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Show - - i SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS Southern Ulak The Southern ltah News is published every Thursday at 40 East Center Street in Kanab, Utah 84741. The News proudly serves Kane County, Utah, and the Arizona Strip. Address all communications to P.O. Box 90, AdverKanab, Utah 84741, or telephone (801) tising rates available upon request. Second class postage paid at Kanab, Utah 84741. Newsstand price 25 cents per copy. Yearly subscriptions available. Rates to Kane 644-233- 9. Thursday, August 6, 1987 - Page Two n County addresses ard Fredonia and Moccasin, Arizona, $12.00; others $18.00. The News reserves the right to edit or reject any advertisement or submitted items. Deadline for display ads and news copy is NOON MONDAY; Classified ads, 10 a.m. TUESDAY. Marlin B. Brown, publisher. Member Utah Press Association and National 9 ISSN No. Newspaper Association. 0049-165- More Yet On Water for Alton Project UNDERGROUND WATER CONDUITS THEIR IMPORTANCE: The real is.sue regarding the proposed Navajo groundwater withdrawals is not the amount of water available, but whether pumping will affect existing or pending water rights. The stimulation did not take into account the numerous faults that are located around Bald Knoll. Because the faults generally run from north to south, it is probably that the influence of pumping on the watertable will extend much farther in these directions than from east to west across the faults. This potential effect is especially important, because the nearest sources of discharge from the Navajo lie in Johnson Canyon and Kanab Creek south of the proposed well field. No determination can be made from the available information to conclude if interference will occur to other existing or potential aquifer users. Under the worst conditions, the cone of depression could extend to 10 or 15 miles in a southerly direction. Watertables could be lowered enough to dry up springs or cause additional pumping costs to well operators. The time required for the cone of depression to extend t his far cannot be stated. The above quotes are from a staff report by Steve Winslow, District Hydrologist, Cedar City District Office, Bureau of Land Management, entitled Second Report on GROUNDWATER PROPOSED FOR ALTON WITHDRAWALS COAL PROJECT, dated Decem- ber 13, 1979. The lowering of the watertables would also reduce the amount of w ater which could be produced from the wells. We can find no way that the 1980 Bald Knoll or the 1987 Oak Canyon pumping tests, or the ALTON COAL SLURRY PIPELINE PROJECT SIMULATION OF WATER SUPPLY DEVELOPMENT", by Thank You Losing a loved one is very difficult, but we have been blessed with wonderful family, friends and neighbors who have helped us through this time. To each of you we wish to express our thanks for so many kindnesses; the gifts of food, cards, money, flowers, and the words of comfort. Special thanks to those who participated in the services, the Third Ward Relief Society, Bishop Pepper, and dear Dennis Mosdell. We are especially grateful to those whose visits and expressions of love brightened Merrills days during his illness. Our love and appreciation to you all. Edyth MacDonald and Family David Kieth Todd, dated July 1987, reduce the validity of the above quotes. In fact, they are more valid. The effects of faults, solution chamber conduits and open gravels and volcanics in deeply intrenched stream valleys has not been addressed. We quote the following from the 1987 report: Page 25 - 26 An unsuccessful attempt was made to calibrate the model using Binghams values. The model indicates that these values are unlikely. Perhaps water discharges from the canyons beneath the ground surface and escapes measurement. Hydraulic conductivity was reduced gradually in the southern part of each layer from 5.0 to 0.1 feet per day. Page 29. Verticle conductivity pulled out of the air; no horizontal simulation of the effect of faults. FILL IN ENTRENCHED CANYONS The erosion of the canyons began long before the tilting of the strata. There are reasons to believe that the shifting of weight by evaporation of the seas and buildup of ice sheets during the glacial periods may have helped trigger the uplift of the Colorado Plateau to its elevation. Some present mile-higfaulting and much of the tilting and volcanic activity happened during this relatively recent time period which lasted for tens of thousands of years to the present time. Some of the filled portions of the canyons were cut to their present depths in the strata before tilting began. reduced the Tilting gradually grades of the streams causing the valleys to fill, coarser materials upstream. There is reintrenchment in some areas since the diversion of the streams for irrigation but filling of the valleys is continuing in some h areas. The depth of fill is more than 450 feet in a well in Johnson Canyon at the north boundary of Township 42 South. The well was not drilled to bedrock. The fill may be much deeper at this point and for many miles upstream. The grade of the streams is about 40 feet per mile to the north and may have changed the grade of the bottom of the filled valleys from south to north where the ancient streams were cut to more than 90 feet per