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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1902
Page
4
Kemmerer Publishing Co. provides subscription rates, advertising rates, and payment terms. Rates apply per month per column inch with discounts for time contracts. Notices mention penalties for late payments and interest at 1 percent monthly after the 10th.
The Camera manager visited Cumberland, a new coal town twenty miles south of Kemmerer, now thriving with electric lights and plans for a water system. The Union Pacific Civil Co controls land and commerce, forbidding sales and licensing. mines operated by Kemmerer Coal Co and Diamondville Coal & Cooke Co drive growth under Superintendent Mark Hopkins. The town features a company store, a two story mercantile building, a three department school on a hill, and about ten blocks of neat cottages, with no huts or stacks, giving the look of a well-planned rural town rather than a mining camp that sprouted overnight.
A Camera visit notes Cumberland is expanding with modern mining gear boosting output to 3500 8000 tons daily as irrigation could grow hardy vegetables. Plans include a new depot and tramway access with possible rail extension to Union Pacific. Local officials and businesspeople shaping a stable, orderly town with limited saloon hours.
A Virginia resident reports relief from long standing lumbago after using Chamberlain's Pain Ball. A New York man feared stomach pain at a party until two doses cured him, enabling attendance. The remedy is sold by Hocker & Lander and other dealers.
An ornate railway advertisement promotes the St Paul Railway as a first class line for discerning travelers going east. It highlights electric lighting steam heat ventilation and a guaranteed connection at Union Depot Omaha and Chicago with western and eastern lines. L L Downing Salt Lake City advertises 106 West Second South Street.
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