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Show Spotlighting j UTAH Red Men Lament Read Shortage A war-born bead shortage is seriously handicapping Utah Indians In-dians in their efforts to get back into the business of making beaded gloves, hunting vests and tribal regalia. Only a trickle of bright colored beads now reach America from. Europe. During the war, bead imports ceased entirely. en-tirely. Full Indian tribal regalia calls for the use of thousands of beads, and due to their lack, Utah Indians In-dians are short on Indian costumes. cos-tumes. From Duchesne county, it is reported that there are only four or five complete Indian cos- tumes left on the Uintah and Ouray Indian reservation. This is explained in the fact that when high ranking Indians pass to the happy hunting grounds they are buried in full tribal regalia. re-galia. Wi'h no beads available to make new clothes, the present pres-ent costumes will pass to the grave with their owners as burial bur-ial clothes. Even in this modern mod-ern age, red men who bury their dead are fearful of grave robbers rob-bers who fiendishly open up the burial, place of a recently departed de-parted Indian to steal his elaborate elab-orate costume. Colorado River's Wonder Fish "Are there any fish in the Colorado river?" tourists and visitors to Utah frequently ask. The questioners imagine that because of the heavy load of silt carried by Utah's biggest stream, that the water could support no fish life. The fact is. however, that at Moab some eight kinds of fish have been caught by fishermen fish-ermen on the river. The most interesting of which is the Colorado Col-orado river salmon, so named by Major Powell who first navigated navi-gated the stream through Utah in 18G9. This fish, sporting a huge head often reaches a length of 36 inches. And then there is the channel cat, which often reaches 30 inches in length and weighs 15 pounds, and his cousin the mud cat, a smaller fish. Then there is the boney tail, a 10-incher, the hump back, a 12-incher, and last, the common carp, suckers and perch. ' Oil .litters Hits Basin The oil well jitters a high state of expectancy has hit the Uintah basin. The excitement started a few weeks ago when a big drilling outfit struck a huge flow of gas 54,000,000 cubic feet every 2-1 hours enough to supply sup-ply the city of Los Angeles. The gas was reached at 2500 feet, a few miles northwest of Vernal. Operations went right on however, how-ever, the drillers were seeking oil, and they had the facilities to go down to 8000 feet if necessary. neces-sary. Within 24 hours after the gas was struck, 36 additional oil men arrived in the Uintah basin, almost al-most every square mile of which has been charted by crews of seismograph men during the past 18 months. At this writing, all the land that can be leased by oil men and others has been grabbed up even acre and half-acre half-acre tracts. Residents of Vernal, Ver-nal, Roosevelt, Duchesne and other towns in the basin are keeping watchful eyes on the independent drillers rather than the big oil companies. If an independent in-dependent operator hits oil, he will tell the world about it. The big concerns might cap an oil strike and announce it later. |
