Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 14, 1919, Page 7

Sg -THURSDAY, -AUGUST.14, 1919 St x : Che ees AVERTON SCORNS JIN 1 CELEBRATION OF 15 THIRTEENTH Vivid Contrast Presenitedin Scenes of Today and Those|VILD WEST THRILLERS VIE WITH ‘ "he Walsh for Rich Lands at Open- RACE EVENTS FOR FAVOR IN BIG | ing of Indian Reservation, 1906 | PROGRAM AT RIVERTON TOMORROW ; ‘ see . Is thirteen unlucky? i% MORNING—MAIN STREET This time the age-old question applies to towns and Riv- First Second |! ertonis ready -with a negative reply. Witness the fact’ that '] Boys’ Race, 14 years or under_..__.....-.-.-----:- $ 2.00 $ 1.00f; Riverton, "to emphasize its refutation, has picked on its thir-|] Three-legged Race 1,00 ff teenth anniversary date to celebrate the record of its growth || Shoe Race : 2.00 1.00 |! and prosperity and the curtain will rise on the fete tonight; |] Night Shirt Race . © Sa es -s--~ 5.00 2.50 || The new ie oe a ad et a bocce ah fre ue in- |} Parade, Indians and Cowpunchers —__._- | concer oO one 0} 6 spection of the lands whic! e ere . x tet in the West and most assuredly to claim. Practically every aiatter eres Zag nee eee ba! Laat 1.60 the-finest in any town the size of Riv- section in the Big Bend valley (now = pee art “heaegelias apres Sg 1,00 e will have its formal opening the Riverton valley), the Missouri Handkerchief -Race, boys and girls -- 1.00 J, asisalae annek the management'of valley and around Riverton wag filed |{ Boys’ Race, backwards ________ R 1.00 Irwin 'B. Allen and succeeding days upon. if Girls’ Race, under 10 years ___.___ ee £00 50 F) arefull of interest for the visitor who is ukaeq’.otnved vaith the wonderful re- souress of the valicy. ‘ Townsite Set Apart . } for the Squatters | The present townsite of Riverton } AFTERNOON—AT FAIR GROUNDS, ENTRANCE ON EAST SIDE Admission—Grounds, Adults 25c, Children under 14 15c; Cars 25c. “Athletic ‘sd sport events on the was set apart for townsite purposes, Admission—-Grandstand, Adults 25¢, Children under 14 15Sc. | streét. in the morning and at the to be squatted on by settlers who di Hat Race, -.~-. ee Sear eee ee - 10:90 5.00 ragétrack in the afternoon will be sired to have town lots. |} Pony Race, baif mile, 14% hands - 15.00° 5.00 the vheadliner tomorrow, the official On the night of August 13, 1906,|[ Bucking Contest, rider 30.00 10.00 i a party camped on what was kehiown | Horse .._ | jp Stake Race - 00 Rep-Race _...._ be 20.00 Fancy Roping -_.--- = Indien Horse Race, 1 mile _- Peg 15,00 5.00 Change Horses on the Range’ Race i 15.00 5.00 Mule Race, half mile -________ tess 15.00 5.00} Cow Pony Race, Stock Saddle, half mile 20.00 5.00 | Flag Race, 4 in team _2_ ~ -- 20.00 5.00 #! Chicken Race, Indians -_ is 2 10.00 % EVENING—MAIN STREET Team’ Rage, boys and girls - 5 2.00 1.00 Relay Race, girls .....____ -- $.00 2.00 |, Boys’, Race, 100 yards, 14 years __ 2.00 1.00 Necktie Race, boys and girls __ 2.00 1.00 . Girls' Eace, backwards _-__ 2.00 1,00 Indian War Dances :._-___ el foot. They followed up the survey-| followed and in a comparatively short | ors, squatted on every lot as fast) time there were evidences of a per-| as it was laid off and despite the|manent community. The first build-| haste the surveys proved to be re- ings were of various designs. Mrs, | markably accurate. Patterson, a widow, dug a hole eight That night there was something do-| feet square, covered it with poles and ing. Agent’ Wadsworth made claim | threw earth on the top, made a door | that the filing aad taken place too/of a gunnysack, and therein extab-| * |g0on, or something to that effect. A| lished a home. a Cost of $100,000 {troop of cavalry errived; lined up on! Railroad Followed itratton island, just below ed bedi rat henig Sy Anas babe la Moar 3 s iF Pr ‘ore them. e ; be| town. That party was composed: of |townsite was cleared as free of hu- : 1 J. A. Le ind jearly morning. }¢ men camped Reaistin’ ‘ ‘William Joslin; also the members of! gown near the Big Wind river, where ‘ fitst free excursion will take | the townsite company, W. W. Willis, | they. remained for ten days, the only visitoxa te. the. Sand Draw oil field | George Gregory, ‘Thomas Williams, |persons being allowed on the town Friday /m« ‘and the itinerary ef|F. M. Gilland their manager, George | site the follow! day: being the sur- _ Othe texctrsions follow: Caddie. Other than the mombers-of | veying -party: ~~~ . "S Battirday——Free exeutsion to Mav-' this party there was no ofe t@\be New Survey Started, ctiek-8 ings: oil field. seen as far es the eyé could reach in land Guns Flashed . Sunday—Free excursion to Box} any direction. On the morningfof! ‘Then came a party of about eigh- Springs, ..