Show LOOKING BACKWARD Through Trough the tho Files FUes of Tho The Times Independent Independent 20 Years Ago This Week Public utilities and mining properties In Grand county were valued by the state tax commission at July fourth was celebrated with a salute at sunrise a pa pa 1 i I trine trio tie program and childrens children's sports Alfred W W. Morse aged rest resl dent of Cisco was found dead near his cabin The new Utah state Income tax went Into effect this year 1 Regular bus service between Moab Moab and Salt Lake City was wa s scheduled to start next week the Moab Garage Co being th the e operator 40 Years Ago This Week K Two automobiles which the t 0 Moab Transportation Co had purchased for the Thomp Thompson Thompsons ons y s Y stage line Ine were en route to Moab Third Awakening J wt wD was the title of an article writ ten terl by Burl Armstrong city ed tor of ot the Salt Lal Lake e Herald Herald- Republican and published published in this Issue It gave a a resume of ot Moab's history and told of th the e bright prospects in store for this section as a result of at building g I rf ot ihn the Moab Ten four horse four horse freight out outfits fits left for Bluff to haul an oil oilrig oilrig rig to Grand county for drilling a well on Klondike ridge The Klondike Oil Gas Co a local concern planned the test Knox Patterson president of the com corn pany went alon along to supervise moving the outfit Among the freighters on the job were Charles Grimes Mark Beeson R R. R B B. B Sam Hudson Duff Beeson J J. J R. R Nash Arthur Anderson Oscar Larsen Larson and James Stocks Axtel Peterson a cowboy was killed In a gun fight at Paradox I A son was born to Mr and Mrs John Roberson i At a meeting of ot the town board a levy of 10 mills for forK K I 1 town purposes was fixed The ranch of George Perkins S at Cane Springs was almost almos t I I completely washed away by a flood Grayson handing was grow growing ing rapidly Many families had hac arrived from Old Mexico to take tak e up farms there Dr P P. P A. A A a noted note H botanist of at the New York Bo Bo- Gardens was piloted t to valley south of Moaby Moab Moa by J. J F F. F Hall HaJJ |