Girl Hurt In Car Crash Near Rawlins
Miss Frances Phelan suffered severe facial and head cuts when a car carrying her and classmates hit a dirt bank and shattered the windshield. The vehicle driven by Garnet Buchanan had no lights, the group was returning from skating, and others were shaken but not seriously injured. Phelan received stitches at the hospital and has begun to recover and attend school.
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Rawlins
Farnces Phelan
Miss Phelan
Nies
Frances
Garnet Buchanan
Bagh Irrigation Project Transforms 2200 Acres
Sage and Randolph Utah area boast a major Bear River irrigation plant completed south of Sage. The project uses a large pumping station to water about 2200 acres, with lands in Utah and near the Wyoming line. Ranchers celebrate a long event marking the opening of the irrigation system.
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Sage
Randolph
Utah
Bear River
Wyoming Line
Weert Oil Well Drilling Advances Spur Tankage Plans
The Weert Oil and Gas company reports rapid drilling progress on Section 16. The well shows stronger flow than expected, delivering oil twice daily and increasing confidence. Until Merritt secures sufficient tank capacity, oil will be pumped directly from the sump into tank cars.
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Gat
Peenieg
Merritt
Fire in Conroy Mine Curbed. Operations Begin
Conroy mine in Wyoming shows a controlled fire in ten rooms of the north wing after inspection by State Mine Inspector Blacker. B F Annis reports rapid development with about fifteen workers and plans for fifty, Garber Nichols leading operations, and local miners to receive electric service and future schooling facilities.
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Kemmerer
B. F. Annis
Rock Springs Fuel Company
Conroy
Wyoming Coal Company
Blacker
Cumberland
Annis
Garber Nichols
Bast Toke City
Hart dies after accidental rifle discharge near hospital
Nelson Hart died from a through and through rifle wound received when a companion discharged a rifle during a trap shooting excursion behind Rock Springs hospital. Hart had insisted the injury was accidental and blamed no one.
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Rock Springs
Wre
Nelson Hart
Ol Bor
Meedar Afernoon
Hart
Nolen
Dr. Lauser
Lincoln County Woolgrowers End Session
The Lincoln County Woolgrowers association wrapped up a two day meeting in Kemmerer with dense discussions and business sessions. President Joe Kinney led the gathering at the New Kemmerer theatre on Monday morning and spoke to the members about the convention’s progress.
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Kemmerdpr
Lincoln County Woolgrowers’ Association
New Kemmerer Theatre
Joe Kinney
Fire damages Sheridan Mercantile stock at 128 N Main
Fire of unknown origin badly damaged clothing stock at the Sheridan Mercantile Company on 128 North Main Street. W L Breen and Frank E Litman own the business. insurance coverage was limited due to high rates from the neighborhood’s risk. Fire discovered at 12 30 am. two water streams fought the blaze as it spread through an old frame building.
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Sheridan
Sheridan Mercantile Company
N. Main Street
W. L. Breen
Frank E. Litman
Scarcity of labor slows Burlington transit project
Scarcity of labor holds up Burlington construction of a new business track starting near the main Line and curving behind the Midwest hotel toward the refinery. Sites for warehouses line the track, but none will be built until completion. The project signals rapid growth and may reshape the town in five years with extended rail and large warehouses.
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Burlington
Casper
Eta
Midwest
Plains Oil to Invest Half Million in LaBarge Fields
Kemmerer reports big prospects as Plains Oil of Kansas City plans spending about 500000 dollars to develop LaBarge oil fields 35 miles north with local rep W Hillyer and geologist L Norton assessing 40000 acres loaned from landholders. project aims by February 1941.
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Plains Oil Company
Han
SAS City
Kemmereer
Kemmerer
Kannas City
Missouri
LaBarge
LaBarge Creek
Horly
Tall
Hillyer
Plains Oil Ompany
la Barge
Kaoses City
W. L. Norton
Mid
Plains plans LaBarge oil boom with 20 wells in year
Plains company must drill 20 wells in the LaBarge field within 12 months, with the first well started by February 1. Estimated cost for the first well near 340,000 and total spending around half a million dollars. Field spans about 40,000 acres with plans to pipe oil to the railroad down the Green River valley, aiming to make Kemmerer a regional oil center.
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Plains Oi! Company
LaBarge
W. 8
Ohio Ol! Company
Standard Old Company
la Barge
McFadden
Ohio Company
Casper
Meesrs. Hillyer
Norton
Kemmerer
LaBarges
Wyoming
Lunder
Green River Valley
Plains Company of
Kansas City
LaBarce Oil Company
Denver-LaBarce Oil Company
Kemmerer-LaBarge Oil Company
Birch Creek Oil Company
Lula C. Bird
Charles Bird
L. Z. Bess
LaBerge Livestock Company
First Chance Oil Company
Wm. H. Shinsal
Fred Serg
Hopeful Oil Company
McGinnis Land & Live Stock Co
Salmon Brothers & Fenner
John Metcalf
Ol Organ
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Frances Phelan Radply
Bagh
Memnitt
SNP
Gee
Mines
Wile
Cao Part
Wanda
Eli
Eb Dom
Peri Neel
Vente Petendseidy Wien
Merie
Secretacy
Medard
State Board of
Lee Seoek
Lincoln County Woolgrowers
Geo W. Daiber
LA Barge Fields
Hoover
Nyanhiin J
Cheyenne Light, Fuel & Power Co
the Auditorium
Denver
Colfax
Stout Street
Fourteenth and
Stout Streets
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