Wyoming State News Highlights Local Developments
Western Newspaper Union reports a busy period with the state fair in Douglas September 26 to 30, a new creamery at Pine Bluffs, and large attendance at Casper’s fair. Gov’t and business items include a half million gallons of oil shipped to Ohio and Pennsylvania, Kansas City Oil Company forming with 1,000,000 capital, and Cheyenne hosting National Livestock Association in January.
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Midwest Refining Company
Sheridan Forestry Office
Wolf
Black Mountain
Federal Farm Loan Board
Greybull-Wyoming Oil Company
Greybull River
Valuation of Cattle Rises Boosts Wyoming Figures
Wyoming's total state valuation climbs by 16,941,347.26 as cattle values surge from 18,191,032 to 26,238,069 with horses up to 8,824,910 and oil field valuations rising from 1,446,470.04 to 2,572,422 amid increased land assessable acres from 10,524,827 to 10,890,521 due to homesteaders.
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Cheyenne
Wyoming
John McGill
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Mining and Oil News Highlights From Western Mines
Prices for silver lead and zinc are listed in New York with silver at 68% and leads around 6.90 to 7.10 per unit. In Boulder Colorado tungsten concentrates and crude ores are shown with various percent values and prices. The Oatman district reports the first lease starting on the Warner group with pay gravel found. Two gold veins, each three feet, were found in the New State mine tunnel at Hassayampa, with ore averaging $80 per ton. The Aztec shaft at Tom Reed at Oatman shows rich ore with twenty tons on the dump and ore at $32 per ton. Ohio Mines Company resumes work at Little Jessie in Chapparal after dewatering to 350 feet. Rich gold silver and copper sends high values from the True Blue tunnel at Victor Copper in the Walpai mountains, now at 160 feet with copper ore in fifteen feet of rock.
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Tom Reed
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Little Jessie
Chapparal
Prescott
Victor Copper Company
True Blue
Walapai Mountains
Zeppelins raid London and Baltic front reports
London official accounts describe two Zeppelins crash landings in Essex while a Berlin claim cites 24 Entente planes shot down. British air and ground operations across France, Galicia, the Dniester, and the Balkans report mixed gains and heavy fighting with prisoners taken.
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Union News Service
London
British Isles
Essex County
England
Berlinstates
Wyoming battles over Green River water rights
State engineer James B True and L Hobson with Prof Elwood Mead inspect Green River Valley to protest the federal reclamation service plan to divert Rocky Mountain waters to California and possibly Mexico. Wyoming argues priority rights in headwaters affect Colorado Utah and Wyoming, impacting the Colorado River system.
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Green River
Wyoming
Callifornia
Mexico
Reclamation Department
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John B. Kendrick
Reclamation Service
True
Green River Valley
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Utah
California
Colorado
Mining and milling activity across Colorado districts
The Lord Byron tungsten mill in Boulder district will run three shifts. Capital mine at Georgetown yielded 1190 oz gold per ton. Western Zinc Oxide Co in Leadville finishes four furnaces. San Antonio property development resumes between San Juan and Ouray. Strong mine sinking paused at Victor. Bowden ships low grade carbonate from La Plata with plans for a large drainage project. Mt Champion mines near Leadville are being evaluated for sale at about 1,000,000. Columbine mine at Robinson reports a rich ore strike with three-foot vein yielding $80 gold, 786 oz silver and 10% lead per ton, average $600. Granite mine at Cripple Creek and Colorado Springs shows new ore at 1,400 and 1,500-foot levels inBobtail vein crossing Granite and Portland territories. La Plata flotation plant to test high grade gold-silver ores. Valley View paid 2 percent monthly years ago before litigation with May Day over $1,000,000 ground.
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Leadville
Western Zinc Oxide Company
San Juan
Ouray Counties
San Antonio
Victor
W. E. Bowden
la Plata
Mt. Champion
Robinson
Columbine
Cripple Creek
Colorado Springs
Granite
Portland Gold Mining Company
Valley View Company
May Day Company
Arm Amputated After Threshing Machine Accident
Ed Walck, 60 plus, suffered a severe threshing accident at the Jones and Williams ranch in Saratoga. His right hand and arm were drawn into the machine as he attempted to save himself from a fall. His son stopped the machine and they rushed him to Rawling, where surgeons amputated the mangled arm near the elbow. Recovery prognosis is poor due to age.
Brakeman Crushed by Freight Car Wreck
A brakeman was killed when his head was crushed between the draw heads of two freight cars at Wend over, 120 miles north of this city. The deceased was identified as Cheyenne-E EB Dougherty of Cas per.
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Wander Fifty Hours in Desert Near Peckenpaugh
Mrs. 8. R. Cordun led five children into barren hills near the Cordua ranch pursuing comfort during domestic troubles. After fifty hours of wandering the family was found in a deserted cabin far from home. They were brought to town where Mr and Mrs Cordun reconciled and left on an eastern trip.
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New Mexico welcomes Octo Mining and Rio Grande Oil and Mineral firms
The Octo Mining Company of Arbona and the Rio Grande Oil and Mineral Company filed incorporation papers with offices in Santa Fe as New Mexico accepts new business. The Oaks Company resumed operations at Clifton mine while Mogollon reports good ore grades. Louis Grama of Gold Eagle at Mogollon plans to restart, with 400 feet of tunnels and 80 feet of shafting, much in ore, and shipments to customs indicating value of 14 to 10 per ton. Socorro Mining & Milling shipped about 70,000 ounces bullion in August and Mogollon Mines shipped over 60,000 ounces, totaling more than 3% tons of gold and silver plus several tons of high grade concentrate.
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Arbsona
New Mexico
Rio Grande
Socorro Mining & Milling Company
Mogollon Mines Company
Baby Drowns In Jar of Water At Home
Mrs. John Frankie returning to her homestead found her infant son dead with his head downward in a crock holding four gallons of water. The child had tumbled into the jam while playing, a tragic household accident reported locally.
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van Tassell
John Frankie
Peasall
Wealth in Smelter Gases Inspires Arizona Tour
Two hundred members of the American Institute of Mining Engineers arrived in Phoenix and traveled from Globe via Roosevelt to the Grand Canyon. They toured mines and plants of Old Dominion Copper Company and heard F G Cotrell of the U S Bureau of Mines claim future savings for U S mining firms by conserving smelter gases and that these gases can be rendered harmless to vegetation.
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American Institute of Mining Engineers
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Woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's compound for recovery
Des Moines Iowa woman says four years ago doctors warned surgery was her only chance of life. She details illness, husband opposition, and how Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound restored health saving her from operation. She urges others to seek confidential advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn Mass.
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Iowa
Lydia E. Pinkham
Blanche Jefferson
Lyon St
Jaws
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn, Mass
Disgraceful Behavior at Church Service
A little girl who had been warned not to speak in church spoke after the service expressing horror at the minister's constant talking. She told her mother in a mortified voice that it was awful for the minister to show off.
The Expense of Peace and the Price of War
A witty exchange contrasts peace at any price with the grim question of what price remains if that peace is never affordable. The pessimist warns that waking to a lack of funds undermines any ideal of peace.
Lure of the Rural and City Life Quips
A fragmented humorous snippet contrasts rural living with city life. It mentions servant hiring for country work, living in the city during picnic season, and a remark about riding a hobby with a timely dismount. It references a laundress and a cautioned approach to hobbies.
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