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Newspaper
Encampment Record
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1915
Page
11
A detailed guide describes a three compartment trap nest used on government farms and Connecticut experiment stations. It explains construction steps, materials, and practical use for selecting high egg producers, including banding hens and maintaining records, with notes on labor requirements and flock management.
The article discusses building woven wire fences for sheep with barbed wire tops. It notes standard heights from thirty to sixteen feet ranges and spacing recommendations for posts every fourteen to sixteen feet. It emphasizes a top barbed wire and practical limits to ensure sheep safety and deter escapes.
The squash vine borer bores the stems and leaf stalks of cucumbers and squashes. Spraying fails. cut out affected vines, rotate plantings, harrow lightly, and plow six inches deep in spring. Cover vines with earth to encourage new roots and protect surviving plants.
Readable fragments discuss dairy costs and herd value with references to cows and dairy farming. The text implies debate over limits on dairy expenses and ownership, but specifics are unclear.
Multiple county fairs in September across Cody Sheridan Evanston and other towns. Notable items include a grand stand at Burns, a fatal heart disease death, a Sho Shoni to Shot Gun coal fields railroad projection, a drowning in Meeteetse lightning strike at a Meeteetse church, and a cheyenne saloon stabbing over a drink refusal. Also reported are state land sales, a Knights of Pythias meeting, a big oil gusher near Thermopolis, and bank health and hospital renovations disclosures.
Mrs Frances Warren Pershing and her three daughters died in a San Francisco incident. In Cheyenne the family mourned with flags at half mast and shops closed. Gen John J Pershing and relatives led the burial at Lakeview Cemetery after services at St Mark's Church. Warren and family attended, with Sen Francis E Warren. Only survivor is Warren Pershing, age five.
Sheridan reports the Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias convened for a two day session with no major legislation. Officers elected include E E LaFriener grand chancellor from New Castle and Fred W Howell supreme representative for four years from Sheridan. Next lodge meeting set for Thermopolis in August.
Sheridan notes the grand lodge from Wyoming held a convention electing officers for the year. Nora L. Hurtt is past grand chief in Sheridan, Agnes Mizera becomes grand chief in Sheridan, with Gertrude Kerby Moorcroft as grand senior and Clara Davis Laramie as grand junior.
Mrs Henry Woestenberg struggled up to six inches from Mrs Andrew Sorenson but could not reach her and watched Sorenson drown along with the latter's daughter. Mrs Woestenberg, though able to swim, became helpless in the river and cried out for help.
A felon released from the Wyoming penitentiary for horse stealing faces further charges as sheriffs from three counties seek to bring him to trial. He is to be tried in the county court for horse stealing.
Incomprehensible fragmentary OCR text from a historical page yields no clear人物 or event. The readable words suggest a misread phrase about a pound or weights but lack coherent names, dates, or places to anchor a factual summary.
Lead price in New York at 4.90 dollars per unit. Bar silver quoted at 46 and 4 cents. Spelter price in St. Louis at 13.48 dollars. Copper casting at 17.12 dollars. Market values reported by Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Cripple Creek Colorado district reports August ore production of 84 800 tons at 14 65 per ton value giving gross bullion of 1 242 264 dollars. Compared with July ore tonnage rose by 1 750 and value by 114 579 dollars. Portland Gold Mining Company with three plants treated at least 41 100 tons valued 2 59 to 21 dollars per ton totaling 295 864 dollars.
Reports indicate the tungsten milling plant twelve miles east of Yucca will soon start. Old Dominion smelter in Globe runs three furnaces at fifty tons daily. A recent strike at Tom Reed Gold Mines Company in Oatman shows extensive ore with thirty five feet of pay. Mohave county yields molybdenite at Leviathan mines in Copper Canon, a noteworthy find.
In the Hop Carton mine district near Magdalena Moore and Wolf ship heavy ore from the Black Cloud mine. Socorro smelters under Californian capitalists push mine development. W W Slate and C F Henley lease thousands of acres in Quay and Roosevelt counties for oil prospecting. 1914 metal output rose in gold silver copper and zinc while lead declined.
T A Harris reports Ed Good of Thermopolis with a 200 barrel well ahead of drilling. Drayton Good Oil Company operates near Thermopolis with depth records reaching 1860 feet and 1200 feet of oil stand. French Bean and Midwest interests join Wyoming sites, while several workers are wounded and hospitalized after drill operations.
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