Show Fall completion anticipated Work is being rushed on the Red Crook Dam project nour Fruit land which was last This is the first dual-purpose irrigation dam ever financed bj the State of and is sponsored by tho Utah Water and No representation Western Uintah threatens to bolt on commissioner move Rumblings of discontent from residents of Uintah County who reside west of Ashley Valley over the apparent loss of representation on the board of county has caused considerable as to what might For the past couple of weeks a committee lias been working toward a. possible candidate to represent the western part of die SO STRONG HAS boon the feeling in Uintah County that the present commission recently went on record favoring a representative from the west side of the county being on the board the two-year commissioner represents the west the tradition was shattered in the recent Primary election when D. Blayne Morrill of Whiterocks was defeated by Roland Merk-ley of Dry Fork on the Republican ballot The Democratic Herbert M. is also from the Vernal FEELINGS IN the western section of the county have reached the proportion that several ranchers and farmers have threatened to withdraw their bank accounts and other business dealings with Vernal establishments and remove them I to Roosevelt The defeated two-year GOP candidate in the Primary Mr who is bishop of the Whiterocks has been promoted as the I candidate from the west one of the active members of the commit- Power When completed it will supply irrigation water to about 35 farmers in the Fruitland and will ho another recreation silo for residents of the state as well as tourists traveling through tee reported to the Standard Wednesday that pressure had been brought from political sources in Vernal to the extent that Morrill would not permit his name to be used in this THE FULL TEXT of the Uintah statement follows a more united county with better business relations for the growth and development of the county and for better government the coun- ty commissioners go on record of being in favor of the west side of the county having a representative on the Uintah County commission that the term of office alternates from a two-year to a four-year term which will give the commissioners the same equal rights in an election THE STATEMENT w a s signed by Commission Chairman Orville Swain and Commissioners Harold McKee and C D. Dudley 0 |