, 1920-03-11
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
western Newspaper union News service.

from Kemmerer, has been secured by
Utah capitalists and soon will be in
the producing class. The Star Coal
Mining Company, capital stock, $780,
300, is to be organized to operate the
property.
Steps designed to make Cheyenne the
air port of the Rocky Mountain region
are under way by the Cheyenne Cham
Der of Commerce. This body sent tele-
grams to Senator Il. Z. Warren, Con
gresham Frank w. Mondell and Sem
ator John B. Kendrick, urging the sup
port of the trio on the aerial mail serv-
ice legislation.
J. F. Mccarthy of Thermopolis has
bought the first aeroplane in Wyoming.
Bert Cole, representing the Western
Airplane Company of Casper and Wyo-
ming and Montana, made the sale. Mr..
and Mrs. Mccarthy tool several air.
plane trips while they were in the East
last fall and this prompted them to buy
their own plane.
The highest road marker on any
transcontinental automobile highway
in the United States is located twenty
five miles west of Cheyenne, say the
Lincoln Highway Forum" which
prints n picture of the Lincoln trail
marker on top of Sherman hill. This
marker is located at an altitude of g.
900 feet above sea level.
Contracts totaling $325,000 are to be
awarded by the State Highway Com
mission at its next meeting, March
%, for road improvements in all sec
lions of the state. They are for the
grading and surfacing and installation
of the concrete culvert headwalls on
the projects, for which the bridge con
tracts were awarded recently.
Another new oil company has been
organized at Greybull, known as the
Producers Mutual Oil Company, a syn
dictate composed of Montana and Wyo-
ming men, who will sell about 200
units. They will commence operations
on their lease one-half mile south of
the city limits at the junction of the
Big Horn and Greybull rivers at once.
In conjunction with 5000 posts
throughout the nation, the Cheyenne
post of the American Legion conduct
ed special services recently at the
Masonic temple, at which time five
Cheyenne residents were presented
with the French memorial certificates
by Governor Robert D.. Carey in behalf
of the French government and the
American Legion.
Miss Agnes Cogan, r. N, of Cleve-
land, o., has taken the position of
state supervisor of public health
nursing for Wyoming. She will act in
his capacity for the Red Cross and
the Wyoming Public Health Associa-
ton in conjunction with the State
Board of Health, with headquarters in
the office of the State Department of
Health at the capitol.
Three wells will soon be drilling in
the Bolton Creek field and two have
been reported in with oil, according to
information received in Casper. The
New York Oil Company has a well in
the northern part of the field while the
Poison Spider-Bolton syndicate has a
well closer to the center of the field.
Each one is expected to make 200 to
300 barrels.
One of the most significant features
of the Wyoming oil industry last year
was the expansion of the Standard Oil
interests in Wyoming. This was due
to belief that Wyoming oil will become
of increasing Importance in view of de-
cline in production in some of the
north Texas light oil fields and in the
Appalachian fields, and growing de-
mand for gasoline, kerosene and lubri-
eating oil.
Governor Carey has named e. j.
Colley of Dixon, major of cavalry in
the Wyoming National Guard. The
Dixon man will take charge of one of
the squadrons of guardsmen, succeed
ing A. H. Beach of Lusk, who resigned
in order to become colonel of infan-
try. Mr.. Beach is now organizing
companies of infantry in the southern
part of the state. Mr.. Colley was re-
Gently appointed assistant adjutant
general, inc he will hold both posi-
tons for the time being.
Wyoming has solved the elk prob
lem. Contrary to the general impress
state, constituting practically the last
big herds in the United States, are not
starving to death, but rather most of
them are waxing fat, and the saving
of many of them was accomplished
through an entirely ley method. State
Game Warden w. L. Judkins an
nounced that n carload of ~cottonseed
cake had been shipped into Jackson
Hole, where the largest herds feed in
the winter time, and that the elk, in
stead of refusing to eat the stuff, as
many people had predicted, actually
prefer 1t over hay, and Its cost is
much less than the cost of hay.
Harry p. Hynds has announced plans
for the enlargement of the Plains no.