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Show ya y y Through the Files of And the Grand Galley Time 10 YEARS AGO Final work was done on the new Arches Visitor Center Cen-ter and the building was open for tourists and filled with many informative displays. dis-plays. The Needles area of Southeastern South-eastern Utah had recently become a center of attention atten-tion for the National Park system as possibly national park material. Oil activity had come to a sharp decline in the area as mud bogged down probes into new areas under exploration. explor-ation. Organization of a steering committee to guide the Moab area in a Community Development program was accomplished and Lcs Erb- es was selected to serve as Project Chairman. 20 YEARS AGO The consolidated Manti and LaSal National Forests was to be known as the Manti National Forest with the La-Sal La-Sal National Forest being abolished. A group of seven uranium and vanadium claims in the Temple Mountain District were sold for a reported price of $259,000. Four Moab boys were the first in the Utah National Farks Council to s:gn up to attend the National Boy Scout Jamboree at Valley Forge, Pa. No federal aid road construction con-struction was slated for Southeastern Utah for 1930, however, a project from near Monticello to Dry Valley Val-ley was planned for the following fol-lowing year. 40 YEARS AGO In reviewing the year at the LaSal National Forest, it was found that a' reckless man driving a "flivver" had run into and severely injured injur-ed a horse named "Mule-shoe," "Mule-shoe," and the case had gone to court. Moab was experiencing a very bad winter with temperatures tem-peratures dropping to an astounding 24 degrees below zero. The Utah Southeastern Oil Company was planning to begin on a new well near Cisco in the near future. State Senator Knox Patterson Pat-terson left for Salt Lake City to attend a meeting of th" legislative advisory tax committee prior to the opening open-ing of the special session of the legislature. 60 YEARS AGO The steamship Canada was sisrhted off the Irish Coast wi'h several passengers from Utah on board, including F. B. Hammond of Moab, who was heading for Liverpool, England. Supervisor John Riis of the National Forest Service answered remarks fromt.he Utah Stock Growers' Association Asso-ciation which opposed a five cent increase in grazing fees Riis stated that the stockmen stock-men were trespassers. The Spanish Valley Land and Water Company of Chicago, Chi-cago, which was financing the Clark reservoir scheme in the upper end of the valley, val-ley, had sent a corps cf engineers to make a thorough thor-ough survey of the proposition. proposi-tion. "I While intoxicated, three man engeged in a fistic encounter en-counter back of one of the buildings on Main Street. None of them was badly injured. |