Show ® A VOLUME MOAB POST llUnU UllULIl GRAND I: THE OE GRAND COUNTY VALLEY UTAH TIMES THURSDAY AND JULY INDEPENDENT THE 22 NUMBER 1920 PROHIBITION director CONDITIONS in Tins SECTION INDS iiihd onm GOOD m fin I Mathonihah Thomas i al I TTfu Utah UIG TRUCKS AT WORK END O CONSOLIDATION 46 O SHILLING no- 4 ©be of Salt r fori of BIG TWO DURING DAY 1 BALL ruita LIME MASSIVE GAMES DAY PIONEER CELEBRATION HERE ON DRILLED BIG SIX LEASE team will be fail to meet in I he the local nine a contest at the HARD ORMATION ENCOUNTERED following program in commemorationof Pioneer Day will be July Moab park Saturday afternoon acEET given Saturday morning 24 at the OR IRST 300 Star opera house commencing cording to a letter received from at 10 o'clock: BUT HOLE IS NOW of the M ruita romme manager GOING DOWN are under to "America" boys Preparations Congregation way give the royal RAPIDLY neighboring team a Invocation the reception and Moab boys also Piano Solo Miss Allcin Robertson expect to give them a real game A It is also likely that the Six Oration Bishop C Hammond MonticelOperations on the Big lease ruita's chai-! lo team will accept near Moab are reported to be going Vocal Solo Miss Louise Goodman lenge and Coloradoans on on very satisfactorily A massivo meet the Chorus "Utah We Love Thee" Girls' Chorus diamond on Sunday morning lime hundred the Monb stratum nearly two Reading Miss Zelda Stark July 25 D 11 feet in Baldwin has thickness has been drilled Vocal Solo R Mrs V Bush an shale is now answer from the Monticel- through and a brown lo team stating that they would being penetrated by the bit Three Song "Utah the Queen of the West"Congregation to Moab and play with ruita kinds of lime have been encountered comes Benediction for the gate receipts the winners to the last drilled being a very hard take 60 and the losers 40 per cent lime in which In the afternoon of July 24 children'ssports program will be very slow These terips will be satisfactory to headway given and there will also be a baseball was made game between Moab and fact the ruita ruita- in boys According to geologists the hardest ruita It is not likely that there will be any horse racing the sentiment state that they will agree to any reasonable drilling is now passed and officthe jals of the forward being to postpone the race events until fall when a big stock-men's proposition so long as company are oflooking the well On Inasmuch as a big to a completion celebrationwill be staged riday and Saturday evenings game it matched is the assured attendance at game within the next four to six weeks unless dances will be given and there will also be special attractions at the it is the the gate believed will fishing jobs receipts serious delay theater the provide substantial prize for work As the bit left the lime Tuesday game the the Monticello evening and went into the shale the In event that at a joint and about team should fail to make its appearance tools came apart lost OICERS NAMED BURNED BY POWDER in second game between Moab five hours w'ere fishing Drilling a will take place Sunday ruita has N number of new officers were Vivian Dubois was severely burned and been resumed now and good is Sal headway being made elected by La 608 face and head this camp No about the A delegation of the officers of the CLAIMS Woodmen of the World at a meeting week in a powder explosion He and INSPECTS CARNOTITE Standard company of Utah equipment were loading at camp Monday right Earl D Harris others yesterday from Salt Lake to the Dubois the M at river rank Stephens superintendent camp the inspect work being done at the of the was chosen as clerk to fill the vacancy to moving to Valley City York Mining made company well In the Charles small quantity of powder had been trip paily were caused by the resignation of A to the San Rafael carnotite a K Kou-lis Koerner Jacob Dorr and S Hall moved to Big spilled on the lighted district south of Green River the who has ground and a After conferring with W the first of the to Indian and cannot attend to match or burning cigaret had been week inspect some of the Strong operations Cecil S As by C manager work Thomson was elected thrown into it Dubois claims owned W Wright and young here the inspected the well escort the position formerly held stooped over to pick up some articles John Hill who accompaniedhim to Later in theparty left for Salt day they by lying the the the that Harris 1 G on ground powder property He states there Mr woods was in their car the flame striking him squarely is a considerable