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The Meeker herald., 1905-12-09
Ordinance No. SO.

AN ORDINANCE to Prevent Expectoration
and splitting on the Public Sidewalks nnd
Crossings of the Town of Meeker.
Be 1t Ordained by the Board Of Trustees of
the Town Of Meeker:
section l. Expectoration or splitting upon
sidewoiks md crossings or in public build
inns OF the Town of Meeker is hereby de-
cInred to he misdemeanor:
Sectiona, ANY person violating this Ordi.
nance. md convicted thereof, shall be fined
in n sum not less than five nor more than
twenty-five dollars and costs Of suit.
passed and adopted by the Board Of Trus-
tees Of the Town Of Mecker this 4th day of
December, a. u. 1905. +. y. sHERIDAN,
Presiding ofiicer OF said Board q trustees.
cember. A. ID. 1900. IF. n. sHEhinAN,
fTowN SEALl Mayor of said Town
.Attast: J. A. BLAIR, Town recorder.
The Meeker herald., 1905-12-09

R-tnte Of Belle Ryan. dccehs"d.
The undersigned, hnvinG been appointed
Administ rator of the estate Of Belle Ryan,
late Of the County of Rio BInnco In the Stnt"
of Colorado, decensed. hereby gives notirr
TINT he Will appear before the County Court
Of snid County. mt the Court House In Meeker
in snid County, Mt the December Term. Ho's
on the Inst MoDdny In January next. mt
which time NIL persons hayfnX claims
ngninst said estate nrc notified and
qicstcd 10 attend for the purpose of havtr@
the same adjusted. All persons Indebted to
at. payment to the undersigned.
Dated mt Mcekcr his 18th day Of Noyrm>
bcr, \. II. igp. IT. RYAN,
,u'S>tpi Admin JstrntOr.
The Meeker herald., 1905-12-09
First Product.

The creamery turned out its first
product Tuesday-a first-class grade
of butter, which will be better when
Mr.. Cheverie, the butter-maker in
charge. gets used to conditions.
Thomas Baker brought in the first
cream, and Joe Wharton the second
consignment
AS yet, there is not enough cream
coming In to keep the plant In con-
tinuous operation, but it will be on
the increase right along.
The Meeker herald., 1905-12-09
THE RANGELY OIL RfELD
As Passed Upon by Notsd Autiior
tiles on Oil Territory
GeoloKy.

The Rangely oil field has recentty
been examined by Professors Potter
and Lund, tive noted authorities %
oil-producing territory, for . -
Louis company, which L. about. =
take hold In Raven park. Hear whae
Prof. VIM. h. Potter says:
The conditions are certainly very fAvoQe.
BILE in every respect. One Of the marked
and most favorable characteristics of TIM
field is the well developed dome structNses
Raven park being valley which hss seclA
weathered out Of the crest Of this donas.
Such dome structure is especially favorA.
BILE for the storage Of oil in the upper part a
the sandstone forming this dome (cspped
with an impermiable shsle cover 3on0 to ~
feet) and the natural pressure should tnapfs
gushing wells when this sandstone II pese.
trated in drllllpS- Oh af . rh4sA quality
| with parnfiine base similar to that fr0sl1
the wells Of Rangely tRAven parkl feld
commands tho highest price and Is always
| In demand.
With all these important features and es-
sentials 80 favorable the prospect Of this
field becoming very important and vafus-
BILE one is to say the least excellent. In my
| opinion It would be very remarkable II in
drilling into the Dakota sandstones strong
flowing wells Of high grade oils are not
found,
In part Professor Lund reports:
The dome like formation ut Rangely is .
very remarkable one in point Of size and
perfection Of folding, and Is without parallel
| In the knowledge Of the writer. The dome
| measures nbout thirty miles from east to
west and twenty-five miles from north to
| south, covering an area of some SO square
miles. The exceptional size Of the dome
can be better realized when II Is known that
the similar formation in the Baku feld of
Russia covers an area Of only ten square
| miles. This Russian field Is one Of the most
important in the world and has furnished
the largest yielding wells ever drilled.
II oil exists in the Dakota sandstone in the
Raven Park Held, as am led to believe 1t
does, 1t is Imprisoned beneath the shale In
tais enormous dome, one square mile Of
which has capacity, estimating conserva-
lively, Of 50 per cent more than the total
output of the United States during lous.
This oil Is under exceptionally heavy pres
sure. The figures indicate the enormous
pressure OF almost ION pounds.
Compared with the conditions usually
met with III searching for oil those existing
In the Raven park oil field are to be consid-
cred exceptionally promising, taking into
consideration the unusually high grade Of
the oil, I'm sddition to the favorable geOioGt-
cal situation.
The Meeker herald., 1905-12-09
Administrators Notice.

