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Newspaper
Casper Press
Location
Casper, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1911
Page
4
Casper Press notes the push to install fire alarm stations citywide, praising the telephone as a quick alert method though many residents lack service. It mentions Taft Day in Cheyenne and editorial quips about local boosterism, plus a plea to residents to fund Casper and Natrona County advertising in eastern markets.
The article discusses rising food costs and efforts to ease living costs by expanding settlement in Wyoming and boosting irrigation. It notes state actions to invite settlers from the crowded East and to convert arid deserts into productive land, aiming to relieve price pressures.
The tour highlights irrigation as a game changer with millions of desert acres already yielding crops and more waiting for settlers. Wyoming demonstrates reclaimed lands can outproduce the Mississippi valley per acre, while the broader impact on global food prices looms as a vital consideration for eastern readers.
J N Peterson of Rawlins was found dead in his Omaha hotel room last Saturday after blowing out the gas. In the adjacent room, his sister Mrs Carson Larson and her daughter Christine of Rawlins were preparing to join him bound for Denmark. He had made a fortune in Wyoming and planned to spend his final days there.
Cheyenne Tribune notes Lander as the apple city Casiper the oil city and Douglas as the fair city as towns along the Northwestern railway come to the front in regional attention.
A Casper notice calls for a district agent for Inter Ocean Life and Casualty Co Cheyenne Wyo offering an exclusive territory. The ad emphasizes attractive prospects and requests applications to J K Topas state agent. Also listed is a sewing machine washer and wringer for sale and a 15 reward notice for a white home brand on a left thigh.
The office of the late Alan T Butler has been moved to Mrs Butler's home at Second and Walcott streets. All items remaining to the estate will be transted. Henning offers pipe fittings and supplies with prompt service at right prices.
Default has occurred in a real estate mortgage dated May 12, 1910 by Alex T. Huther to Mewa Uy White recorded in Natrona County Wyoming on May 18, 1910. The balance claimed due is 84400.24 dollars plus 100 dollar attorney fee. the original secured amount was 847400 dollars with interest at the contract rate.
Henry L. White elects to foreclose a Wyoming mortgage due to default. The sale will occur October 8, 1910, at Casper County Courthouse, to satisfy the debt plus 10 percent interest, attorney fees, and costs. The described parcels include sections in townships 33 north, ranges 70 west, totaling about 672 acres with several exceptions and rights of way.
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