Times Independent | 1921-03-10 | Page 1

®mc5-Independent CONSOLIDATION THE GHANI) COUNTY UTAH O r- 47 START VIEW MOAB OIL A ELEY is SOON s ' INDEPENDENT NUMBER 1921 MUCH - ROAD WORK MOAB MILES HIGHWAY AND BRIDGES AND CULVERTS ARE INSTALLED OK SURACED b'T BO ‘ THE f ' J xX'-?' 'V j - ' V' X 4 1 f O COLORADO TO WHAT WANTS KNOW LOCAL PEOPLE THINK ABOUT THE PROPO SITION is the scene of much road he at the post present time leading south from the mouth of canyon on through Moab valley being kng-nceded surfaced and many being-installed bridges and culverts activity '1 CT H aS ''j' HIM? GRAND CONGRESSMAN Moab E X A i S indicate road the ‘ " ftv l S ‘ A O LONG-NEEDED BEING H NAME CHANGING BEING 14 TAVtIR MOABITES VICINITY - MANY s week ' - - ' IN the past Six Oil will THE 10 IN EXPECTS TO IOCAL COMPANY WITH-!N resume OPERATIONS WEEK OR TWO WELL READY TO BE DRILLED Developmentsof AND MARCH OPERATION IN RIG " VERV AW TIMES THURSDAY POUNDING BIG 4 GIL OB GRAND 4 10 ftAli MOAB ' VOLUME I M is i ' Do the people of Moab favor changing the Grand river to name of the are the Colorado river? This is the question Within a few weeks the Taylor lyhich Edward T roads through Moab valley wil be in asks in Hie finest from Colorado a condition ever known and letter received by the editor of The people are now realizingthe benefits Times-Independent this Congressman week derived from the substantial has Taylor who introduced campaign of road jU construction which " bill in Congress officiallychanging has been under way for the past year athe a name of the riveh states that he '' Many men and teams are now 7 Yi is z -cl anxious to earn the sentiments of Ct completing the stretch of road the Moab people matter pleted m the mouth of the' is Moab canyon and he hopes regarding that the well is town will The Here a spendid grade being thrown now at a' depth of 985 endorse the proposal and advise feet and it is expected that the sands up and is being surfaced with gravel of its action in order that he will' the him be encountered within next providing a highway almost the equal the use endmenientin behalf of feet ct of a concrete-surfaced road two hundred The officials of This work can his bill when it will be comes up for consideration the Big Six company hope to complete completed m about n week in the national house of representatives is the well in two weeks although it may when the road working crew which has in the E coming special session of require a longer period to under DuRois who course a of Congress drive the bit to the sands from R C Clark will move into In view' of the fact that the Grand will be the first Moab town The road has That the inMcab well lies Utah wholly within Grand been completed scuheasrtrn completed from the bridge river'in any of the county except a small port ion in San to a Utah assured While point south of the Brown ranch structuresseems and Juan county since Moab is the and the grading and various have commenced surfacing will be wily other companies cont inued south to the town situated on the river in Grimm 'blacksmith operations in the Circle Cliffs with the Moab-La Utah Congressman Taylor attaches Caineville and shop connecting San Rafael structures JUL STAR RIG OPERATING ON BIG SIX LEASE WEST O GRAND RIVER WHICH HAS REACHED Sal considerable importance to the atti-x project plan calls for a oilmen do not anticipate that any of A O 985 The DEP4H EET THE RIG IS LOCATED ON THE WEST tude local BANK O THE RIVER WHICH well-graded people will take regarding be and these wells can completed in less surfaced read through the proposed CAN BE SEEN IN THE OREGROUND MOAB VALLEY AND TIIE LA SAL MOUNTAINS ARE change of name D 1' than from four to six months on IN Main street Black contractor SHOWN THE DISTANCE kcal people have expressed On the highway of the from Moab south has an Many great distances from a opinion to The Times-Independent also been of It is also the opinion doing considerable work and base supplies it favoring the proposed change and he will of the that will have charge of geologists production TO START of is not PLANS Retarding Development ield bclieied that there will be any a-'s 'n Moab south through the be secured at a shallower depth in the valley opposition to the whatever Substantial culverts are measure being Moab dome than in any of the other nt of will Moab The change this for names structures of this wherever needed work part of the state have (he effect of placing Moab on pn MTV LAID part feet of the being done by Contractor the Counting throe hundred L on 0' ani Kas leasing bill which was