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Show Dry Ice Plant Soon For Utah A ten thousand foot deep well drilled for oil and which has yielded carbon dioxide gas instead in-stead of oil, Is reported from Carbon Car-bon county. The well Is the property of the Pacific Western Oil Company Compa-ny of Casper, Wyoming, who are pondering the erection of a dry lee plant near the well which Is VS miles from Price, to utilize the carbon dioxide gas. ItirportS Indicate that the oil company may spend as high as $2,000,000 on the dry Ice project providi' they can secure a sale of a sufficient suf-ficient amount of dry Ice to justify jus-tify the erection of a large plant. The well produces eight and one-half million cubic feet of gas daily from which dry ice is manufactured. It Is hoped that the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad can be Interested Inter-ested in using dry icf in their refrigerator cars, and that It may be possible to sell the dry lee to steamship lines for refrigeration re-frigeration purposes. A dry Ioe plant Is already under un-der operation at Wellington, five miles south of Price, whose supply of carbon dioxide comes from a well in the same vicinity as the one mentioned abow. River Running in Utah Is Popular and Exciting River history was made twice this month on two little-known little-known Utah rivers the Dolores and the Escalante Rivers In southeastern Utah. The Dolores River is a major feeder stream to the Colorado and runs north through Colorado parallel to the Utah-Colorado line for 200 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-known, and passing through a practically unexplored country, the Dolores was navigated this month for the first time in its history by Mr. and Mrs. Preston Walker of Grand Junction, Colorado, and Dr. and Mrs. Otis Marston of Berkeley, California. The 300-mile 300-mile trip ended at Moab, Utah, without 6erious mishap with the river runners reporting the trip to be one of the most exciting ex-citing and arduous in the nation. na-tion. A large portion of the trip was made through a canyon can-yon country heretofore unknown even to range riders in the isolated iso-lated country near the Colorado-Utah Colorado-Utah border. Further west of Moab a dangerous dan-gerous and exciting boat trip and another "first" was successfully success-fully brought to completion by Utah's Harry Aleson accompanied accompa-nied by California's Georgia White, well-known woman explorer. ex-plorer. Aleson and White left Escalante Escal-ante via boat on the Escalante River May 24, destination Lee's Ferry on the Colorado River. Running a swift treacherous river, riv-er, sometimes shallow, sometimes some-times passing through narrow rock walls at tremendous speed, Aleson and White had plenty of navigation troubles. At one time their boat was tipped over and they lost half their supplies sup-plies including a wrist watch, valuable film and other equipment, equip-ment, some of which was recovered re-covered further down stream where it had floated to the banks. Despite the difficulties of passing pass-ing through an isolated country on an almost unknown stream, Aleson reported magnificent scenery. On the seventh day after leaving Escalante, the little party par-ty reached the Colorado River, 83 miles from Lees Ferry, Arizona. Picking up food he had previously previous-ly cached for such an occasion, Aleson and White drifted on down throuh Utah to Lee's Ferry, Fer-ry, Arizona, in one day on a flood-swollen Colorado and still full of enthusiasm for river running in Utah. |