Show salt ' ’?: -” ii 't'v ' re Invited topartidpate A variety of six trails and campsites will be offered with trails through high mountain passes across lofty plateaus down rugged canyon ays- - sponsored y jeep safari each rpring on the day before Easter This has proved i to be so popular that Moab has now scheduled a new one-da- a Hi1 ‘ ' Lake City mM vine mm aaswiig pjpwtavil io be offered for the first lar rimlands Campsites time this coining labor will be at mountain lakes Day weekend high overlooks slickrock rims and desert dune The event willbeatwo-- i areas camp- The two-da- y campout two featuring days trip will emphasize famremote trails through ily recreation scenic —“ four-wheel- thC orTan t aut' cninpout and ties fcsldentk of Moab 84uo Utah required Doth drive vehicles ami dune buggies will be welcome with one trail route specially selected for four-whe- el &J back-count- ry ?tur: SI1 aZ JL describing the campsites and H!e ®VMd8 activities bycon-th- r the Moab Chamber of!e tacting Commerce visitor cen- “f ter on US 163 just north 1 01 t°wn- - General inform- atlon sbout the various and campsites will eary fter be found elsewhere in this breakfast paper challenging trails Highway ranch-sty- ture trails : T°r J TSf licensed vehicles will be a ob- Annual tain full details r®tiT "fonns and ilfcri JfacmFout cimnsraind off-ro- ad and end the same place on Sunday evening with a steak fry Those interested in partldpating in this new and different type of safari may er country carp 1 Sr?pa8LeightJreJir a fA mcro“ll"S le yV www I’Av'WvIvI K 21 22 23 24 25 26 Aug 27 Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug The US Forest Ser- vice ' reports that fire danger on the La 'Sal Mountains is quite high This week Moab welcomes several hundred participants ' in the First Annual Labor Day Campout initiateddue to the highpopularity of the annual one-da- y Easter Jeep Safari This trail No 4 in the group of several follows the White ies " if: ' e Rim Trail in Canyon lands National Park and affords fine views of the Green River Gorge More infor-mati- ranging in extreme fire on all the tours which range from deserts danger going into the and canyons to high mountain trails is found on Labor Day weekend Page B1 of this issue All photos are by Fran Barnes Fire closure is still in effect which means fires e mma r may not be built outside Four-Wheel- er - on - ffi Final arrangements for the upcoming overnight el drive camp-ohave been finalized and all things point to a successful outings Trail leaders have been over their routes and all alternates have been fully explored Some small wPWblm8 have arisen that tavp caused the changing of some routes however they will be nearly the: dame except for is Y : ing some areas Leaders: of the routes will have signs posted on their vehicles and all persons that want to take any specific trip may fall in line on center street Saturday morning Take-o- ff time for the safari will be 9 am and the return time 'will vary for each group Most groups will return four-whe- by-pa- 3’ but over the ningson exported Alpine Kenneth Beach 6 Can past few days entrants Milner Rim— Connie Caou yon from Dee ette Jon Mondale throughout Utah Jim Wanielista have sent in their appliTrantor 4 White Rim-S- lim cations One of the Larg- Complete safari Mabery Joyce Murest groups will’ be the 5 Mesa Route-- tails follow ray Mountain' trip with 30 vehicles possibly faking Route--Erni- ut r iaIf 'WN of e’ - ’ -- that route Each route will have two leaders so splitting up of groups will V: be? no problem IMt ria " All persons frill be gi ven an instruction sheet of do’s and don’ts and they are advised to read them Most of the trails will be traveling on Forest Service BLM or National Park lands and special care should be taken to make sure that the areas are camping cleaned up when leaving and that no trash is left behind ” 1 : r" f ” Can-yonlan- without camp- a fire permit - Fire i permits may be obtained from the Forest Service in Moab or Monticello in this 'area Little precipitation and quite a bit of wind are blamed ‘for the extreme 4 y 1 :v dryness in the mountains Oahl i- 7 wT Canyonlinds Y Y ilKfiW be com5 ilSrr rtendent Robert re- pleted some time in June ported Tuesday chi the ' Strong Company has status of the next phase the contract which is of road building in some $696 thousand National established grounds ds Park ohnerJWidTueA- - it ijas been over y 2’weeka tificej any 'Art Y w® reported in the La i 'gals' and stated1 thatpeo- pie have been very care 4 mil and cooperative dur- ing the fire closure and