enacted by the government a year the Vmost Colorado river the R most noted formation lllil llllllll fHn of the oil and Bush The bridge over Mill Pennsylvanian or ago is entitled "an act to promote the development gas resources river irom a scenic standpoint in the the Vlll AJ zlXWi Ilin " txf U rT iko nir kn creek which was recently completed DnAnU I'rortLnocG exposed on the escarpment wj xiviiiciui vvjnv vt oou vjuctu in 4vw ml viiv uiiv Ci nsidctable prestige will mv twunv tnvuove vj by world law has been Bridge Engineer R- C Blumenthal' local well has administered during the year are commencingto wonder penetrated the formation past to the fact that is the nearest Moab if it in Al rather than foster the development of the was throwiopen to traffic last week twelve hundred feet SHOULD BE wqre not intended to hold back excess of the COMMITTEE This on the Colorado river above oil and the drill in structure Consists of a ninetyfoot the town opinion of geologists resources of this section cf the country POINTED TO GET PREPARATIONS famous Grand Canyon of the Colorado and the officials seem able to explain abutments are of should now be very close to the or some reason which not even government span this will and doubtless result UNDER WAY PRO massive applicaticusfor prospectors' permits in the Moab section are being held masonry The bridge does in much tourist travel to this place sands' Not a single permit on the Moab structure has YOUNG GIVES SUGGES up been issued and the development away with one of the worst crossings Scores of inquiries being receivel inclosed with of this field is Another long-needed hisCongressman Taylor from oil being seriously retarded Some of these applications in southeastern Utah interestsall over the country TIONS of the a hearing before have been bridge was recently completed the letter copy indicate that the in the pendingin the land office for a year Several companies and indii-i developments house-interstate by their aonlications and Bridge commerce comMoab field the viduals who oreman II P Wright over ivuu airo filed who are anxious to commence are being watched with wnu lone 'which committee unanimously Moab people are unanimous n their viuurtifl will be wash and this deepest inquiries nnmir-n deve)opnlen( Wurk are unable to move a wheel simply because of the tedious Seven Mile interest These recommended that the bill changing Thor tnir shmiM hi nn for traffic within a ZZ4444Z44 LlLU rnnntv 11 4Z in their opened few days of which are by W delays encountered connection with securing permits One the of the be coming wire It is river passed Mir many that the held here next fall recognized which filed an application in good faith and commenced actual drillingcompany name The bridge in the Moab canyon just Taylor operations bringing in of oil at that a fair properly planned anil managed appeared before the committee the last the issuance cf permit has been compelled to suspend work and above Dugwyy completed will stampede pending was and plea Moab precipitate a veritable for the in by laid gave an extended would result more genuine is the formality of issuance of it week CentractorBush who this at waiting permit before can a to district One wire greatwith excuse with much data good for the county than any other proceed its work concrete floor The abutments had change together by The Times-Independent the from been Grand Green and Colorado' event hat could be staged However for completed nearly a oil The surprising feature of the administraion of the law is the fact that year Air an operator in Kentucky asked full if the fair is to be given prejiarations rivers Taylor submitted is the ti in hi the Work under on bridge the operations permits are being issued daily applicants other districts Circle now way to show that the informationregarding be Grand river commenced at once and a Cliffs and st here and stated tha Caineville ructures which were absolutely unknown until long after over the sand wash at the mouth of while not so long is much larger than a hundred oilmen must movement is on foot to urge the coun the Moab applications Moab canyon Wright being the Green river carrying 30 per cent oreman were ready to buy were filed scores of permits are regularly being istheir tickets for ty at their next in commissioners meet- sU( charge One abutment has been Moab tor tnese nernnts w'ere not tilea unti late last the minute of interest Munv of the ann Mentions and is the to appoint a general committee of and is well more water therefore news was and completed work more ing fall and they were approved