Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 21, 1920, Page 2

ine sat Ps aters PACE TWO eet : ae SANITY AND ENTHOSUSH WTHEWESTERN LEMP vserau7= EASTERN WATER GIES WYOMING VALUABLE PUBLIITY man ‘sul chusetts normal school way asked, in her letter, if the superint it would da “a place in ming ean overcome ‘the opposition, rathér than the comipetition, of the East; and offset the economic n tne day she is aatitled to the sec: ond one. the smoke of her barbecue res will cover the state.” In_this manner Charles A, Selden|dollars and votes in the East now im: speaks in the New York Times, Sunday} pose upon them. ‘dition, of Wyoming, its oll, its future,| S66 they do nd the opportunities there are in Cas-jsults, not even big results, for the pres- | catt barons, who wanted nothi yenne, and in other parts of/ent generation. That makes no differ-| grazing and who looked upon the “Sanity and Enthusiasm injenes, These plainsmen and mountain-|er as an intruding pest who was ‘ rn Mining Empire” is the title| cers are still pioneers and state build- r re "ge article devoted largely |ers and winners of the wilderness even ani Montana. |if they do have’ silverplated thermos|there are many more cattle and sheep. follows, In part: |botttes for the ice water in their hoteljon ihe ranges than éver before in all is too much hope |roomns, and even if some of’them have} of the -stock-raising states. In place “Wyoming has only one congressman. | them vefore they } Now there are very few barons left, but and ‘confi- ne for a thriving permanent | touring car. rowth of the will to destruction. These | !ot- Also they are a patient/ owners of comparatively small herds Western Americans know what they The necessity of far-looking pyar | of head has increased tremendously. Want and are sure of getting it. You/many miles of plains has given them a! The arithmetic of it is simple, Un- can eat ana p as luxuriously in| knack of looking across decades'in time! ger the old baronial big herd tern c as in New York. jand of waiting dor what those new} + Vigeda le te ‘se Men not cnly dream of the dgy/ years are going to bring them. They when they will convert their own wool!watch the census as closely as. they! into cloth, instead of sending it Eaxt|wateh the weather. © States rejoice over | ranges. 2 raw product, but of the day when their new thousands of poulation. | will be able to give, within their Towns celebrate their ~hew hundreds, red each head ‘4 lor cattle. own borders, the touch of~“Harvard or|and villages at the crossroads are eee ‘ isd hgh ante Vassar or Yale to thelr sons and daugh-|in counting thelr growth by~tens, Not! joultu: ifalfa and other fodder are ts |because of the vain pride of one place | Pro Pe. Siae and othe j In Wyoming they simply dig a hole! in the mere fact that it is bigger than! feeding. which {ts more humane in the ground, the oil spouts forth, and some other place. The interest in the! much ps economical. An nae ee eat.at any time in the year but what they could find for themselves on the But by state law a big percentage of the, census is‘for a fur more practiv@), tan-!jand In-an o good year will pre. | NS city with a wonderful future. For FOURS y go0d ¥% Pry | Mormation, write W. Stocton, Palomar value of eve y barrel of it is applied to) gible thing than that. Every new-com-.auce seven tons. of alfalfa, which {8 the publ ool fund. At the pres-jer from the East or Wost, North or sufficient for seven head of cattle. So ent time V ming’s royalties from her| South, is welcome, not merely ds a! hree | mer}: r state-owned 6il Janda leased to indl-/man. who will add to the production of} ‘eeseury toc cee eainal ait wow ae viduals and corporations is $3,000 a day.; the country, but as one more voter| der cultivation, provide for 21 head: And the Industry’ is only beginning.