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Show A Through the Files of 10 YEARS AGO An article telling of the scenic wonders of Southeastern South-eastern Utah was featured in the magazine, "Western Geophysical." E. P. (Bud) Corbin, district dis-trict manager in Monticel-lo Monticel-lo for Midland Telephone Company, was elected vice president of the Rocky Mountain Telephone Association. Asso-ciation. Trend Oil Company reported re-ported that it had hit a forty million cubic foot per day natiral gas well in the field opening Bry-son Bry-son Canyon Unit No. 1. Teachers of Grand Coun-tr Coun-tr were planning their annual an-nual trek north to Salt Lake City for the UEA convention con-vention and 1600 school children were starting a four clay holiday. Approximately fifty -four head of unpermitted horses, cattle and calves were impounded on the west side allotments of the Moab ranger district of the Mr.nti - LaSal National Nation-al Forest. 20 YEARS AGO The continually mounting mount-ing costs in the operation of the Grand County hospital hos-pital was the perplexing problem before the board of County Commissioners and the hospital manager was ordered to cut payroll and overhead costs to the bone. Bert R. Buchanan of Castle Valley traded the old Pace ranch to Charles H. Gavin of Grand Junction, Junc-tion, Colorado, for the hitters hit-ters ranch located on the western outskirts of Grand Junction. The old Spanish Trail extending from Santa Fe, New Mexico to Los Angeles Ange-les and passing through Moab valley was to be marked in its entirety during dur-ing that Fall. An increase of 34 students stud-ents was noted in the Grand County School Dis- trict which brought the total to-tal number of students enrolled en-rolled in kindergarten to grade 12, to 571. 40 YEARS AGO A statement from the U. S. Engineer indicated that Both Flaming Gorge and Dewey were excellent power sites, and projects would evidently be developed devel-oped at both places. The office of County Clerk was kept busy with a deluge of predatory animal ani-mal pelts brought in. for State bounty, with six or eight bunches brought in during one week. A fire was reported fit the Corbin corrals and it destroyed a number of new telephone poles that were piled in the corrals. Owners of pasture and marsh land in the lower part of Moab Valley near the river had announced that they would be closing their land to hunting during dur-ing the duck season except for two days a week. 60 YEARS AGO Politics, which had been hibernating for the past two years, had shown some signs of activity and from indications, there would be no dearth of candidates candidat-es for the upcoming election. elec-tion. In spite of the fact of the giant production of oil in California, and that it had easy access to the seaboard, sea-board, Utah, it was stated, was certain to become one of the great oil producing states. Dr. F. P. Amo, Eastern Utah's modern dentist, was to be in Moab for a limited period and was guaranteeing guarantee-ing painless extraction of teeth by a new method. Moab was to have two movies per week for about a month while Ernest Smith, the moving picture man, was in town to give entertainment at the Star Opera House. Admission was to cost 25 cents for adults and 10 cents for children. Corn stalks measuring twelve feet six inches bearing 2 ears of corn 1 found on the Ncal ranch. |