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Show 0ty 7 Through the Files of 10 YEARS AGO A zone of water in the potash pot-ash mine shaft being sunk by Harrison - International for Texas Gulf Sulphur Company had halted progress on that phase of the potash project at a depth of 1,180 feet. Nearly one-quarter of a million dollars was to be spent at Arches National Monument Mon-ument during the coming year subject to an ok by Congress. Con-gress. The budget proposal was preented by the President. Presi-dent. 20 YEARS AGO ATrvr fhan a nnartpr million dollars was paid out in 1951 to uranium ore producers under un-der the incentive bonus program pro-gram of the Atomic Energy Commission. The payments resulted in a sizeable increase increa-se in the income of many small mining operators and stepped up the output of this raw material for the atomic program. Protection of ancient cliff dwellings and Indian writings from the pilfering and destruction des-truction which was being wrought by unauthorized "pot Hunters" was being urged by the Moab Lions Club. 40 YEARS AGO After fishing for several weeks in an attempt to recover re-cover a lost bit, the Utah Southern Oil Company operating oper-ating the Balsley No. 1 test well in Salt Valley north of Moab had decided to sidetrack side-track the lost bit by drilling by. Dr. J. W. Williams had returned re-turned from Salt Lake where he had purchased equipment for establishment of a whole sale gasoline and oil station at Thompson. 60 YEARS AGO The scenic wonderland of the west, the canyons of the Grand and Green Rivers had been extolled in an article in the Deseret Evening news. Conditions were iooking favorable fa-vorable for the government's segregating the land , which was to be reclaimed by the Spanish Valley Water & Land Company. The start of the construction by Horace W. Sheley was awaiting the segregation. seg-regation. Five hundred people gath- ered at the Grand River ar viewed the big steel brick All day long, the bridge river banks were throngs with men and women could scarcely realize jl the ancient trouble with old ferry would soon be Unplaced Un-placed by the convenience cf ' the largest and one of j, most modern bridges in (j, state. ' j The residents of Dewey were asking that a bridge bs built across the river at fta; place and were . requesjjnj that the County be bonded for this purpose. j |