| who will have sons’ to véte by and by} ‘ Until two years ago this money was! gradually increasing the (number of) This getting together of ranchman spent as fast as it came in, It was| representatives to plead the gauge of 294 farmer ‘works ‘both ways. Not simply an ever increasing income rathor| the West at Washington: Wyoming |°0lY bas the cattle’ raiser found good than an endowment, but the state be-|has only one congressman. On the day | agriculture, but. nine timea out of came wise, and with the realization) she {x entitled to the Second ine the |", the farmer from the East in’ his | that some time or other the battom of|smok? from her harbecue fires wil coy. | Second or third year in a Rocky Moun: every oil well,is reached enacted a law/er the state. pie bat Boe smo Ab AN ncaa ia whereby only’ the interest on the oil| The Western’ Metting Pot |flon and wants ta dé a Utile stock rats: land income ean be aised for state Pur-| -rheso. new cftizens atg from every | fiver to me be Atiomnoy General Well poses. | purt of the country. Grandsons of | §f "Wowie ta tle anaier fi rae. | These state royalties, from oil and) the men who went West to California! ny." Ei inte hee pon Pie pa other lessors, are derived from 4.200.-| in 49 to find gold are coming Bast {0 |sehict Imad WOM over the ttasaiete br | 00 acres of public ta " Wyoming to fi | Brosperogefarai-| ; federal government, gave to Wyominel ons ¢ront Site 63 North Dakota. Bad failed to mexe any Maxwell of Clermont torpedoed bis own a ecomiien . in ;Suft ayaihst “Joh” Powers\ for °$2,30¢ handicaps which the preponderance of| which it would be safe for me to teach.” | damages, claimed’ on the ground that There iy not a trace left of the old} Powers had sold him sheep infest hostility to newcomers. That anteg-}ticks,-Wwhen he admitted on’ the wit- jot expect immediate re-| oniam marked the dayy: of the great jness stand in the: district ‘but that “he believed when he bought the sheep that f ing the country ¢with his agriculture. | treet kre eye apy ag ee ne cognizance of the legal maxim “caveat bigger apd, bpd rg ra he nam empt or" and instructed the jury to re- turn @ verdict in Powers’ favor. » in the future under the existing abandoned the saddle for the six-seated|of the few barona there are the many | ——— his flocks he builds them up next year.| marine station was recently closed and! and flocks, and the aggregate number | He never knaw# how rich he is is his years of greatest prosperity, and he doesn't chre. And he is not crushed by his poverty in the years of his great- ‘the cattle and sheep “had nothing to|¢st adversities, These sheep men and cattle men have made Wyoming and the spirit of its people what they are. It was then estimated that | They y three acres of grazing lind were fe-|Stievances. They will hor tolerate out- siders happy | now that stock raising is combined with |Plolt’those grievances. That is why 1 A think, the Non-Partisan league has not produced to @ great extent for winter | ™eant anything in Wyoming. the marine recruiting station, 1605 Lar- Phone 247 Apartments, San Diego, Caltfornia. imer street, Denver, Colo., has just re- 12-80-30 ceived a telegram from\the marine head- That fact was! ° Sen ae ptr ar BOR eR Ta D.C, authoriz- ing him to send to’the aviation station, Quantico, Va., all ex+ who wish to reentist for the marine uviation, ‘quarters, "We to this, drily ‘those men were t @irect tothe aviation fields: who ‘were expert: mechanics, but owing to the rapid growth ‘of this paler WITNESS STAND : Sees I A (BEN branch of the marine corps, it was found take.men: who have little } in fhat-line.’ However, ed with ‘court: here * statement that they. FEL HY s F a! faiaty, eobie J..M. Morrell, sergeant in the marin at Casper to accept applications for: this branch of the service, having ar- rived from Denver this mornit gin active work here. The Cheyenne WINESAP APPLES, per Box $2.90 | GRAPEFRUIT : 2 for 25c ¥ CITY FRUIT MARKET Caspér has been selected as the tenta- tive location of a. permanent. station. The resuits of the next two or three months will determine whether a re- cruiting station will be maintained here permanently. Efforts are now being made to ‘es- tablish the station’ in a separate ‘office but until quarters are secured Sergeant! Morrell will make his headquarters in the navy office in-the postoffice biild-) jing. The latter will shortly he required to secure new quarters because of con- gestion in that building. ’ Capt. C. C, Gill, officer in charge of a@re not gives to-nursing their corning in to capitalize or ex~ San Diego, Calit. for sale. when it was admitted to statehood But ba guinea adler the state law sets’ aside the Mmcome from more than three million of . Use acres for the purpose of publig schools. So Wyoming cannot become a taxless state, as was wildly predicted when she first struck oil. However, she may become the best educated state if the wells hold out.» But when the oil fails’ there still will-be in Wyoming, as in all her neighboring states, the