Evening star., 1933-08-13
SOUTHERN DELEGATES DEMONSTRATE A.
WYOMING RAIL PROJECT
BOOSTED BY RECOVERY
Senator Kendrick and Gov. Miller Urge Federal Aid
of $75 100000 for Company Sponsoring Line
Traversing State From North to South.

L. A. Miller Of wyoming joined with
Hugh Lee Kirby, president of the COM
pany, in urging support for the project.
Petitions are addressed to the Inter-
state Commerce Commission, which
granted original permits for construc-
ton Of the line and renewed them after
it was abandoned and revived, to the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
and to the second division of the
N. r. A.
The project calls for a 672-mile line
from Miles City, Mont. to Craig, Colo.
through Birney, Mont, Sheridan, Buff
falo. Kaycee Casper, Parco and Baggs,
Wyo Included are plans for the de-
velopment Of coal and mineral depos-
its, timber operations and other activi-
ties 1t is estimated that construction
would put 81 900 to work the first year
and provide permanent employment for
as many as 10000 when properties
along the route are placed on develop
ment
The railroad is an uncompleted prof.
ect. having been finished only between
Casper and the Salt Creek oil field, a
distance of As miles. when it was pro-
NOTED in 1922 by the late Charles N.
Haskell. former Governor Of Oklahoma.
Approximately S3,500.000 had been
spent on grading and other construc-
ton when the project collapsed along
with the Haskell finances. Financing
Of its completion was well under way
by Kirby when the depression struck
in 1929 The line would serve large
area now without railroad facilities.
Hope for major development. how
ever, is being subordinated to the
Organized activity of recovery efforts,
and general conditions continue to
sound q more cheerful note.
Wool price advances and q noticeable
Improvement in all lines OF business
are credited by o. z. Wilde, State ex-
aminer, for added gains in the condi-
ton of all State and national banks in
Wyoming. Wool prices reacSed new
peak this week when the jackson Hole
pool was sold for 80 cents a pound.
Wilde said that the composite state
ment of banks on June 80 shows them
to be in a more sound and liquid con-
dition than on the corresponding date
last year. that bills payable have been
reduced more than $4,000 600. and that
cash reserves have increased 10.1 per
cent
Increased prices will make up for
damage suffered by grain and range
crops in dry land areas. while crops
on irrigated lands. including sugar
beets, are rated as normal. Wyoming
will Join with l6 other Western States
in applications for emergency freight
rates to drought stricken areas and on
live stock TO out-of-State feeding
grounds at a Federal hearing to be
held in Denver on August IA and Is.
Grasshoppers caused the greatest dam
age to irrigated crops.
Gov. Miller has added his voice to
that of others of the beet growing
States in protesting to Secretary OF
Agriculture Wallace any reduction in
the domestic sugar beet acreage. Beet
growers organizations took the lnltla-
tive in the intermountain region IN
opposing a quota which would force
curtaiIment of the industry.
The wheels Of highway construction
relief work are being speeded up this
week. The State Highway Commission
in meeting at Cheyenne opened bids on
approximately $l000,000 worth OF
work while contracts were being let
in Denver for the expenditure OF about
1854 600 on forest roads of Wyoming.