Grass Creek Notes Show Local Travel And Policy Debate
Grass Creek notes recount visits by John Denton Clyde Tracy and Chas Hetzler to Cody and Elk Basin fields while others like H S Kelley and R M Miller assess operations. The report also mentions a child's death and trips to Buffalo Basin for validating work. A state and federal anti trust and public ownership debate is summarized describing efficiencies and economies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Denton
Bridgeport
Grass Creek
Clyde Tracy
Chas. Hetzler
Cody
Elk Basin Fields
Private railroad control urged by bankers group
Atlantic City December 9. The railroad securities committee of the national investment bankers association urged private control with judicious regulation. The report said the pre war plan failed and railroads should not be returned to that status without relief from burdensome operating conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
Railroad Securities Committee
National Investment Bankers’ Association
Political bickering hinders US oil development and conservation
Since 1909, political strife between so called conservationists and declining politicians has blocked oil supply expansion. Despite rising demand and wartime needs, lands in Wyoming and elsewhere are withdrawn from development, delaying capital projects and leaving fields exhausted. Legislators are urged to craft legislation that enables development while protecting the public interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Wyoming
Congress
Mooney Case Prompts Labor Refusal to Strike
The Billings Gazette commends organized labor for not staging a general strike protest after California Governor clemency spared Mooney’s life in the first degree murder case. The paper notes trials, appeals, and debates about guilt while urging patience for new evidence and fairness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mooney
Goveror
Californa
San Francisco
Oxman
Oregonian
California
Supreme Court of California
Wilson
Russia
Trotzky
Lenine
Billings
Pia to Guard the Press and Second Class Mail Privileges
The proposed law would keep second class mail privileges active unless six months of publication suspension occurs or a court convicts the editor for postal law violations. The postmaster general would hold life and death power over the press, a power newspaper publishers seek to limit. J. H. Welsh moved this week to the Henry ranch on the east side of the river, leased for years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Welsh
Henry Ranch
Notice of Real Estate Mortgage Foreclosure in Basin Wyoming
The sheriff of Big Horn county will auction the Bryant Barrows mortgage land at Basin court house on January 4, 1919 to satisfy $864 due plus costs including $50 attorney fees. The property is described as the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter section 35 township 52 north range 97 west and related lots in township 51 north range 97 west. First publication November 29, 1918.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Bryant
H. A. Barrows
Big Horn County
Wyoming
Towit
Fifty-two
Fiftyone
A. Zaring
Tat man Mountain Oil & Gas Company Incorporation Notice
Notice states Tat man Mountain Oil & Gas Company filed articles of incorporation in Wyoming on December 2 1918 to lease buy sell own and develop oil and gas lands and pipelines and refineries. Five directors are C Webster Cicero Avent R L Preator George S Maller and Henry Griffin with Webster as resident agent at Burlington Big Horn County. Dated December 4 1918 Burlington Wyoming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tatman Mountain Oil & Gas Company
Secretary of State of Wyoming
Wyoming
C. Webster
Cicero Avent
R. L. Preator
George 8. Maller
Henry Griffin
Burlington
Big Horn County
Webster
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ford
Automotive Company
Veedol
Grass Creek Notes
H. 3S. Kelley
Continental Supply Co
Basin
R. M. Miller
Thermopolis
G. A. Swanson
Kirby Creek
J. D. Shaw
Ohio Oil Co
Pia
T.S. Armstrong Supply
Sunbeam
Mazda Globes
Lee Auto-Motive Company
Robert Wilcox
Fritz Bros
Rairden
Wyo
Frite
War Industries Board
the Basin Lumber& Supply Co
Hardware Builders Supplies
Basin, Wyoming
H. W. Horn
Mgr
Chase & Sanborn’s
Martin’s Cash Grocery
Craig-Curtis Coo
and Greybull
First National Bank
of Basin
Member
Federal Reserve System
Arthur K. Lee
S. Skovgard
Ed Carothers
J. C. Stewart
W. C. May
James A. Lee
F. C. Emerson John McFayden Herbert T. H
John Lamar John Seaman Arks
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