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Show Friday. October 26. 1956 THE UTAH STATESMAN to Range Seeding Dixon Vows Aid Miraculous improvements on leave their cattle on the range Utahs rangelands through Forest fully a month longer than usual Service reseeding projects demand that the fight for greater federal outlays for these critically-needeprograms be intensified, Congressman Henry Aldous Dixon told a group of supporters, this week, These efforts have restored denuded acreages to a point where 10 head of livestock can be sustained in good condition where scarcely one was before, he said. I am determined to fight for more money for this work, he said. Our Forest Service will need fully $17 million to restore our ranges and watersheds and I can see no more rewarding investment of our tax money than this. He said that as a result of reseeding, livestock men are able to d and then shift them to winter quarters in splendid condition. These projects prove to me Arizona Census of 56 Tops Million Persons Arizonas population now exceeds one million persons, according to figures released Friday by the U. S. Census Bureau. The bureau reported that since the last census in 1950, Arizonas population has increased by about that reseeding is no longer an experiment but a successful method of reclaiming depleted watersheds and ranges and thus adding to Utahs livestock capacity, he said. 257,000 persons. Recently, the Congressman was shown reseeding projects in Uintah County by State Senator B. H. Stringham and Hugh Colton, Vernal attorney. I travelled through miles of reseeded acres, both public and private range, where sagebrush had been poisoned through airplane spraying. There were miles where the grass looked like a even after halving been grazed up to October 1, he said. hay-fiel- d Page 5 Gains Uranium Spurs Population A Utah banker credits uranium Retail trade in Grand county with spurring western population growth, increasing employment and retail trade and calls it the best single answer to the future demands of the west and the nation." Dr. Elroy Nelson, and economist for the First Security Corp., told the touring Uranium Institute of America at a meetThe 1950 census listed 749,587 ing in Salt Lake City this week, residents in Arizona. The addition uranium exploration, developof the new census figures brings ment, and milling is the the Baby States population to greatestmining single factor causing a 1,006,587. in growth population in Colorado, Mexico New and Utah over and The state gained 34.3 per cent above that in the nation. in population as of July, 1955, the said He total employment in report said. Only Nevada had a southeastern Utahs San Juan and higher percentage gain. Grand counties centers of Utahs has increased California had the largest pop- uranium activity ulation growth 2,374,000 persons, from 500 in 1950 to 4,000 this month. He added: but it was only 22.4 per cent. Out of Kentucky, the great bourbon comes the greatest of them all, mellow, warmhearted, aged to perfection six full years . . . Ancient Age. We dial- - vice-preside- nt has increased some $1.1 million to almost $6 million, in San Juan from $1.6 million to $6.3 million in five years. Nelson said some of southeastern Utahs upswing can be credited to new oil discoveries, but employment in uranium mining and milling in 1950 in Utah totaled 200. Today it is 2,500. The institute, composed of 23 business leaders, is touring the Colorado plateau uranium areas. Keep Up With Utah GOP Activities Weekly lenge you to find a better bourbon. tucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 6 Years Old 86 Proof ' Ancient Age Distilling Company, Frankfort, Kentucky Ken-countr- y, |