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Newspaper
Encampment Record
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1916
Page
9
A Wyoming agricultural feature highlights sugar beet growth as a strong local industry. Reports from Sheridan and surrounding areas show high yields, notable profits, and reduced crop risk, with sugar factories planned or built to process the crop.
The 1915 Wyoming crop statistics show 625000 bushels of corn, 3200000 bushels of wheat, and 9350000 bushels of oats, with barley rye timothy alfalfa and other hay crops also produced. Encampment valley pro-
The fragment notes a statement about Encampment Valley and the southern Carbon county area being destined for some unspecified outcome. It lacks clear entities, dates, or actions to define a concrete news item.
The article notes pigs of about ten months old averaging 200 pounds sold in Omaha for $6.40 per hundred, illustrating how beets benefit hog finishing. C E Waegle of Clear Creek Valley markets a carload of hogs, reinforcing the sugar beet advantage for feed and finishing hog production.
The passage narrates a biblical style warning of famine with two camps: those in darkness lamenting their sightless state and others plotting to seize grain from the vulnerable. It portrays social tension, hoarding, and looming scarcity as the land faces hardship.
Jack Green, reported missing last week during a severe storm, was found Thursday near the Cave Bird ranch about a mile from the Big Creek road. He had left a mail sled Monday and walked three miles to the ranch in subzero weather with gale winds. Funeral services were held Friday at the reading room, Rev. Wm. H. Haupt officiating, with burial in Encampment Cemetery.
A wagon load of dressed hogs brought by the Anderson boys from the Parkison ranch on Beaver Creek was sold partly at Encampment and partly in Saratoga. The hogs were fattened on alfalfa and stacked several hogs high on the wagon.
Heavy snows in the Encampment country promise ample water for ranchers this year. Snow lies several feet deep in the mountains with a ranger station reporting 78 inches last week and continual snowfall since.
The forest party, which left Encampment early last week for Hog Park country to estimate timber, returned Sunday unable to pass due to deep snows. They reached Soldier Creek after four hours for the final mile and a half, and all the men were glad to be back at headquarters in Encampment.
John C. Peryan requests a change of address from Monument Colorado to Sedalia Colorado. He is connected with the forest service as noted in the card.
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