Estate of Owen q. Jones. dccrnsed.
The undersigned, hnying been appointed
AdmfnistrHtrix Of the estntc of owen u.
Jones. late of the county Of Rio BIhncO. III
the state Of Colorado, deceased. hereby
gives notice that she viii appear before the
county court of snid county, nt the court
house in Meeker in snid county, ht the De-
ccmber term, 1856, ON the Inst Monday IN
January next, at which time all persons
having clnirns agninst snid estate are noti>
fled md requested to attend for the purpose,
Of having the same ndjustcd. All persons
Indebted to snid estate nre requested to
make Immediate payment to the under
signed.
November. a. ID. 1905. MARGARET JONES,
tnls-dpl Administ ratrix,
The Meeker herald., 1905-12-09
How it Looks to an Expert.

County Treasurer Watson sent a
small bottle Of Rangely oil to a friend
ian Ohio oil mani, a few weeks ago,
and here is the reply, received the
other day:
"Yes, John, received the sample
Of oil all right, and intended writing
to. you before this, but have been
very busy. The oil is a very fine
quality, and II you have it there in
paying quantities, 1t is very valuable.
1t is equally rs good as the oil In this
country, II not better"
The Meeker herald., 1905-12-09
Monthly School Report.
Rank for first terms work:

Rank for first terms work:
lst grade-Miss. Brown teacher.
First, Margaret Taylor; second, Willie
Hess.
End grade-Miss Leming teacher.
First, Dewey Sinners; second, Martha
Johnson; third, Evard Robertson,
3rd grade-Miss Leming teacher.
First, David smith; second, Ethel Ball;
third, Jennie Brown.
4th grnde-Miss Campbell teacher.
First. Wright Ball; second, Mary Moul-
ton; third, I.eona Wildhack; fourth, Win
fired Fordham.
9Th grade-Mrs. Clifton teacher.
First, Pearl Lampshire; second, May
Beavers.
9th grade-C. F. Brown teacher.
First, Hnzei Clark; second, May Wild
hack.
7th grnde-C. F. Brown teacher.
First, Hazel Nichols; second, Lena
Hartke.
sth grade-Gilbert Sellers teacher.
First, Willis Mallery. secend, Hurry
Welch.
The following were neither absent
nor tardy during the past three
months: .
First grnde-Mabel X yle and Reuben Ball.
Second grade-Douglas Sanderson, Russell
Montgomery and Bertha Lamb.
Third grade = Carrie Schooler, Anna
Kracht, Francis Ellison, David Smith and
Ethel Bnll.
Fourth grade Agnes Beavers, Wright
Ball. Charlie Marshall and I.eona Wildhnck.
Fifth grade-Mny Beavers, Mary Cass,
Clarence Hay and Arthur strasser.
Sixth grade-Walter Brown, Bruce Baker,
Hazel CLARK, Lois Heaton, Herbert Rigbr,
Isabella Hossack and Florence vancleaye.
Seventh grnde-None.
Eighth grade Jessie Stephenson and
Lawrence Smith.
Enrolment to date:
No. n Nos 70
Nos. and s. Nos. and7 Is
No.4 - NOS ~
Music work-rank by rooms or
grades:
First-Third grade.
Second-First grade.
The examination counts l-3 and the
daily work 2-3 and an average Of 76
per cent is necessary for pupil to
pass from a grade to the next higher.
The Meeker herald., 1905-12-09

J. n. Pierce paid his brother AL
a visit this week. Mr.. Pierce had
been on lower Yampa river during
the past month looking after his ex-
tensive interests over there.
The Meeker herald., 1905-12-09

The president has appointed Frank
lin Lane OF California, as n member
of the interstate commerce commits
sion. The appointment makes the
commission Democratic instead of
Republican AS heretofore.
The Meeker herald., 1905-12-09
St. James Episcopal Church.

Services will be held tomorrow (tbe
second Sunday In AdvenD as follows:
10a. m.-Sunday School.
ii q. m.-Morning Service.
4p. m.-Service for the young.
7.O p. m.-Evening Service.
The Meeker herald., 1905-12-09

The cut glass water set in Robert
sons window is worth 1880. On
December 10 the price will he 4l7.0O
and the same will be reduced 81 each
day until sold. Watch it or you will
loose 1t.
The Meeker herald., 1905-12-09

Congress convened Monday and
President Roosevelt delivered a nota-
BILE message on the railway rate and
other important matters.
The Meeker herald., 1905-12-09
Attention, Stockmen +!

