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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1920
Page
6
New York report shows irregular conditions unchanged at Tuesday’s open. Railways slip 1–2 points, some westerns flat. Industrials including steels motors and leathers drifted downward while oils and investment rails rally 1–3 points. Call money opens at 7 percent. London exchange sees further price trades.
Exchange rates show firm demand for prime I Ex change with a 3.494% base and 3.50 Francs demand. Cables quote 6.71 for francs, 31.15 for guilders, 1.466 for marks. Time loans firm, Montreal discount at 9 percent. overall New York exchange on Montreal steady.
Copper eased but remained close to previous levels in New York trading on September 28. Tin held steady at $44.00 spot and $44.75 for futures with London prices cited at £93 12s 6d for copper and £270 17s 6d for tin. Lead and zinc showed little change and iron remained unchanged.
Wheat prices are listed as No 1 at 2.27 and No 3 hard at 3.23 with 2.28 figures. Corn prices show No 3 white at 97 cents No 3 yellow at 99 cents No 2 mixed at 97 cents and 2 white and No 5 white at 54 cents.
A slow market reported in Denver fruit trades with ample supplies. Cantaloupes fell 50 cents to 1.50 to 2.00 per standard size. Concord grapes 60 cents per basket. Malaga grapes 2.75 to 3.00 per crate. Tokays 3.00 to 3.25 per crate. Other fruit varieties steady with Monday. home ware meat was steady.
Quotations in the butter market were steady with Monday's advance as demand remained good for available supplies. First grade creamery sold at 60 cents while shippers received 4 cents elations and 60 cents direct for their butterfat.
Early trading featured top cows and heifers at 8.25 while medium butcher cows sold 6.76 to 7.00. Prime bags from the American Beet Sugar feed brought 15.15 to small killers, with other lots going to large buyers. pigs remain in strong demand and stock pigs quoted higher.
Prices for lambs and ewes show strong demand with fat lambs quoted around 12 to 15 dollars, feeders near 4.60, and ewes at 6 to 6.50. In Chicago receipts total 12 cattle and 26 thousand sheep with steady to firm fat lambs, top cattle around 17.76, and western yearlings rising. Omaha reports 16 thousand cattle and 39 thousand sheep with fat lambs up to 13.50 and feeders firm in spots.
U S Department of Agriculture reports a 412 million bushel potato harvest for September, aiming for four bushels per person. Growers organize through the North American Fruit Exchange and state exchanges in Minnesota Nebraska Montana Wyoming and Colorado to distribute the crop fairly and curb speculators profits.
Mayor Ed P. Taylor asks for help solving a budget problem as a young woman seeks a stenographer post at $100 per month, while the city budget allows only $100 per year for the position.
Weather report for Cheyenne Wyoming covering 24 hours ending 6 AM shows clear to partly cloudy conditions with mean temperature 48 degrees. Highest 61 at 3:30 PM, lowest 36 at 6:30 AM. Total precipitation since January 1 is 14.09 inches, normal 12.12 inches, none in last 24 hours. Wind NW to NE with average velocity 16.6 mph.
In Salina Kansas on September 26 the circus plans for the elephant Snyder to receive a proper burial were deemed prohibitively expensive by local grave diggers. An excavating contractor estimated the grave would be as large as a typical house basement and deeper, forcing the circus to dispose of the animal commercially.
The Blackstone Salt Creek Oil company received from Secretary Payne a lease on the west half of the northwest Quarter of Section 18 in the Salt Creek field. Ten of the eighty acres are held by Blackstone with local operators, giving the firm control over seventy five acres and a single well that has flowed 800 barrels daily. Rigs are set for two more wells to start within two weeks, and last week a lease was issued for the NE quarter of section 14 on which a well has begun, marking Blackstone as a producer on a submanual scale.
Actress Olive Thomas who died in Paris after taking poison isfeatured in a pre abroad film shown at a local theater today. The Presbyterian church midweek service tonight prepares worship for communion next Sunday. The state federation of women's clubs opens in Casper today and runs until October 1 with local delegates present.
A brisk sequence of flights reports pilots racing between Omaha and Cheyenne with early morning departures and late morning arrivals. Pilot Cook reached Omaha at 11:90 a m and Cheyenne by 11:89, aiming for a Tuesday Cheyenne stop. Earlier, Pilot Murray logged four hours from Omaha to Cheyenne in airplane No 173, departing at 6:20 am and arriving at 9:20 am.
Rock River wells continue steady output with well No 4 in state land unit 34 yielding about 200 barrels daily in the first sand. The find suggests a wider field than hoped and indicates substantial future production once deeper sand is reached. Meanwhile well No 1 at Wilson & French in section 24-1978 is under development and expected to finish by year end, potentially expanding the Rock Creek field’s output and size.
The Big Hollow Drilling Syndicate west of Laramie recovered tools lost July 1 from a well at 1000 to 1100 feet. Oil shows in the well and drilling will start at once. The tools were bent, complicating retrieval, but are now brought to the surface.
The bulletin lists road conditions across Wyoming indicate Bowthrow Seemeat to Seante tine and Warrenton are good to travel with new construction toward Crouse. East Lincoln highway is good while the west has a rough detour via Happy Jack. Hanna to Medicine Bow is choppy and Rough in places Rawlings to Wamiut slow through rough spots Evanston remains somewhat rough Rock Springs to Eden is good with several hunt holes Granger to Opal and Bor der are fair.
The Rocky Mountain News announces price increases effective Friday October 1. The Daily News only costs per month and the Daily and Sunday costs per month. The rise is due to sharp increases in newsprint and production costs including postage. The publisher expects readers to cooperate with the higher rate.
A kitten was pushed into the Thames and saved by bystanders. Restoratives were given and artificial respiration used. The kitten recovered and lay in a warm basket before later wandering away.
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