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Newspaper
Encampment Record
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1916
Page
9
The county board approved and signed a forest service application and appropriated six thousand dollars for next year for the road through the forest. Then twelve thousand dollars is expected to be spent on the Encampment Snake River road if the application proceeds, which the Record hopes will happen.
The Weekly Newsletter reports that public road specialists observed countrybound teamsters using two wagons to reach the good road. At the start they left a wagon by the roadside, then hauled with one wagon on the improved highway. Farmers bringing market goods dumped loads at the beginning and returned for a second load, combining them later for the final leg. In oxen regions, multiple yokes were used to reach the good road before finishing with a single team.
Laboratory investigations conclude the Kansas City cattle ailment is stomatitis a mild and curable condition. No changes in the stockyards quarantine news, with experts noting it may be a new malady rather than foot and mouth disease.
Washington orders lifting the quarantine on Kansas City stockyards after a thorough disinfection supervised by federal officers. The yards will be cleared once sanitation is complete. Charles Hayden was weekend guest in the Olough home.
The 640 acre stock raising homestead bill, largely final in Senate form after House action, would allow entry of up to 640 acres of unappropriated public land for stock raising. It sets land class requirements and allows prior entrymen to add contiguous land up to 640 acres with conditions, including improvements and residence rules.
Federal forester proposes raising grazing rates to reflect market value. The plan would phase in higher charges over three years starting 1917, with cattle at 70 cents then 1.00 per head by 1919, and sheep and horses adjusted similarly. Public comment sought via American Live Stock Association and National Wool Growers Association.
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