showing of carnotite Lake chosen as camp manager to fill the the the in the face Aside from ore at claims Messrs caused bv resignation some vacancy of B II not MEN INTERESTED March who is adviser lieu-1 painful'burns his injuries are Wright ami Hill remained over at RICHIELD days of the serious for tenant Green River a few camp IN THE MOAB OIL IELD The here ad-mimstration state PIONEER : prohibition director has charge of the in this and who ARRIVE AND ARE THOMPSONS HIGHWAY MOVING LOTS O DIRT PROGRAM 3 Saturday baseball without I the governnibnt prohibiten act was in Moab Saturday on his return to Salt Lake southeastern! i!?? a tnP through Utah He was accompanied by his m?Vld :rhOmaS' hePTk' When scei1 by The Times-Independent Director Thomas declared that he found the Moab-Thomp-sons good throughout Grand and The surfacing of San Juan counties and that there under way post road is and has been relatively few highway violations of! indications the pie-sent the from will law He lie completed by fall The that prohibition declared there is evidence of the existence graveling trucks fleet of eleven big of illicit stills in San Salt some but sent from Lake arrived last officers county are at Monday were put Juan Saturday and on work and it is believed that the stills to work hauling gravel and shale will soon be put out of commission being worked to The trucks are and the apprehended and owners The splendid headway is being of both Grand and San Juan made are especiallyactive and are surfacing the road counties The work of extending every cooperation Mr is being done by the state road commission Thomas declared Conditons relative account" on "force under to prohibition matters far better are direction of resident the Eugene Bush in this than in section road is many other engineer Mr Bush portions of Utah he declared giving his entire attention to the job One purpose of the trip of the federal and is pushing the work to the limit officers was to see merchants John E Dubois and son have been and the law explain relative to the given contract to load the trucks sale of extracts Director Thomas It had at first been decided to bring dclared that every merchant he saw in shovel for loading purposes is steam anxious to avoid any violation of Mr but Dubois submitted a bid the law and the greatest precautions for doing the work that was lower are being taken in the sale of could be than it done with the power Thomas stated that he accordingly is highlyMr pleased equipment He with was the attitude force of the merchants and with their help given the contract and has a of some ten men at work- Especially the extract will menace soon be large dump traps are being of the past and the gravel and shale thing ' ON I j con-ditions I I ! received ! capacity officers a a NEW i a extracts ' fos-silifcrous a -Oil arrived preparatory i i 1 a constructed J the loaded onto trucks with big the David young son of Mr and fresnos In this way the trucks are Murohv fell from a tree steam Mrs Heber loaded almost as quickly as a shovel could do the work Saturday and broke his right leg in The two places nlnrps fracture was reThe first piece of road being surfaced twn is the dneed bv Dr W Allen and thomrh stretch Just east of Valley This City has for time the injury is severe the lad is recovsome been sandy and will be placed ering satisfactorily very condition The stretch in first class of trade at the head of Moab canyon will next be surfaced which willplace the new canyon road in splendid conditon Engineer Bush and his of all of drivers whom have crew had of great deal experience in country handling trucks over bad the out to record on local are make a work and things will be kept humming There are a number of obstacles be to encountered however chief of which is the water question but Engineer Bush and his men to the complete shaling on schedule time and within the cost excellent for ket year conditions are article published in and the ease of search miles suiltn oi inoao ami comuiue the estimates In a recent The exploration and development still further south tor some seventy-of mining and for life in the open It is estimated that two or three the Salt Lake Mining Review under in reality five miles from Moab The Colorado Given pay ore accessible country the carnotite field a months will be required to complete long the of M Adkirson The tne area livable conditions and a Henry man's game'' deposits geological survey estimates season the surfacing name "poor The road will not be the localities