sheep and and the cattle, the coal, the minerals, and the farm products—and perhaps some time the longed-for mills. efore sniffing too much at these present-day Western dreams of manu- facturing recall. the fact that when Colorado was admitted to statehood in 1876 the opponents In congres& to tak- ing her in déclared that her mining} would not last long and that she never) would be able té produce agticuitural crops. : Already at Casper, the principal oil; ind wool receiving town of Wyoming, + there isthe beginning of an enterprise Nebraska, are selling their old lends to the tune of $300 and $400'an acre and coming West to begin again on the free acres allote@ to them from gov- ernment lands. Poor farmers who nev- er have'’succeeded are coming. toa, hop- ing for a change of luck as hdéimestead- ers.” Art what you might call the tide of romance hunters from the Atlantic coast is still flowing strong, and they get what they came for, the romance and adventure of this coun- try is not yet confined to the films. | There are many women among these homestead and grazing land holders. In the teaching force of the Wyoming public schools there are young women from every part of the United States. Mrs. Katherine Morton, state superin- tendent of public instruction, told me they, came because of a desire to seo the West, because df, the wunderlist, Wuich) was the very thing that sont her out here to teach 15 years ago, Last term Mrs. Morton had an appli- because all! [real headway among the people of Wyo- ming. hol “It is because of the differenco in the people," he replied, “and that in turn fis due to differéace in: mode of | life and occupation. The farmer of North Dakota or any other state cultivates restricted farm areas yar after: year does not’ develop the self- relance, the resourcefulnss or the spir- it of the plainsman. The farmer can always sleep at home nights. He can sit by the fire when it is cold. In the Ditzzard there is nothing he can do j Outside so he stays inside. But the sheep man is an adventurer. The worse | the weather the more necessary it is for him to stay with his flocks if he would save them. In place of the lim- ited farm land his domain is the un- limited range, and he sleeps on the ground where night en CO Fre’ is a plainsmapy aga’ ctyt ion. has | brot little decrease in the hardiness of his life: But also he is a philosopher and knows kew to take things as they ? can give. The man, who loves a dog and a pipe, has two staunch ‘friends that never fail hit in good luck or - in bad. They give “all and ask » nothing in return. Day by day * they become nearer and dearer to_ him. The man who has not a dog i Ges and a pipe has missed two of the sLoagt i ae 5 greatest things this good old world graduate o! - f for the dry scouring of wool to remove! Selon trom the graduate of » Masry come. If this year's bilzeard destroys the grease, which makes 40 per cent} = of the weight, before product is ship-| a ‘ ped East to the woollen manufacur-/ ers. Wyoming produces — 33,000,000) pounds of wool a. year. The new scour-/ ing enterprise at Casper is looked up-! on by the wool growers as the en-| tering wedge. After scouring, they] say, weaving is, bound to come some time or other. In ‘Denver they are prearing to establish a woolen mill.) notwithstanding the fact that the lust attempt to do so cams to grief because! of the freight rate handicap. And in| Mont., they have started a) packing industry In connection with (.e development of the stock yards. 1) is there on the day the enterpris icated and a public festival) n dance and barbecue was made of occasion For these states want to ship their} meat as finished product as well as and these three as yet gs just enumerated are leaked upon by the people as tremen dously significant things, as promises | OL ture thanufacturing development} to plement the business of the mines | nd the farms and the ranges. Their / réjoicing in the preliminaries, their faith | in, what eventually can be done with| their combination of coal and water pow er and raw materials are not marred or akened by their keen realization that} re is a long uphill fight ahead, of! a ae ill! you buy? , has it. now 40° pages “hook for the golden cover” acco pictures Successors to Bloom Shoe and Clothing Co. : OUR 15th ANNUAL _ | January Clearance Sale + Opens ; Saturday, January 24th W atch «: FRIDAY’S. 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