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Show News From Around Utah Navajos In Better Shape This Year Than Last j A year ago the Navajo Indians w ere very much in the newspa- j pers. Relief campaigns were started both locally and nationally na-tionally to overcome the poverty and pathetic conditions found to exist on the reservation. Investigations now reveal tha'. the reservation when utilized to full advantage will only support '35,000 of the 60,000 now living there. During the coming winter win-ter it is estimated that more than $1,000,000 will be paid out to the Indians in out-of-work compensation. The report also pointed ou; that during the summer months as manv as So to 90 percent o! emplovable Indians took par; in off-the reservation work. Thir teen thousand were away on pay j jobs at the peak. During the . month of October 11,500 em- ! ployed. Utah railroads con- j tributed heavily to the 7.000 em- ployed on railroads. Seasonable agriculture work employed 3,000 men, women and children in j Utah, Idaho, Colorado and Ari- . zona. Two hundred high school ' bovs and girls in supervised groups worked irr Utah orchards. Three hundred and fifty worked in mines in Utah and Colorado, j All of which shows that th; ! average American is ready to help the unfortunate, and that they are also ready to see thai j deplorable situations do not repeat re-peat themselves. Vanadium Mill for White Canyon Plans are completed by the Vanadium Corporation of America Amer-ica to build a S50,000 mil! at the mouth of White Canyon, jus east of Hite. on the Colorad' River. The mill will be con structed for treating comp'e copper-uranium ores which art not now amenable to treatmen by any of the processes in use at other mills now operatir.' There is an urgent need of uran - mm for defense purposes, and l action on two applications oat-he oat-he cleared construction will begin be-gin at once. It was largely in anticipation of the eventual need of the Hitr Road as an outlet for strateg: minerals, as well as for an important im-portant artery of the tourist traffic, that the Utah Publicif and Industrial Development Commission originally undertook the sponsorship of the Hite Roac1 Project. |