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Show Army Asks for 3,000,000 Acres for Bombing Range A paramount problem, facing the Utah State cattle and horse growers' grow-ers' association, is the U. S. army's insistance on utilizing that great barren 300-mile section of Utah desert from Wendover south paralleling para-lleling the Utah- Nevada state line for an army rocket test ground. The army wants 2,889,000 acres to test rockets, perfect bombing practices, prac-tices, and carry on other military i experiments. While the map indicates indi-cates that the western sections of Tooele, Juab and Millard counties have no towns, yet the cattle growers grow-ers association declare that should this area be taken by the army for a rocket test range, the cattle and sheep business of Utah will be ruined, the state will be deprived of an annual income of $5,000,00 and 2,000 families will be affected. The use of the land in question by the army would cripple the winter sheep and cattle range of the counties mentioned, it is pointed point-ed out. The army should turn elsewhere for its rocket test range, declares Senator Murdock. Friday night, August 16, at 8 o'clock, a meeting of all interested persons will be held in Salt Lake City to formulate procedure to block the proposed plan of the War Department to use the western parts of Tooele, Juab and Millard counties as a bombing range. The plan of the War Department is stated in the adjoining column whereby they ask for a strip of land 55 miles wide and 100 miles long to add to the bombing range at Wendover. The proposal would take from Millard as well as other counties the winter range for sheep, summer sum-mer range for cattle, stop all mining min-ing in that "Urea, move some ranches, ran-ches, mean the abandonment of Callao, and no doubt mean the rerouting re-routing of highway six as it goes through the area at present. It would mean a great loss to the economy ec-onomy of west Millard which has been estimated at from one-third to one-half, and there will be a united movement to stop the use of these lands as a bombing range. In Millard all land lying 12 miles east of the Utah Nevada line, north of the Millard-Beaver line, and west of the line running north 4 miles west of Clear Lake town would be included in the bombing area and, we suppose, would become be-come forbidden territory. Our immediate im-mediate area would then become somewhat isolated with no roads leading out to the west and tourist tour-ist traffic would be almost nil. |