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Newspaper
Encampment Record
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1916
Page
11
The piece argues for thoughtful New Year's resolutions. It contends no one should be sentimentless about resolutions and that many are broken, yet a set of well chosen goals can improve virtue even if some fail. It advises choosing a few high impact resolutions rather than many.
A witty exchange notes that New Year gifts tend to be poor investments as they invariably end up with receivers, highlighting the humor of gift giving.
Poem nostalgic for old fashioned New Year celebrations with sleighs, handshakes, dancing, and gatherings. contrasts past vigor with present touches like fingertip greetings. Ends with a plain spoken remark on New Year’s resolutions and self discipline.
A reflective note wishes for a future year to be happy as a milestone in life fades from memory. The message laments a lost year and urges onward without tears, hoping for lasting happiness in the coming days.
A light verse greets the New Year with cheer as dawn breaks and households rise. Food memories linger from holiday feasts and hopeful resolutions begin to take shape in quiet, hopeful tones.
Western front reporting a French drive near Verdun with 9 000 German losses and about eighty guns. German forces push in Romania as Buzeu river sector may have been crossed. British advances on the Tigris near Kut el Amara and Portuguese mutiny suppression are noted.
One man is dead and his wife and three children are missing after a blaze at the Inter Ocean hotel in Cheyenne Wyoming early Monday. The nine month old baby of the Whites is fatally burned and only about half of the thirty guests escaped. Roy A White of Bayles California is identified among the dead. Elevator pilot BE Hendrickson of Denver aided rescuers and carried out Mrs Taylor and her baby before reentering the building.
Chicago on Saturday saw a sharp wheat price advance with a rise of 1 04 cents per bushel, reversing Friday’s drop of 13 1 80. Trading was rapid and excitement high, unmatched since the start of the European war.
In a note from Vienna to the U S ambassador, Germany and its allies urge immediate negotiations to ensure lasting peace. They state their aims are to defend justice and national liberty while acknowledging war will continue if necessary, and ask the United States to relay the proposal to France Great Britain Russia Belgium Japan Serbia and Romania.
Washington observes a lack of concrete peace terms in the German note and chancellor speech. Berlin reports suggest general aims restoring prewar status with independent Poland and Lithuania, full return of occupied Belgian and French lands, and settlement of the Balkan issue at a peace conference. The four allied powers urge immediate negotiations. Vienna Constantinople and Sofia sent identical notes and informed the Holy See and neutrals. The German offer dominated the Wilsons dinner discussion.
West mining and oil news notes strong ore values with copper gold finds at Jerome and Venture Hill. 1,200 men on Ajo mine payroll. United States Smelting may post earnings above 10 million in 1916. New ventures form Gadsden Copper Company. Shannon Copper earns over 3 per share annually on 300,000 shares.
Labor tensions at the Evening Star mine in Leadville were resolved temporarily. The Rifle-De Beque Oil and Gas Company halted exploration in De Beque on Cielda. F. B. Van Wert bought the Ben Male Coal mine lease on Trout Creek from Charles Pitchford. Cripple Creek sees a $30,000 to $40,000 cash treasury via a Minnesota syndicate. Isabella Mines of Colorado Springs to pay a one cent dividend Dec 30 to Dec 20 holders. Royal Flush mine in Hahn's Peak shows ore at 400 460 and 476 feet with first class ore at $100 per ton, second class $50, mill ore $18.
New Mexico dispatch notes early work on the Grand Central Claim in the Mogollon camp. A Winnela polarizes ore 900 feet from the lower tunnel portal at Gold Dust Group Mogollon. Oaks company pays 1 percent initial dividend on preferred stock. Mogollon Mines outputs 12 bars in late November totaling 20 for the month with 4 000 tons processed over 80 days. Jim Crow Imperial Quarts Mine group in Steeplerock district sells for 200 000 to LA and NY capitalists. Socorro Mining & Mill Co ships 13 bars plus bullion from about 6 000 tons treated in mid November.
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