, 1919-01-02

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San. 9-11-Annual meeting of Wyo-
ming Woolgrowers Association at
Lander.
Lusk wants larger electric light
plant.
Wyoming ranks sixth in alfalfa pro-
duction.
Manville is to have a new forty-five-
room hotel.
The new hotel at Riverton is near
ing completion.
Many Laramie county farmers are
buying tractors.
Predatory animals in the state are
on the decrease.
The Wheatland creamery is a boon
to many farmers.
Wool growers will hold meeting at
Lander on Jan. GIL.
The Glenrock Company got q good
well in the Big Muddy field.
A large force of men rushed the
!. new elevator at Wheatland to COM
pletion.
Manville reports all railroad tracks
and sidings congested with drilling
materials.
The Northwestern is to build a
three-span bridge across Wind river
at Riverton.
The state has contracted with the
Mutual Company for sale of royalty
oil from state lands.
Wyoming men, Cheyenne, men, were
those who refused to retreat further
at the Second Marine.
The Midwest oil refinery at Casper
has been enlarged to third in capacity
output in the United States.
Clarence Simenson of Riverton was
killed in an accident at Dooley's
Bridge, twelve miles from Du Bots.
The Treasury Department has is
sued advertisements for bids for fed
erai buildings at Cody and Buffalo.
Lieut.. Walter Davis of Laramie has
been cited "for efficient and courage
U performances of duty under fire"
Sixty-five automobiles We're de-
stroyed or badly damaged by fire and
explosion in the Lincoln Highway ga
rage at Rock Springs. 1t is supposed
tho tHo OApiobAOh lCoultCo llom Oil
accumulation of gas which was ignit-
ed by the furnace. The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000.
Arrangements for drilling the first
well in the National anticline field
north of Cheyenne, at Horse creek,
have been completed, and the an
nouncement that the first of the wells
to be drilled on this field will be
located on H. Andrews ranch, very
close to Andrews house.
Local subscriptions sufficient to in
sure the erection next year of a glass
factory at Lowell are announced. Nat
ural gas will be piped from the Byron
field, and excellent sand Is available
on the factory site. The factory will
employ 200 men at the start, with a
weekly payroll approximating $1,000.
State Veterinarian A. w. French's
biennial report to the governor shows
that, of the more than 10000 head of
cattle tested in Wyoming since the
passage of the state tuberculin test
law two years ago., only sixty-one re-
actors were found. DR.. French be.
lieves this record cannot be duplicat-
ed by any other state / n the Union.
A new part of the Rock Creek field
is being tested. Oil men are watching
with interest the well being drilled by
the Continental Oil Company and the
Interstate Exploration and Oil Com
pany on section 24-2O-7s university
land. This is the first well to be drilled
in this part of the Rock Creek field
and its productiveness will greatly en-
large the oil-producing area of this
section.
The telephone company at Douglas
has moved into new quarters.
The Ohio drilling for the Kinney
Company, is now rigging up to start
Immediately two more deep wells on
section 4. to be known as wells Nos.
% and "a.
With an authorized capitalization of
$11. 000. 900, articles of incorporation
for the Liberty Potash Company have
been drafted and made ready for off
cial recording with the secretary of
state of Utah. The company has been
formed for the purpose Of producing
potash from mineral deposits In the
leucite hills of Wyoming, where a min
eral known as wyomingite occurs In
immense quantities at Superior, near
Green River.
Stock raising is still Wyoming's
greatest industry. Not only that, but
1t is growing greater year by year.
The biennial report OF State veterin-
arian A. w. French shows tina the