Show LIFE IN MOAB TWENTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK from the files of the times of july 14 21 28 1911 two passenger automobiles one a bus arrived for service on the moab stage line it required a week to drive them from salt lake A picture of the bus was published by I 1 the times I 1 bill bowen a former moab cattleman died at reno nev H S bames was opening a harness and saddle shop in moab R C dark sold the moab meat market to john E brown V P martin was reelected re elected as a member of the board of trustees of school district no 1 over was now available for improving the road from thompsons Thomp sons to the san juan county line the nash oil rig had arrived from bluff and was being taken to klondike ridge where a well was to be drilled by the klondike oil gas company of moab dr PA Ryd bergh of the new york botanical gardens who was spending the summer in the la sal mountains found a plant there that grew nowhere else in the country mr and mrs 0 J williams and their two children were burned to death at ruby near westwater when their house burned down mr williams was railroad at ruby the maiden trip of the large auto bus between moab and Thom sons was made sunday carrying 15 passengers the actual running time for the round trip as slightly over 11 hours in spite of the fact that considerable trouble was encountered due to bad roads and a balky motor it was de the would prove a success after the roads were improved A brass band was organized with seth dunn as leader leslie foy waa manager and lance taylor treasurer the celebration of pioneer day extended over three days and grand time was had there was a parade program dances and no end of horse racing work on the moab bridge was to start as soon as material could be placed on the ground an almost continuous downpour of rain for two weeks had done considerable damage to crops and roads in san juan county H dails a painter was killed at cisco when he was struck by a passenger train the thompsons Thomp sons ballard railroad company had been incorporated and work was to start soon on building an railroad from thompsons Thomp sons to the ballard coal mines sego W J meador manager of the telephone company was extending the phone line from richardson to cisco C C inman former allson mesa mining man sustained a broken neck in an auto accident in oregon oscar W mcconkle had accepted a position as principal of a school fit utah nat leal the oilman wired from new york city that he had shipped a standard rig and two carloads of casing to thompsons Thomp sons for drilling in the grand county fields an english woman has invented overshoes fitted with wire netting to prevent slipping on ice five sevenths of the estimated coal reserves of the world are in north america apparatus has been invented for injecting steam into truck loads of coal to lay its dust before delivery during 1930 more than photographs were taken from the air by the royal canadian air force |