled themselves hoarse with, Gee! Haw! Whoa Keeno and Gee Buck! where teamsters had tried in vain to sit on the spring-sea- t with their lines and their whip, hut had to get down and hang to the lines on the upper side of the dugway: where the women labored along afoot with their children, mv mother among them with me in her arms. Lynn drove not only to the top of the rock, but right on solithrough the tude w'here the pioneers wangled their way up around the deep box of the Lower Butler. When some old wouldnt believe what he had done, he took them back down there and did it again. No Riding Club for me; d Moab, Utah --- -- blood and their hair. 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