mile grades. Very deep fills of coarse materials would explain our observed results of the Bald Knoll pump test; that the edge of the cone of depression intercepts the flow of Johnson Creek in a matter of hours. It would also explain why the pumped water promptly sank into the stream bed and did not flow down the canyon, a portion going south through the fill but perhaps a larger portion returning to the well to be recirculated. The edge of a cone of depression travels much faster through coarse stream deposits and volcanic materials that would make up the fill in the Bald Knoll area, than through the finer stream deposits that would make up the fill at the mouth of the canyon. Here, at the beginning of pumping tests on the Goodfellow well, the edge of the cone of depression traveled to a well more than one half mile away in less than 20 minutes. SOLUTION CHAMBER CONDUITS The casual examination of the stream sources proves that near all the water issues from well developed spring ducts. Sweating of water from the pores of the rock is rare and produces little even where the hydraulic head is substantially above the surface of the ground. At the headwaters of Johnson Creek, where the water rises on the fault, the head is 16 feet above the stream at our north well, increasing to the south. Large areas of rock below the head are dry. The water travels from the fault to the stream through many small spring ducts which are surrounded by concentric bands of different colored minerals. In other areas therew are a number of springs that produce more than 25 gallons per minute, issuing from a single orrifice, one producing a second foot of water. They do not issue from faults. Well developed caves, like Crocodile and Cave Lakes, are rare above ground but large underground caverns mostly filled with sand are very common. We know that rain has no mineral but the spring waters have 120 to 450 parts per million, dissolved solids, including silica. Multiply the average (285) by UIIs annual flow (54,000 a.f.) would produce more than 4,550 cubic miles of caverns in half the life of the aquifer. How about that? In this instance we made assumptions similar to the ones upon which UH base their conclusions. Such conclusions are seldom true. What is important is that these spring ducts would have to be very extensive to collect the water they produce, and together with other underground conduits, they may produce most of the water from the aquifers. This may mean that there is no surplus as UII claims. 285 x 54,000 x 100 million years; divided by 3,379,200 acre ft. per cubic miles equals 4,550 cubic miles. Thanks, Marlin, for letting me have my say. The power and resources of Utah International are very impressive; they are a very dangerous adversary. They appeared to be so far out of line that they needed to be challenged. I hope that the local people and their officers will be adequately informed and will deal with Utah International with great care. This would be a good time for us to put our own house in order; to draw together to protect our interests. Sgd.) Kenyon Little Undenominational Bible Talks Continue BACK TO SCHOOL Perm Special Undenominational Bible Talks continue in the conference room of the Zion National Bank, Kanab, each Sunday at 3:30 p.m. and Friday at 7:30 p.m. If you wish, bring your Bible. No other literature is used. All are welcome. Quality Perm includes either cut or curl for vm j; j m vw . w Letters to the Editor Golf Committee Lauds Course TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: In January 1985, the Kanab City Council formed the Kanab Golf Course Committee to undertake the task of getting a golf course built. The Kanab Golf Course Committee reviewed various sites and discussed with the owners the possibility of building a golf course. After studying the proposals. Golden Circle Tours was selected to develop the Golf Course. On May 1, 1985 agreements were signed by Kanab City and Golden Circle Tours allowing for the planning phase, construction phase, and lease phase of a municipal golf course. On January 1, 1986, the planning phase was completed and construction on the golf course began. Currently with the exception of a few items, the construction phase is completed and the lease phase will begin. Under the lease phase, golf course owner, Kanab City will lease to GCT the golf course with GCT being responsible for the management of the course. The process of planning and constructing me golf course has not been an easy one. There has been give and take by both Kanab City and Golden Circle Tours. We have met many obstacles but have worked around them and finally we have a golf course with the potential for one of the best nine hole golf courses in the state. Because of Golden Circle Tours, donations of land, labor, materials and additional capital, and the financial support of Kanab City, the citizens of Kanab have a potential economic booster for the community as well as a great recreational golf course. With the help of the community and businesses, there are many things that can be done to make our golf course one of the best in the The Kanab Golf Course Commitwould like to encourage everyone to become involved and make our golf course the best nd a successful community project. tee