extended thanks for the support of citizens The bridge itself will pre - construction be a separate contract CITY COURT :: conference was held in and is expected ' to be ' Monticello last week he ftrnded in fiscal 1976 V There was only one said and the tentative Construction should be case in City Court this week which was handled schedule is to chip seal completed on the bridge by Attorney Robert Rugand complete the last during that fiscal year ger! who acted as Judge section of the first conIn the mean time a turn Pro Tem since ' Leaders for the trips by 5 pm on Sunday will be: 1 Dunes Route--E- d tract in September The around and parking area Crist was section of road from Lit- -' will be constructed at A large turnout of out Goff 2 River Bluff-- out of the office Cany°n to of state participants was Steve Big Spring Canyon so that ard A Havik Hen- - Hf Spril nartongoyce Big Spring Canyon bridge passenger car travel will thony Joseph Fonte both will be started about Oct be opened that far into the from Illinois appeared land on dependent winter Tour Details park prior to construc- with council Bill Benge and A o? fcracordfag Somerville mast deeds mortgages contracts and the tfjie Esther sometimes make copies from Deed : such as the one she holds here This Deed Record book was ' started in 1895’ when Utah was still a ‘‘territory’ and Grand County ' - band-record- ed - md htfonmticn Moab’s First Annual will feature two days on backcountry sight campout with special campground WHAT: Four-Wheel- er at each campsite WHERE: Moab Utah Canyonlaods country WHEN: spring weather the tion of the bridge Campout event trails and an overactivities that differ August September the flfst two days of the three-da- y 1 23 on the Saturday and Sunday 1974 Labor Day Emmett Mays District Manager of Continental Telephone Company of Utah announced this week that faster more modern long distance teleREGISTRATION: registration is desirable espe- phone service will be in cially for those who want to take advantage of the optional service in Moab August meals but Is not mandatory See registration form elsewhere 31 with Bianding Bluff on this page Lake Powell La Sal Monticello and ThompWHO MAY PARTICIPATE: The y campout event son soon following in joinwill be open to anyone with a ing the nationwide direct drive vehicle or dune buggy Trail cycles dune buggies and vehicles and drive dialing network vehicle are NOT acceptable in this event for legal and On that date teleplume drive vehicles may take any safety reasons subscribers will be able of the six trails Dune buggies may take only Trail 1 to dial station COST: There is no charge for the event but two meals will be available on an optimal basis a Saturday morning ranch-sty- le breakfast at 9150 per person and a Sunday evening steak supper at $!50 per person nt two-da- highway-register- four-whe- el ed in se four-whe- el Four-whe- el dis- number) to record originating phone number On statlon-to- station calls made from one and two party sub- scribers the originating number will be record- ed automatically Person to person collect ere- dit card calls third par- billing and calls from caller dials the long payphones will continue to be placed by dialing for operator Mays explained that the average 1 (mg dis- tance call will now be WHAT TO TAKE ON THE TRAIL: Except for the cold calls direct On completed much faster beverages available at each campsite there will be no supplies calls originaunder the present of any sort available on the routes Therecampout ting from four party and system A large percent fore participants should tike along the following supplies rural subscribers an op- of the in Am- and equipment at the minimum: gasoline for a long y erator will come on the erica telephones are on the direct trail water tor drinking and bathing overnight camping and line (immediately after a dialing network which sleeping gear food for two lunches one breakfast and one station-to-stati- two-d- ay two-da- evening meal and changes of clothing for two days All campsites will be in very remote areas so prepare accordingly la desert country one gallon of drinking water per person per day Is considered a minimum pins any that may be seeded for Other purposes TRAILS A CAMPGROUNDS — GENERAL: 1 All trail routes will begin and end at Moab elevation 4000 Routes are essentially loop trips except tor Trail 2 which enters and leaves a remote region by the same trail S Vehicles will he led on the trails in groups of 30 or less On Trail 1 dune buggies and drive vehicles will pe in separate groups on ue trail witn dune