Show It ' -' A - VOLUME CONSOLIDATION 46 MOAB ISSUE BOND ELECTION THE GRAND COUNTY ON TIMES VALLEY UTAH $78500 ' PROPOSED O GRAND O epenieitt THURSDAY AND APRIL THE 15 INDEPENDENT NUMBER 1920 ANOTHER Contagious MAY WELL GO ' COUNTY Inis mes- i 26 TO COUNTY GRAND Mi DOWN WILL CALENDAR DRILLING WILL START ITHIN 10 DAYS UN LEASE WEST O GRAM) RIVER WORK IS CON TRACTED TO 19 M Will Provide unds Complete to Post! BE O DISPOSED KENDRICK Road and of Construct Essential Projects Grand Other the to Highway Development LEVI County i On Tuesday May 25 the taxpay of Grand county will decide the PROPOSED for COUNTY BONI) proposition of issuing bonds ISSUE system of good funds to construct a roads At throughout the countyor post road their Thornpmeetings Monday and Tuesday! to San Juan line $60000 the vwent on county commisisoners r or Ji lu land JTail by record favoring the question of way as of Grand river Castleton and set' that bonding the county and the election Cisco 10000 date for a Milson Mesa road fori 5000 proposed bond issue'r is The legal ALLIES iWESTERN or expenses incident $78500 Sixty thousand dollars will to bond issue 3500 COUNTY CLERK RUTLEDGE be turned over to the state as Grand has tendered his county's of the post Wiki share road cost resignatim Total $78500 will be for the used $10000 to lake effect on lune of automobile an highway SIJ Ul iJUil U1 cm auvvuiuuin along the Grand river from Moab td Hall p0lv Dolores Scharf residence and Cisco thence to the Colorado C A Scharf George Wister and - line the state M having signified its James Waring Elgin ‘G A Har--fH orriiol DECISION MADE TO STOP DR1I toa 11 uptv on an A G wilpnness omnee 'this put equalIns residence- G Hatris' S j W on project $5000 will and N LING AND OPEN UP Oil amount Dufford Elmer A Kelley: ‘6 be used to aid in the construction of Moab No 8 SANDS BY USE O Dr J W Williams's good road to the Wilson mesa for George E store- Winbourn Joseph HIGH EXPLO which there is an argent need an and Burkholder Mrs Neal Rayl SIVES the remainder of the issue $3500 E Sego school house- J Lambson will meet all of the expenses involv? Roy' Davis and Joe Ronzio Castleton ed in the issuing or the bonds R school house-M Walker M Believing that the Western Allies of the R ish and Present at the meeting W H Muller Mesa I'®! No on the Maxwell lease can IM board were Chairman R J ‘t vW1 Thomson O nester Wright's residence- Chester well be G L J made to and CommissionersJ McBride Wright M Johnson and W produce at least sufficient and A Heber Murphy large number Sullivan oil for use fuel for as further U pxte of 'j' taxpayers interviewed Mark M Murtaugh resident were drilling in the field operations Moab in by the commissioners as to their charge of the post road projects decision has been made to shoot the sentiments regarding the bond issue met with the and while there was some opposition' and presented descriptions of rights-of-way well at the'two points where oil was a substantial'majority of those seen remiired along the relocated encountered Drilling operations proposition survey of the post road bet ween Moab were in favor of the were suspended the last of the week It is the Juan jounty lino opinion of the commis-: and the San anti it is that the sands will sinners well Murphy and Thomson be shot probable as as others' favoring the to within as committee next week or so' the only by question that issuing were appointed citizens It is with the whose land intended to place the first '''bonds and of "the taking" advantage obtain the rights-of-way shot federal aid projects can at a of Grand coun-X" is involved and depth 1400 feet where ty ever The new survey leaves the a good flow of oil hope to secure an adequate at the O was encountered present road W Knight system of roads which will meet the ranch and runs along the base of the At the time the drill penetrated the of the present and future needs cliffs southwest of the estimated at eight or ten ranches in oil a flow county' They contend that it would: be little short of Spanish vallev barrels a day was-secured H S However RUTLEDGE v a disaster if Grand The sum of $000 was appropriated the sand j county should allow' $300000 of the of the fund for road was of such fine grain out general to be that oil only government's and state's money secured during the and was it he' work between Castleton Beaver time the drill expended elsewhere when can through HIS POSITION was pounding RESIGNS red McCoy was appointed it It is believedsecured for roads here by the expen-diture tocreek that by shooting supervise the work the sand will be permitting by the opened up county of only $70000 The resignation of County Clerk They further argue that the develonthe oil to flow If results are hut 11 'S submitted nient Rutledge was not prosperity and growth of the obtained at the lower sand a second will It no action was taken on it shot will be 11 S put in at a depth of Rutledgep who for nearly six county is completely dependent again at the Mav meeting 1175 feet the first oil come up where roads and that here is an onwas the The money in the forest reserve brought in chances are clerk and recorded 'presented his portunity to splendid highHere secure fund divided equally declared to be exceptionally good for at to the small outlay by the wasthe ordered road board of county comand the discounty' people who are to bringing in a substantial