issued within two or three months from date under way received from this field of the two tributaries which the three to take charge of the enterprise if filing other This all of the Moab applications were made a year structure will be important In the fields Practically ago and on west of Moab various Prof form the Colorado river Much principal of the with a few Another M Young if them were weeks transmitted from Salt Lake to the Washingtonland office completed still data to companies are getting ready to start Grand county many historical relative high school who conducted to be will last bridge constructed work The the also Ohio Oil company is now summer submitted by be at the a very successful community It that if red tape is holding up the issuance 'f the Moab wash on the west end of the Grand river was drilling would seem perWUUl't atvlll UKll 11 IVU nij'l Vlv lmu4UXV "V jvthree wells one in the Circle fair at Moab last fall is enthusiastic mits IL the congressman Klondike ridge and when this is completed Cliffs same obstacle would prevent the speedy granting of permits in the Mr Taylor's letter follows: another at Caineville and the xi the bridge on Moab-Thompsons LUV L'l jvery third at pwSMyiHUlV' xaumujanyofCr CUStriCtS Huntington on the northwest UVVL here fall that Mr Loren Taylor would surpass '! road will be in The tended to protect the small operators and part of the San leasingact s Rafael swell The thingnext and in Editor The Times-Independent in thq state a communiA ride over the Moab-Thom rporations yet it is a noticeable fact Old Emery eeIlt monopolies the b psons he ‘‘Moab Utah company is erecting its cation to The Times-Independent districts where the are operating there appear to be no highway is all that is necessary to My rig in the large of the Rafael Namesake: northern rim San makes a number of valuable sugges dejflVfl jn the securing of permits many of which are issued directlyto these convince anyone of the permanent I dear taking the while the liberty of enclosing A San Rafael am company tions in regard to the proposed fair companjes of this cnaracter lugnway construction week to vou herewith copy of the hearunloaded a rig and equipment Young's letter How: been held up for six months by the employed on the road The trip can Mr rple development of the Moab Held has at is ing before the house committee Price and moving them tn Editor Times-Independent given delay enc the office of applicants easilybe made in less than two hours land The patience its drilling site discouraging untei the other day on my resolution to The Midwest Carter practically inc Dear Sir: It is to be hoped that has ))een stretchedto the breaking point Unless there is a radical changqof and the road is hard-surfaced Inand and change the Grand river Kalsoming companies all we can have a county fair at Moab It is stat name of the of the interior departmentthe leasing act will have given every foot of the wav ojcv cn I subsidiaries of the would pc pleased to have you read Standard Oil have next fall But if we wish to excel in of law to retard and stifle the development of the ed that the Moab-Thom project been eloquent illustration psons that Cloradoans hope we granted leases and are making our exhibits it is necessaiy to piepaie y ajM gas is the bert earth roailin tlm stoof lYinv hfiVoWe rwt resourcesof the public domain ftnlv hn preparations to get rigs onto their the soil and select the seed now and visitini' nnnrnpnl hur Utah motorists declare holdings - - the active cooiieration of the citizens to commencing - preparatory It will help materially if parents il id iiiL'i uimi anywnen of Utah especially along the Grand operations - better highway IIIAN The Crescent-Eagle efforts to make 'the 'The problem now before the county company operating in the Salt valley structure at is to keeii the road properly maintain-ichange Crescent J do not know the thirty miles north of Moab iyd and if this is name of your done the road troubles but last week mailing him a copy on four) and will mayor am resumed drilling operations (Continued page between Moab Thompsons also and hopes to O have just had a little confer-' OIL keep continuously at never again be experienced once with Congressman Welling and un''' the sands are reached O The Moab Garage company during bis MONTICELLO '4he entire southeastern section of the winter and Colton and they spring adopted a system successor Don B and RUITA the state is DOCTOR DIES AT the being prospected for favorable which has resulted in keeping the Rgave me yourandname P names of C oil Clark Miller