Colorado the next question of superlative are as 3000 in good mining engineer appear many are easily mined square miles in condition until after it has the to of and it would reach about the prospector is how had accessible for the largest part same find the facts about carnotite chance to pack which will re-' in It the the Utah ore ami how to recognize it development work is figure may be issafely quire several in this section Mr Adyear months and some mois-1 not discovery said the when found These are questions not expensive and the actual cost ol present known area ture People will not fully appreciate kinson had just completed a neiti ex-1 nvv Most easily answered than 6000 square miles the post minjngj jn terms of explosives mine ofless this road until next spring prospected at The carnotite ore as stated above mining equipment has not been after it has amination of the important earnot'ie timbers and had a winter's usage It all includes uranium and vanadium The San The outstanding cost will then be the best dirt Juan very cheap road in rronerties of Grand and the state of to the has also been Utah according he su:-' counties an and engineers' others connected with icssful in other informs-j gatnering road the work mineral tion about this wonderful is ignited I j Wealth Awaits Moab in ield Carnotite a Mining This Ore "Poor Is Game" Man's aredetermined i interest interesting andts a t A party of Sevier county men the last of the week in a big Packard car to inspect the Moab oil having heard much regarding the splendid structuies in this county the Those in party were: W A A itzpatrich Paul ox Soika and rank Soika The first two gentlemen are connected with the potash at the industry Marysvale and Messrs Soika have oil holdings on Salt the valley structure After spending two days in looking the field they all expressed over themselves as being' very optimistic the over possibilities of getting a commercial well on the location now Big Six Oil being drilled by the company and the Standard Oil company of Utah They stated that they wduld return to Moat) later in arrived field J the fall i i WORK i BY RESUMED IS COM PAN Y CRESCENT-EAGLE i ! Work I i I CATTLEMAN O here are Extracts from the article reproduced: the last few wailings years or arisen from and lamentations have the engineers and operators mining ACCUSED BRANDING COWS BELONGING TO OTHER with irA- -w ( Crescent-Eagle' week 11 rushed to completion Geo Mulvey has the contract lor the well and will xut m two towers in the hole order to put down as rapidly as possible This well was begun several weeks ago work having been discontinued pending the arrival 'of equipment The well is drilling Mancos shale be drilling VW-J ' the G and near & R the lease Crescent station on the D railroad was resumed this it is said that the hole will on A complaint was issued from the this county attorney's office week real the tribe of well charging Amasa Larsen known because be to dying Moab cattleman with having placed prospectors seems to time suggestions his brand out time of and on four head rom cows calves are made looking towardthethe stimubelonging to Bert Dalton Mr prosperDalton is the complainant and it is lation of hisfield work by and indispensable companionto charged that Mr Larsen branded the tor But help stock the no seems knowingly with intent to steal burro of action pointed the same come from the lineswisdom and therefore The pr eliminary hearing is being out with so much held apparentthe it would indicate that todav before Justice of other fields as in Peace W R Wheat 0 A Tangren lv in prospectingchanged ot Always is the the styles have county attornev conducting beckthat is the lure is "gold'' prosecution while Mr Larsen course A Rob-Ions with thj irres represented by on Attorney Certson NUrO! TnJlL N1 VYJ BSa mt Mr Larsen in giving his version in value it too is naving of then-precious """ of tht affair does not deny that his as the drawing power Both brand was placed on the Dalton cattle metals always will attra fo and who but the prospector declares that the misbrand-lrg miner Bvt it Everything in Shown Except the Complete Outfit for Carnotite Miner was done through an only the beaten path oversight lows on "Grub" and That is in the Tent commonlv made the worth while to stand on He seems well the range states that he did not the along which ma rch himself brand highway and to the stock as he searchers for mineral wealth was at Moab at the tune and' on Climatic Conditons uranium is a bright canary yellow account