Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-11-21 | Page 16 | Moab Country Looking Up

MOAB COUNTRY LOOKING UP No matter whether or not the boats 1 were able to navigate the Green river and the Grand The country around Moab is coming to the front Here is isan Isan isan an item from the columns of at the tho Moab Times On Wednesday T W Branson and A AM AM AM M Rogers located an oil and gas placer claim of acres about twelve miles mUes up the river which shows a very en encouraging encouraging encouraging oil flow trem frem the upper oil oU sands and an Immense flow of ot natural gas which burns with a clear flame It Is an easy and comparatively cheap problem to pipe this gas to Moab and from appearances there is a sufficient quantity to supply a town of ot much greater population than Moab with light fuel tuel and power for tor years to come One of these days the people there will be ba in quick communication with the rest res of the world Their Then products will be carried swiftly and cheaply t td 3 market The valleys that now are dry and covered with sagebrush will be held by the tha serried ranks of ot bearing fruit trees and the homes of ot the nation will prize the tha apples of ot Moab We have every faith in the people of ot that now Isolated community c