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Show O , S Through the Files of XiO&feUtCl izftCfcCULGlCL Times-Independent And the Grand Valley Time 10 YEARS AGO The grand opening of the newly constructed Desert Lodge motel and Desert Inn restaurant was scheduled for the coming week. A strfke of laborers at the Texas Gulf Sulphur Company potash plant had ended after a few days. The strike was called to protest roads into the area and difficulty in obtaining ob-taining transportation. 20 YEARS AGO The Southern Utah Water Resources Development Corporation Corp-oration had signed another contract to extend the rain-making rain-making project for another year. The contract for cloud seeding was signed at a cost of $80,000. E. Russell Carter was named nam-ed as the postmaster in Moab Mo-ab succeeding Mrs. Elaine S. Peterson, who had resigned after 18 years of service. After considerable delay ir straightening out titles to manganese properties in Grand County, King Manganese Mangan-ese Corporation was ready to proceed with development vork preliminary to erecting a mill at Moab. A gentle rain over a two day period, brought nearly a third of an inch of moisture moist-ure to Moab with heavier precipitation pre-cipitation in the surrounding area. The highest water in eight years was being seen in the Colorado River and the water wa-ter was endangering the Dewey Dew-ey suspension bridge. 40 YEARS AGO The National Geographic board at Washington, D.C. formally renamed Haystack peak in the LaSal National Forest, 25 miles east of Ma-ab, Ma-ab, as Mellenthin Peak, in honor of Rudolph E. Mellenthin, Mel-lenthin, former Moab forest ranger who was shot to death near the peak in 1918 whBe attempting to apprehend two draft dodgers. 60 YEARS AGO The Moab Oil Company had stopped work on their well in the Klondike Fields pend ing the arrival of casing with vhich to case off the hole. The well was at about 400 feet depth. Articles of incorporation of the Moab Canning Company - had been drawn and were to be filed with the County Clerk. The company was incorporated in-corporated for $10,000. It was the opinion of G.M Olliver, who built the Moab bridge for the Midland Bridge Company that the pressure of the earth fill against the wing of the south abutment of the bridge was what caused caus-ed a crack in the concrete abutment. |