of the illness of his rasily traveled labor and the reward paid for thi: is in aauehfer Mr Lfirsen states that he Y' Indians used it in painting very carnotite heircolor Leceytly TC is a iaoor is The district where the faces and 94 of cattle which there to coloring their rawhide purchased head be won J from ield for Prospecting lie has a desirable cliIt is that deposits very about the color Henry Dalton at the real and very valuable ore garments to soft time he it was experience Mont-: latter part of sees of sulphur but very Often at his Brig Recently my field lies in The April was Moab son fields This carnotite mate the M weeks in the roads dry and firm the days it in decomposed form as the be for and are a was handling cattle some C1-orado counties comes and Mesa and inSar Miguel and westera ne feed for ani-Juan soft or a mud which bought from Mr Utah San and pack as putty yellow Dalton and southeastern Cranl warm sunny of the vld voh rad the be in the the great source is abundant and streams can worked fingers other riders Entrance tomals among them It counties Utah remarK thia Jjflrs!en and ore The vanadium ore is coal black rank js GoioWilliams supply aol radium ramumvarea from Placerville supply exceiiem lasts camp well wans into the IcCai'ty road Para-' Para-1 In actual mining operations ore of happened to be present able that there el ICT is50 to nossibil-1 ratio i bv summer season wacron but ?nd fhe ZG ihn nntMl encountered he thought it was a good time information t'nicir id various colors are dux a ox itn mum uuimiuin j distance udoul nny mws this brand up the in stock while he had ities in rt'tnnd the Moab Utah 1 ne ami up uv worth or from camotiue cieai uuuui vm wvhkw ? he intrinsic thatd eight ot v help that intnn or (Continued on Page Two) Bert Dalton's mpn understand entered about twenty unng nine months tie have the p same brand as addi-lonal of carnoitie ore Dalton cattle with two bars to and distinguish them a-raat a number of Bert Dalton's catrtOTJflM l I qONflnr were in the that - bunch they cut iteveral of Bert Dalton's stock ant at the four cows and 2 about must have gotten out the two-bar brand being this Mr Larsen states that stateasily made It is ed ivn° to attempt SttemPt made "fira" ‘ae tw°-bar was that tho brand and Larsen and Dalton cattle all use th Y y same range and there would AB vr 'ejV little chance to have kept N' Catt hidden from the rightful 't 2-1own tinnfn ev if they had been intense branded which Mr Lar-denies j in the A Carnotite District A quantity of ore ready h Scene Common It neerouryto brek ths atZ:Case ha3 Sorted nl Seeled "rM?ie Ore for shipment to the railroad Scores of tons of carnotite pass ' th' attracted some heir k? and the no each hearing will through Moab month en route to Thompsons not morel surface stains w attended bv a large number are colors spectators old-fashion-ed ' j CLARK RETURNS ROM OIL Ss n ' J S CONERENCE P Clark A Oil test TULSA AT manager of who company well the the Monumental are San now in Juan arrived in Moab last night U en route from Tulsa Okla Bluff He oil states that many uf the big the companies have their eyes on field Bluff and he was called to the of the oil city to confer with officials planning Carter Oil company whoin ure this part to do much work of th$ country drilling a oil fields : - MOAB INS AGAIN THIS TIME GETTING REVENGE ROM THE SEGO TEAM t I S Moab I ! s i -- -- i i I t a -Tow i ' z? r 1 ? thecnry je u - - calvesmpiamed s 'Ma fir W j j t 1 littleWt - - ! I - Jl v - ' K - 1 - - i havev I e --- - -I at Sunday's was again victorious this baseball game time Sego nine from the revenge wits 11 to 8 The score Moab led practically the entire game and the result was never much in doubt out has Moab now' won two games the of three played and boys are confident that they will be able to give themselves a good account of play ruita Saturday when they ollowing was the lineup at last Sunday's Sego- Selby 2b game: airweather fib Simpkin p Thistle Mills lb Les-sir Geer cf Shinn rf If Moab- Boyle c Enoch ss Baird p and lb Thomson lb and p 2b 3b Woods Dalton Haris ss cf rf Reeves If Baldwin Emerich Score by innings: securing i t-arsen thateveral IV c SEGO MOAB 2 PRODUCING 1 0 2 6 MUCH 0 0 0 X- 11 ORE B J Skewes superintendent of the Keystona carnotite company operating pn Polar mesa near Castleton night to spend was an arrival last He a few days with his familyis that the taking company out lota of high grade orefor from its a good claims and the prospects season's work are favorable reports |