flow of oil missioners at the meeting this week immediatelybetween trict school funds At the time the oil that his benefited struck there Mr Rutledge asks resign was feet in the hole 800 ofwater tion take June-1 the hold effect Those opposed to question m spite of this the oil showing but will his attention that the PROPERTY Mr Rutledge give countv should not bond SELLS URANIUM Two or three weeks to private affairs in the to t It: that the was very good future so n pavelapsed before the water cased Two years ago he did not seek the ment of tl bonds'X iii keep taxes up A deal involving the sale by J S off but oil was in evidence was only durand be office but on account of the tact that irden o the people that and of the ing the time the drill in the Shaw associates uranium lie the local there is was wamember of draft that the a n roads r II of sand sand also oi a very Polar mesa east Tins had had le on was board and considerable contemnlated permanent pi operties is beinq' through which the oil in that that there has hppn Castleton? consummated fine grain flow work he was induced already J thnot The extreme water to accept the nomination and election grant waste of the public funds on Robert Carson of Pittsburgh Yrepre-senting would also the may' have driven for the pressure another term The fact that the post road through Unnecessary' eastern interests? was in oi! back into the sands and powerful an office pays inadequate salary is surveys and other preliminary work Moab the first of the week with Mr shot it is believed will open un of the and that this one contributing factors of his waste may continue and they left for Polar mesa the stratum and permit the oil to resignation This latter contention is answered toShaw the turn the over property to new flow into the well bv the County Clerk Rutledge has been one admitting argument that It is stated that exensive - It is the general consensus of opinion of the there owners has been most efficient officers who ever waste in surveys well some mining operations will soon that the held was drilled into that position in and road Grand county work since abandon-' on the claims the primary commence object be fault and that the drill merely passed His ed such is the records are always in splendid invariably case on ing the shipment of vanadium ore through the outer fringe of the and the has al big road condition county been projects through a The chances are extremely by offi-i sends llughly complimented road state country that there is no to geologists cials for the mannw in which the of-l favorable according use denying 'the people good roads Today's and the formation the Day that shot will is a fracture f in the ice conducted Grand county people merely ‘because of mistakes sufficientlyto onen up the sands to lose past and that the while they will regret construction work and bring in a good flow of oil Moab's the Place---Get Clerk Rutledge realize that his conis and now well under way with a 4 definite tinued bolding of the position is a route and plan of action and they sacrifice wish him well in on there will be further Busy With the Rake i THEY DENY IT no his of the road new work wastetul expenditure If is members of the not yet named tunds denied bv the but will probably do so at Under the state laws Grand coun-ty there are attorney successor bar that more the May meeting can bond for day-' than something in Led by surveyors in town this week excess This is clean-up club the $100000 thousand Twenty-s x the Women's Literary the dollars of county' bonds are citizens of already public-spirited O outstanding ATHER ATTORNEY divided as follows: BLANDING MAN SUES ' community are today Dewey bridge bonds Moab in campaign to clean up $10500: a bridge bonds $8500 courthouse Moab and make it an attractive i NEWSPAPER OR LIBEL KNOX PATTERSON DIES live $7000 The county has funds healthful place in which to on hand off the lias been designated sufficient to pay The entire week courthouse bonds this will be clean-up period and and as a done leaving a present bonded today the campaign will be closed Attorney Knox Pattefson yesterday of Alleging that he has suffered great $19000 with a rousing enthusiastic spurt his rhe commissioners and financial damages received telegram stating that at 'their' meet-' mental distress which it is hoped- will transform las sold the publication of an father P bonds to a result of the R Patterson of Pottsville proposed road Moab into an entirely different article in the San Juan Record ou Dec--j Keeler Brothers of Denver subject place had died Mr Patterson had of been prominent Texas to the of the has urged ember 17 Jens P Nielson course authorization Every citizen ill suit for several days issue by of Blanding has filei been seriously'the people at the election by the literary club to meet at stockman 'in district and Representatives of the court against the Re-i on Saturday Othet Patterson and three bonding the school house this forenoon subcord Publishing company of Monti-i joct with the streets will Mrs Knox Patterson left for Pottsville board and where work on the in the of cello hV 'S' bid be Schools have asking damages sum Keeler being $100 outlined The Attorney Paterson was unable its and the The complaint was filed with to go with 7 an closest competitor been closed for the day $10000them Th on account of th' San their the Juan county- clerk