--Horseshoe ~ and Muskrat} August 14 at ‘daybreak >they mae | teen from: Lander’ on horseback. ‘They- fi s Th og fe ES camp on the : property ‘now occupied had allowed: the Shoshoni’ buneh to ; Mui liy—Free excursion over the | by the Diamond: Jumber and Hard-) get: in-ahedd of’ them and. were bent righ* farming ‘sections. of the River- : : ; ; : "Temple at Riverton, Erected at will' begin a series of tours of . the, 26 surror territory that will About thirty days after the open- | ing the railroad reached Riverton, and the first train arrived in thes, part | of the state. The station was called Wadsworth and the lee River- | ton. ‘Travellers could not find the} town of Riverton when on the train, | tangle was straightened out, and Riv- jerton wie decided bpon as the name for both postofiice ‘amt town?’ * | David Hays, W. M. Mooney, John Free excursion over the vation. jing; Robert Burch bought the relin- uitind sabe at: Fort | quishment of No. 2, and. Mrs. Nina mh Laporte bought relinquishment 3; which were the plots adjoining the town. Nuimbers 1 and 2 are now ad- | dition’ to the original tawnaite and to a considerable extent builded up| with fine homes. { |Land Reclamation Started at Once ‘ ° | ‘The linds lweated on ebntwingd all! thie :andémany. of: them have | played! 4 “large ‘part in’ the develop-! | pe Hie couliery_and —tNB- town. | |the qualities necessary for the grow: | catapllaien dicing thes heat tous jing of crops, but it was a dry eoun- jtry. The gork of buliding a ditch} | was begun, and the following year, in| | 1907, the water was turned in. But} |little crop Was put in that year, the | water not being available early enough in the Season. In 1908, inj reality, began the reclamation of the | years; dating from 1915;.when dn securate, count of all the people when | they were:at-home showed 803 noses. It was. then- that. the - people shook off the; sage-brush shackles and step- ped into ‘the vanguard® of Wyoming terns eeiiere been forging to the; New Teton Hotel at Riverton, Classed Among the| Best. in| j*)' This. geod: Werk: has ‘Keen’ edr.| No. Gre ‘Plkice ‘Just Wyoming, Which Will Be Formally Opened This Evening {ried on, without recess, until at the| Pa eS tas SS NETCARE TAC RAR I v the | Fifteen Years Ago ware company fo Riverton. Mrs. W.|on getting. even. They started an- Present time the valley surrounding| _To Aiberiate this growth it needs|S. Adams .was the first woman to/ other survey of the town of Riverton, | Riverton is recognized as & veritable only ;to. be mentioned that on the/set foot on the townsite of Riverton | but did not get very far. On the garden spot. Prosperity is evident morning. ef August 15, 1906, there|and had also the distinction of pre-| comer noW occupied by the new Ma- eaten one it is permanent. was not a human being living on the| paring the first meal. sonic Temple building stood Bill in these early days homesteaders présént townsite of Riverton, ad | Rush to Tow: Mooney armed with a Winchester, |3¢ttled on every quartergsection of, the early. history which has a bear-| Occurred Au | He had squatged on the lots and. wras| one within many miles of Riverton. | ing on tomorrow's, celebration holds} The townsite had been. platted at | going to: keep them. As the Lander- ¢ Wyoming Central Irrigation com- pome interesting reading for resi-/Shoshoni and it only remained for)ites approached he said to ‘them: yee Promised to. irrigate over | dents of. this region. the engineers to measure*the dis-|“The first gentleman that steps on a. 00 acres, and do that without a} The opening of the Shoshone andjtances and place the stakes. This | these lots is a dead man.” Mooney re-| coh in the construction work. When Wind River Indian ‘reservation had, was done on August. 14, The follow-' tained the property and, only last |* gn unit wan completed and no | taken many fortune-seekers to that)ing morning at 10, o'clock a few year sold it to the Riverton Masonic | more itch was being constructed, the | patt-of the state. Shoshoni was the! stragglers began to arrive and by the! lodge for the site of their new and|homesteaders began to leave. They) chief: scene of activity. About two|middle of the afternoon there were | magnificent Masonic temple, ieee stayed on their land until their | days prior to the official opening /not less than 500 people on the very man of the five hundred car-| sity to sick bag we. They drawings had been made for the ground. They arrived in wagons, ried. a gun. There was very little | yc Sere other fie hed i e a live! land; and those holding the lucky|buckboards, on horseback” and on }to eat and no s available. For a/)"** 7p in one valley, hat a dis-| 3 number of nights each man slept on hati Saeotea. ana a Wvonine bile with ry sage brush for a pillow | Central failed to fulfill their promises and a gun ‘or a companion. |to. the settlers. Development came j Late; Divided to |to = standstill. It was that way un-| Serely itee: Dense’, |til in 1915, when, through the efforts ee Daily Eridune | bas . and is proving a profitable and | _|economical enterprise. } | ~ Finally the Wyoming Central com- e ; |pany got in bad and only lavt year/ \the farmets who settled on the orig-| NG METAOPOLIS STANDS WHERE SAGE-BRUSH GREWFEWVEARSSINGE <2 ss=<== | jgontent in the beets grown in the} ! Western Sugar company will begin} jand the erection of a new county and it was almost a year before this }PPoduetions are anything like the pic- Among