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Newspaper
Basin Republican
Location
Basin, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1916
Page
4
The Basin Wyoming paper reviews town government conflict over a switch to a commission system, sugar tariff debates and senate actions, naval and military topics, and editorial opinions on conservation bills, Pinchot, and political figures amid broader wartime context.
An Illinois paper asserts every Wan should have native land whether born there or not. Speaker Clark comments that President Wilson has the world by the tail. The remark notes Lt. and Gen. Villa praises Gen. Pershing as a man after his own heart.
Strayed Or Stolen. Will pay $20 reward for corraling one black mare with brand invisible small star in head about 1000 lbs barn raised address Thos L Kitchen Lovell Wyoming
A four room furnished house located near Enterprise Grocery is available for rent or lease. Details on amenities and exact address are not provided in the fragment. Contact local listings for viewing and terms.
Suggestions to communities for building and maintaining country highways emphasize choosing a capable road overseer, securing community support, and ensuring funds produce real improvements. Key points include drainage as the primary need, crown to shed water, proper ditches, culverts every few hundred feet, and limiting road grades to about 5 to 6 percent.
The passage stresses that improving roads and ditches benefits all farmers by increasing land value and farm property within the community. It argues united action is needed for public improvements that uplift local agriculture and property prosperity.
Before dragging a road it ought to be crowned properly and the drainage attended to in other words put into good condition and then the work of taking care of it will give the best result.
An article notes a Missouri highway piece in WellingtonNapoleon district cost six dollars per mile after accounting for modern equipment and fair wages. The district employs a motorized crew with two graders, grading two miles daily, while roads elsewhere cost six thousand dollars a mile. Officials are urged to carefully survey and estimate before contracting.
There are now upward of two million motor vehicles in use nationwide with over a million and a half for business and pleasure. About 50,000 motor trucks exist. State registrations bring more than twelve and a half million dollars annually, mainly earmarked for road improvements. The funds fuel rapid highway construction, making America a leader in road building for the foreseeable future. The automobile has been a key factor in obtaining good roads.
More than 200 million dollars has been spent by the various states on 1000 miles of state highways. About 11 000 miles have been built within the last two years. Only seven states have no form of state highway department.
A call to start a local food roads to town movement to shorten farm to market time. Advocates urge neighbors to organize and build links between farms and markets, aiming to reduce travel from ten minutes to nearer hour and boost local food access.
Noah Young Jr of Glenrock brother of Bull Young who was killed by Jess Willard in Los Angeles years ago has entered wrestling under Frank Gotch and aims to become his successor. Gotch is guiding him in mat skills in Los Angeles. Son of Noah Young, a former state coal mine inspector, he was Wales’s champion wrestler twenty five years ago. The youth is known as America's champion amateur weight lifter for notable feats of strength.
Ortiz, Colo., a Conejos county village of over 600 residents, remains half dry and half wet due to the state line splitting the town. The Colorado side bans saloons, while five remain on the New Mexico side within town limits. Local option votes may seek full town dryness.
A dark red Durham cow with blotched brand is described as dry and three years old on a ranch near Otto Wyoming. Owner may recover by paying pasture costs and notice expenses to Frank G Tolman Otto Wyo.
For sale, GE 4 of Geo. 4, near Otto, Wyoming, at 90 dollars per acre. Fire danger noted. land will bear close investigation. Call or write P. P. Anderton, Basin, Wyoming. al4
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