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Show f j Through the Files ol And the Grand 7alley Time 10 Years Ago BuJding was booming in Moab -with She build :ig of a ibo.vling alley, a new office (' r Utah Power and Light 'Company, city crews were :putt ng finishing touches on resiroms and storage sheds ;.l the City Park and members mem-bers of the boat club were i)l.',nniitg to finish the boat dxk on the Colorado River. Henry Ruggeri was appointed appoint-ed to the Seventh Judicial D s'rict judgeship by Gover-rno Gover-rno George D. Clyde. City offices were interviewing inter-viewing applicants for the positron po-sitron of building inspector and sanitarian. Moab's Points and Pebbles Club was planning to take its Ifirst spring field trip with the destination Court House Towers. The Red Rock Riders were working hard on the construction con-struction of a race track and Eirena for their shows. 20 Years Ago Improvements had just been started on the Midland Telephone Tele-phone Company's lines with the ad'd;tion of a direct carrier car-rier circuit to Price, a direct carrier circuit from! Dove Creek to Moab and other ad-di'tions ad-di'tions due to be finished Inter in the year. Six escapees from the Colo- tad J State Reformatory at Baena Vista were captured f vc miles south of Moab after a 1) mile chase 'in speeding ca'.cs punctuated by rifle fire. M ss Vee Willkims and Robert Rob-ert Douglas Carroll were united unit-ed in marriage at a home ceremony fo'lowed by a reception re-ception and charivari. 0,1 exploration activities were expected to resume in Grand County during the spring after the recording of numerous oil leases and drilling drill-ing agreements. The new home of Mr. and Mds. Russell Carter which was' not quite completed was badly damaged by fire. 40 Years Ago :It was expected that the House Mining Committee would look favorably on a bill to authorize $200,000 for the production of 5 grams of radium. It was hoped that the ore would come from the eastern Utah area. The big vanadium mill of the U. S. Company which had laid idle for several years was due to be remodeled and milling work in Dry Valey was to begin again. Applications were being taken tak-en to fill the office of Bland-in.g Bland-in.g postmaster with the yearly year-ly salary to be $1,630 per year. The lOOth anniversary of the LDS church was aproach-ii'g aproach-ii'g and it was expected that nil -re than 3J.0JJ persons would throng to Salt Lake City to celebrate tho occasion. Junior High School notes stated that in the basketball playoffs Jack Walker was Mgh po'nt iman for the 7th grade and Leo Burr for the 6'h. The score was 15 to 7. 60 Years Ago Hope was raised for the construction of a railroad thr.-ugh Moab. Plans called for the line to run from Farm-in Farm-in gt on. New Mexico, to Craig, Colorado, by way of Cisco. Seth Dunn had opened a carpenter shop and stated that he was prepared to fix anything any-thing from a washing machine mach-ine to a bay window. A hearing was under way to prove the validity of a placer mining claim owned by M.I. Fowler in Miner's Bagln. Peter Martin, for several years the oldest resident in the valley, had passed away. He was a blacksmith for a time and well respected by all who knew him. The Forest Service was busy putting in a drift fence on Pack Creek. |