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Newspaper
Encampment Echo
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1919
Page
1
Sunday afternoon arrival marks a four day journey covering forty four miles through packed snow between Walcott and Encampment. Crew shoveled out cuts, coal and provisions kept the trip steady as mail service resumes with improving weather and plans for a fuller story.
Word from Douglas says W L Carlisle who escaped from the penitentiary on November 15 and was shot through the lungs when captured is improving rapidly and out of danger. Unclear if he will be returned to the pen to serve 25 years or tried in Albany county for the November 18 train hold up.
The State Highway Commission has divided the state into districts with a chief engineer for each. District No 2 reunites Carbon, Sweetwater, Lincoln and Uinta with Rock Springs hosting the district offices. R. V. Newcomb becomes chief engineer for the district and has begun work, with plans to increase state road activity next season. The commission aims for closer local contact and better management.
The article explains the upcoming 1920 census beginning January 2 with Census Day January 1. It covers timing for population and farm enumeration, methods for various schedules, confidentiality, and questions on reading ability birthplaces languages occupations and home ownership. It also instructs farm definitions, identification for enumerators and legal duties to provide information and assist enumerators.
Harry Pantle endured a blizzard trek after 1 am when a sled was sent from the Bingham ranch to fetch him. He sheltered at the Lynn homestead, built a fire, and was found exhausted with two fingers frozen. A relief party then returned him home that night.
In 1919 a letter from Hon. F. W. Mondell to James R. Little of Encampment Wyoming addresses delays in classifying grazing homestead lands. Mondell says he will urge the Geological Survey to expedite designations and will report after confirming the situation, noting a summer survey in the southern state and asking for attention to the referenced locality.
A. J. Chidester says only men with teams will be admitted to break out the timber road in North Park but also men with shovels and implements to clear the snow. A day is wished to mobilize a full army of men and teams to push the work through to the timber.
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