last week which will six per pupils have willvolunteered session of district court this will be and the case interest were sold carry plus help divided into come up next in week had at par They intended to leave for Texas the the of Ion the law and motion calendar lnteresst leadership just hzs $3500 for thesquads under as soon as he could do so district club members and court at Monticello It Will expenses incident to the issue teachers and The old gentleman bad been in poor trial Polling places and will be raked not g to before the August of the streets of Moab health for sdme time judges of Many wpm°S ?or te term court districts from one end be to another hauldesignated a various job sets on the The complaint the out that on December follows: Moab wagons will 17 1919 San Juan Record in the ing sum of $10000 theand he asks George Powtrash and litter be ell away the -and against R published an alleged defamatory article for a judgment newspaper ? Unison It is hoped that the work can W Wheat: RLhn for that those against Mr Nielson makinga amount °n' Paces' J E up today However bunkhouse- finished Par v Gnumberof unwarrantedcharges as to The plaintiff is represented in the to help today-are rChrtwr-rui Ste'kms and Roht L who will be unabletheir bit the conduct of Mr Nielson a dance case by Attorneys rflammond & Keller to do Thompsons school urged some hpusAI"!1' It is alleged in the com-' while Attorney O W time at Blanding U H during this week "and tydia A Clark conduct the defense for the splendid plaint that the article was libelous Watts HanCicso H As a reward that it held of the him up to public hatred The article upon which the suit KnotuSI1ence-G Uschool children HaPet Emerv ridicule U him-great is said to have been written by wXr will be given in and and caused r'1' W'- Atheir bidder Westa dance rTistrftns L T at that club late mnnf-al The Dl&intiffallefft oy time editor of the h literary £ Simpson's honor by the residence - that he has suffered general damages San Juan Record bimpson J E Herbert and ers I i ' -sons I ' ‘ Con-struction 1 J ‘ j v I ' ' ' j-s i 1 1 i 4 ' 1 ' a 4 1 a 1 ' ' 5 ' ' I 1 ' "-t? ' '"engineer -commissioners I ! ? ! -Commissioners I I a ' -meet f j i ‘ i CLERK ' ' uponbetter iways I 1 resignation i a-very -be J n-were J -on I : I 1 ' e i experience i fl I a I k a difficult - de-cided j ‘ I - co-operating -bonds -v indebtedness i I a " a - -s s ' i r'(- weekbut ' " l-i'e' I l j I ‘ I j ! ! ' -at McConkiewill W--Watts I co-operation r ' J- i this-afternoon ' ' - District Court to Be in Session days another rig will bo oil pounding toward the sands At Moab All of This and to which are underlie nowThis known Moab valley week a contract Part of Next Week Kendrick Levi was let to whereby the latter will have charge of sinking hole in the a mouth of Moab canyon just rig west of Grand river The district iji Thompsons The April court is being brought from term of nowand it Monday afternoon at 2 is stared that operations convened will o'clock with Judge George Christen-si'ii ten days within comence in session will be well will be drilled by the presiding Court The here all of this week and there Standard Oil Company of Utah and be the an adjourned session Embar Oil Company both of will likely which have Cohsiilerable holdings in next week upon the return of Judge Christensen from Monticello the It will be Moab fields located on government lease add if necessary Monday afternoon was spent in will be drilled to a depth of setting cases and in disposing of a 2000 feet The The rig is a No 24 Star few probate matters only criminal which ha a capacity of that depth case on the calendar was that of M V A tool and state against Hissong house has already the camp been constructed at the well site and charged with petit larceny This case will be in justice court everything readiness to an appeal from was "operations as soon as the There was also a grand larceny commence rig is on the It is Hissong which had ground believed charge against Mr that transferred from Sun Juan county productive sands wall be struck been Both of to at 1175 these cases are and 1400 feet the depth at new which oil was brought in at the West Olliver H Clay recently appointed (‘rn Allies well district attorney and he was unable George IL Mulvey of Salt Jake to get them ready for hearing at this City the stipulation between representing both oi companies torn) On the first of the Lewis Larsen week district attorney and was in Moab and closed the contract w ith Mr Levi attorney from Mr Hissong the cases that the He stated August term work will be pushed were continued until and that in tllv bank to funds are The case of Jennie Somerville as cost of putting meet the down the administratrix of the estate of Hannah holt1 his associates Mr Mulvey ami G Somerville against George have unlimited confidence in the Standifird and others an action seeking fields to he invoke doctrine of equit-iible "Wc believe" said Mr Mulvey estoppel to prevent defendants "that the first well sunk in a from interfering with a ditch owned was iliiintiff which it is crevice or local fault and that the" by alleged has drill merely struck stringers or Loen running through the Standifird Jot at running from the oil sands We Moab for the past 27 years and are confident that elsewhere in the which was originally authorised bv falley the true oil sands will be parol