Show spotlighting UTAH bundy reports on geneva the answer to disposal may be expected soon declared ora bundy commissioner utah state department of publicity and indus hal development upon his recent return from washington the surplus property board boam probably now has the report on steel feet plant mr bundy said and after deliberations by a subcommittee congress w will ill have 30 days to consider ton sider the report and the boards recommendations while in the east mr bundy tes before various congressional fib bb committees on reclamation irrigation and other projects affecting the e state there to find it perhaps there is no more little hown state department that is doig a greater work than the utah state historical society organized it collect disseminate and preserve utah historical material the present of this group to preserve the complete tom history of participation in world war 2 is worthy ot 01 commendation the historical so bety at the state capitol building las catalogued cataloguer catalo gued the complete record ol 01 utah enlistments casualties and discharges in the navy maritime service marines coast guard and eventually the army this material is 4 available to veterans and other omer interested te parties and represents the determined efforts of secretary marguerite L sinclair and her staff in addition the departments is juarice of a large number of quarterlies over a period of years ii 4 of incalculable value to those interested te in the state its history trai irions and attractions the last book to come off the press is the utah Rist historical orical quarterly vol kol 12 the elt section of the publication has to do with indian relations on the mormon frontier and the second U A history of southern utah and its national parks no home library should be without this edition more soda pop gas carbon countes coun tys underground supply of carbon dioxide gas ordinary soda pop gas some feet beneath the surface is being tapped this week for the third time by well drillers drillars dr illers eight miles south of price the latest well is expected to augment the present supply which arrives above ground at the terrific pressure of pounds per square inch for the benefit of the uninformed the gas is converted into bolcis of dry ice for commercial uses which at a temperature of degrees below zero gives off clouds of vapor when subjected to atmospheric conditions in addition the carbon dioxide is converted into cardol Car dox the latter named gas is often used in carbon countes coun tys coal mines instead of blasting powder it is introduced into a drilled hole and allowed to expand thereby breaking open the coal seams without the attendant dangers of the use of dynamite manti mani miracle the miracle of manti mani concerns those fifty brave pioneer families who during the dead of winter 1849 arrived in wagons at the present site of that city turning to the spur of the east mountain for relief from the intense cold and deep snow the they y made dugouts dug outs in the gray hill where the manti temple now stands with the advent of springs warm sun the comfort of the rock shelters wak was suddenly interrupted by an unexpected and fearful menace irom under slabs of stone and crevices crawled hundreds of spotted backed angry rattlesnakes the manti pioneers stood their ground and fought one of the strangest battles ever recorded a war against deadly hissing reptiles three hundred fearsome snakes lay dead by the evening of the first days battle the war continued throughout the night and for several days and nights until every snake was exterminated hundreds and hundreds of theland the mand the miracle of it was not a man woman or child was bitten later the gray hill furnished the site and the stone for a fort a fort that preserved presed ved the lives of mantis people from angry ute indians bent on trouble I 1 today like a crown of glory an a spot personally dedicated by brigham young stands the white temple on the hill and marking the exact spot where the miracle of manti occurred |