Show Looking Ba Backward e I Through the Files of The Independent Times 20 Years Year Ago This We Week k Two Moab basketball stars were named as all conference players after this weeks week's t tournament urn ament which put Carbon on top Grand in second and CasU date and Roosevelt bringing up the rear The two men were Bronson forward and Andrews guard About 20 members mein of the Moab Golf club spent Sunday dragging fairways and oiling greens on the Moab course course- inthe In the he upper part of the valley While the course was not quite In n top condition It showed great Improvement and hopes were that hat the club could make further fur ther Improvements during the coming few weeks L. L A. A Newell Stanley Newell and Ruel Morgan of Colorado recently completed l a test run with newly perfected ted gold say Ing ng equipment on the Chaffin Chaffin- Stewart placer claims down the river from Moab and reported very favorable returns Stockmen of Grand county were planning a meeting March larch 15 5 to to ask for a grazing district to o be established here re to protect pro protest test the rights of resident stock stockmen men With the coming of spring operations were starting In full scale preparing for washing of gravel in the Blanding area where people were expecting great things In the gold recovery recovery recovery ery business 40 0 Years Aero Acre This Week J 1 Green River people held Jc It amass mass meeting at which they raised l to send senda a a committee to Salt Lake City to urge the to legislature for Immediate open lIng Ing of or the Midland Trail and tn to ur urge e Gov Coy Spry to s n nth appropriations bl bill bila About 75 men were being employed em cm- l at the Sego coal tamp ramp above Thompsons Thompson A A. M. M Starmont Thompsons Thompson merchant mer met chant reported ed this week A snow slide sIl-de slide In Miners basin Wrecked the R. R J J J. J Thomson mill but from Indications it will not stop d development ent work to bedone be bedone bedone done there on the Tornado mine by a Salt Lake Lale City company Captain Samuel N. N King formerly for mealy merly well wel known In Moab where he was chiefly Identified through his building lg of the Moab Moab toll road died In Salt t Lake City the first o of the week John Peterson had purchased the old did Crout building on Main street adjoining the Williams Drug store on the north The consideration was 1800 |