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Show Jt , s Througi the Files of JlCCfZi(l ClCCUClZfC Times-Independent And the Grand Valley Time 10 YEARS AGO Some 2300 students were attending local schocis, with senior and junior high classes class-es on double sessions, pending pend-ing completion of work at the new high school building. An earthquake centered near Logan had been felt by many local residents, but no damage had been reported. The Moab Red Devil football foot-ball team would open their season against Carbon with a total of 43 boys on the squad. Efforts at obtaining a good flow of water at the Devil's Garden Camp Ground were unsuccessful so far, with, the well at a depth of 850 feet only flowing five gallons per minute. The contractor had been instructed to go down another 60 feet. 20 YEARS AGO Charles A. Steen, field geologist geo-logist of Cisco, reported that he had discovered the mineral miner-al pitchblend in the Big Indian In-dian mining district in the first diamond core hole drilled drill-ed by Steen in the Lnida Mujcr group of claims which he staked in 1951. Assays of some core samples ran as high as 2 per cent U03. The need for an elementary school was shown by the 307 ' students enrolled in the elementary ele-mentary grades . of the school. Secondary grades totaled to-taled 187, making 494 students stu-dents attending in what is now the Junior High building. The largest fruit crop ever experienced an the valley was shipped by Moab Fruit Grower's Cooperative. Approximately Ap-proximately 50 carloads were shipped consisting of 11,010 bushels of peaches and 907 bushels of Bartlett pears. 40 YEARS AGO The first carload of cantaloupe canta-loupe had been snipped to the New York market and several sev-eral carloads a day would go east until the end of the sea- son. An estimated $75 ?iousand in damage to roads and bridges in the area had been caused by floods in Court-. Court-. house Wash, Pack Creek and Mill Creek. Traffic had been tied up on the Moab-Thomp-son road for nearly 48 hours. Telephone communication with the outside world was interrupted, the lines being taken out by floods. Total rainfall for the month of August was reported at 1.99 inches, and 1.79 had been legged by the damaging storm Sunday and Monday. 60 YEARS AGO The vote on establishment of a town library had passed in a special election held to consider the question of levying levy-ing a 3-mill tax to establish and maintain the institution. The library would be estab-lshed estab-lshed as a Carnegie institution, institu-tion, the building to cost $5, 000. Vere Westwood, 9, and his father, R. D. Westwood, had narrowly escaped drowning in the Colorado River, as Mr. Westwood attempted to ford with one horse on his team unbroken. The animals vered into a deep place, overturning overturn-ing the wagon and throwing father and son between them. Both horses drowned and the wagon was lost. Uranium and vanadium filling 800 sacks were ready for shipment from mines to Thompson. It was necessary to pack the ore on burro from the mine, as no road led to its upper Pack creek location. |