Show THE OUR ebruary '1'2 ia2(J " lose by holding natural n-sources " t at the March of Act Postoffice i SUBSCRIPTION RATES Advance Payable In Year LOREN OT rt® ASSOCIATION- I I TAYLOR L Editor ISC MOAB EBRUARY THURSDAY UTAH STRONG -at ci-mp tkJLi -Agriculture e t juu-physician ' complications Manager " ' W 1920 12 1 Twenty 'L-x f-- -yfi STATE t'he lrf road -in KNOCKER A SAN The unwarranted attack upon the authenticity of oil strike here coming feeling from the representative of a Utah institutionas it did has causd of the The attack went leading citizens of Grand county resentment among to such lengths to discreditour field that it was the conA nsus of the opinion of by or to ulterior motives many that the article was prompted the Weil Westenr Allies was brought in by the were in Moab at the time of the strike is unquestioned and any' inferenceto company the genuineness the contrary is naturally resented The fact that it Utah man who was in the employ of a Utah was a winds doing busing ss in Utah who threw all sense of honor to the the state in his effort bonified to discredita discovery of petroleum within the state left bad While a taste in the mouths jf many progressive citizens of probably twenty there were representatives from W R Calvert was in Moab attracted by the new discoveryof leading'oil companies of thy United States with oil' production in our Not one of these men condemned the field theforfinal outcome of the well valley they were satisfied to take a gamble on for with the Not so with Calvert however when the pumps were hooked on City Salt Lake and enlisted the instinct of a predatory animal he hastened tx services of one of the dailies therein an effort to besmirch not only the members Allies but Moab People as well of the Western company some ot Utah has been favored in its natuial resources in that we possess th' lrri st mineral depositsrin the United States Although prospecting tor state oil has been carried on for several years in the commercial production for this kind of a well is at hand has not yet realized best chance been The here in Moab With this realizationin sight it is difficult to class the kind citizen of who would come out with charges ofthe"graft" and by all means the discoveryof oil in state at his disposal to discredit for his lcvi the citizens of Moab take off their hats was it not the To Nat faith in the and placed little old Moab on and valley that has brought the oil of To his associates the business men Helper and Pritje Dominc map and A the M P Giovannoni who backed judgment Bergera rank Grosso in of Mr Levi general with their dollars we also salute and to KNOCKERS we dedicate the following: RATTLE-SNAKE JUAN BENEIT TO ! Peoplewho MOAB BY DISCOVERY OIE I- of Monticello in the last issue of the Record place contribute published at that a very interesting article upon the o jl structural conditions of this-part the state which is herewith reprinted for the benefit of the readers of the H Blake E mining man CO j corporation i J Supplied Information County Grand on Times-Independent finding of oil in the well of at Allies company Moab which caused the great quickening o petroleum interestin the drilling for has in Utah caused a southeastern and investiga-' great deal of research tion along geological lines andand hasvaluable in interesting some discoveries which may aid materially in bringing in new productive lields in this end of the state which had hitherto been overlooked by oil U men and geologists A glance at any geologicalmap will the trend of the anticlinal show that the is in in a general folds of state nritl vesUrly and southeasterly direc-" tion To To corroborate this deduction one bein in the Bluff oil district my of ' THE tit "ATER GOD HAD INISHED THE n extreme southeastern end tie ite Here shows an anticlinal TOAD AND THE VAMPIRE HEA HAD SOME AWUL SUBSTANCE hich has KNOCKER told been prospecteajtosufLET WITH WHICHIS HE MADE A TWO LEGGED ANIMAL WITH A CORK determine definitely A KNOCKER feet depth to WATERLOGGED BRAIN AND A COMBINATION SCREW SOUL A 'that oil of a high quality theoccurs quantities though deeper BACKBONE MADE O JELLY AND GLUE A WHERE OOTHER P O TUMOR ROTTEN penetratPLE CARRY THEIR HEARTS HE HAS sands