those who filed: cn lots if | 6use are in for @ real treat next ithe first days ang who are still zis yer. Following. the showing Mon-/ idents of Riverton are the following: | day of “The Girl From Outside,” a| - |O’Hearn, E. H. Ryan, W. T. Judkins, Goldwyn company, Tem Villnave, LE. T. Glenn, Jas. Attfield and others, |'™4M {Hans Berlin drew No. 1 at the open-|* # ‘Two Rows of Railroad Ties Floated Down River to Riverton path i Plant—One of « Dozen Such Rows for the townsite com y, although ‘said not to be a mem! of it. The original plan was all fifty-foot lots ‘for the business Btreets, but as there !wes such a demand for the lots he suggested to the company that they be split, thus creating a greater de jmand for certificates of filing at | $2.50 per lot. "This plan was carried out and that accounts for the 25- foot ‘lots on the” business: streets of Riverton. : | Realizing that this crow had to jhe fed and clothed there arrived on the, scene Riverton’sa pioneer mer chant, E. T. Glenn. . His first store | was in & m, then he moved into resent sto! |B on Main street. jnext build Mr. Caddie waa the main advisor, | a tent, and in a short time began thestill bettex, they | erection of the first building in Niv-for in the ni n erton, which is, still a portion of his acre, while on Projects it coste ‘The from $40 to $76 was the Adams hotel, work was comp) of Hon. J. A. Delfeider, the present popular mayor of Riverton, the set- tlers and ers 0. ii and started in to build @ second unit. All) were hard up and money was to a} great extent an unknown quantity | among them. The settlers took their! teams and worked. They built the ditch, and for pay teok script of ‘the ditch company. This script finally was accepted by stoe Keepers in lieu | of cash. Twenty res of irrigation | canal was built any money, d the farmers who into the | ‘arrangement, by Mr. Del-| ‘elder, finally for their water | rights with the s they had earned | in building the diteh, and what was | their water rights | of $16 per [srectediby -S. Adams. Others soon pany wee put em @ solid finance) poptilar in the valley. Last year the first crop was grown. The soil- and climate. proved to. be. entirely satis-| factory to this etilture. The ‘sygar! Riverton valley last year was equal! | to the best grown anywhere in the land. Within two years the Great! the erection of a'sugar factory at this place. Town Reflects the Farm Prosperity t Suecess in agricultural enterprise | end during more recent years in oil, | is' mirrored in the growth and de-| velopment of the town, which has} been transformed into a young me tropolis humming with busines: Building is keeping pace with this| phenomenal growth and the substan- tial character of the improvements be- > speak confidence of the residents in| the future of the town. During the) past year two large blocks have been | erected, the Masonic Temple and the} Teton hotel, either of which would be a credit to a city of 50,000. ! Last yerr a sewer system was put| in and the town made a much better} place in which to live. This present} month bonds were voted upon and/| carried for the .purpose of erecting a town hall and fire station, and also for the extending and improving of | the water system. In the last few) Pioneer Stockman, years the school building has been | doubled in size and is' again too small ry MAYOR J. A. DELFELDER OF RIVERTON Banker and Oil Operator Who Labors Con- stantly for the Development of His Town and State cy to decommodate comfortably the} ever increasing population, The Ri actors—and there are at least nine are over i erton school is an accredited one and) °f them—being well known by mo- und t ry is appealing. It ranks high with the schools of the | Vig far Yet the result was proba- i mply a ¢ of six reels chuck state: ; bly more’ pleasing than in plays with full of plot, action, pathos, and hu Expects County Seat 4 star featured and the story thrown mor Seldom is such a mixture so Designation Soon in for the star. pleasingly presented as in this pro Warning already has: been sound- 1 From Outside” depicts duction. Local movie fans will not ed that Riverton interests will go be-|9" Alaskan story by Rex Beach. it go wrong in seeing thix production fare the legislature in Cheyenne at |i Vivid, every character of conse. when it arrives in Casper next year its next session to renew their fight | for the division of Fremont county | seat at Riverton. “That this develop- | ment is merely q matter of time goes without dispute in Riverton, | and while opposed by Lander and its | tributary country, sponsors of the) movement are prepared to carry the agitation to realization. GOLOWIN CONTRACT IS SIGNED BY TRIS AFTER | TRIAL SHOWING. HERE { Ifjother Goldwyn motion pictnre | ture sitwn Mohday moming at a private exhibition in the Iris theater, PStrons, of. this popiilar picture play | Beach story produced by the} r of the Iris,, contracted for! r series of pictures for next year from this company. ie“ Goldwyn company will make| ight.Rex.. 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