Show Full Autonomy Given To Four Small Indian Members Out Last Four small bands of Indians in comprising will take over full responsibility of their own affairs under a proclamation for manage-ment of their own affairs under a proclamation signed February 1957 by Acting Secretary of the Interior Fred C. Aandahl in fulfillment of a 1954 enactment The bond's affected are Shivwits with enrolled members and acres of tribal Kanosh with 42 members and about acres of tribal with 34 members and and Indian Peaks with 26 members and approximately In addition to the tribal individual members of the-Kanosh Band own a total of acres and members of the Koosharem which have been up to now in Federal In accordance with the 1954 Public Law of the subsurface or mineral rights to all of the lands still owned by the Indians arc being transferred to a private trustee to be held for at least 10 The Walker Bank and Trust Company of Salt Lake City has been selected for this In the case of surface the decision of disposition was left up to the Indian The great bulk of the lands have not been used by the Indians in recent years and most are cd for Those not already sold are being transferred to the Walker Bank and Trust under a liquidation trust One major exception is on the Shivwits where two tracts of irrigated land and a homestead comprising acres will be held by the Walker Bank for the use and benefit of the tribal In an tract on the Kanosh Reservation is being divided among four tribal members and a parcel at Koosharem will be conveyed to two In each of these latter other members of the band will have a lifetime right of access and use to the particular Over members of the four bands taken advantage of the Indian Bureau's voluntary relocation program and have moved to cities such as Los or San A substantial number of the adults have taken vocational training or adult education courses which were made possible by Public Law and provided by the University Utah under a contract with the Indian The Utah bands are the second group of Indians to move away from Federal A similar step was taken by the Indians of western Oregon under a proclamation signed by Secretary Seaton on August Utah's newest Industrial the nitrogen products and anhydrous ammonia chemical plant at U. S. Steel's Geneva has started going on First of its kind in a major steel mill In the United the new plant uses coke oven gas from the big Columbia Geneva Steel Division installation to produce anhydrous ammonia which is stored in the two big Some of the anhydrous is further refined into ammonium This high strength fertilizer is produced into solid form as in the tall 13 story tower Ammonium a third member of the fertilizer is produced in granular form in another part of Geneva's chemical |