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Show AIRPLANES ARE SEEN IN iMANY PARTSOF STATE Salt Lake, Aug. 2. Corroborative reports from several sections of tho stato seom to Indicate thut tho report re-port of nlrplano activities over Utah has nioro than a mythical foundation. Airplanes In flight wero first reported report-ed seen In tho southern counties July 4, with tho rosult that a conforonca was hold nt Fort Douglas by federal agents and military officials. It was roported from llrlghnm City last night that airplanes are scout ing at night tlmo and lining up tho various manufacturing plants In northern Utah. Tho machines aro said to fly low In the neighborhood of factories. W. L. Halst, a prominent promi-nent business man of Brlgham City, said yesterday that whllo out driving driv-ing Wednesday ovenlng with his family fam-ily he saw a flying "Machine at a high altitude making Its way In a western direction. Ho watched It until it disappeared dis-appeared below tho western horizon. Two Brlgham City boys report seeing two machines flying low over the ce ment plant near that city, and casting cast-ing a powerful searchlight down into it. Similar reports are heard in Cache county. Group of Aeroplanes Sot'n Ucar Provo. Farmers north of Provo and toward to-ward Provo canyon claim to havo seen a number of airplanes in a group passing to the north at 10 a. m. Wednesday. They say they heard the whir of the machines, which were at a high altitude and somewhat indistinct. Thoy believe tho planes aro tho same that passed over Grand county recently. In support of tho idea that tho German enomy Is operating aircraft from a southern base, possibly in Mexico, farmers who have been rouBed by airplane reports say that In tho La Sal range of mountains, tho watershed of the Green river, there are many mesas and tablelands inaccessible save by a few almost impassable im-passable trails that would furnish a splendid base from which to send out filers. These mountains aro covered with timber, nnd are well provided with water. Deer are plentiful. The mesas are easy to locate and would bo asy to land on with an airplane, It Is said. La Sal Range I'rolmblo Ilno. Airplanes having n baso In the La Sal range. It is Bald, could noly bo dislodged by tho uso of air planes. It would bo Impossible to find them with artillery, Infantry or cavalry. Such Is tho contour of tho land, it is said, that ono man may hide from another an-other In a minute's tlmo and not be found In hours of search. Sheriff East confirms the report of airplanes pasting over to tho north of Provo Wtdnoday. U. P. Flagel of tho "United Stutea geological survey asserted yesterday ho had traced tha flight of airplanes from Mexican Hat to Moab and La Sal, a distance of 100 miles. As ho was returning from Arizona a fow days ngo, Dr. James B. Held of San Juan saw nn object in tho air which resembled an airplane, air-plane, ho states. He Is convinced that tho residents of La Sal ranch hnvo seen a number of flying machines ma-chines recently. |