, 1908-03-31
GRADERS ON HAND
TO RESUME WORK
EXTENSION OF LARAMIE PLAINS
LINE FROM CENTENNIAL TO
WALDEN DURING YEAR.
Booster Town Visited by Many Lara.
aie Citizens Who Remark Upon
Its Thrift and Enterprise-Minina
Operations Being Carried Forward
on Many or the Best Claims.
Special to The Republican.

Centennial, Wyo., March 31.-GraI,
ers have arrived to begin work upon
the Plains line between this place and
Walden, Colo, and the Booster town
looks lively again.
The excursion of Laramie citizens to
this place last Sunday proved a pleas,
ant success. The day was an ideal
one n the visitors all express their
approval and satisfaction of the strides
being made in the mining industry in
this district. Many were not aware
that we had the goods.
w. A. Ralston has begun the cree
ton Of a neat frame cottage on ais
lot on Second street and hopes to lie
able to move into it within less than
five weeks.
Walter Banks, a newspaper artist
from New York, was in Centennial
during the past week, being a guest
at the Hall ranch during his brief stay
here.
Mining journal Represented.
]. NJ. Watson of Denver. represent
ing the Engineering and Mining Jour.
nal of New York City, spent a good
part of the past week here in the in
terests of his paper. While here ne
visited the Postal, Utopia, Republic
and other mines, and went away ex.
pressing himself as much pleased at
what he had seen, promising to return
in about three months when he will
rnma DraDaraJ IN mako a mora ayta,.
sive and thorough examination of the
entire district for the purpose of call
ing attention to our esource through
the columns of the Journal.
Working at PolIyton.
The Pollyton Gold Mining company,
recently organized, is making prepar
atoms to carry on extensive develop
ment work in the immediate future.
There is little question but that Lake
creek will make good and have at
least two good shippers as soo as the
railroad reaches that point. this sum
mer. Work upon the Pollyton is now
in progress but within a short time a
larger force will be added and ore
sacked for shipment to the smelter.
Forming New Company.
Within a few days a force of min
ers will be put to work upon the Pos
tai tunnel, under the management OF
Bernard Holtum, and work will be CO.,
tinued throughout the season. This
new company is now being organized
by local II eastern people n prom
ises to be n of the big things of the
camp. They have recently purchased
the well known Old Centennial group
of claims on Centennial mountain,
comprising over ninety acres and have
a half dozen very promising mineral
veins opened up to the surface.
Pushing Utopia Tunnel.
Two shifts continue at work upon
the big Utopia tunnel and the 300
foot point has been passed. Splendid
Roadway is now being made with this
work and the company expects to have
the 500 feet completed early in the
fall.
Messrs. Daily and Schnitzler are at
work on the Ocean Wave group on
the west slope of Michigan hill and
from what we hear they are encoun.
tering some splendid free milling gold
ore. The vein is very wide.
Centennial School Begins.
School opened here yesterday, with
Miss Laura Wolbol, one of the most
popular teachers in the county, i'll
charge and with a good attendance OF
pupils.