Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 22, 1922, Page 1

Jumps From 5,000 to world, fortunately situated in stockraising, and having at its 5,000 souls to an industrial power sec- ond to none in the Rocky Mountain region, with a population in excess of 22,060 people. With its vast resources barely tapped its industrial power, in infantile steps, pnd its population but a fraction of . next.few unbounded oppor- tuniti¢s for the investor of money, for the © owner, for industry, for the bullder°and forall who cast their lot in Casper and then join with the thou- sands of souls who are ever pushing it onward. Ideally situated in the North Piatte valley near the geographical center of the state, Casper has been transformed in a few years from a rambling “cow- town” to the metropolis ofan indus- trial empire, In this transformation Casper has apparently accomplished the impossible. ‘Vast oll and gas resources have been tapped and developed by Casper cap!- tal and the pioneers of foresight have shown the way for industrial giants who follow wherever enterprise is ro From @ one street town tn 1915, Cas- per has changed to a city. From a. Years and Resources Assure Steady Growth With Capital Housing the greatest gasoline manufacturing plants in the the midst of undeveloped resources, mineral, agriculture and greatest light oil producing field in the world, Casper has jumped during the past five years from a city with a scant 22,000 People in Five the center of the state and in door the Salt Creek field, the straggling town is has jumped to the most important commercial center and largest city in Wyoming. It now leads because it outstripped its competitors in ‘enterprise. because it was fortunately situated amidst vast resources and because the will found Casper today boasts of 2 business district extensive in ‘scope und metro. politan in arrangement. Its exten- sive. residence districts “spread over many broad acres. Beautiful business butidings and homes are monuments of tribute to the foresight of pioneers. During the past five years Casper, it is estimated has spent approximate- ly $20,000,000 in transformimp its out- ‘ward. appearances exclusive bf approxi- mately the same sum spent by the re- fineries here. Casper’s ability to accomplish. its vast undertakings is principally due to the development of its ofl resources. The Salt Creek field, having a poten- tial capacity of over 100,000 barrels of high grade crude ofl daily, Is taxing the refinery capacity here with less than half of its product. During 1921 the Casper refineries (Continued on Page 2) lation of Wyoming to be 194, years just past tas been so distin- guishing characteristic fo the rapid growth of other western states. Irriga- tion, development of ofl fields, and mining, are responsible in the main for these increases. The incorporated cities and towns in Wyoming of over a thousand inhabitants, that have grown in population more than one hundred per cent, and the per cent of thelr increase, are as follows: Casper increased 374 per cent; due in the main to its prolific ofl fields, and the refining of off carried on in the city. Gillette increased 158 per cent due to the advent of many new settlers/ jibes ear a | The fourteenth Unted States census taken as of Janu 402, an increase of 33.2 pe: who have settied upon thousands of acres of land in its vicinity. Lovell increased 141 per cent being located in an intenstve irrigation com- munity and having a sugar factory lo- cated in the city. Lusk increased 379 per cent, which can be credited to the Lance creek field and the passing of thousands of acres of dry land into the hands of farmers. Riverton increased 318 per cent. The agricultural resources of this com- munity are splendid and its future well defined. Torrington’s increase of 739 per cent is accountable to the irrigation of thousands of acres under the Nort Platte project. This is increase of any strictly agricultural city in the state. Powell, which tn 1910 might have been alluded to as a mere camp, not at that time being in rated, now has a population of 2,468, thus it the second lurgest city in the Big Horn Basin. Greybull has increased 943 per cent in the last decade. Although gur- CASPER, WYO., JANUARY 22, 1922 our own great state. the largest /| Che Casper Daily Tritmme AND Wiyoming Weekhy Review SECTION 1—Sixteen Pages ‘0 tell of Wyoming in picture and text is a task unknown and un- appreciated by the layman. Re gardiess of the scope, the finished work will always reveal disheart- ening omissions. Wyoming is so big, her resources so varied, her ac- complishment 0 vast, her pos bilities so bewildering as to make impossible a true portrayal in space and through effort within command of our own or other organtzation of which we have knowledge. How- ever, in all that this tssue purports to be, we have no apology, rather do we feel a pride in having done a work better than it has ever heen done before and to have set a worthy pattern for emulation. As a comprehensive survey of contributing ‘ essentials to Wyo- ming’s greatness our work is fair- ly complete. As a refcrence work it will be of daily value until an- other year’s progress renders the THANKS DUE The success by which this edi- tion of the ‘Tribune-Review is state who contributed articles and information to make it valuable. For this service the publishers are grateful. All active chambers of commerce and commercial clubs in the state were invited to submit copy for ill- ustrated