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Show Looking foclawrd Through Ui Kilos of The Times -liHlHH'iutnt Ami (h Grand Valley Times oO Year Ako Orfs from the Paradox. ColoraJo. "cr" bus' -ushini! rxvul 10 ,,u- sl',"' ;., mid there ""'1 ptrisure on Moab. Monlicello inJ I Sal lo fttul way to flnih sl"-' h ' sol,u" -1 lmlt's to meet t,u" Colorado rotul, ging foplo 1 that region Joccsstol'tah markets, before ihe end of (tie year. Cos! to t,uiM 'hf slrfli'h was fitinuied about S5.1XXV The San Juan Record, the nfW paper published at Monlicello. made it debut jpt 2). It as stated. "It is full of the boost spirit and live K$ notes from all over San Jum, and if V'ditor Oscar MoConiie keeps up his stride, hill soon preside over one of the best country papers in the state. We heartily congratulated congrat-ulated him on the excellence of the paper." Cil mining properties at Neslen, 8 miles north of Thompson, ow ned by American Ameri-can Fuel Companies were in the process of being purchased bv Utah Fuel Company in negotiations in New York.. Purchase price w as said to be between $1.25 and $1.5 million. Mrs. J. B. Skewes and children had arrived from Mammoth. Utah, to make their home in Moab while Mr. Sieesws located at the Big Indian Mine. 40 Years Ago The Dalton Wells CCC amp, located H miles from Moab, had been completed. nd was aw airing the arrival of l full-sued CCC company to man it. They were expected to arrive during October, and work on a number of range improvement projects such as building of reservoirs, water development, drilling wells, etc. C'.iand County had made a good sllowinj. i, t)t. ii, a)l Slate I air, taking several fust place prizes for grapes, and also first prize on yellow dent corn and pop corn, Ciiand County hud made a good showing at the VI t a h Slate l air. A total of $l.l.1.lXX) had been approved for road work in the county, including grading and gravel surfacing of 7 miles in the Klondyke area, plus installation of flasher signals at various points on the railroad. 20 Y ears Ago Traffic began to flow over the new bridge across the Colorado River north of Moab. and the old bridge was blocked off at the south approach. Local officials lauded the opening as a niilesone, and the ending of the old one-way bottleneck bridge in an age when the route carried heavy uranium ore traffic. The multi-million dollar natural gas pipeline from the San Juan basin of Colorado and New Mexico to the Pacific Northwest had started a pincer movement on Moab and crew s of two companies had moved into town, with actual laying of pipe from the north at Thompson, and from the south at Hole in the Rock. W'ork was progressing on the building of forms for a new bridge that would carry the flow of traffic on Highway 173 through Moab and across Mill Creek, part of a project of rerouting the highway through Moab onto Main street and eliminating the winding route turning onto Center and on through tow n. 10 Years Ago In a $2 million plus cash transaction, the historic Indian ' Creek Cattle Company, better know as the Scorup-Somcrvillc J Cattle Company was sold to Mr. Charles Redd, Redd Ranches. La Sal. L'tah. J Moab Rotarians were at work building a new grand-1 grand-1 stand for the Mograndah J football field. ' A model of the Dead Horse i Point State Park visitor center J facilities, when completed, was on exhibit at the Chamber , of Commerce office. The center was then half complet-i complet-i ed. and the park was experi-! experi-! encing heavy volumes of visitors, with a total of 26.623 l from May through August. The Canyonlands Amateur j Golf Tourney was shaping up I well with a toal of 22 out-of-city golfers registered 1 to date. |