OCR Text |
Show Lcohing tkchmtd Through-the Fifes of The Times -Independent And the Grand. Valley Times 60 Years Ago Moab people subscribed over $300 in less than half an hour as a first .step toward a library building. They were to make applications to Andrew Carnegie and it was expected he would donate in the neighborhood of $5,000. The Mortensen lot was considered a particulary desirable location because of the large amount of land it contained. Also under consideration as a possible site was the Odd Fellows Hall on Main Street which could be purchased for $400. Saturday, Oct. 23 was designated as "Clean-up Day" for Moab. Lawyers, doctors, merchants, farmers, women and children were expected to wage a relentless war upon the weed pest in their front yards. Sim Galloway and wife of Norwood, Colo, arrived with a big Jeffery Quad automobile truck which was to be used for freighting on the Moab-Thompson Moab-Thompson road. The capacity of the truck was rated at two tons but Galloway had brought in 5,200 pounds of coal. It was reported he was able to make the round trip to Thompson easily in one day. The agricultural class at the high school sponsored an exhibit of fruits and farm products and awarded prize ribbons for the best displays. The judges were surprised at the fine quality and size of the products on display and had difficulty in judging the best. Cooper-Martin store had undergone an extensive electric elec-tric lighting project, with fifty beautiful fixtures installed and a large light at the entrance illuminating the entire front of the building. 40 Years Ago Some forty men in Grand County were to go to work on WPA projects as a result of a visit from the district office personnel in Price. Work was to start on the city sewer project, city park project and county roads. All labor to be taken from the county relief rolls. Workers were to receive $40 per month for 130 hours of work. Reports showed that deer were fairly numerous and hunters were ready to take to the hills in anticipation of a successful season. The advance cadre of CCC men under Captain E. S. Vannier, who had been stationed sta-tioned at the Dalton Wells camp for two months were transferred to Huntsville, Utah. The camp was completed comple-ted and a company was to be assigned to it on Oct. 25. Albert Turner of Cisco had sold his yearling steers on the market at Kansas City at $8.90 per hundred, cattle prices being stronger than they had been for several years. The first frost of the season was reported in various parts of the valley. The fourteenth annual rodeo and race meet in connection with the county fair was held. However, attendance was down from past years and the committee was barely able to meet expenses. The Utah Southren Oil Company was drilling below 400 feet at its oil test at Yellowcat, on the Cisco shoreline shore-line structure and rapid progress was being made. With the arrival of tools and equipment operations were to start on the Nordon Oil Company well on the Green River structure, south of Elgin. The Columbia Crude corp. well on Sevenmile structure struc-ture was closed down but it was expected drilling would resume shortly. A fighting Grand County High School football team held the powerful Grand Junction High School squad to a scoreless tie. The game was the opening feature of the three-day county fair sports program. 20 Years Ago A large delegation of mining officials from Moab were attending the American Mining Min-ing Congress convention in Las Vegas where a number had been given active parts in the programs of the meetings. Paced by the start of construction on the new Southren Baptist Church building permits in Moab hit a peak of $71,000 during September Sep-tember it was reported by C. C. Bailey, city building inspector. in-spector. The total figure to date for the year was $1,799,200 with the final quarter of the year expected to push the figure up to the record peak of $2 million. Labor demands continued to run high in Grand and San Juan Counties with most of the jobs in construction work. Lack of housing forced many would-be workers to leave. The Citizen's party named Ellis Cook, Bill McDougald and Richard Parsons as its slate for the Nov. 8 municipal election to name three new city councilmen. The three were selected from a field of seven. Also on the ballot was a sewer and water improvement bond issue for $249,000 in bonds for improvement and extension of the services for rapidly grow-IF ing Moab. A building and finance committee group of the LDS church in Moab met to level the site for a new church building. Rep. H. A. Dixon, United States Congressman for the first district of Utah was in Moab to conduct a public iniiitiiiiiiiiiiti iiiimiiiiiiimiMiiiiiiliilMMmil4 I meeting to discuss vital problems of the area. 10 Years Ago A meeting was held to discuss the renovation of Star Hall. At issue was whether to slope the floor to meet the demands for a drama center which was considered temporary tempo-rary or to leave it flat as its original state. The Grand District Board of Education was to meet to review expressed desires of the citizens before the final renovation plans were made. |