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Newspaper
Encampment Echo
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1920
Page
1
OGAL and personal notices list a Tuesday through Sunday stream of visitors from ranches and nearby towns. Highlights include J W Winner and C D Terwilliger on Monday, Will Speight and family with colds, Roy Gould from Canyon ranch, and Herr Boyd from his home stead attending a dance. Mrs Eugene Schalk visits the Encampment, births announced for J W and Mrs Clements, and health updates including smallpox cases and a vaccine reminder.
February 22 event offers engraved certificates from the French government to soldiers sailors and marines who died in the world war. The American Legion seeks a complete list of lost servicemen in Carbon County with many names still unreported to local papers urging relatives to contact the paper so names can be submitted for engraving.
The Laramie Republican, owned by the Laramie Republican company with W. B. Chaplin as editor, James Mathison as business manager, and Frank W. Spafford running the job department, has been sold to Frank 8. Bur rage and associates. The paper has been a financial success and influential in the state, as Chaplin becomes secretary of state and partners retire from active paper work. Weather in Encampment country remains ideal with snow disappearing.
The Encampment firemen held a city hall event last Saturday night. A crowd enjoyed the dance and box supper, with 34 dance tickets sold and boxes yielding 87.10 dollars, total receipts 121.10 dollars, expenses 19.0 dollars, leaving 101.20 dollars clear for the firemen. Frank Boyd acted as auctioneer and thanked the ladies for the supper. G. B. Morgan and Mrs. G. O. Baker provided music.
W C Condict of Saratoga warns in Denver that drought may worsen range conditions in central and northern Wyoming. Cattle need early grass as spring comes, and larkspur growth poses a poison risk when forage is scarce. Condict runs a Brush Creek ranch and feeds 1,200 to 1,400 head while haying shortages persist.
The eight L. L. Willis buildings north of city hall were wrecked and the material is being reused nearby. One portion will go to the Charter Oak mine while another 18 loads are hauled to the Flohr ranch in the valley for construction on the ranch.
Wilbur B. Hugus, son of Nellie M. Hugus and longtime Saratoga resident, died of influenza in Fort Collins, Colorado, last Monday and was buried Friday at Grand View cemetery. He had owned the Canary ranch, later worked near Pass Creek on the H E Pilon ranch, and resided in town before moving to Colorado. Funeral services were held at 2:20 pm Friday with several Saratoga friends among the pallbearers.
A railroad man reports oil from Rock Creek field is loaded and shipped from Rock River at 20 to 30 carloads daily. Oil flows easily into tank cars, but Fort Steele loading has paused due to pipeline downtime. The light gasoline-rich oil spilled on the rails once and ignited by locomotive coal.
Recounted notes include A Englehart heading for San Francisco with Mrs. Englehart, J J Wirth named Encampment constable, Ed Wood now engineer at Copper Rock, Sheridan Wainwright cutting timbers, Ira Wolford in Indiana facing grip illness, Ed H Parkison traveling to Denver with Mexico return soon, Parkison family link to Gold Field mining, ranchers fed stock due to heavy snow, hay prices at six dollars per ton, record cold in Knecampment and North Platte valley with Parkison store thermometer at 44 below, Lordier at 55 below, Saratoga fans down to 55 below, Womaker’s ranch 34 below.
The Carter Oil Company drilling near Walden in North Park reportedly encountered a small quantity of oil in sands they struck a few days ago. Local residents are quite worked up over the find and its implications for the area.
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