articles reviewing their particular sections and in some in- stances this met with appreciative response. Individuals and state of- ficers gave freely of their time in |) preparing articies and information. POPULATION JUMPS OVER 33 PER CENT IN DECADE ary 1, 1920, shows a total popu- r cent over 1910. area of 62,430,720 acres, there are 321.1 acres per inhabitant. the entire union have grown more rapidly than this, in the last ten years was 63.5 per cent; Montana’s 46.0 per c and Wyoming’s 38.2 per cent. This increase is due solel: With a total Only three other states in Arizona’s increase ent; California’s 44.1 per cent,! ly to western migration, which in rounded by an exceedingly good ag- ricultural country, it owes its present enviable position of being the first city in the Big Horn Baxin, to ofl and the refining of oil. Worland has grown 860 per cent. (Continued on Page 2) INDEX TO INDUSTRIAL EDITION Following are some of the main topics treated in the Tribune-Review Industrial edition and the sections in which they are found: Section 1—Miscellaneous, Page 1—Wyoming and Casper. Page 2—{Continued.) Page 8.-—State university, Page 4—Casper schools. Page 5.—State schools. Page 6.—Star Valley. Page 7.—Horticulture, state land revenues. Page 10-—Dairying industry. Page 11.—State fair, American Legion. Pege 12.—Organized labor, Boy Scouts. Peg 13.—-Lander region. Page 15.—Laramie, Oregon Trial. * Section 2—Oll Page 2.—Production and refining ouput. Page $:—Refinery enlargements in 1921, Page 4.—Pipelines, completed and Page 5.—State cm nperation. Page 7—Refineries and gas plants. Page 8.—Field operations, off teas- ing law, state royalties. ing and Irrigation. . Page 2.—State production, cltma- talosy, CONTRIBUTORS. Industrial Edition—Fifty-Two Pages solete. It han required much more than a century of time and several changes in ownership, from the edvent of | the trappers and fur traders to erect in this territory the imperial | commonwealth uf Wyoming. But if | slow in the beginning and hesitant in development, once on the way, no complaint can lodge as to the right unes of natural resources, wisdom: in development and rapid- ity of progress. In fairly rapid | time goes, came } facts incomplete and the figures ob- | | | as by trappers, making of trafls by plo- neers, establishment of cattle herds, | | succession, 1 | | construction of transportation lines, | i exploration opening of coal, fron and other mineral deposits, development of irrigation and extension of agricul- ture, building of towns and cities. Then came the discovery of oil und ‘he ensuing great industrial activ- | ity in all that goes with the Iaying | of pipelines, erection of refineries | and salvage the by-products, | With growth of population: came demand. for modern. improvements and public utilities and while Wyo- ming ts still young ard new her cities and towns have. al! modern facilities and beautiful and com- fortable homes. Gradually | sur- roundings are being changed and more of beauty is seen. General business has kept pace with growth and all lines are es- tablished on a firm and profitable basis. Throughout the state a system of | well-constructed and permanent highways has been undertaken by the state, connecting the towns and cities on main routes. Necessary for the uses of the resident and con- venient for the tourist who visits the state to look upon the un- equaled mountain scenery and natural wonders that everywhere exist. ‘Wyoming people. take pride in the educational advantages provided by the state. With a state university and agricuitural college second to none among the younger American institutions of its class, a splendid common school system for elemen- tary training that has no suporior among the sister states, we are pre- pared to fit our children for any walk in ilfe ambition may suggest. Eyery community of any impor- tance is provided with opportunity for religious worship. All denomi- | nations are represented in the state, | While many cmomunities .have im- Posing church property. Public buildings within the state, federal, state, county end munict pal, are all of modern and approved type and are a source of much pride to the people. From territorial days onward Wyoming has always had the beno- fit of able representation in the fed- eral congress and almost without Page 3.—Cattlo industry, lands. Page 4.—Irrigation projects. Page 5.—Sheep industry. Page 6.—Reclamation service, Cas- Per irrigation project. Page 8—Cattle industry, miscel- public = laneous. Section 4—Mines, Finance and Manufcturing. Page 2.—Mineral production, state farm loans. Page 8—Banks, revenue collec- tons, Page 4.—Manufacturing. Page 6—Public utilities, mineral Tescources. Page 7.—State finances, railroads. Page 9.—Insurance operations, Sectic:; 5—Recreation. Page 2.—Yellowstone park. Days. Page 6—Fizh and game, tourists. Pase %—Historical features, Puge 8.