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Show Utah in the Neivs Reports from Hite, which is 60 miles south of Hanksville. indicate indi-cate that numerous automobiles come into the region each week to see the sights and fish in the Colorado. The giant 450-foot-high Hoskinini Monument in White's Canyon and named after a famous Navajo chief, is a major attraction of the region. re-gion. The first men to ever set eyes on this wide spot in the Colorado Colora-do River gorge, the climate ol which is semi-tropical, were Cap tain John Wesley Powell and party, Colorado River explore: who passed in 1869 and de scribes the prehistoric Indian fort built of stone which today still remains standing on a higfc bluff across the river from Hite 30 Million Tons of Coal Found The Kaiser Company, Inc. has announced that following extensive drilling tests in the rich coal mining areas of south- eastern Uta, they have found a new source of more than 30,-000,000 30,-000,000 tons of high grade coking cok-ing coal. The company is making mak-ing plans to go into extensive mining operations and the coal will be shipped to the Kaiser Steel plant at Fontana, California. Califor-nia. The new coal deposits lie in the famous Book Cliffs field which also supplies the Geneva Steel plant with coal. Month at Arches Ray Garner, motion picture photographer for the Harmon Foundation at New York City has spent the past month in the Arches National Monument making a motion picture of the attractions in this famous region. re-gion. The Western Photographic Co., of Tucson, Arizona, is planning plan-ning to move into the Arches soon to make a motion picture travelogue picture of the monument's monu-ment's geological oddities. |