Sincerely yours, Kanab Golf Course Committee Concern By Savings Depositors To the Editor: It was on July 31, 1986, almost one year ago, when Utahs Department of Financial Institutions closed the doors of its Industrial Loan Guarantee Corporation and froze the savings of over 18,000 citizens who had deposited in the state's thrift and loan associations. With almost no exceptions, the editors of our states newspapers immediately responded by expressing in their editorial pages the opinion that the state should return these savings, not only from a moral standpoint but from the mere fact that the ILGC had guaranteed protection to all depositors as well. We have these editorials in our files and they are heartwarming to read and we are very grateful to our editors for having expressed themselves on our behalf. What has happened during the past year is public knowledge. Suffice it to say that what could have been remedied in a comparthe atively economical way-- by state living up to the promises it had has now developed into a made situation that could eventually cost Utahs taxpayers millions of dollars in litigation and extended legal fees. No citizen of Utah wants to bring suit against his own state but there has been no alternative. Every attempt to alleviate the dilemma that had been created by the action of the D.F.I. has been met no with a refusal of dialogue-a- nd would be withdrawn and costs would no longer rise as they have during these months. We believe in the free press and its ability to convey truths when other factions refuse to accept them. We call upon our news medium once again to recognize Utahs day of infamy, July 31, 1986 and what has followed and to express itself anew. What Utah Holiday magaine, in its April 1986 issue, called The Biggest Confidence Game in the World should not go by unremembered. That first anniversary is upon us. Right now no one wants to celebrate. Sincerely, Steering Committee Concerned Western Heritage Depositors H.T. Adams, R.L. Kirchhoff, Douglas H. Quayle, Gwen Iverson, Wells Meeks, Betty K. Quayle, Val Decker, Norman V. Chatfield, C. Rodney Claridge - single bamboo root may produce as many as 100 stems. A (iJmFraiHlIIIsIjllTTI B(Mn!3iIE3) llsmi) mn aww THANK YOU! Creative. Cats For the assistance with the fire suppression effort: Kaibab Industries, Fredonia-Moccasi- n School District, Houston's Trail's End, Jacob Lake Inn, and all of their employees. Operators A special thanks to the North Kaibab District employees and the many others assistance on the Offer good through August 31 J iRB cooperation. Many of our legislators are and have been prepared to act on our behalf, in which case the law suits $26.00 Susan Hammon Dennyce Colton Prosecutors in the Mark Hofmann murder trial will follow last Fridays July 31, new conference on the transcipt of his confession with a discussion of the case more today at Brigham Young University. Robert L. Stott of the Salt Lake and County Attorney's office forensic George Throckmorton, documents examiner, will partici-pag- e in the 9:45 a.m. session of a symposium called Church History and Recent Forgeries. While Stotts news conference touched on aspects of the case of interest to the general public, his appearance at BYU will offer a more historically focused presentation. Besides Stott, other featured speakers at Todays conference will be Allen D. Roberts, of a forthcoming book on Hofmann, giving Answers to Most Asked Questions About the Hofmann Case, and Elder Dallin IL Oaks, a member of the Council of the Twelve of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints. He will offer a summary view of how the Hofmann case has affected the LDS Church and its history. Hofmann confessed to forging several letters and other historical documents, some of which raised troubling questions about the origins of the LDS Church, and to killing two people when it appeared his deceit was about to be uncovered. The Hofmann documents raised questions about the role of magic (or folk religion) in the Churchs founding and about alleged treasure seeking and use of seer stones by Joseph Smith, the first prophet. Ronald K. Esplin, director of the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Church History and coordinator of the symposium, said the forgeries deceived historians and prompted a of some aspects of Church history. The question now is Where do we (historians) stand today on those issues in light of the forgeries? said Esplin. The discovery that key documents were forged removed the most dramatic evidence calling for a of the 1820s, but some issues remain, he said. Symposium participants will assess the impact of the forgeries and the significance of remaining issues. -- state. I 6445552 Symposium Will Explore Hoffman Case from the area who gave invaluable Willis fire. District Ranger and Staff North Kaibab Ranger District Kaibab National Forest .t i If if n ' i ?ijn it it i , S'', s SS yfo Ss t ' S, , s,s' YOU CAN'T TURN YOUR BACK ON THIS 1 ,680 square ft mobile home. This mobile home a 1985 Champion with 3 bedrooms and 2 1 12 bafts. It has a very large 14 x1 T living room a formal dining room and a fully equipped kitchen. It's heated with propane and coolied with an evaporative cooler. 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