Iron County Record | 1956-12-06 | Page 8 | New City to Enhance Prestige of Desert Wastelands

New City to Enhance Prestige Of Desert Wastelands A new city is slated to spring up in the arid wastelands near the Utah-Arizona border as a re-suit re-suit of plans announced today by Theodore I. Geurts, president of Grand Development Company, Salt Lake City. Situated two miles from 'the 400 million dollar Glen Canyon dam site on the Colorado River, Just within Arizona, a 320 acre tract to be known as Canyon City is being readied with streets, water, drainage, light and other facilities designed to serve a community of 10.000 people. This is the number of workmen and their families United States Reclamation Rec-lamation Commissioner W. A. Dexheimer estimates will find the Glen Canyon project their home and livelihood for a period of 10 years. "We see In Canyon City. Ariz, however, a boom town that will live beyond the construction years another Boulder City such as developed at Hoover Dam," said Grand Development president Geurts. "In addition to eventually becoming the trading trad-ing center of an Irrigated agricultural agri-cultural paradise. Canyon City will be host to countless thousands thous-ands of tourists who will visit this fabulous irrigation-power-conservation feat." Grand Development Company is building a shopping and recreation rec-reation center In the area, leasing leas-ing other tracts of one-half acre and up for trailer courts, restaurants, restaur-ants, motels and business services. serv-ices. i Irrigation and electric power are the chief objectives of the Glen Canyon Dam, but its construction con-struction also will result In a lake 186 miles long, a new mec-ca mec-ca for recreation-minded Americans.