Show Iinics-ftTttrprttiintf THE GKAND ' TIMES VALLEY THE AND INDEPENDENT ' II 46 MOAB WORK SWJLLIW ' M i VOLUME O UNDER WAY SAN According manager of GRAND COUNTY UTAH THURSDAY IN WILL JUAN OIL ' CONSOLIDATION 7'" " ' " " A '' IELDS M NEW NUMBER 1920 $6150 SPEND ON AGENT 11 MARCH SHEARING WILL ROAO PARADOX THOMPSONS AT START BIG APRIL UP WANT 5 14 Will ACQUIRE HINGS George A Dunston of Provo was in Moab Monday and closed a deal with the IMPORTANCE MonumentalOil WILL OPEN-UP O ORMATION SALINE 900 EET O MIDLAND TRAIL HIGHWAY ROM LA SAL TO the Utah Eastern company whereby DEAL the company TO IELD IS UNDER company has already he has the PENETRATED leased shearing plant at BEEN AT ONCE AVORS CONSTRUC COM haVe STATE LINE TO BE started operations on its for the coming NEGOTIATION AND WILL Thompsons Mr holdings season DRILLERS IGURE CHANGE TION O RIVER ROAD DURING PLETED THIS SEASON DOUBTLESS BE CON south of Bluff in the San Juan fields Dunston has had charge of the plant COME for the past several WILL PRESENT WILL DIVERT IMMENSE Mr Clark has years SUMMATED received word that the Ho states that shearing will commence SOON company's rig has been to YEAR THIS WAY moved a TRAIC at Thompsonson Between well on the April 5 Hulkito structure south of Negotiations are now under way the San Juan river 25000 and 80000 sheep will be well is if will result in the Oil which which closed The drill of the Western Allies down 1140 feet It is D E Baldwin is the new state road The sum of $6150 will be expended shorn Mri Dunston reports that he and of proposed thorough development is still boring through Gas company to clean out the hole and drill into the agent for Grand county succeeding during the year 1920 by the forest service will have a large force of shearers the Prominent & Grand county oil fields will be given desirable jobs and the A will be Charles who salt on Maxwell lease sands which a Stewart who resigned several th matter of only a La financial intersts of New York on the completion of the been few right treatment has reached weeks' work weeks ago Mr Baldwin has depth of 1825 feet The oil obtained in the field and with It is steadily highway in expected that shearing at Cisco City are interested from this well will be used by the company commenced on his duties and operations for a vast are continuing will amount of acreage also commence are dealing of 50 feet being made wells as fuel for sinking a number of Among the projects which he will take the state and San Juan county according and Westwater an average on a royalty basis and it is altogether throughout the district about April 5 Charles up at once and which he hopes to put twenty-four hours Altogether to advices received from the district likely that the negotiations will every Youle has been employed by the company salt have been through to completion is the Midland This pierced by forest office at Ogden be 900 feet of closed Charles Cramer a prominent as driller Mr Youle formerly Trail-Grand river SAN JUAN AUTHORIZES'? by oil pockets and highway of varied had amount C the drill charge of drilling the well which money will complete the attorney of WashingtonD linie formation'Road Agent Baldwin left Tuesday highway and will result in the diverting thin strata of a will be out and driven in cleaned has been in Moab for the past week for of the opinion that to thenow Cisco where he will take drillers steps to of all of the traffic from the Paradox sands COURT HOOSE BONO ISSUE the The are is in sight representing eastern interests and the have that Thompson's end of the and that Midland Trail from through Moab to it is that the suit country understood a tentative agree-inert place to the state line put in shape for within bne or Only three or four miles of road with local two days the long-expected owners of land has been traffic He will also go on to Grand remain to be constructed and the sum limestone capping will be According to reports received this reached Junction to meet with Colorado officials appropriated will amply cover the cosc The theory has been riday and was week from San Juan the taxpayers Mr Cramer arrived county relative to the that the Midland Trail of the remaining portion according to hole is being bored in of that accompaniedby Attorney Samuel A county last Saturday "with salt Grand Junction is especi-lly and that anxious citizens of the La Sal section fissure filled King of Salt Lake City and II W C authorized the issuing of bonds in the to the for the have roads leading is the extreme west from The following