Show LIFE IN MOAB TWENTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK from the I lies of the times of jane 2 1911 the state board of examiners had approved the given the midland bridge company for building the moab bridge and it was expected that work would start at once so that the structure could be in use by the first of the year the total valuation of grand county as listed by the assessor and exclusive of the railroad and other public utilities was memorial day was fittingly observed in moab when the four surviving moab veterans of the civil war followed by 13 small girls and a large crowd of people marched to the cemetery and decorated the graves of loved ones the veterans were J N roberson J H D A empy and R B brief services were held at the cemetery D A johnson giving a talk and miss ola robertson giving a reading H S bames of bluff was opening a harness and saddle shop at moab A large eastern syndicate had obtained control of several thousand acres of allson mesa placer ground and surveyor H H preston and a crew of men were already at work making a survey for a ditch four miles long to divert water for placer operations mr and mrs S E francom Pran com longtime residents of castle valley left for Cast ledale to make their home bert klang purchased the branson ranch at richardson for 1000 T W banson purchased the engine and boiler at gold basin to be used at his sawmill mrs L A taylor and daughter miss melba left for a visit at salt lake and payson miss emma mcconkle graduated from the normal school at B Y V and had accepted a teaching position at vernal new york financiers had organized the utah consolidated oil company and announced that they would expend millions of dollars in developing the san juan oil fields |