—Park-toPark hot springs. highway, and plants to refine crude petroleum | WYOMING SUPREME IN SHAKING OF exception the state government has been directed by men of exceptional | ability, The same ts generally true | of county and city government. Wyoming is without public scan- dal in her history. One fact that may be learned from this edition and which is in no sense a boast, is that in the ter- tory embraced within the state of Wyoming, approximating 98,000 Square miles, there 1s no equal ter- | j ritory in the world that contains | Sreater or more varied supply ot | natural resources than does this | state, Throughout the sections and | page. of this edition there } wealth of detail and information. It | is all from unquestioned sources, much of it from the highest au- | thority on the several subjects. It is to be depended upon with en- | tiro confide: We are passing it | on to you for your enlightenment and for the general good tt may be to our neighbors and friends and | the great state we all love. t } CASPER HUB OF 2NDUSTRIAL EDITION INFORMING SOF WYOMING COVERED) INDUSTRY, RICH HIGHLIGHT FUTURE LOOMS GREAT F DEPRESSION RECORD IS BEING MADE OVER HANDICAP |\State Emerging From Readjustment Pe- riod With Brilliant Future Despite Struggle of Leading Industries Wyoming during 1921, keeping step with the nation and the world, hit hard the trail “back to normalcy.” The new year finds its industrial house fairly in order, but in many departments far from having re-attained the equilibrium dis- turbed by the conditions of war and post-war times. Despite that perilously undermined the atabil- ity of the agricultural aud livestock industries—however, gratification is CHEAP-FUEL SUPPLY Id TREASURE PAS TO ATTRACT MENUFAGTURES With billions of cubic feet of gas retained in the tapped and untapped reservoirs in many sections of the state avail- able for development Wyoming holds prospects of becoming a great industrial empire. In manufacturing, the fuel cost, its accessibility, means and rapidity of transportation, are items that are studied scientifically. It is said that 60 per cent of the cost of oll refining is taken up with the cost of fuel alone, The same is true in even greater degree in other lines of industrial endeavor. Wyoming offers everything. Gas, nature's. greatest, cheapest, safest and most. easily handled fuel, is beck- oning, to industrial enterprise in all sections of Wyoming. x Less “Than 100,000,000 Feet Used. Although many towns of the stato| are using gas for domestic and com- mercial purposes, and with the giant refining industries of Casper being operated almost exclusively on gas tugl, it is safe to say that less than 100,000,000 cubie feet of gas is being used today exclusive of absorption and compression plants which make gasoline out of wet gas and ther. let the dry residue, valuable for fuel, es- cape. Single fields in the immediate vicin- ity of Casper alone could supply,| even under present partial develop-| ment, all the gas that ts used in the state today for an indefinite period of years. The great fields of the Red Desert country where countless billions of eublo feet: of gas are awaiting the call of industry to provide the mo- tive power and the great fields of the| Big Horn Basin and other sections of| Wyoming, which have scarcely been tapped are awaiting the arrival of| factories, commercial and industrial Institutions of all kinds to provide an| abundance of cheap and high grade tuel. | Commercial use of gas resources is almost an fnnovation in Wyoming. | Less than two years ago the first pipelines to commercialize use| were undertaken, despite the fact! that it Hes virtually at the door of| every Wyoming town, merely await-| ing demand. | Today central and northern “Vyo-| ming are weaving a perfect network! eM Mae STD) a of lines which will transport the fuel to centers where {t can be used. Comparatively few towns in the state are using gas. The vast area along the Union Pacific railroad, in- cluding such towns as Cheyenne, Laramie, Rawlins, Rock Springs, Bv- anston, Green River and mining seo- tions in the south and southwest por- tions, potential users of vast quanti? ties of the fuel are still without gas despite the fact that the Mahoney dome, Ferris fields and other great gas producing areas retain billions of (Continued on Pag 'what fairly may be called the disasters of 1921—conditions be found in the assertively outstanding fact that the prosperity of the state hag been for less wffected by the dis- concerting circumstances of necessary retrogression inevitably associated with re-establishment of #n-called-nbor- malty than has that of the majority of the commonwealths constituting the nation. Industrial Wyoming during 1921 output was of the value of $26,647,290. of the value of $245,084,800. During 1920, when only the preliminary ef- fects of post-war readjustments were felt in the state, the. corresponding output was of the value of $286,647,200. The year 1921, as compared with 1920 therefore shows a shrinkage in the value of merchantab’a physical pro- ducts of $41,462.490, amounting to 14 per cent—a remarkably gratifyiiig mat- ter when comparison ts made with conditions experienced and existing elsewhere. Wyoming, despite the ef- forts of the drastic necessities of the period of readjustment of which the last year perhaps produced the peak, was able during 1921 to maintain in- dustrial activity and output which in terms of finance produced approxi- mately $10,000,000 more than the cor- responding activity and output of 1919, when post-war economic distress bare- ly had begun. ‘Wyoming's industries producing mer- chantable physical products rouhty may be divided into four classifications —mineral, agriculture, livestock, man: ufacturing. Industry associated with (Continued on Page 3) STATE’S OUTPUT FOR LAST YEAR Mineral industries. .... Agriculture . evieee Minor manufactures . Total output, 1921........ Total output, 1919. . Increase in two year: $160,345,750 51,739,050 20,000,009 13,000,000 - .$245,084,800 235,000,000 $ 10,084,800 gees GaN Esch ot