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Show - "I Priori liC&e.dlikiw&k This is the latest construction photo of Flaming Gorge Dam in northeastern Utah. The block of concrete on extreme right is 357 feet above lowest point In dam foundation. The U. S. Bureau of Reclamation is buiding the dam. Northeastern Utah Tour Suggested To Residents Who Love Scenery (Editor's Note: This is another: in a series of "See Utah" articles j designed to better aquaint( Utahns with their home dtate. The articles have been prepared by the Utah Tourist and Publicity Publi-city council. Each week a different dif-ferent sector of the state will bo featured.) Indians, prehistoric monsters, mountain scenery and men at work on a gigantic concrete dam are Just a few attractions Northeastern North-eastern Utah has to offer the summer visitor. You can find Indians by the hundreds on the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation at Fort Duschesne. America's most important im-portant display of fossilized dinosaur din-osaur bones is located at Dinosaur Dino-saur National Monument near Jensen. The lofty Uintas are the only large chain of mountains in America that run east and west, And workmen are feverishly feverish-ly pouring concrete on Flaming Gorgo Dam which is rising 50 stories Into the sky on the Green River in Daggett County. Visits to these scenic attractions and others In northeastern sector sec-tor of the state are suggested by I D. James Cannon, director of the , Utah Tourist and Publicity Coun-t Coun-t ell In this week's "See Utah" tour. The tour begins at Duschesne on U. S. Highway 40, or at some other com anient starting point depending on where you live. It continues through Roosevelt, Vernal Ver-nal and on to Dinosaur National Monument. Then It briefly retraces re-traces back to Vernal and up the slope of the Uintas to Flaming Gorge Dam, Dutch John, Ashley National Forest, Manila and Lin-wood. Lin-wood. If you happen to plan your trip in early August, you can see the Indians in full tribal dress at the annual Sun Dance at Whiterocks, near Roosevelt Hundreds of Indians bring their families to this traditional religious re-ligious ceremony and camp at the dance site. No picture-taking is allowed because of the sacred nature of the dances. Indian dancers will also perform per-form at the annual Uintah Basin Ba-sin Industrial Convention in vRoosevelt, Aug. 9 to 11. An "all Indian Pageant" will be held. Other events of the convention include fashion shows, parades, athletic contests and educational classes. Vernal Is located in a broad green valley at the base of the Uintah Mountains. One of the most 'Interesting features of thl picturesque town Vernal State Park with its Utah Field House of Natural History. Kore are displayed many fos-siles, fos-siles, bones, stuffed animals, and archaelogical artifacts which have been gathered in the Vernal area. The Fieldhouse is easily located lo-cated by "Dippy" the diplodocua, a gigantic cast-cement replica of a dinosaur skeleton which stands in front Dinosaur National Monument is only a short drive from Vernal. Monument headquaters and the visitor center can be reached by paved road, six miles north of Jensen. The center encloses part of a famed dinosaur quarry that has yielded mare fossils from the Age of Reptile than any other locale on earth. From a high ramp visl- tors can watch paleontologists at work, chiseling away the cliff and out lining huge bones In bold relief. The rest of the national monument monu-ment is primitive wilderness area of rugged canyons, high plateaus and mountains. Unpaved roads from U. S. 40 lead to spectacular veiw points along the deep canyons can-yons of the Green and Yampa Rivers. Between Vernal and Manila on State Highway 44, a billion years of the earth's geological history lies exposed. Markers along the road call attention to the various geological formations. Some 35 miles from Vernal the highway branches, Highway 44 continues via Green Lake and Sheep Creek to Manila and Highway High-way 260 to Flaming Gorge Dam and Dutch John. At this point the traveler may take his choice, depending on which he would like to see first, the dam or surrounding sur-rounding country The pavement ends as you continue on Highway 41, but the road is well-maintained passing through some of the most beautiful beauti-ful parts of the Ashley National Forest If you like, you can stop at Green Lake where cabins are available. A vista point nearby affords a spectacular panorama of Red Canyon, which in years to come will be partially filled with water of Flaming Gorge Reservoir. Tourist facilities are also available on Highway 260. |