buggies leaving four-whe- el first 3 All vehicles must stay In their groups while on the trail On some trails separated vehicles could get hopelessly lost 4 On ihe trail veicles must stay on the established trail At the campsites camping should be within the designated area 5 Representatives of the National Park Service - U8 Forest Service or Bureau of Land Management as appropriate will accompany each trail group and be at the camp ite Continued August in the heart of southeastern Utah's 11 and Pre-eve- on cm Page Rl- - Is on means most local scribers can dial mil-th- e lions of people without going through either an intermediate operator or a distant operator “It’s just like making a local call” the district manager added “This is the fastest most modern type of long distance ser-t- y vice available" Instructions for Direct Distance Dialing Direc-"0- " tory Assistance and Re-pair Service are on Pages 2 and 4 of your current (firectory Direct Distance Dial-tha- n ing will be possible in Dove Creek after the DDD equipment is installed in Durango which is planned for 1975 sub-tan- ce a will i election Michelle Cook be the first' year in 20 years that Esther Somerville won’t be listed on the ballot as a candidate for the office of Grand County Recorder ' Esther has been as County Recorder five times since 1954 each time for a re-elect- ed four-ye- ar term Before Running Before running for the office in 1954 Esther assisted Mrs Emma Dai- ton who was then the Recorder and had been for 20 years when retired that year It was Mrs Dalton who Esther to run for office after they had worked together for a year The duties of the County have remained very much the same over the years although due to lack of space the proce- Aire ' for recording has changed somewhat Re- cord hooks have always after ail these divi- slons were combined into official Record hooka storage space became a problem so instead of photostating the copies en es: about four inches trying to keep their taxes down to acceptable agriAnother major change cultural levels This is which : speeds the work being dsna through filing of all County officials is Y"Greenbelt” applications the addition of a Xerox for assessment and Machine to the ation Each of these This ' aids quests must be recorded considerably when copies Just give a thought to the are needed from pages n umber of forms and ranof old books which cannot ches in the countyandyou be removed get some idea of the work this brings to the county offices Many Compliments Esther has received many compliments over Y Oil and Gas Leases the years for her accuThere is also a great rate record keeping deal of ariivity in oil pecially from oil and gas and gas leasing and dril- square tax-Copy- ing - - companies who are ex-s- he tremely pleased with the Tract Index they have cess to which breaks down properties into township range section etc These have been busy days as all County cordera know Esther took in $51120 in one day this all week with the “Proof of Labor’’ forms that have been turned in to be filed Since the fee for filing a “Proof of Labor" form is only $200 or $220 for two filed together it is evident there Is work to be done in her office San Juan County Re- corder Arvilla E Warren has ' been feeling the increase of activity in her office too lately To date there have been more land exchanges within the county than ever before for a year’s period These copies are now made The film is now easily stored in box- - include micro-fil- m : ea-Cou- ling now At least nine wells are being drilled ‘J or are scheduled for the near future Leasing for coal has started On August 6 recording fees received for that day alone in San: Juan Counto were $387120 That is big business and enough work to keep everyone in the office busy for quite a while That day’s business included at least 1868 mining claim Location Notices that must be hand entered in three books and photostat copies made before they can be returned to the owners1 In keeping with tradition of a good speedy job by her office Mrs Warren vu able to have the' whole lot oiit of the office in a week’s - time' With 1 September bringing the deadline for three new sub- “Proof of Labor" filings divisions While devpiop and October 1 the dead- eharge of possessing a era and real estate people line for “Greenbelt’ fi home- - lings both County Rs: controlled substance comers are looking for They pleaded guilty to r-- the charge and were each porty the fanners and ward to more very busy ' fined $50 ranchers in tho area are days : I s' ' ' s" ' jm " ’fC 'yJ-- i '' V Wy "- -t Yi’ y |