have as yetlacknotof been STR the adequate well PRINCIPLES WHEN THE KNOCKER COMES DOWN THE t ng to first drilling HONEST MEN TURN THEIR BACKS: THE ANGELS IN HEAVN machinery used by the ctors TAKE A HURRIED THEIR HARPS' AND THE This anticlinalfold ha REUGE BEHINDHELL" ii iz THE GATES O been broken by the Elk mountains DEVIL BARLOCKS but recurs in Gar-4 San Juan county field MONKEYING WITH THE BUZZSAW! Wayne and Emery counties Im and an imGarfield Wayne counties political has been to fleet an agitation launched lower Apparentlyfor locat nmnnnf nf kind has been the banking interest rates anticlinal siMell be-j ed on the main The Non-Partisan league staited the crusade by advocating stateowned mountains and the-San tween the Henry and Their social banks operated at cost with capital furnished by the taxpayers o' Rafael river development but has istic progiam has about quadrupled tax assessments in North Dakota the lower or southeastern end of thm not lowered niuTeH r14i4i uno has wn rOH Ilf U!l oeen MJUdUILy LMtAH tnv icvic vj vuj1'' rtoon (and its has M ineiirHIlO os to uv puuuviuic past though no' the two years and tut ion and limit legal to 4 per cent ollOWQ rates ol interest measure hovnldod'tn thp world dollar Oregon and prevent outside ing the trend of this anticline we fiiylx would naturally drive every loose will out loan from coming in fer a man money where he can get best that it has been brokl in the San R money with least risk reef and fuel swell in Emery county been started to and dispatches show that a national move has by the 'VNow the press cut Wasatch mountains fire and arid catch the Itimii rates: on rail To red folthrow a little red monev vet beyond these latter mountains voters attention the politicianspoint out that nationalbanks last year earned nwinr the same trend we iinu uunqi 'one billion dollars has opened flowing wells been of the the power' there an And right hete our lawmaker better tread ineasyOr' They have watersheds The course to gon and by some hook of the country to the advocate as fool a law as has been proposed structural folds But once passed would happen?A or crook they might pass it man can north of this fold show to occur along J it get the best still loan he and to where can where pleases flows the geographic directions as money money hill same interest will be seen by an examination of any! rates just as naturally as water flows down does We have seen political interference with various lines of industry and map of the state even though it strueJ have witnessed the demoralizing results not pretend to outline geological Il ever time when political tinkeringwith there was a that our financial sys tural conditions of San be shunned time is If now orte will glance at a map will J and he se? Grand counties Juan than that the Moab basin is no morevalley REAL DANGER continuation of the Lisbon j J Qie of the the anticlinal and in San lead about dohigs Juan county W'e sit complacently in ur homes nave uuimvvu-u m the Bolshevist and the structure which may been Reds of all orders W We and having pushed v- H give staple H one' time scant thought to' the problems of mainlairiinga safe the end(ofthe activities arc ami south misplaced by Many o! ns think the reports form of government Sal mountains the trouble is so far jiwayit wont hint us La largely evageiatid and that anyway These two great valleys some thought the same thing about the European- war-at first A lot uthousand feet below thio nvassivesand-tmp Alaska stating that this Now comes a declaration from the governorof police nnticlmal structure protection to Cope farthest north section of our country meds more end at each and through thethe valley-t with the wave ol radicalism that threatens to bleak out1 at any minute same arising V themselves may be seen 4 from Bolshevist victories which have The peril of civilization tilt of the formation the cap which extinguished all opposition in Russia is not limited jto Europe and Asia the valleys which originallyoverlaid drilling If Poland Roumania and the Baltic statks bolshevism hll devvur of tho the bcn rodod lhe off from Russia it on through Germany and may sweep Allies has proven thathas the lower until Great Britian gaining' powemas it advances rance Italy amt tern valleys not been shall Spain'cannot withstand overflofc India Afghanistan structureof hasthese been litteu suincienuv the flood also extend eastward through China and Japan broken but Turkey it the oil to dome the oil iKver both the 'Atlantic and form Pacific oceans would then menace by the released eruptive this have tried to ver-a-w having been danger and Industry and business of rouse had been argued would be th as citizen to the necessity comtrittingradicalism in whateverform: it niaiithe-Western ' Leases and Lands Oil - The t t i REALTY MOAB a 17- 'is Ki r One ! 