We have always on hand some Of the
highest class Of Registered shorthorn
Bulls in the United states; also
Grades from our choicest bulls, MS
well rs Pure Bred Berkshire hogs.
We invite inspection and comparison.
The Meeker herald., 1905-12-09
Getting Ready to Start Up.

The Union Oil company sent an
order yesterday to Pittsburgh, Pa,
for two cars of casing and other oil
supplies.
AS soon as this material arrives,
drilling will be resumed on the Union
The Meeker herald., 1905-12-09

The dispatches would indicate that
as II seat of learning, Yale is superior
to Princeton by n score of 23 to 4.
The Meeker herald., 1905-12-09

McCurdy does not think that foot
ball begins to be as cruel as the IN
vestigation game.
The Meeker herald., 1905-12-09
Lost---Watch.

In town Thursday, n gold hunting
case watch. Picture of lady in back
case: Denver Stock-ynrds souvenir
attached to fob. Reward. Call Mt
this Office.
The Meeker herald., 1905-12-09

II you are n lover of good things to
eat, attend the bazaar. Open all day.
The Meeker herald., 1905-12-09

Advent services will be held on
Wednesday Mt 40 p. IN. and Thurs
day at 8 p. IN.
The Meeker herald., 1905-12-09
Visit the China booth at the bazaar.
Weather Bureau.

Station, Meeker, Colo. BY Thomas
Baker, Voluntary Observer.
NOVEMBER WEATHER.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-12-16

hundreds going to the claims or the
ranch homes along the Bad river or on
the rolling prairies of the divide"
The covered wagons, like the prairie
schooners which crossed the great
American desert" in the ffties and sig
ties and seventies and those which
reached eastern South Dakota in the
eighties will lumber, creaking, slowly
on their way.
There is the herd of cattle from some
farm home further east, driven by the
father or a o on h horseback. There ia
the wagon with child aces peering from
the canvas cover, and the mother among
the swathed furniture piled within.
There is often a woman driving the Ia
boring team. So, too, there is the Sec
ond wagon loaded with farm machinery
and tools, with an excited flock of chick
ems in a big wire coop. Roped on behind
maybe is the baby cab. There are sacks
Of seed and some pigs.
But always there is the determined.
anxious face. The young man and his
bride may be going to a home "ahead of
the railroad" hopefully, bravely, but
their faces tell the pain of partings and
s~elf-denials and new ~hardships. The
tenant farmer may be taking his family
TO a farm OF his own" but his face ia
clouded with fears and anxieties that
cannot avoid when he plods through
gramma grass at the side of the trail
IN knowing the sacrifices and hard work |
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A LONC-FELT WANT
Ingenuity Of . Peripatetic Salesman
In Disposing Of His
Speciality.

A young man rode In a Broad street
car. holding a bundle in his lap and read.
ing a newspaper, relates the Newark
News.
Look" whispered a woman across tho
aisle to another. THE strings coming
loose" s
Slowly and surely the Irvine was work.
ing itsei around the corner of the pack
age. The young man continued TO read.
The cord continued TO slip.
Other passengers eyed the bundle
curlously: The ~wrappings began to I'm.
told. h watching passengers grew
nervous. To sit thcrs and see that bun.
Ole fall apart was embarrassing. There
was no telling what it might contain.
The whole car was interested. The
paper was almost off. Still the young
man read, .oblivious to all about him.
At last a little fat man reached across
the aisle and touched his arm.
Your parcels coming undone," he said,
grinning.
At the young mans start of astonish-
ment, the other passengers grinned also.
Thank you very much" said the
young man. ladies and gents" he went
on, removing the paper entirely, II have
mere a useful and inexpensive shopping
bag which l am introducing in this way
to people who travel on street cars
does away altogether with the danger.
which you have just seen illustrated, in
carrying bundles that won't stay tied no
how well you tic 'em; folds up so
small you can put it ia your vest pocket: /
holds anything from a spool of thread to
/ bushel of potatoes-and all, ladies and
for the ridiculous sum of a dime.
.en cents"
IN take one" said the woman acros,
he aisle.
Me, too" said the little fat man.
And the young man did a rushing busi-
less until the conductor threw him off.
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We will have trains running from
Pierre to the Black Hills in a year" they
said. Big crews of engineers were bur
ried into the field like a skirmish line
or an advancing army. Levels were run
over an old survey, changes were made.
permanent stakes driven from Pierre
up the sinuous valley of the Bad. across
the divide to the Cheyenne valley and
up a creek valley to the divide again
where it followed Box Elder creek to
Rapid City.
Forthwith the drama of pioneer DAVIS
was on at Pierre. Homesteaders chose
and filed on their claims, returned tn
their homes through eastern South Da-
kota, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois and the
east and soon the cars arrived loaded
with lumber and cattle and furniture.
Then the historic Deadwood trail
west from Pierre began to TEEN with the
wagons and the herds of those going to
a new home further west" Each day
the numbers grew larger. When spring |
arrives the Deadwood trail will see new |
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-12-16
WHO WILL BE FIRST TO GET INTO
A GREAT NEW FIELD.
PASSING OF THE VNFENCED RANGE
The Building of New Lines Lures the Pioneer.
Revives the Scenes of Early Days and
Warns the Cowboy That the Free
Range Will Soon Be Ended.

