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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1916
Page
1
Woolgrowers and their wives closed a two day convention with a free show and dance in Kemmerer. Mayor Gordon hosted a reception and the event highlighted business sessions and social pleasures. Forester leaders spoke on the 640 acre homestead law affecting stock ranges and sheepmen’s trail usage.
A vast Bear River irrigation project near Sage drains dry land into a blooming garden area. A gigantic pump has been completed to irrigate about 2200 acres, with portions across the Wyoming line. Ranchers celebrate with several days of festivities at the plant site.
Fire in the Conroy mine near Rock Springs was curbed by sealing the north wing. State Mine Inspector Blacker assisted. E F Annis says 16 men already at work with 50 to follow, Garber Nichols hired to run operations, mining camp to be established, utilities and a school planned, coal pledged to market.
Honorable Toomas mn Wilson of Alta in Uistaddacols county district was reelected to the house in November and will enter his fourth term in Wyoming. He is a well educated, energetic law man and popular in his home district though the district supported president Wilson. While serving on the petit jury in Cheyenne he learned fellow jurymen and lawmakers statewide see him as the logical speaker for the house and he has attracted pledges of support.
The Methodist church hosts Thanksgiving morning services with Rev. Clower delivering an appropriate talk. A basement sale held Saturday raised over $60 for the church treasury, aiding painting of the Diamondville church after its renewal.
A 20 000 capital county venture forms in Kemmerer to promote an annual county fair and race track. The new association plans to use land between Kemmerer and Frontier and build fair buildings and a top race track. Promoters include Pete Olson B M Fox Smith Brothers and P J Quealy with about forty Lincoln County stockholders.
Workmen began last Friday on a two story hospital on the back end of Dr J R Marquis’s home lot. The project, led by Marquis himself and supervised by his brother in law J K Wellman, will have about ten modern rooms with steam heat and electric lighting. Marquis plans a corps of nurses once finished.
The Mutual Improvement Society of the Mormon church will present a Sunday evening program at the church. John McClement and Mrs May Sutton direct monthly events. Activities include songs by Burton Hansen Co reading by Mrs Harold Harrison a duet by Anna Evans and Josephine related entries by George Tanner and Marie Sutton with other performances by Munslo and Myrtlement.
Jackson Hole visitors Roy McBride and Abe Ward, noted Jackson Hole culinarians, stopped in Kemmerer last week returning from eastern markets. They shipped 500 head of steers to Omaha, netting $5102 per head. They reported a poor run due to congested tracks, which lowered potential profits.
A mangled news fragment describes a judge claiming a slip on a slippery sidewalk near Lincoln Hotel involved two young high school teachers. The piece asserts the incident led to a dispute between avolidupale and goodwill, ending with the judge asserting control and correcting the situation with the sidewalk incident.
Kemmerer, a 6000 resident town, emerges as the likely hub of a major oil surge. Plains Oil Company of Kansas City plans a $500,000 exploration push in the LaBarge fields 36 miles north, with 40,000 acres leased and 20 wells to be drilled within a year. Local rep W S Hillyer predicts flowing wells, while geologist W L Norton supports a strong prospect. The project signals Kemmerer’s transformation into a regional oil market, pending ground work and railroad access.
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