Show LIFE IN MOAB TWENTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK miss may trout of dallas texas was visiting her uncle T trout and family an election to choose school trustees in district no 1 was called for july 8 many moab men had journeyed to wilson mesa to have a look at the rich placer diggings george who was shot by bill hinton last week near dove creek died as a result of his wounds myron lance and john peterson told their apples to leadville buyers lor 1 25 per box commissioners J II 11 johnson and R J thomson went to green rivet to look over road clatters there moab peaches were selling on the salt lake markets at 20 cents par pound there was a scarcity of laborers in moab and 2 and 2 25 per day was being freely offered with no takers D ajohnson was to be marshal of the day at the july ath celebration an elaborate program was arranged mr and mrs wilbur wells returned from the blue and reported considerable mining activity i there joseph webb had given E L beard an option on his wilson mesa placer mine the option was to run for one year and earned a consideration of county clerk neff reported that the total assessed valuation of grand county since the taxes were equalized by the and not including the D R G railroad aggregated gre gated joseph L taylor purchased the old taylor store building from the heirs of nancy V taylor deceased mr taylor and james W stark in to open a new store in the building in august moab as seen by a reporter was the caption over an extended article taken from the salt lake herald republican and written by burl armstrong ia representative of that paper who accompanied the san juan exploration party headed by prof byron which passed through town last week mr arm strong gave a glowing account of the town |