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Show 86 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER J. E. Broadus, who claimed to be a naturalist from Salt Lake City, appeared in person and told the com- mittee that the beauties of Dinosaur would be enhanced by Echo Park Dam.108 He was followed by Briant H. Stringham of Vernal, Utah, by avocation cattleman, who declared there were in the audience fifty-two Utah citizens who had traveled 124,000 man-miles at a cost of $23,500 just to tell the committee that Utah had been promised by the National Park Service that Dinosaur would never be closed to either stock raising or hydro- electric power development.109 George A. Pugh stepped to the witness stand to state that there were only three people in Moffat County, Colorado, who were opposed to Echo Park Dam.110 "Those must be the three that wrote me," said Rep. Aspinall with sarcasm. The ace of Senator Watkin's roundup was G. E. Untermann, director of the Utah Field House of Na- tural History at Vernal, on the skirt of Dinosaur. Known as a local humorist, Untermann had never ap- peared before such a distinguished group, and he took advantage of the opportunity to display his talent. "With true missionary zeal," he told the committee,111 "nearly two hundred members of the Sierra Club, in three separate groups, came to Vernal last summer to make the trip through the canyons of Dinosaur National Monument under the guidance of competent river pilots. Their avowed purpose was to enjoy the thrill and excitement of the river run, but a member of the first group spilled the beans by revealing the real pur- pose. He stepped forward and made the following in- troduction: 'We represent the Sierra Club of California and we have come to Vernal to save Dinosaur National |