so that by read and in condistructures generally people smooth excellent of this hear who reached Moab yesterday sending them a are to take Word am copy prepared n'' ruita Tuesday the decision of Pany nas ing and if city several of the thesc the Arcola was the most impor-'l'fti' decides to ground and put rigs at work in over the morning of the death at With the of road vour use several drags This well shortest according to authenwould be the night of Mrs H S Bussey wife United States' largest oil corporations tant been any action in the matter possible time Even in fir to test oil structures the dreams of tie information produced from COOO and whenever needed these have pleased to have you or the mayor or nt the San Bussey of Monticello Mrs Juan boom ten years of oil men will io cne oig ii ucks crawl pneumonia or on At one it auacnea wnicn to it is ago this part of the who suffering from somof Utah's earliest ouou oarreis time road this someone 'advise as what Bussey was daily over the In me state did not rate of sixty barrels manner at the tithe of the from Monticello to be realized Down in the southeastern was inpumped have little hope of being able to pass the attention it is get-ing was taken five hours entire road is given a thorhri:nitnl bv Dr of the state in the San the bill through this n t? Mondav session today corner That southeastern Utah whenever it needs it ruita field situated in The (lifficultv'ofmarketing the oil "uh will very the county of as there are only three or four Porter of juan thia s10rty enter the list of the DUWCT Bussev and wDr ivR B with WuU Hz zwzi zwzi tins the oil Mrs Bussey the existence oi oil and me distance oi tne lie d from ie days left with a terrific jam of every-thing producing fields of the Moab same name work gratis feeling that west there They reached long else but and her condition was has long been known or railroad resulted in this activity dying maintenance can be little doubt it is in expect to take it up Sunday evening amply improved roads only to out the they it advisable to time this known gradually Consequently such that deemed region was none for the lab and when extra session convenes and expense involved who inhabit its 'f the deep sands has been tested pass the bill sometime this coming proceed on to ruita Monday after- the Navajo Indians visited Moreover few of the wells drilled at IT confines Occasionally it spring if can was El noon will Intime of the first excitement are of RJSSENTATIVE the to the the HAMMOND It is body bv white traders who came With my kindest regards and best understood that fact DI Colo for burial articles for value to the IN CRITICAL CON HON and all of the dians to exchange various any great owing wishes to you other be taken to Telluride At that lLz rlzMi nf Mrs Bussey in most cases they were not prop'Taylors remair XT blankets of the redmen's weaving the Yours very shock to the many friends rare intervals prospectors followed cry drilled or cared for after being RepresentativeC AMlill Hammond of as a comes the bars of river and completed at Salt of the examined the sand m Moab who has kbeen O1A Lake rtlUTinn 1rn rnnVTAti family in thishas section miLvn the Citv fir the nast six sincere search of gold About forty years ago iiririu weeks is in ni Dr Bussey uture Said to ii state estabishs 'critical condition according to word BASKET BALL TOURNAMENT svmnathv of the people of Grand and a sman Mormon colony was NeverthelessSalt Lake men interiinni practically received this wmek Mr Hammond rank A ed at Bluff onlyThis has remained at MONTICELLO RI1HY (Wadleigh general passenger San Juan counties in ins in the developmentof this field w1() experienced an attack of pneu-state the permanent settlement ested that of the & Rio ment is agent Denver region It is the district one of Utah's (in the reported nionia and later suffered from a fever ‘P'de entire Monticello will be the scene of some railroad and George L Beam in had that of the early prospectors most promising which to which attending nhvsicians have to certainV ui wiv vui areas " Iau of inc a zot mat some iwnitn auuniHiK piiynicjunn nivv bott'z Photographer the railroad nnmnjiniPS milirntp Klliuau amost w £1 WMUCaie recognized their piospect for oil Cited in support of difficultyin checking was taken from not oasKev oan games rnnay nno oai-urday found oil seeps and some hoover were visitors in Moab ty that oil will be brought in ofon CZXIli teams from Moab Monticello Tu not ihverted this statement are the facts that oil the Hotel Utah to a a south-J meaning but they were hospital in