dispatch from Ogden amount of $10000 for the construction Pommel a well known this geologist of reason that city placed in However better shape and is tells of the thickness of the formation government road work of has making Denver Mr Pommel been a new county court house On belief is not The of the this shared by geologists this many friendsof the family in also anxious to establishn dirAe- road contemplated this year by the forest account of the fact that the phone lina detailed examination a county will be grieved to learn to Moab As a and other experts who have result of Mr Baldservice is down it has been impossible to get Moub structure during the week and that Mrs Sarah Wimmer wife of win's visit to the city it for the the field of the Colorado is "Plans calling expenditure the he will his investigation and who are probably continue Thomas G of and detailed resultof the electioncallWimmer Crescent that a of action will be thick of expected plan of the of the opinion that there is a layer $3078325 roads r1 in the Moab and Salt upon In iuuim ia valley Green River died at Salt Lake City with the end in section view of in Utah salt all Geologists last week forest service e Idaho Wyom-1 portej that the qUesfion carried by a While over this Mrs Wimmer had been decided onthe fields for another week Mr Midland Trail from the ing declare that a thick stratum of saltris in poor Arizona and Nevada during the It is health for a couple of years Junction to Cisco announced that Pommel of course has nothing to say arrc majority putting the Cisco-Castleton coming year have been completed by work his opinion of the oil possibilities not uncommon in oil fields and point and the family was spending the winter will start in the regarding early spring on road in in Salt she better shape and P district all the of Lake where could J Martin engineer forjho of this it is to the fact that over state the region learned construction of the building The the best of then taking up the Grand river road is medical attention The fourth district Texas salt encountered above the bonds have already been tentatively from an authoriative source that he sympathyof this entire section does nroiect Castle vallpv to Mna'h sands "The expenditure of $1228268on sold is highly impressed as a result of his varying in thickness from fifteen out to the bereaved husband and childThe construction of the river road the roads within the forest that in all to Utah examination so far and one thousand feet depending The following from Saturday's is recognized throughout this section is This contemplated MOAB HOMES that the locality Big wells are broughtren amount SEVERAL probability he will on recommeiu Tribune tells of the funeral of Mrs as the greatest need of southeastern in in Texas after one thousand feet represents the allotment made by the CHANGE HANDS RECENTLY extensive drilling be done Wimmer T Tv 41 by Times-Independent wiui ine a of salt are penetrated ume ana thebmps winroadue government ana is to ue spent Mr Cramer when seen Services vveie i held at xithe family taken at wus to state and of city once urtre ebn Several tranters Moab proOperations AnnrH cintn enuntv representative did not will be continued steadily residence 50 East Sixth South street commission to Tile perty have taken place recently John at the well and Wimmer commence actual con-' funds new roads to bo construct-j to divulge the everything is yesterday for Mrs Thomas G name of the interests struction work on the Shafer sold his residence property care with Jr died project this C1 in Utah will be 962 miles Then: working smoothly Although the hole' (Sarah Patten) who whom he is associated He has and to B II The road already been will be eight major March and A Woodruff feet the several days ago A special spring road projects that his is is about 650 below program stated however now down company of of music by Professors A for $1750 and in turn purchased the casing there is ab me uinciai east anu a number o! lesser projects was given prepared to expend a vast amount no indicationof caving C J" J E state road rnsids biE E the Lund Willard Weihe vest through Grand coun-1 Infill nf to conShafer home consideration money in the county on drillingoperations and the hole is In standing up well Miss Lola it the and Leonard ty which makes part of Mid-1 the fourth being fivvv $2000 Vj' r11ni structed in the forests )Tof Lne louriri jjiihvj nan with the end in the event that there is no caving view of and "O Those land Trail and it is the IL IL the who sang Dry