Homestake mine at Lead direct to the
state capital, Pierre, and to the lusty
towns and cities which have sprung up
on the railroad lines which for a score
of years paused at the Missouri river.
Soon the coal in Wyoming will be sent
by direct routes to the stores and boilers
OF the coallesS regions east of the Mis-
souri,. Soon the long drives of sheep
and cattle from the ranches will be of
the past. The fenceless range is being
fenced and the roundups soon will be
within pasture posts and wires.
The Milwaukee & St. Paul has built
so miles of line west of Chamberlain.
Its line has been located to White Clay
Buttes. Its engineers are scouting for
a permanent line from White Clay
Buttes to the hills. 1t will be close to
the north wall of the Bad Lands, the
region of weird mystery to scientist and
to cowboy and Indian.
In advance of the trains over the new
lines hundreds or possibly thousands of
new settlers poured through Chamber
ain during 1905. Some homesteaders
sold their claims and they were sold and
resold several times in many cases.
Other land, still opened to entry, wss
filed on and claim shacks by hundreds
rose like mushrooms. Those who got
land plowed for crops, harvested enor-
nous yields of corn, grain and vege-
tables from the new ground. Abundant
rains aided the rush, for newcomers
saw wheat stand as high as their shout
ders.
Intense excitement prevails in the
Black Hills and vicinity over the un-
certainties as to the route which will
be followed. Will it pass the hills at |
the north as the Elkhorn line of the
Northwestern now does, or at the south
through valleys which the government
engineers propose to irrigate? That is g.
question.
The Northwestern extension came as
abrupt surprise. Throughout the
summer the Milwaukee's work was be-
ing rushed and hundreds of men and a
track-laying machine were busy. 1t
was believed the Milwaukee would onIy
push a spur line to secure cattle and
sheep shipments beyond the Zone of set
tiers fences.
Suddenly Northwestern officials an
bounced that 100 900 tons of steel for
rack and bridges had been purchased!
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-12-16

he and each of those dear to him mus
a C in a new country" The doctor
will be 20 or miles away, the schoo.
will be perhaps miles for his children
But his square shoulders and calloused
hands tell how he expects to win the
means for future comforts, and he has
seen other new countries in 10 or 20
years transformed to prosperous farm
ing regions. And he plods resolutely on.
There is still another railroad line
which will enter the great region of Da-
kota west Of the river" The officials
OF the Chicago. Milwaukee & st. Paul
ave said their line west from Aber-
deem in the northernmost tiers of u
ties would go west from Evarts, the
present terminus. At present a great
region comprising roughly 5000, 900
acres, is closed to settlement of white
men for the Cheyenne and Standing
Rock reservations of the Sioux Indians.
The allotment of these lands will begin
next spring. Each Sioux Indian will
choose his land. The amount of the
reservation remaining will be opened
to settlement. Some of the best land of
the range will thus be put to the white
mans use. West of the reservations
lies Butte county, a great empire in it.
self, with Ignite coal for settlers fuel
and wide meadows for pasture and
farm.
So it is expected that the Milwaukee
will cross the reservation in an east and
west line to Wyoming and a junction !
there with the Chamberlain extension
to and beyond the Black Hills.
Therefore there now has begun the
transformation of that great western
half of South Dakota from Nebraska to
North Dakota and from the Missouri
river to the Wyoming and Montana
lines which so long has been "the cattle
Little has been known, except to the
and the >sheepman, of this
treat region of prairie butte, valley
and river course. 1t was first mapped as
part Of the "Great American desert" Of
so much already has been trans
iormed by the entrance of the railroads
md the m%ultitudes Of pioneers they al
Ways bring and usually precede. Nearly
I'll of the region is certain to be settled
Ipon and put to use.
However momentous in the history of
Dakota are the extensions now under
construction and proposed by the Chi
ago & Northwestern and the Chicago
& st. Paul railways as re-
ards wealth and population, one can I
OF accept the inevitable change with {
ut lament for the free, whole-hearted I
vii days of the cattleman's su- t
remacy. The cowboy of the stage TYNE
hard to End ever now. There still are /
few Cow p%unchers" who cling to the a
additional chaps" and spurs. but there
no Colt in a holster on either hin.
There still are. however, hundreds NJ
wv punchers of a less dangerously e
type. quite as fearless or man
: horse as the cowboy of other and q
ore lawless days. They had a life of {
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-12-16