license phase or upon brought in at the same depth the oil another has been occuping the attention of the court nil of the week was bit in i&the Western Albcs well" The This belief shared in by many oth-er Case to'came up Tuesday upon a demurrer oil geologistsin the frills plaintiff's complaint which men and length by Attorneys was aigued at LIGHT & POWER CO NAMEfi Knox Paterson and Jacob Johnson foe AND DIRECTORS the defendants and Attorney C A the Robertson and Lewis Earsen for The annual stockholders' imecting plaintiff The demurrer the was overruled ol' Moab Light & Power company and defeiidants'inimediately held anil Monday Officers' On was Wednesday a demurrer for the he ensuing year winterposed to answer and after as follows: President and overruled The was C A Hammond vice president ease is now definitely set for hearing and director I' Larsen direitors ten o'clock rt morning tomorrow John-Peterson Henry Grimm and A the mutter of the of Ellis In estate 1) Ilolyoak secretary-treasurer and R Crawford deceased an order general manager West Hamimmd C-‘ heretofore made contirming the sal? A Hammond is withdrawingfrom th of certain set aside upon property was active management of tin company the red1 McCoy ami petition of in order to devote his entiretime and made in open upon an offer court by attention to his mercantile business Mr McCoy of ten per cent more than The to install a company voted the for amount which the property third wire on its line which wi'l sold bad heretofore been Attorneys This make it a three-phase J'atter-on & system Constanime appeared will be It donemmed lately was fol- Mr Bah-ley McCoy and Howard W decided to purchase a truck for the administrator of Crawford the delivery of ice The management was represented by Attorney that two throe reported within or days Charles Kelley The previous sale had the ice plant will be in operationand been made rto Wni Stokes Under delivery of ice will commence The the order of the court which was based is rapidly improving its company and upon provision of the statutes its equipment all pfant is being made will lie given an opportunity persons into one of the most bid modern in th' to for the property undpr It state expects to give the very he side new best possible service with both light Settlement had been effected in the and ice plants McDaniels plaintiff case of Cthe A U against S Metals Reduction Dr and Mrs E M Ryan left and J S Shaw defendants tor ruita Dr company Ryan will and the property The case wmf dismissed in few a days to perform several attached released operations Cases which it expected will he heard the hitter purl of this week are the Moab Cooperative "Big oot" Murderer of company against J E Brown and George Newell E against Brown Cattle Will No of 1) Longer The case Dense guardian E against Brown was continued on request of plaintiff Menace San Juan Range forIn thethe term matter of the Keller guardianship an order confirming sale of stock in the Williams Drug company R J T to letcher Learning Big oot'' "Old known as the and Walter V Boyle was made "Peavine wolf" and the "Outlaw" R letcher administrator of the which during the past ten years Hie! jsnvage has inflicted estate was granted an so much damage on order to sell real estate San stockmen in Juan county The petition for probate of the will has at last been captured and the of T Davis Adams was on pelt has the granted been delivered to tla request of G A Harris of Elgin commisisoncrs of San Juan coun- " admitted The will had previously been ty for bounty In addition to to in Colorado probate Mesa county tlie bounty paid by the state there and the has long been purpose of the admission a standing offer by hero was to perfect title to some real stockmen of a reward of $1000 for the oot" estatetheat Elgin capture of "Big In B matter of the estate of The animal was captured last Sr Jfamond deceased an order of trap-er week by Roy Musselman sale of large amount B of personal on the south side of the Elk was made Hammon in San property Mountains Juan county Ji of Monticello appeared as attorney pelt The measured eight feet for the administrator from tip to tip The wolf is supposed The cases of Henry Green against to be about 12 years old and J A Amasa Larsen Myers his fur is light and when in life against Amasa Larsen will be tried and seen at a distance appeared on the return of the court from Mon-ticello almost white next week oot" has cir"'Big ranged the of In case Elmer Cummings cle of 700 to miles according plaintiff against Ixittie Larsen and stockmen always folwas which is becoming something by a lowed pack of coyotes who of a classic in the local fed court the motion upon the carcasses which the of defendant for an order to wolf left Cowmen and Indians the amended complaint to be in the region in which the animal definite rnore and certain was over-1 ranged say that his hoarse howl tiled and the 45 defendant alowed could be heard a distance of five days in which to answer miles During his ravages among Alta On Wednesday Mrs Tangren the live stock he has slain thousands of granfed anlfnterlocutory decree was of dollars worth of cattle sheep and horses (Continued on last page Within isbased ten a ' local t fissures -some OICERS an-swereil directors wereelected 1 director -argument J also estate a t 1 yesterday return ' i i J J J J ' a a J z 1 1 4 - a ' defendant require ) r s |