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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1917
Page
1
Citizens urged to contribute to a nationwide Liberty Loan drive with two days left to reach a massive $2 billion goal. Officials framed the appeal as a critical investment in national defense and local duty.
Last Monday Kemmerer and towns nationwide heard bells signaling the Liberty Loan campaign. Mayor Gordon received a McAdoo message urging rapid subscriptions, with banks instructed to buy and push bonds. The telegrams called for daily telegraphic progress and appeals to bolster the district’s showing before the June 15 deadline.
Mrs. P J Quealy attended a national Red Cross meeting in Denver where officials discussed a $100,000,000 fundraising drive. She was the sole Lincoln and Uinta counties representative, reporting a county campaign total of $21,000. Quealy heads to Cokeville to organize county efforts. Regular Red Cross meeting night is Tuesday. Daniel ranchman He Kelley arrived in Kemmerer with his wife and children.
Lincoln County faces a $25 000 county share to meet a $45 000 state match for highways. A Green River Valley Good Roads committee and Kemmerer Chamber of Commerce planned subscription drives, with Big Piney Kemmerer and Cokeville Afton areas pledging portions. Local towns aim to raise the rest, enabling $20 000 state and $20 000 county for the year’s road works. The Red Cross must stand behind the man behind the gun.
Three heavy rigs are being erected in the LaBarge field by Plains and Pyramid companies after weeks of slowed progress due to weather. Local laborers and arriving derrick men from eastern headquarters will set up 84 foot structures weighing about 5000 pounds per drop. A new standard rig will also be moved two miles from the others, with oil and water bubbling near older wells and strong gasoline odors detected in the area.
J G Miller, owner of nearby producing wells and the oldest driller, left Salt Lake for immediate operations for Mountain States Oil Company. A Standard rig has reached the operation vicinity and will be moved to ground for drilling near the east side of the company's lands. The planned depth is about 1000 feet to reach high priced Wyoming brown oils, with a geologist set to locate the well.
Sam McKinnon of a Salt Lake City firm, with George Symes and James Woode, toured the Fossil oil fields. A Hubbel guided the visitors through the site where Symes owns property, and the group examined the area during the briefing.
W. T. Wood of Twin Falls Idaho forms the Idaho Wyoming Oil Company and moves a rig to the Fossil oil fields to develop holdings. He and his firm have taken over interests of J. J. Hershman and Costello of Kemmerer and will push drilling as the rig arrives.
Over recent weeks local promoters formed a company to drill for oil. The Citizen Oil and Gas Company filed papers, capitalized at 100000 dollars, with about 20 local members. Holdings lie six miles above Sublet in the La Barge area, government geology notes praise the region, and early development plans are under way.
J. M. Mott has opened offices in the former Opal Cafe building, now Elk Basin Brokerage Company headquarted in Salt Lake City. He touts Elk Basin stocks as holdings in the famous Elk Basin field and says stock for sale will be announced later. Abner Davis of the Pyramid Syndicate, Chicago, is back on duty, returning from Kemmerer earlier this week. Harold Munn of Halfway travels to Kemmerer today.
The Big Drive to raise 100 million dollars for the Red Cross begins on the eighteenth and runs a week. Local committees visit camps and towns to rally donations to aid soldiers and civilians, funding hospital equipment, rest facilities, and personal comfort items for troops and war relief in France.
Delegates meeting in Rawlins Monday created a Highway Association aimed at bringing Denver visitors through Lander to Jackson Hole and into Lincoln County. Spencer, secretary of the Lander Chamber of Commerce, was elected president. Lander residents recently raised 4000 dollars to improve the road between Lander and Jackson Hole. A Ferris Hotel banquet sparked strong enthusiasm as delegates discussed the Jacksons Hole region. Mrs. S G Murdock of Tig Piney is in Kemmerer.
Robert Newbold about age 50 is killed in a mine collapse at Glencoe yesterday around 2 PM. He was buried by a ceiling fall while his son John escaped with minor scratches. The body was taken to Kemmerer for funeral arrangements with relatives expected from Cheyenne. Newbold leaves several children. his wife died months ago in Cumberland. John Beckwith and his son Robert visited Kemmerer before heading to Marbleton to open a Consolidated Wagon and Machine Co office.
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