Show I 0 Spotlighting 4 UTAH I lU PUBLIC URGED TO REPORT FOREST HUES ElItES Don M. M Drummond of the Utah State Board of Forestry and anet Fire Control urges that all alt unattended forest range and watershed fires be reported to the nearest nearest near near- est eat county sheriff forest ranger district grazier or highway patrolman For those who Insist on burning for range improvement pui poses burning permits can be secured from the local county sheriff who is also county I fire ire ire- warden EXCELSIOR INDUSTRY OUT our ourThe The Beaver Deaver mountains are aro scheduled to give up cords corets of Aspen wood for processing Into excelsior by the Western Excelsior of Cedar City a new Utah Industry Cutting operations are already underway underway under under- way and anet trees selected must be eight inches in diameter or larger They are aro peeled the some day they are cut and the poles hauled to Beaver Deaver where they are allowed to season until next winter after which they are cut into inch 18 lengths and anet then processed into excelsior at Cedar City The chief markets for lor excelsior are on the West coast ICE ICIl PLANT lLANT SEEN FOIl lOlL UTAH A ten thousand foot deep well drilled for lor oil and which has yielded carbon dioxide gas instead of or oil oLl is III reported from Carbon county The well is the property of the Pacific Western OH Oil company of Casper Wyoming Wyom Wyom- ing big who are pondering the erection of or ofa ora a dry ice plant near the well which is 15 miles mUes from Price to utilize the carbon dioxide gas Reports indicate that the oil company may spend as high as on the dry ice project providing they can secure a sale of a sufficient amount of dry etry ice to Justify the erection of a large largo plant The well produces eight and one-half one million cubic feet of gas daily dally from which dry ice Is manufactured It ItIs Itis Itis is hoped that the Denver and anet Rio Orando Grando Western Railroad can be interested In using dry ice in their refrigerator cars and that It may be possible to sell the th dry ice to steamship lines for refrigeration tion purposes A dry ice plant is already under op operation op- op oration at Wellington five miles south of Price whose supply of carbon dioxide comes from a well wen in the same vicinity as the one mentioned above RIVER UI RUNNING IN mAil UTAH IS lL AND EXCITING SPOUT River history was made twice this month on two little-known little Utah rivers the the Dolores and the Escalante rivers In southeastern Utah The Dolores river Is a major feeder stream to tu the Colorado and aad runs north through Colorado parallel to the Utah- Utah Colorado do line lino for miles to a point east of Moab where it enters Utah and empties into the Colorado at Dewey Utah 44 miles east of Moab Little Little- known and passing through a 1 practically practically practically ally unexplored country the Dolores was navigated this month for the first time in its history by Mr and Mrs Preston Walker of Grand Orand Junction Colorado and I DI Dr and Mrs Otis Marston of Berkeley California The mile mlle trip ended at Moab Utah without serious mishap with the river runners reporting the trip to be one of the most exciting and arduous in the nation A large portion of the trip was made through a a. canyon country heretofore unknown even to range riders in the Isolated country near the Utah Colorado-Utah border Further west of Moab a dangerous and exciting boat trip and another first was successfully brought to completion by Utah's Harry Aleson accompanied by California's Georgia White well-known well woman explorer Aleson and anet White left Escalante via boat on the Escalante river May 24 24 destination Lees Lee's Lees Lee's Ferry on the Colorado river Running a swift treacherous river sometimes shallow sometimes passing through narrow rock walls at tremendous ous speed peed Aleson and White had plenty I of navigation troubles At one time their boat was tipped over and they lost host half halt their supplies Including a wrist watch valuable film and other equipment some of which w was s recovered further down downstream downstream downstream stream where It had floated to the banks Despite the difficulties of passing through an isolated country on an al almost almost almost al- al most unknown stream Aleson reported magnificent scenery a aOn On the seventh day after leaving Escalante the little party reached th the tho Colorado river 88 miles from Lees Lee's Ferry Arizona Picking up food he had previously previously cached for such an occasion Aleson Aleson Aleson Ale- Ale son and White drifted on down through Utah to Lees Lee's Ferry Arizona In one day dayon dayon dayon on a swollen flood-swollen Colorado and still full of enthusiasm for river running in Utah |