Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 7, 1917, Page 5

’ } THE CASPER DAILY TRIBUNE Oe ———————— eee CASPER’S FINEST APARTMENTS 99= | Cook with electricity Wash with Electricity t sty i Iron with electricity’ 5 rooms and bath, furnished complete, heated, strictly modern. | THE BRAGG APARTMENTS | Phone 390 Durbin and Sussex Do all your house work the electric way TAXABLE VALUE OF ° | Easier, Cleaner IN WYOMING BRINGS LARGE SUM More Economical An increaseo f 25 cents a barrel in the assessed value of the crude oil produced in Wyoming during 1916, together with an increased yield of 1,- 987,343 barrels in the total output of the numerous fields of the State! It has come at last—the woman- ruled town, Out in Umatills, Ore., after a whirlwind campaign, there has been elected a feminine ticket, con- over the production of 1915, results in more than doubling the taxable value of the petroleum product of Wyoming, according to an announce- sisting of a woman mayor, four coun- eilwomen, a woman recorder and wom- an treasurer, all of whom were swept | into office by an astounding campaign coup, defeating an all-man ticket. The Let Us Demonstrate men’ made by the State Board of Equalization last week. alue of crude. oil,as listed for 5,269,759.45, as against 4.40 in 1915. The total number of barrels of petroleum pro- duced in 1916 was 6,199,717. In| 1915 the total production amounted to 4,212,374 barrels. wa While the assessed valuation of the}! oil produced in the State during 1916 | is more than 100 per cent in excess of | the’ value reported in 1915, it is ex-| penehitlekti ae Sebi ES kp Mrs, Starcher will direct the admintis- ; sold today. Members of the board) trative affairs of the town, are Mrs. declare that, though 85 cents is much | Cc. G. Brownell, Mrs. Roy E. Paulu, Mrs. B, Spinning and Mrs. H, P. Moans, legs:than the prevailing price of $1.35 | #ll of them prominent business women. Mrs, J. H. Cherry was elected city | hich crude oil commands on the! recorder and Mrs. Robert Merrick city treasurer. { market, in reality it is higher than the | a = = 3 : rae ectric Co. average price realied for the product | year in'the Salt Cree and Pilot Fields |are declared to have been nearly $1} of the Wyoming fields in 1916. pxee 60 cents a barrel and ‘the Grass a barrel, and this fact helped the Thousands of barrels of oil sold Creek and. Elk Basin. and Greybull; members of the board to deterthine} “ , s - = last year as low a8‘ 50 cents # barrel, | territories averaged 73-cents. Priees' the taxable value of the it is claimed. The average for the) prevailing in Oklahoma during 1916 yield. te TS women-elect propose giving Umatilla a business and economy administra- tion, Mayor E. E. Starcher, whose wife ran against him and defeated him for re-election, declares that the men can- didates were taken completely by sur- prise and were defeated almost before they knew any opposition campaign was under way. Mrs. Starcher de- feated the mayor, her husband, by a majority of 28 votes, out of 174 bal- lots cast. The four women, who with Wyoming; 5 Years Experience In THE PUBLIC LAND MARKET. . THIS EXPERIENCE WILI. PROVE VERY PROFITABLE TO YOU IN YOUR REAL ES TATE TRANSACTIONS. Real Estate ATTRACTIVE PROPOSITIONS TO OFFER Those Desirable Lots in Butler’s East Addition that E bought | . A . saaTar" « short time ago are all seld with the exception of eighteer ia : They are the best reafestate buy on the Casper Market? WE HAVE day and you will have to hurry if you get one. YOU IN CITY AND COUNTY PROPERTY. ’ Telephone 635 and My Car Will Call Insurance’ | : WE REPRESENT THE LARGEST AND BEST COMPANIES. DO IT NOW M. W. Edwards 12S. Walcott Street PROMPT SETTLEMENTS RION P. WHEELER. Phone 8-J