is 23 chased March home in Lein anu iu is highly hdistrict 92 49 iq miles Some of the all sections of the field niETuv imperative imierauve cv and no water is encounteredthe bit can Tears" Interment took place in City uh that it be put inhapefor travelOnly pj ojccts were started in 1919 and they price paid being $1900 The be driven to drilling into the deeper sands a depth of 3000 feet ceriietcry7 of be this E has fourteen miles road must be E Shafer commenced in the deal is which is the capacity of the will completed summer case consummated Star rig company "Apostle Richard R Lyman presided and when the of for to be of residence a importance Utah a on will doubtless bring in at Some gas has "The major projects new least been prevalent during and delivered the principal the is he has filed project considered the expense completed during the coming summer small homestead which on the week and the other being given by President a dozen standard rigs the balings continue to will be of small significance and which is located just south of the Messrs Cramer and Pommel will show some oil Charles White of the Nebo stake involved The belief is firmlv arc Hn JUiivws to the impor-! the family Grand Junction is aliveWivuv V lu Sam Hudson home in the upper part probably be in Moab fur another week U Lilli OUIIIia-DlBViy 'J held that if the hole continuesto stand Payson a close friend of the of the river road as a of Sevier-Cove of town A and The referred to splendid tance road ort small spring several speakers V4 a means V Ill hke Ke JOHU $8500 DUVIUl-bUVV L'UU Mr Pommel after he completed hi up through the salt formation oil will wvxnva of land are here KT IpflVASL establishing a to Cedar-Long located and Mr U4 Vl ATXX vo Wimmfiir whn direct highway - Moab Valley $100156 acres be brought in 874070: VXrtiC! vw vv examination of the Moab structure when the present formation 1UJ3 nnuiuvi it ji the 11 three and it is expected that neighbor-1 Heber-ruitland La Shafer will construct a modern six-room will tfo to Salt two daughters and $60815 is valley where he will pierced While the well has husband ing city will lend besides several brothers and sis-j City $118-ters house and convert the property spend several days looking over that wvery cooperation dox $6150 Ixigan-Garden is proven that there more salt than the latter being Mrs Ed to the into a very desirable home project '176 Modent-St among George $65785 field had been expected fact in no way Loose of Provo f-" :lf: injures the Attorney King returned to Salt Lake - prospects of bringing in HIGH PRICE OR WOOL flow of oil City Sunday AND GAME ANS 'MOAB IIGHT 8 POWER CO INDICATED BY EARLY SALE If the deal is closed it will have a effect a the Grand county by ' That wool will sell at prices even O MAY ORGANIZE HEBE : field will be WATER SUPPLY ERECTING ITS ICE PLANT higher than those prevailing last year The big i company ' is by that indicated sales contracts prepared to develop all parts of thi in this have already been consummated field spring and summer and will HAS WHIZZER" STA this state One sale made in Iron be the Ingest oil BE TO INCREASED concern that has ever The organization of a fish and Work commenced this morning on county was on the basis of 60 cents entered Utah COMMENCED ITS DUTIES game in is and dub Grand vounty being the per pound covered the fleeces erecting of the Moab Light & The students of the Grand county advocatedby a number oi local sports7000 head of sheep ice plant which will from These company's power IS high school are already at work fleeces will in It is stated that if there is such average eight pounds men be -: for the situated in the power house on weight and will A nieeinu of the directors of the publicationof the 1920 bring $480 per fleece organization it will be possible to Moab Pipe Line held edition of "the Whizzer"the yearbook an company was keep the local streams well stocked Mill creek An ice plant expert is O institution DEl'TH SNOW THE-SUPREME Monday at which plans were discussed is regular HEAVY which now a and the with fish organization will here and will assemble the machinery and action local It is announced -GOURI of the school ASSURES AMPLE WATER taken which will result also be able to promote the and put it in operation which will game rein increasing edition will be that the even more the water supply of the The forest take about ten days The company of 1919 It sources of this region There is an unusual depth of town The will then be in a program decided on elaborate than the edition position