by the arrival of the railroads two dec.
ades ago.
Each part of the state has achieved
fame, the hills for annual output of gold
of $40, 000, 900, the agricultural counties
for an output of corn and grains and
butter, eggs and beef.
The sudden dash which the two rail-
roads are making, with graders camps
strung UP the White and the Bad riy-
srs, will completely change the South
Dakota map. 1t also will transform 1.-The
cattle range"
The ring of the sledge on the rail
spike sounds the knell of the big catBe
outfits, marks the dawn of farming and
small ranching throughout thousands
of fertile square miles. And the ring
Of the sledge echoes the thud of bisons'
hoofs, the snap of the stage-driver's six
horse whip, the crack of the Indians
rifle. Every rail spike stands for a new
home on the range"
Soon there will be east and west lines
of railroad from Deadwood and the
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-12-16

to each rider to endure the pace he Al
times may hit" in the circle" or cline
riding" of each day. A hasty meal three
times a day and then to saddle or tc
bed, with the night guard hours before
morning, that is the days routine!
With the fencing of the range the
general roundup becomes more difficult.
In the days of the few big outfits" and
fewer brands it was far more simple.
NOW there are often a dozen to twenty
mess wagons with riders with each
wagon and with riders "reping" (rep-
resenting) other brands to the number
OF 80 or 40. The movements of the "gen-
eral roundup" are therefore ponderous
and not unlike the movements of an
army.
At the general roundup now are
representatives of scores of individ.
ua small ranchmen. The winter NAV
have scattered the cattle from the
Grand river, hear North Dakota. to the
keya Paha river in Nebraska and all
the cattle must be found and each
brand cut out" to be driven to his
summer pasture OF to market. With
the influx of settlers, hundreds of new
fences will follow and the free range
will be restricted to eve narrowing
district, remotest from railroads. All
this will still Iurther complicate the
"roundups" for the cattlemen.
The biggest fenced pasture of the Da-
kota range now is that Of the Lennon
outfit" whose brand is "L7" and whose |
pasture comprises 1854, 900 acres of
Cheyenne and Standing Rock Indian
lands. At times 30, 1000 head of the .I7"
brand of steers have grazed within it's
fences. One could ride a week across
this pasture. 1t is several days Journey
from the home ranch buildings log
house. log Office, corral and store house
to the "east PASTURE" it is an equally
long journey from the south to the
north fences.
The day has come when a knowledge
farming where the rainfall sometimes
s but 20 inches. knowledge of stock.
breeding and sheep feeding will be more
requisite on the range than a quick eve
or the &c cross" brand on a bunch OF
stray horses or for the Flying v" or
Midiron" on a running steer. The dav
las come when the ability ito ride any,
hing on four legs" will not be priced so
tightly as ability to husk corn like a
tornado.
The railroads paused on the border NJ /
he range until the time was ripe 70 .
ross, and now the road ranch NAV be
ucleus for a town, at the old stations on :
Bismarck and the Deadwood trails
lany villages may spring up and neigh.
ors will be less than a score of miles
part. |
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adventure, hardship and freedom which
is quite apart from the commonplace ex-
istence of milking ten cows and plow-
Ing in the east 40. There is among
these a high percentage of the stuff OF
which heroes are made.
These cow punchers Of the Dakota
range find conditions changed, but they
still ride their line" Centaur-like by
day with lariat at saddle horn, and
stand night guard for two hours to hold
the punched cattle against stampede or
storm. The unseen prairie dogs hole
turks for his pony's leg, the wild ride
Ito bend" the. stampeded herd may end
IN the dark with a broken neck at a "cut
bank" over which he and his horse
tumble headlong. His tarp and q
"sugin" or two may serve for a bed
when the ground is cold and wet and
there is no mess wagon within a half
days ride. But he shows the stern il
usually rough stuff of a hero when he
crawls out of a steaming bed with the
mercury at zero and a blizzard whipping
the mess tent, that he may stand his
guard two hours in the cold.
From the day in early spring when
the roundup wagons start out, perhaps |
Twin Buttes in the cut bank |
country of Butte county, or down the
White river to the Bad Lands, his life is
a hard and busy n The night is not
gone when the roundup cook calls the
men. 1t requires from 10 to 20 horses