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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1908
Page
6
A nostalgic column sketches holiday travel with a practical companion who critiques meals and buys. It recalls a western streetcar placard banning animals, a tale of a green bride buying meat, and a quip about veterinary care, followed by an ad urging mercury free catarrh cures from Hall.
The Shoshoni Capital Gazette reports renewed interest in Shoshoni area oil fields with a Dry Creek lease to Jared E. Lewis of New York to drill a test well 1500 feet deep and developing acreage. Oil shows in the Dutcher and Robertson well prompt plans for cleaning and testing to confirm a possible oil flow. Other developments include gas strikes near La Prele and mining activity by McGrath, Gold Nugget, and Canyon groups with prospects of major copper and coal resources in the region.
An advertisement for first class furniture repairing and upholstering at 496 West Seventeenth Street Cheyenne. It promotes ManZao Pile Remedy with a guaranteed claim and lists Palace Pharmacy Drug Co as the source for price 500 Bold.
Well No. 6 of Consolidated Oil near Evanston is producing 100 barrels daily of high grade illuminating oil. The strong output from this well, part of twenty drilled in the field, has revived interest and prompted other companies to resume development. Spring Valley oil is described as the highest grade natural illuminant known.
C J Morrisop Burns and partners with Noble Ritchie and foreman Fisher visited the head of Alkali four miles east of Kemmerer to assess oil prospects. They entered a bond contract to sink a hundred foot well within ninety days and begin work after equipment arrival.
W L Hobbs of Casper, representing Casper gentlemen drilling for oil near Lander, reports plans to order a standard drilling rig and advance the project. Tom Smith, currently drilling for Casper investors, will move to the reservation to drill for Russell Thorpe as part of the activity.
Twenty five men are working in drifts and shafts of the Williams-Luman project and the shaft has reached 475 feet total depth after being down 276 feet. Work may start on the dam around August 16 if river levels permit as Andy Hermanaki works the tunnel near the Cole Thompson lead and D Craig and son Otto are sinking on the Cole Thompson property.
The placer mining fight in the state continues with Greenoughs accused of bluffing in dealings at Red Canon. Their recent $10 000 Cenolaere ranch purchase near Wilson placer grounds supports assertions of sheep interests and proximity to mining operations. State Geologist Beeler delays his investigation report.
The Topeka Copper company adds men as the tunnel at 700 feet, perpendicular, succeeds in producing high grade ore. New assays show 3 ounces of gold and 40 percent copper valued at 146 dollars per ton. Pollyton Gold Mining rushes sinking a working shaft with ore samples ranging 40 to 70 dollars per ton as water level nears.
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