en'ei invtSt!?y ''veming" structures Blanding to compete m a tourna and Wednesday to ll not alnJT Ofv the find their in the San Juan that that he could roceivehetter attention and that the search for what to them has been offound th10 Moab Utah rom the Several auto loads of Moab cnat® Moab oil fields and se- eastern natseveral wells were productive it was necessary Saturday to trans- ment deal of to be the more valuable datii HrJtin" will the relativea irreav great uutw vi the and players and rooters rooters will leave leave in in th' to the activitiesrizx d attracting jittrarnntr gitav and that jl( formation jUse iiblond trwl I11ZI nlavers and here look ural -oues Amnllr those structure ciiijj into M ZX lx his svstem to L1O the Anu uMuic auuiiuw luioiuLiun due nisi' rr WI here this tention and prospects the under way Regarding forma-i snri is favorable State Senator P runMnwn addition 'ng and on 01 it is said the San if tcon" tcala which will include summer They were Waighdeclarwl'that tmn Juan not! Will of the Denattracted Knight Provo lner:'h trip was was amon f through eastern Utah M the onlv field is of the deA'tlhZ and and the firt in one few to furnish Mood Vo located claim very those who volunteered had been to is making to Grande railroad e nn attempt defeat the Price and Green River ver & Rio f(r the delicate oneration take of areas in Utah in which predominates andaauancare V an(1 tVadleigh and to properly Activity Starts in 1907 the naPdin5 team' while Beam Pennylrania limestones of the were tbiA will is ransf lsc!11 O"1 ois w at was 'rins‘ the girls the high Jh°mpsons by amount of traffic that team of Moab W Strong vat develop-ioiiow Carbt niferous nerioil with fossils oflti received yesof oil in this seeThe most active period of whaE th® Big Six 'Oil the striking hat is play the ciris teams of follow K of this disaue hMMs fom company of the oil is' Pirnantl" P'tated ment resources ?I°nItl ‘f11° Blandi' scbo?'s') vaiL them through the Salt In the production of several of the great scntativIIammond 10The refertrict slightly 1908 to 1910 was in the year tr:Peu?I'ehtnJradtn:r Moab fields A large numwar J general proposal passenger agent Unt‘'d StatM haR The the the fall of 1907 the first well Crossname bcen r?'ved and that second tranfusal a to change Photographs of the structures to This at developed ot blor-d will be lift ing was put down a made this week takcn‘ f the No Grand river in thehisColovietorv The Dr& R G officials "X ojfThe main line of the Denver & Rio developed m o a depth of 220 feet Moan people are toanxiously awaiting Jesterday for Denyer stated that 120 hides to the river and Grande railroad is benedefinite word ns Mr Hammond's' gusher which spouted severty feet n ii idHtiiM'iiu aD1 confident that inion change would prove - Bie field and ill the Rio uuHimr wuhi Utah such a P? Grande 11 eastern in and every hope is expressed T G Wimmer and Butchers and Great excitement was the immediate(Western the fields of ficial to Grand county lihn line coming big oil Moab WQularn norrntV-triUHiu narrow-gauge nicrklv eighty he of Salt tha Wells were that Lake City are in Moab tday give this may speedily recover West'community result of this discovery It is declared Wadleigh that itwt uld possible miles to the east to wl Mr to necessary They are here for the purpose of buy-ing put down as rapidly as b' as the nearest town on however of much prestige travel distance 500 of TimtMt? a represemQitive The Colorado a much greater the at least head cattle which canvalidate dseovery before the Jand was Joseph Donnelly manager of will to the Grand 'U'pcadent rnorn-dhAthe river to the ship to ins yesterday from these points reach they intend to western ranges withdrawn by the government Dur-wdU Indian Creek Cattle "'he the company " He Uted that he hopes Moab extent of the oil von of thts the They plan to go on to San Juan work several Heave tomorrow for company's the proposed change of ing the course the endorse remansito be seen yet Will iiu valla Juiinty (Continued on last page) sheep herds in the Cisco countryunln npVPlnnPtl Ilf unaer way by the large oil names S f that the Big company be able associated interests at their resume drilling operations miles west of Moab within two Advices have the next week or that the issuance of been received prospect rs' permits to the local companies will be announced very soon the the permits are received and minute from the interior department work will be started and the local well com and to congressman well two h-ca! 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