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Show 388 PROPOSED CANYONLANDS NATIONAL PARK IN UTAH lands Park. I don't believe that that has been brought out often enough in the course of the hearings. Dr. GIDDINGS. I wonder if I might make one point. It is not easy. I think, to have a secondary use-that is, mining and grazing-and have the primacy use the scenic resources. The tourists I don't think are going to bother the sheep and I don't think they are going to get in the way of an oil well. But you can have perhaps a few oil derricks and roads that are necessary, various construction items that come along with that, and I think this may disturb what I would consider the pri mary use very much and so much that the scenic resources might actu ally become secondary as a result of this. Senator MELCALF. I understand; you made a strong point, Dr. Giddings, Dr. GIDDINGS. Thank you. Senator, METCALF. The next witness is Mr. Hyrum Tolley.. Is Mr. Tolley here ? [No response.] Then our next witness will be Mr. Raymond Wright. He will be foIowed by }Ik Earl Bunn. 'Mr. Wright, glad to have you with us. ST'ATEMENT OF RAYMOND S. WRIGHT, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE BANK OF UTAH AND FORMER MAYOR OF OGDEN, UTAH Mr. WRIGHT. Mr. Chairman, honorable members of the committee, Senator Bennett, and Congressmen King and Peterson, my name is Raymond S. Wright. I am vice president of the Bank of Utah and for 6 years served as mayor of Ogden, retiring in 1959. I appear before you today, not as a technical expert on the re sources of mining or oil potentials in the area that has been suggested as the Canyonlands Na:tional Park, for I am sure you g(mtlemen will hear much of this from qualified people. I have volunteered to come down from Ogden to stress the importance of more and more recrea tion facilities for our exploding young population. Here in the arid intermountain area we haven't the great water resources to create unlimited park potentials like many of the States north and west of us. At the same time, we have a terrific population increase; and one has only to drive around in our limited recreation areas to appreciate the fact that the people are being greatly handi capped with limited areas for healthy vacationing. This great crying need, along with limited facilities, has starved this State and its adjoming areas from participation with many people from the coun try at large who drive through the West to enjoy such spots as Yellow stone National Park, along with Glacier National Park, and others. The short time they spend in Utah has been a great concern of our people for a long time. Leaving human values and turning to the material things, in my estimation, Yellowstone Park alone has created and continues to create more tourist dollars than can be compared with uncertain revenues from oil and mines that have a background of restricted life. Mind you, gentlemen, this great wealth in human and material revenues from Yellowstone Park has a background of close to 80 years and each year substantially more of our people participate. Take the |
