, 1898-12-12

Rentals-New Equipment For
Kemmerer Mines.
Three prominent citizens OF Kansas
have gone to Grand Encampment for
the purpose of investigating the min
eral resources OF mat section with the
idea Of making some investments. They
are Hon. Charles E. Hald of Russell,
Kansas, Hon. w. q. Jellison and ]. D.
Reilly of Wilson, Kansas. Mr.. Hall is
the postmaster of his town and a prom
inent republican politician of the Sixth
congressional district Of Kansas. Mr..
Jellison is a banker of Wilson, Kansas.
Mr.. REILLY is an old-time frontiersman.
He went through this section of the
country in 1868 with an emigrant train,
and this is his first visit since then. He
notes great changes in the general APP
pearance of the country. Accompanied
by Willis George Emerson of the Grand
Encampment Town company, these
gentlemen left this morning via the
Rankin stage line for the mines. They
will be absent several days.-Rawlins
Republican.
Elwood Mead, state engineer of
Wyoming, is preparing a bill which he
hopes will pass the next congress,
which provides that for every acre of
land taken up under a canal, sixteen
acres of arid land adjoining thereto will
leased at a nominal rental. say one CEN
an acre per amman. He estimates that
il this can be accomplished even AT this
rental, it will produce a revenue of
about $4,000 90 a year. This in turn
ing storage reservoirs and further re-
claiming our vast arid region. The
proposed bill is one of the most i'm
portant steps that has yet been taken
for the reclamation OF the arid land
Of America, and II IL can be carried out
1t will be a practical solution OF this
important question.-Platte Valley
Tyre.
Two new boilers have been received
at the power house Of the coal COM
pany and are now in place to furnish
the added pressure necessary for handl-
being mined. Heavy orders are book
ed ahead and the mine Is being run to
its fullest capacity. The new pump for
the water system has arrived and will
be put in place as soon as the weather
m~oderates. The capacity of the pump
is sufficient to fill the requirements and
the water supply will be far beyond
the demand for some time TO come
Kemmerer Gamers.
There EXISTS around Newcastle an oil
field. which, with development, will
yet be OF the greatest benefit to the
invariably passed on down below the
lubricating strata in search of the IL
Illuminating Oil. While 1t may not be
possible to obtain a flowing we'll or
gusher, yet we do think, If proper at
tention be turned to sinking only to the
,ubricating vein, and II practicable
shoot it" that paying wells could be
obtained all along the vicinity Of the
reef in this county.--Newcastle Demo-
crat.
The case of Robert Frost's sons vs..
E. S. Crocker and Or. Joyce Is being
tried at Ogden this week. The action
is to set aside the sale Of a ranch by
Crocker. and in wolves several thous-
and dollars. Many witnesses from.
Evanston have been subpoened and are
present. Among those we have learn
cd Of are John Beckwith, A. v. Quinn,
DR.. f. H. Harrison, Thoe. Blyth, Of
Evanston; Byron Sessions and ]. W.
Dykins. Randolph, and A. III. Elam,
Kemmerer. The prosecuting attorneys
the case are Hills G. Ausherman, and
Allison.-Ufnta Herald.
N. g. Bristol will start or Laramie
next Monday morning, where he goes
to attend a meeting of the trustees of
the state university, which will be held
the 18th inst. After the meeting Mr..
Bristol will go to Denver on a visit,
where Mrs. Bristol will Join him. Upon
their return from Denver Mrs. Bristol
will visit the Eastern Star ladges along
the Union Pacific is her ofictal capac-
ity as Grand Matron. Mr.. and Mrs.
will also attend the inaugural
exercises at Cheyenne before they re-
turn TO Casper.-Casper Tribune. |
The Glenrock schools are having
again. 1t seems that the school
board hired a young lady to come up
from Nebraska to take the place of
Prof. Cudebec, but the professor, hay
ing a contract and having done nothing
10 deserve dismissal, refused to give UP
the place. The county superintendent
was called in and sustained the stand
taken by Mr.. Cudebec. and the young
ady from Nebraska, having been hired,
The school board has two principals on