to supply all in the La Sal mountains for this snow serviceis now taking a more activein time the in AprilJanies C Howd who'was last year the purchaseof feet book is planned to publish 11 Af W it Ly4l some 500 IISTI AI1U JjMIIie rCBUUrvvB in vile Ivt and the (VCivSv LIiv IIWUS U1 LBV WWII of the year indicationsare convicted by a jury in the Grand county of galvanized pipe which will will hereafter be able to extend for the plant will be obtained from the that thejre will be district court under a charge of be more water next used at the head of the system supplanting to a fish and wheel at the power house game water than has had in this sec under false pretenses O SMALLPOX every been money summer four-inch pipe TWO CASES heretofore to the end of improving out interfering with or increasing the tion and who was given for to used many years according in A of load the In this the state considerable distance of smallpox havebeen the recreational advantages of the Ioon electric plant that the local forest sentence prison have reached was set Two cases three-inch pipe past cal be manufacturedcheaply free by the will be taken up and reported 'in Moab during the office On La Sal flats the supreme court of Utah forest Supervisor Charles DeMoisy Way iticeis chn the four-inch snow the Saturday Howd had purchased nine-ty installed in its place week and intention to sell it at a is Merle Hissong and the stated yesterday that the proposed or 15 Mrs inches deep on the 'level while head of cattle from connecting with able rate in stockmen' of here would be to ac-i nominal no event exthe pipe The little daughter of Mr and Mrs Earl ganization very vi vii uvi v w- - therj is gti1 a depth of eight'inches Grand and at six and four-inch San Juan counties pipe will be install-ad oeai especially ceeuing ceeding one cent cent a pound comphsh a great deal especially pvuuu miwu pvvga Higher up in the moun Harris are suffering from mild attacks comolish Thompsons for the sugar factory at on that portion of the head of the the local streams well pie with the of the Quarantines have through keeping are pleased prospects the has yet of contagion tains not commenced Grand Junction He was paid for the snow system able ice in the where there is little fall and it is not anticipated with he to buy future by been stocked trout and declared being the cattle Adams & Conneley representing established to vidisappear aand amount is said 4x4 believed th'ere will be of inOjvul vc ttiiivU' the is will materially increase that he welcomes the move to improve which has been almost an impossibility m that any spread preater than has been seen in sugar factory and had tne water in past his the fish and yearssupply overcoming the the disease The prospects the cattle own checks to the B owners of game resources a 'number of years shortage asking Thomas oy which for the stockmen heretofore been unusually bright are the experienced in - - cattle owners to hold the summers It is well as farmers his checks for a day until he could deposit as that the ASKED TO new pipe can be LOCKMASTERS the i&' Coneley check in Adams within three weeks W E a Grand Junction bank to cover the RAISING OE BRIDGE Gordon wa3 placed in charge of checks he had issued Howd then became name dipping dates: Present at the meeting of the intoxicated according to his °ard and wore Directors W E ATTRACTING INTEREST gambled away part of the Gordon Miller he had paid by & A been Adams John money Peterson and C at Robertson for the cents par Coneley after which he left for Canada dipping ot Edward Schoppe of Salt Lake City pf treasury stock Definite time the state cent a share The com-also When Mr oy presented the representing the Standard Oil Com-pany value being in the Salt Lake and has been suggested by printed sheep in which Articles for been of Utah investing leasing lands Howd checks jayment they were NGEL of DEATH was an arrival Tuesday CALLS livestock board ana letters have the oil drilling Ogden papers State that the raising of dishonored by the bank as Howd had is may become valuable for spending a few days here on LITTLE JOHNSON GIRL sent to flockmasters throughout the and Selling costs of 20 per cent the Grand river bridge at Moab is to his purposes ho funds on deposit cover them notify preliminary work for company are state requesting them to Mr oy who sold Howd thirty head After allowed the rof engineering drilling interest an of their would will soon illness judgement which commence of cattle returned to Moab and upon month Mareen board what in