Show power meeting 0 vital concern to kanae kanab people and vicenty tuesday T november 30 at 10 a m tho question oll wily why la is the coltof pow erso high in tills this vicinity will bo be aired at the kane county court cour house judge leroy cox pox has beann appointed to present tile the city ase case along with a tech technical weal expert from salt take lake wy city oil company to check instruments oil company said that his organization wll commence drilling operations erat ions on the virgin river near mt carmel according bosarge to Sarge the purpose of this la Is to check and try and perfect certain instruments used 3 I 1 in n detecting oil the an instrument that records shock waves Isbel la being ng tested in holes that will bo be drilled one efio hundred to three hundred feet deep true tales from old western astern times in the year of 1898 1 I was oni employed as aa a cools cook for a crow thai was to survey and mark the dividing line between utah and arizona we started to work world about fifty miles southwest south bouth west of st george on the meadow valley I 1 wash where the said line joins tile the east cast boub boundary dary of nevada we worked east ea q t and paralleled the line made by major powel la in about 1874 we were about one half mile s south auth of the powell lne ours was an astronomical sur aur vey we would at every fifty miles stay two or three cle clear at the p us studied the tho stars to keep alep us ila on the right direction precilo n we crossed cross edthe tho colorado river at the ute or crossing of our we had use ube of a hat flat boat which was brought to the ute ci crossing from lees ferry by two men by the name of bill emmett and pete granger they were tour four days reaching the ute crossing but went lack back to the ferry in less than tour four hours we were tareq thre days in getting our outfit across the rivet river which was w very dangerous job as it was wars in june when the water Is always high at that time soon after crossing the e river we were I 1 seeing lo 10 lots taj of navajo indians our boss boas used to say oay 1 11 I believe these indians come up out oi of the ground we would pitch camp amp with nono none in eight bight and soon from some where they thay would como come in camp camp in small groups A very curious people borne were crippled some small some soine 1 large and others diseased if wo we had had foodstuff to to have traded tor for their trinkets wo we could have done well As we needed a I 1 guide ahat kne knew the country and where the watering catering places were carpenter who was wag the contractor hired three capable bu buck ick indians honest john his son eon and son in law who was a moqui indian honest john was waa a very veo appropriate name ah ad he was a tine fine of a 9 man ile he and his hie son weighed about pounds each the sonin son in law was smaller john and h bis Is son were real fellows the son was very good with a rope rop e which he demonstrated on numerous occasions As we proceeded one day I 1 came upon a grave I 1 had changed from cook to the lead fl flagman man at this grave I 1 notia noticed ed 0 some age things that were left as was the indian custom for or the dead to take to their happy hunt ing grou groudis dna there was wag the frame of a saddle an ola spade anda latof lot of pieces of silver which the dead indians had on the tha head bead stall these pieces had all been cut and now not as when they were when he used tiera them on his bridal wo wa picked up tip some of these silver orPle pieces ces the indians knew what we e had done and they were very much displeased as thoy they were not as friendly as they had bad been to be nert week this meeting is the result of an official protest sent to the powe ilow er service commission bytho by the ka nab town council according to mayor albeni Alken tha the entire situation will be brought into ight the cost of power per kill and the cost coat of fuel oil the fuel oil adjustment that t Is one of the main topics will ibo abo discussed thoroughly in order to assure a good turn out tor for tills this important affair arrangements range ments are trying tobe to be made so BO that a cortin peren tago 0 working people her in kanab will be allowed an hour or so off from their jobs jobb to be at tills this meet meeting ing t I 1 |