Wyoming Press Pulls Together for State Progress
A 1901 Wyoming Chronicle editorial lauds statewide press efforts after the Industrial Convention. It notes Laramie, Rawlins, Rock Springs, Evanston, Casper, and other papers publishing resource literature, endorsing continued collaboration among state officials and journalists to advance Wyoming’s development. It mentions Governor Richards and C. G. Courant and forecasts faster progress if unity persists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyoming
Hoster Ott
Laramie
Rawlins
Rock Springs
Evanston
Uinta County
Casper
Converse
Wheatland World
Richards
C. G. Courant
Idle Miners Number and Layoffs Hit Colorado Districts
Colorado mining regions show 6000 to 8000 idle miners with daily layoffs. Leadville Cripple Creek George Town Aspen and Black Hawk report high unemployment while smelters limit ore intake and mine output drops by about one third to one half despite wages staying high.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado
James T. Smith
Denver Republican
Leadville
Cripple Creek
Georgetown
Aspen
Black Hawk
Irrigation Bill Progress Reported From Washington
Senator Warren returned from Boston and will travel west again before Congress reconvenes. A western sub committee finished preparing the irrigation bill for printing and set a January 7 meeting of the full committee to decide its intro date and details. Attending the irrigation dinner were Warren Heitfeld Sutherland Glenn Mondell Newlands and other irrigation committee members plus Agriculture Department and Geological Survey officials.
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Salt Lake Herald
Washington
Warren
Boston
Congress
Whch
Heitfeld
Sutherland
Glenn
Mondell
Newlands
Secretary of Agriculture
Agricultural Department
Geological Survey
Canard on Berry trip debunked and Abel Sheep call meeting
A Salt Lake Herald report claiming Chief Engineer Berry toured immigration canons for a Wyoming Salt Lake cut off was false. Berry was on a private car heading east, overnighting in Evanston, with no significance beyond routine line inspections. A special Abel Sheep Company meeting in Cheyenne on December 28, 1901 will vote to move the principal office from Cheyenne to Rawlins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake
Abel Sheep Company
Cheyenne
Wyo
Rawlins
Carbon County
Wyoming
L. F. Abel
Able Sheep Company
Grafters Target Smokers With Cheap Bad Cigar Graft
Two Spaniards running a cigar scam have victimized many in Utah and are moving east toward Cheyenne. They showcase seemingly fine cigars with genuine stamps before switching to rotten middle cigars, claiming a financial squeeze. They sell privately at very low per thousand prices and use broken English to mislead buyers.
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Utah
Cheyenne
United States Revenue
New York
Cuba
Gotham
Pigeon Mystery and Local Notices From Colorado 1901
Word from Greeley Colorado reports Herbert Russell a prom inent farmer east of town deterring pigeons with a morning bagging near fifty birds. One bluish banded dove marked 18 T S 1901 prompts questions of origin. Included are a moral poem on Opportunity and a creditors notice for William Phillips estate and a Cheyenne bank annual meeting notice for January 14 1902.
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Greeley
Colo
Herbert Russell
Lone Tree
T. S
Russell
Giant New Oregon Short Line Shop Plant Approved
The Salt Lake Tribune reports Vice President Bancroft approved Grace & Hyde of Chicago to supply structural iron work for the Oregon Short Line mammoth $700000 shop plant. Work begins on the round house addition and foundations with other trades already let.
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Oregon
Bancroft
Grace & Hyde
Chicago
Salt Lake Tribune
Round House
Westinghouse Company
Pocatello
the Tribune
Rutledge and Hellman Ditch Co Stockholders Meeting Notice
Notice is given of the annual stockholders meeting for Rutledge and Hellman Ditch Company to be held at John W. Lacey's office in Cheyenne Wyoming on Tuesday January 14 1902 for the election of trustees for the ensuing year and other business as may come before the meeting. John W. Lacey Subscribe for the Leader
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First National Bank of
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Board of Directors
Fremont
State of
Fremont County
Board of Trustees
George W. Woolf
Lost Cabin
Gehorgh W. Woolf
Wyo
Kaycee
Johnson County
Buffalo
Capitol Building Commission
S. L
George B. Abbott
United States Land Office
Rutledge & Hellman Ditch Company
John W. Lacey
John W. Lacry
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Che-Cheyenne
SUN
Leade
E. A. Slack
Cheyene, Wyo
Daily Reader
Iowa
Shaw
Union
California
Vermont
Cornell College
Denison
Texas
J. Francis
The
Leader
J. A. Riner
United States Court
Germany
Venezuela
South Africa
England
Rooevelt
Chile
Uncle Sam
William Daley
Roosevelt
Mr. Daley
White House
Funston
Hawaii
Japan Mail
China
Louisville Courier-Journal
Senate
Wellington
Russell Sage
Boston Transcript
Rockland County
Wilson
Pigeon
Opportunity
B. Kismr
William Phillips
Albert Chapman
Herman Be, Wellnitz
Georgh
Abbott
Cashier
Alti Pendergraft
Hellbeck and Gunther
John Gunther
Gustav Hellbeck
Treasury Department
Office of Comptroller of the Currency
Washington, D. C
National Bank of Cheyenne
William B. Ridgely
WM. B. Ridgely
W. B. Chaplin
A. Slack
Chas. A. Peterson
Fort Russell
Thos. Longhurst
Stockgrowers’ National Bank
United States Depository
Cheyenne, Wyoming
Henry G. Hay
I. C. Whipple
D. Freeborn
WM. L. Whipple
National Bank
Capital Stock Surplus
T. B. Hicks
E. Abbott
J. H. Loomis
Asst
East 16Th and
van Lennen Streets
P. S. Cook
IDEAL
Able Paper
the Stath News
the Telegraph
Orice
Ferguson Street
Manhattan
A. L. Fowler
West Seventeenth Street
A.underwood
Geo. W. Sneider
Undertaker Alex Turnbull
Sixteenth Street
I. Greentree
West Sixteenth St
Chapman
Franger Cycle Compy
Union Pacific
Chicago & Northwestern Lines
Missouri River
Northe-Western
J. F. Barron
Galveston
Houston
San Antonio
Rockport
el Paso
Louisiana
New Orleans
Lake Charles
Mexico
City of Mexico
Monterey
Guadalajara
Florida
Jacksonville
St. Augustine
Havana
New Providence
Nassau
Ours
South
la Carte
T. DH. Fisher
Dengar
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