100 $200 CAMP the - 50 Months Months Six Dip Driving Out Sheep Scbie ' v UP -?-v Three tot ‘whoS? Moab at WORK AT SPRINGS ROAD TIES CANE work of eradicatin(5 flu at scabies from the United States ea cases of Cane ployees' of the United States' Depart-Springs of Hyde and Black handicapped construction this ment of made more ould Ut11WhoBwouldt local of utihtks so that they nUr jT Ww Williams ie encouragement week winianis vne be hurt by state minion inspections and supervised was calledHe to the camp the 22 iget than 10 million dippings during CXULaLdrb the P°liticianwbo first of the reports twenty the more last P week fiscal The work w but in no case had year cases of flu conducted in' cooperation with State buys votes at community expense? set in and although' some of officials Nd cases of sheep 'seabiei the sick he recom-mi men were 'quits THE NEW LEASING BILL nded that they be left at camp as are now known toin exist in Montan the additionto num-erou has probably condition of the roads or North Dakota given birth owing to Moab and the other States where the diaeau After ten years of political tribulation Congress between camp he feared t0‘nTrtsHthroIjgh finalbconference and previously beeh that harm would be done had eradicatedh presidential'veto the much a of the escapes the spread infection dur by to patients Idaho a an attempt move Sinnott hill will release 6000000 acres of oil land the has legal year been to the Moab hospital as was firs plan- ing previous ' OR years because theie was no production'has lagged for many brought under control Sheep scabies t" ft:' that has been Wa‘VThetepeopYefhedU prevalent Paid Among those who havethe most is a disease' untold millions for the privthe is that of David chiefly part of the Black western severe cases ikKThese wrimgntr"ha United States "' development of the who has his family at the camp 1879 3 LU M l i Matter the Under Utah Company Publishing Times-Independent Second-class as Independent the Grand County Moab at r' Entered The and Grand Valley Times the Thursday ‘ of Every ‘ Consolidation Pabliahcd by i" and for a decade' great western states of theAlaska has east nothing to The Pinchotism for the unborn generations pf the future jjofl-taxpayers Issued BUD the of unities are assessed at thirteenper the In one western state per ten The tix commission stickson twenty-one total assessed valuation the other taxpayers and dollar more to please that are crying for development not a In some of these same stpb-s Who is to blame that merchants have is being invested in utilities cm like bank u r Why should not utinuca oo of " billing to buy stock and bonds TIMES-INDEPENDENT urday' th UTAH cent -J THE A MOAB TIMES-INDEPENDENT - ' PAGE A resulted for Leases and Acreage Sale I a : 1 Call i j 1 on Write or to T Co i t ' iniI'pnving i I I Moab Realty j f i f I Independent Building Moab Utah - i -ppneo 1 ' 1- ! r 7-1 i 1 -f' J 1 I J t - L i 4 -f i i ' v-- j i & - -This I " f I interest I i- ' n I I I I Ii I 1 i I I j I -what j ' i ' I I i - tarn-should ! I 1 : i ' ‘ i of-?rdical j j' ' ' j -lying f ' I almost I Danubianstates have'split havini I ( 1 Persiaand f it--ifit -may - a-tion -scent commenced between ionvolume of the I i building to a minimum iicD a Iff several cities these wage scaes are as high as hve and sixto dollars ten dol-U8 for common labor on building work and mediiinic fromeight a day for 8 hoursto the contractors and master VThia satisfactory abates get a percentage on all labor and materials and are figure that they 16 high scales 11 hands of the community to keep But what righthave they to tie the of the by