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Show - Through the Files of 10 YEARS AGO Members of the Moab Points and Pebbles Club had uncovered an 800-year 800-year old Indian pithouse near the Texas Gulf Sulphur Sul-phur potash properties. Excavation was done under un-der the direction of the University of Utah. Snow measurements on the LaSal Mountain were only about 23 per cent cf normal and made this the driest since 1934. Invitations to bid had been issued on the 2,810 foot mine shaft for Texas Gulf's potash development. The 22 foot circular com-partmented com-partmented shaft was to ibe sunk in the northeast portion of the Cane Creek Anticline. Ground breaking cere monies for the addition to St. Pius X Catholic church were to be held. A golf course was to be built in Monticello. 20 YEARS AGO The Moab Fruitgrowers Association had held its annual meeting and H. B. Evans and Kent Johnson were elected as new dir. ectors for the organization organiza-tion with Mr. Evans to act as president. A series of mishaps, including in-cluding an ice jam, had delayed transporting of casing and other equipment equip-ment down the Colorado River to the Cane Creek well of Americol Petroleum. Petrol-eum. The State Road Commission Com-mission was planning to construct additional road beds and surfacing on Highway 6-50 between Cisco and the Colorado state line including two miles of oil surfacing. 40 YEARS AGO Construction of a new bridge across Pack Creek and Cane Springs Wash south of Moab to replace structures taken out by floods the previous summer sum-mer was to begin shortiy. An electric fire siren was installed atop the Midland Telephone building build-ing and was, in addition to calling firemen, to be sounded at eight, twelve and six o'clock each day. Arrangements were being be-ing made for construction of a Blanding-Natural Bridges Brid-ges road with the U. S. Forest Service, San Juan County and Blanding City sharing construction expenditures. ex-penditures. 60 YEARS AGO Members of the Commercial Com-mercial Club voted to join the state development league lea-gue which was being heralded her-alded throughout the state as a harbinger of prosperity pros-perity and growth. In expectation of a real estate boom expected in the spring, Knox Patter son and Walter Wood purchased pur-chased the Maxwell Hotel property from Mrs. Addia Wesson. The purchase price was ?10,000. Over 500,000 pounds of machinery had been shipped ship-ped to the San Juan oil fields during the past six months and there were thirty well-drilling outfits in the field. Some ten or twelve men were planning to take up about 4,000 acres of land in the vicinity of Rattlesnake Rattle-snake flats. They claimed that there was twice that amount of land there and abundant water to irrigate it. |