the feat in and for the dipping of the Moab valley The company Oil cirlces throughout the state' his daughter of Mr The Crescent-Eagle company complaint a warrant was issued be the best time ll Salt Gcor?e AV Lake unloaded its Star rig at Thompsons has been incorporated under the laws being one that presents a number of for Howd's arrest charging him with Johnson died last animals according to the ri the first of the week and will of Utah with a capital of $15000000 engineering difficulties The bridge obtaining chattels under false pretenses resulted from influenza Herald - ‘vli lr in about a The divided into' 150000 shares of the par Howd was subsequently it to Moab week is developed into pneumonia bring is 600 feet being raised vx w which long The reasons tor me nLiA n$ 11 in and brought to Moab an tols'litis nonk In Anorulfl in Canada it will enable the The little one had company will m all probability pul Grand nite has fil-1 four feet in anticipation of the enorrn-ings for trial dates are that The ill for fust well county company on grouna siuiatea several weeks and on removal of sheep from one part or down its of land well located ous floods which are expected in the reviewing the evidence the sutool house on 1280 acres -In Grand river a occasions her life was despair-best state to the other without inconven vost I 1- m vile Ulivivjlllc 11414 43 IljCltMiiK Miv T1V4I Di YifiV JU1I1 lUHl HK II PSLiiL U1 nlvAnrli' rec of care and na n 1LA uncic Upanrt'ons n at an - (Continued on Page Eight) medical mu dnvuvj to in the icncing flockniasters commence drilling ill likely ue unprecedented snowfall tention were in constant attendance lts A dnllincrcontract wiill uzeiy be given ej date ias foen BellLN N LEVI INTERESTED ARRESTED ft and onerann rr ronrt V HI Wfl "ut were without avail once readily and the company now nas iraxK PERKINS Zj IKXXl-'k SALT LAKE OIL COMPANY ROOSEA LLI II 11 Xy v i)Cg' exPected within a short ing TAKEN" TO ttrinciT ershed uneral services will be held this afseveral thousand dollars in its treatemoonaccording to Mr Schoppe The'urv with which to begin operations time OlC VI VI 441$ Nat Levi the pioneer operator of Arsn fully all he bereaved from gt£ndard conipany is financed EDUCAIIONAL DRIVE the The officers of this companyare Moab oil fields will return from Upon telegraphic instructions rUTl parents have the or uuu v nminTV ? holdings Salt Lake business men The presiDATE ANNOUNCED Salt Lake City this week according of the entire prepared to develop it commun- the sheritt evening to word received from him Mr Levi their dent is W S Stanton a contractor y great loss and placed in until without delay C Montgoneryof Announcementof the reopening of js interested in a new 'oil Way company held the jail he was the state educational campaign which lias been organized by Salt Lake where Couchman Sheit Metal company which county and - Oil which onien's Literary club will enof Joseph Timothy 7) H C trea-was interrupted by health conditions businessmen and It is stated that they arrival fjUstaveson company Allen attorney secretary the office ork an tomorow night at the Wood- William Diamond will C is drining in King of the sheriffs back W SrwTwr nf the Snftncer a few weeks ago is made in a letter commence operations in thi4 ®11 hal1 at drill in Salt nisr a fancy costume ball Spe Perkins sent out by Nephi L Morris campaign county at once with a standard rig No Roosevelt They took and Jg commenCmg to Plumbing company It is understood the organization of the company frojnus'c as d preparing to develop the com-that been secured and reare These gentlemen express the greatchairman to the Grand county chair-21 details of wih them this week of larceny have been this county has been granted D SL McCorkle March as yet received in served a charge faith in the will be The affair Perkins faces vaIleyi cst Grand county Held man is th company's has but it understood' that no to be been designated as "Educational Moab ui permission from the state securities and are preparing to develop one of the most inter- in the district coun McmitJ scale will be lost in been jh Moab and sell Sunday" time starting Work to a million shares holdings on a large soctal events that He had commission have been ty fLr m Moab several wceko for some time to A P Clark of ' Thompsons AR-REACHING already immediate Sal-Paradox already co-operation i S3 encountered advanced a : t I 1 examined improving secure -from reserves I 1 - 1 - -Il 1 4 L Ji - 4 4 4- n ! 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