Show LIFE IN MOAB TWENTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK from the of the times of june 9 1011 the site for the new bridge had been located at a point feet below the ferry the moab commercial club went on record as favoring crescent instead of thompsons Thomp sons at station and V P martin president of the dub was appointed to confer with the D R G W railroad regarding the change dr E P sperry and wife formerly of moab were seriously injured at grenada goto when a snow shed under which they had taken refuge col the cop C op store at bluff was robbed of 40 and james riley was under arrest at monticello charged with the offense the board of county commissioners at a meeting this week raised the valuation on heap from 2 to per head and on cattle from 13 to 14 per head the indian creek cattle company sold their steers to wheeler lavender receiving 2650 for vearll 33 for twos and 37 for threes william doak killed a bear and two cube near alb d hs ipek and was surprised to find leather collars around the of the acro cubs the my berv a he that john brown the wai before had caught th cub heirs fastened roa rs iro thel necks anil tied them to a t c alth bu akskin throngs tl birie th strings in two and escaped the feature was that the cubs hid grown but little during the year the collars were extremely tight around the bears necks which it was thought had interfered with their growth mr and mrs james wesson left for denver to make their home mr and mrs fred W strong were the parents of a son bom this week burl armstrong city editor of the salt lake herald republican and wife were spending their vacation in moab N A and W L taylor were moving cattle from th desert to the book mountains fourteen government surveyors under andrew and heist went to san juan county to survey land near mon cicello now greatly in demand for dry fanning A party of moab men including W branson knox patterson A A taylor A M rogers walter wood D H dalton J S and W Bt ewart went to klondike ridge this week to visit the newhouse well where a flow of oil was encountered this week at a depth of feet another standard oil rig was on its way to the san juan field queen an oil expert of columbus ohio leased 2500 acres of oil land near klondike ridge from moab parties and announced that he and associates socia tes would start drilling a well within two months |