frightening openitions average citizen out of all notions doing anv building whatever? only 1'hat is it to as big corporations big manufacturers what amounts add cost to the ik and 'can the caniujidyr department stores who consumer take anv building run of citizensstill count their money closely - nine families The common "out of ten- U long to the working class and cannot shift tiidr burdens and i n ‘day ' ' buildersih® downbuilding so-called indifferent I ' -'1 I ‘ ' ' ' i -I rimot I after 'and t build- kill all are waves winch airthewages least and present wage scales are building enterprises at WHY BITK workers are employed prohibitive and tend to A ' it-! laid with the MUCH? - party state the organized with its two In a western new labor-farmer take over banking and insurance planks to If nmvementsmade up of discontented and inexperienced these political they would get farther voters would tackle smaller matters values' 'Banking and insurance underlie all business enterprises property and rredits on which businvss ucncralJy is trasactcd N state in the west would have the surplus capital necessary nor could jttfli aiurit puriiun bonds enough to hanuiB insurdnct huunng aiium J Why do not the reformers tackle somethinglike fighting cattle ticks chpon nr ircttinir chenoer trutinysacks? ''' to tackle without at-p There is plenty for those in the mood" of reform and tk-4 unsettle nil business credits tkrn w U' Hip - - of these not one reformers would be willing to enthrust his Chances politically hanged enterprise deposits or r k h W nee II Ch ING TH E 11V LU-VY UTILITIES main t I- s ill favorite sport of - J constitutional tax find i ex- ThJ taken One Sysu J Catanh circulars and internally ' Hairs ana amily acts of Lands Oil in and Moab 2375' Acres Totaling Value Par a I i$200000f for Incorporated of 10c ‘ - Million Two Shares ShareNon-Assessable a 'J? ' tv 'A-" Ttifeompany -f? '" T ®ll U" as piiii for soon BIG - the as SIX V Ohio' constipation drilling tocommience intends 2:- rig can be opera rErought in OIL y Moab Hunona- testimonials Ssc' Toledo' ‘toiZbyluSsu com- it is ' -J regulatory bodies and That some Politiciansclothed with power numbsr of states TniSKinnMin n cite the voters to hit the public utilities a bodyblow is the - h f Acreage Valleys Salt Tbr ta In this section more than Catarrh of the all other diseases country put tocether and for years It was supnnaatfi Ta has mrtirnhis TVuMnwm nroffiwriM local remedies and by constantlyfailing to cure with local treatment pronounced it incurable Catarrhis a local disease greatly by constitutional con influenced ditions and therefore requires constitutional treatment Hall's Catarrh MedicineA by manufactured Cheney Co Toledo Ohio is a - oras Choice a tions r - Owning -precious quicken-' Taken all in all with the field San of activity jn the Moab connJuan people may look forward of one of the development dently to this of the greatest sources revenue the to get through county could hope its oil development of resources Between the donkey and the presidential chorus is pre-" our fine imitation o during perfectly pussyfoot jazz ing a t t ele-:phant TOO O most almost not : ‘ the a ' CO " Utah ' ! ! wjthjn there soutn-I Juan county andof from sixty miles to enst distance sonr the Dolores river there is-has a strip six miles wide which every some of being one of the best oil indication United States basins in the this anticline with vast Besides eorr spending synclinalformation on each side other anticlinalformations give equal-I occur in Dry valley which being under ly as good prospects of fluid ' ''I- made in several northwestern citn-s 'building trade unions will reduce - 1 S ‘ :"u ' organizations 'and 1O1 ' r agreements recently HM stake 1 x-- i- -I-' m 'trtfctoTs Hllil I'm - " I 1 H HUH DING BUILDING O 1 citizen average ik mv vhvuv vmmwv ivtu of this article is purpose which show the tfeolotfical conditions give obtain in San Juan county and ''lea of what may be expected when im this development has half of Moab part of the state Almost the bounds of San lics ' him 1 x' Kin ivr KILLING f i ' no i ami man cf se The - v at ' v ' 1 u oru i ire most 1 ring i are who have-the chtinfin n 1 the v is ' Jt d i " 'l-bi of |