Casper Press touts Casper Wyoming as dry farming boomtown
The 1908 Casper Press profile extols Casper as a healthful outdoor center with ample lodging and cheap meals. It notes rapid homestead uptake, land prices, and future influx as irrigation-less farming expands, urging relocation to Casper for business in factories, stores, and services. It memorializes Luther C. Morrison for founding water storage on South Casper Creek.
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Central Wyoming Reservoirs Spark Farming Boom
The article credits Luther C. Morrison with pioneering storage reservoirs in central Wyoming, sparking increased rainfall, more grass, higher livestock numbers, and dry farmers shifting to irrigation to grow cereals. It lauds Morrison for proving reservoirs can be built on this soil and suggests towns may become great cities as farming expands. The piece also recycles a requested poem and mentions Governor Crook's address praising Wyoming agriculture.
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Root and Florence Smith Wed at Episcopal Parsonage
Daniel Root of Lost Cabin married Florence Smith of Denver Colorado with Rev. McCollough officiating at the Episcopal parsonage Monday afternoon. Root operates a ranch near Lost Cabin and has lived in the area twenty years, while Mrs. Root has resided in Denver all her life. The Press extends best wishes for happiness and prosperity.
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Thermopolis Woman Fatally Shoots Husband After Quarrel
Mike Brown was killed by his wife Iince Friday afternoon after a quarrel at their Thermopolis home. Brown, who had been out all night, returned to attack his wife. she shot him as he approached with a gun. No witnesses were present. Brown, long known in the area, once ran a Casper saloon now operated by Mr. Ramay.
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