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Show y , j Through the Biles of &&G$26Vt& lCCiAClCt The Times-Indepeiident And the Grand Vallev Time 10 YEARS AGO Five United States Senators Sena-tors and Governor of Utah had arrived in ,Moab for a three day stay during which time they were to tour the DroDosed Canvonlands Nation al Park, and hold hearings on the proposal. Texaco, Inc. had apparently apparent-ly discovered oil in commercial commer-cial quanities at their Grand County location in the Salt Wash area. Very warm temperatures were causing a drain on Mo-ab's Mo-ab's water supply which was reaching a critical level. Work on the new water system was moving ahead rapidly to prevent pre-vent a severe shortage. Mitchell Melich had been named to the Salt Lake division div-ision board of he First Security Sec-urity Bank of Utah, N. A. The division included 10- First Security banking offices in Salt Lake City. Over 3,000 pine trees were to be planted on the north side of the Blue Mountains in San Juan County. 20 YEARS AGO ..Plans viere being made for the annual Fireman's Ball to be staged at the Arches Ballroom. Ball-room. All funds were to go to buy needed equipment for the fire fighters and to improve im-prove the service rendered by the group. Members of the Moab Garden Gar-den Club had finished planting of a rose garden on the northwest north-west corner of the county courthouse grounds. An announcement was made by King Manganese Corporation that stated that there was enough manganese ore in the Moab district 1o keep a refining mill of 200 ton daily capacity operating for at least five years. Miss Cecilia Thomson, daughter dau-ghter of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Thomson of Moab was notified noti-fied that she was one of 10 girls in the state to be awarded award-ed a home economics scholarship schol-arship at the University of Utah. 40 YEARS AGO Lou Chaffin and William Hay ,who were operating a group of gold placer claims on the north bank of the Colo. River, about three miles .-.b-ove Moab bridge had their plant in steady operation and were making very encouraging encourag-ing recoveries. Close to 600 acres of cantaloupes can-taloupes were to be planted in the Green River valley during the coming season. The year before, 300 acres had been planted and yielded a crop of 125 carloads. Government control of the vast public domain in Utah with regard to its use for grazisg of livestock was urged urg-ed in a resolution passed by members of the Utah' Cattle and Horse Growers' association. associa-tion. A. B. Sanchez, section foreman fore-man on the Cisco-Whitehonsa section, reported that 138 head of sheep were killed by a train near Cisco. 60 YEARS AGO Activities in the San Juan Oil Field were starting up again after being dormat for the winter months. There were mere than 40 incorporated incorpor-ated companies owning property pro-perty in the San Juan field. The Utah-Colorado Good Roads convention was to bs held in Grand June! ion and was to devise ways for bringing bring-ing the Transcontinental High way by way of Grand Junction Junc-tion and thence down the Grand River to Moab. A party of twelve government govern-ment engineers were on their way to Monticello to work for the summer in the official survey of 150,000 acres of land in the eastern part of San Juan County. A delegation from Gateway and Paradox, Colo, met with the County Commission and asked that work be started on the Gateway bridge over the Dolores River as soon as possible. |