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Newspaper
Encampment Record
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1916
Page
4
Advertising rates listed for display and local reader placements with per inch and per line charges. Obituaries and paid notices billed at regular local rates. cash with copy. All display copy due Wednesday forenoon and local reader copy by Wednesday afternoon. ads run and billed until canceled.
A 1916 Wyoming dispute centers on a Laramie Republican item about a large steer shipped to Denver. The Saratoga Sun and Encampment Record publish rebuttals, defend the animal’s local origins, and accuse rivals of misreading intent while noting oil development whispers and a confidential drilling effort in the Encampment valley.
The Record refused to withhold oil news despite a letter from D S Crawford urging secrecy. The editor stated the paper will publish all information on the oil situation or regional resources, detesting personalities but ready to print any on file.
The Ferris bill proposing 640 acre stock raising homesteads on arid and semi arid mountain land cleared the House and is expected to pass the Senate. Western representatives back the measure though some sheepmen fear it could shrink grazing ranges and threaten their livelihoods. The article notes sheepmen seek a stable basis of operation and see grazing homesteads as potentially beneficial.
L G Davis of Saratoga takes first prize in the senior yearling Hereford class at the Denver stock show with his 28 month old bull Wyoming. The bull was bought by W N W Blaney of Denver for this ranch and is said to set a new price record for a bull at any eastern show.
The Record asserts it will continue as a permanent paper if local businesses lodges and organizations keep using its job printing services rather than sending work out of town. Ranchers are also urged to support to help keep the Record job department busy.
J G Dettinger and wife spent Sunday in Rawlins from Encampment. W M Englehart of Encampment transacted business early this week. J P Wilcox from a ranch near Encampment was in town en route to Denver for the stock show. A Polley, representing a Dr Paul calendar house, solicited orders in development Saturday.
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