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Show Spotlighting , UTAH O fl I Xittle-Known Historical Highlights Utahns have been made doubly doub-ly conscious of their state's scenic, sce-nic, cultural and historical attractions at-tractions during "Know Your Utah Week" just concluded. Among the many things pointed out by historical enthusiasts is that Utah was discovered just 48 ;years after Columbus discovered America. In 1640, Capt. Garcia Lopez De Cardenas, Spanish explorer looked look-ed into Utah and was blocked in his attempt to enter the area at the south borders by the great chasm of the Colorado River. He rreported that the land north of the Colorado was nothing but a desert. In July, 1776, the same month and the year of the signing of the Declaration of Independence' Father Escalante, a noted Spanish Span-ish missionary was the second Tvhite njan to discover the territory terri-tory of Utah. Accompanied by Spanish soldiers and Indian guides, the party entered Utah east of the present town of Ver nal and then cut southwest across country to Utah Lake. Thrilled with the beauties of the valley, the lake and the country in general, he proclaimed it "New Spain" and hoped to be able to colonize the area with Spaniards. While the use of rubber boats came into prominence during the late war, their use is not new, for 104 years ago, John C. Fremont Fre-mont and Jim Bridger launched a rubber boat on Great Salt Lake and did considerable exploring. ex-ploring. Xew I'se For Utah Metals Two Utah metals copper and lead have been successfully fused into a new alloy that bids fair to revolutionize industrial machinery because this new m-oduct converted into machine bearings practically never wears out. Even without lubrication, exhaustive tests reveal that the bearings will' not burn up after hours of no lubrication; the self-oiling self-oiling qualities furnished by the lead in the alloy is the answer. Utahns who perfected this new alloy Lee Bowen and Dan G. Cunningham, the latter a former for-mer master mechanic for the D. & R. G. Western railroad, vision manufacturing plants all over the nation changing over to the new copper-lead alloy bearings. "Hot boxes," the dread of railroad rail-road trainmen, can be entirely eliminated through the use of the new bearing it is pointed out. The new development promises wider use of Utah minerals. min-erals. Utah Hollywood's Backdoor A surve3r of motion picture activity in Utah since 1916 reveals re-veals that more than 30 pictures or important parts of pictures have been made in the state. Approximately 89,000,000 has been spent by Hollywood producers pro-ducers in Utah for the use of extras, horses, cattle, ranches, location, housing, feeding, and the transportation of those connected con-nected with the making of pictures. |