Eleven Wells Going Down in Riverton Field Wyoming
The Wall Oil company reports delays on No. 5 well yet moving ahead with 140 feet drilled. Two more wells will start in Pilot Dome field on Hoffman and Smith properties. A ferry across Big Wind river is being built to move equipment. Standard development and Midwest Oil bring rigs. by week end eleven rigs active with more news expected from Pilot Dome.
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Riverton
Wic
Wall Ol
Hall of Company
Pilot Dome
Hoffman Place
Smith Place
Midwest 617
Wind River
Standar Development Company
Casper
500 Development
Claude Allen
Midwest Off
Salt Creek
Basin Country
Big Wind River
Trout Planting in Hot Springs County Wyoming
County Clerk Hants reports arrival of 75 000 baby trout from the Story hatchery. Of these, 50 000 go to Mud creek forks, 29 000 to Owl creek forks, and 18 000 to Ditech and Jones creeks on the east side. Sherman Co conducting the operation in Thermopolis.
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Thermopolis
Wyo
Hants
Story
Hot Springs
William Duncan
Mud Creek
Joe Snelder
Owl Creek
F. C. Hank
Ditech
Jones Creeks
Eut
Pioneer Bank of Basin Elects Officers
Basin Wyo May 07 The Pioneer bank has completed requirements to convert into a national bank and expects a charter in days. Once chartered it will be First National with A K Lee president and T S Pexton cashier. Directors include A K Lee, Skovcard, Ed Carothers, B C Hart, and T S Pexton. Plans for a new $15,000 one story building opposite the drug store are approved and soon construction will begin.
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Carmet
Guernsey Dam Seen as Big Power Source
Guernsey Wyoming residents react to news that a $150000 Platte River dam near Guernsey may be built. A 20000 horsepower plant could transform local power supply and spur factories and industries across a wide region reaching St Louis and beyond.
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Guernsey
Wyo
Platte River
Swnrise
Hartville
Platte
Ita
Keokuk
St. Louis
Commemoration of Custer Battle Forty Years Later
Billings May 27. A June 24 ceremony marks the fortieth anniversary of the Little Bighorn fight with a peace era reenactment. About 2000 Indians will attend, a mounted party reenacts Custer’s approach, a memorial address will honor fallen soldiers, and a Crow spokesman will speak as taps sounds.
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Billings
Little Big Horn
Seventh Cavalry
Custer
Tom Tome
Commioress of
Millings
Hardin
Sheridan
Little Hig Hore
Crow Reservation
Thave Crow
Haley
Indian Department
Mather
Effert le Eugene
Commemoration of Battle of the Little Big Horn Event Plans
Trains run from Billings and Sheridan at 7 am on June 25 to the Little Big Horn battlefield. About 150 teepees form an Indian village on the riverbank, with Gen Godfrey and veteran guards arriving at 11 am. A monument ceremony, speeches, salutes, and an Indian fair with games follow, concluding about 5 pm.
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Billings
Sheridan
Little Big Horn
Godfrey
Reno
Custer
the Rosebud
Crow Agency
Col
Henry Hall
Twin children suffer severe burns in accidental explosion
In Prino Polis Wyoming May 27 the twin children of Mr and Mrs Knelfer Arminto were burned severely in their home. The three year olds were upstairs when a possession cap exploded igniting powder and causing facial and arm burns. The mother wrapped them in a shawl and extinguished flames before taking them to Thermopolis for care.
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Prinopolis
Wyo
Thermopolis
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Walt Hay
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