Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 22, 1922, Page 15

ance Happening” Re- vealed Great Stockraising Possibilities on Plains Chimney Rock Near Laramie BY STANLEX EDWAEDS, Laramie Council of Industry. Uniike most Wyoming cities, Lara- nie is surrounded by = diversity of re- oure almost unequalled in the and like most Wyoming cities, ig Dow witnessing the intensive tn- estigation and development of many contiguous “gifts of nature,” which bare. heretofore been awaiting the ime when men of capital and vision ould take them in hand. The city of Laramie hes long been ne center Of af immense cattle and heep territory, and the purebred tock of Albany county has a reputa- jon envied threughc:ut the livestock tiung of the nafion. Although the past year has been particularly trying those engaged in this Ousiness, the beriod of readjustment is rapidly shap- Ing itself for still greater years of prosperity to those communities whose urrounding territoty is especially adaptable to the production of cattle land sheep. Laramie Plaing Noted. It ts interesting to read in the vari- lous histories of Wyoming, how the aramia plains first became noted rong the ploneers of the great west © the wealth of luxurious grasses in ich they abound, and their value for lvestock. In the early haries Hutton a freight con- actor, who at that time was hauyl- sg supplies and materials for the construction of Fort Saunders, a few miles south of the city of Laramie, with the approach of winter turned »ose on the plains several head of xen, which were completely worn out from the extremely hard work of those ploneer days. Hutton considéered them worthless and anticipated that dfter wandering about the plains for a tew days would soon die or be killed by the wolves and coyotes. While reconnoitering, in the early spring, a party from Fort Saunders discovered the oxen, previously turned joose by Hutton, wandering around the ver bottoms, where they had lived all winter on the luxurious native grass. They were fat and strong and on seeing his animals, which he had Jong thought dead, in such excellent condition after shifting for themselves through « long, hard winter, Hutton suddenly realized the immense value of the plains of Albany county for the production of cattle. He imrrediately commenced to ac- quire lands and to stock them with enttle. His venture was carefully watched by the pioneers of the section, who followed his example. It was, thus, Sixty years ago that first live- stock were brought into what is now one of the leading lvestock sections of Wyoming. Ten years later, efter watching for some time this first venture in eat- tle, a ran named Billings, imported the first sheep into the Laramie sec- tion. ‘Billings’ first flock, numberrd 6,000 head. Today, Albany county produces over 900,000 pounds of wool annually and the purebred sheep of section are known throughout the orld. Agricalturist Was Next. ‘With the passing of time the agri- culturist was attructed by the fertile qualities of the soil, which resulted in the buflding of Wyoming's first ir; rigation project im Albany coun’ The Pioneer canal now waters many thousands of acres of land, on which!development has been constantly un- a direct line, over which fs hauled the is produced small grain crops of the|derway throughout the county. Thelentire Missouri river traffic of the finest quci!ty which yield abundantly, |Leramie refineries receive their crude|Union Pacific, destined for the Pacific The first problem which faced the|/supply from the Rock creek field in|In addition to thia traffic, amis well early agricuiturist was the short grow-|Carbon and Albany counties. This|known, the main Union Pacifio line ing season, which was caused by the/field fe now the ‘second in point of|from Omaha to the weet handles = ma- high altitude. Laramie and the sur-| production in the state, and with the/Jority of the nation's transcontinental rounding territory having an slevation | rejuvenation of the oll industry|business, which, west of Laramie is of approximately 7,100 feet. This/throughout the country {s capable of diverted to the lines of the Southern problem has now been successfully | producing many times its present cur-|Pacific, San Pedro and Oregon Short solved. tailed flow. line. Last year excelled all others of} It has ben estimated by the United record. The various varieties or wheat | States Geological survey that Rock yielded from 50 to 65 bushels per acre creek can accommodate 400 producing and certified potatoes ranged from|wells in its known proven area, which | the city, the largest stockyards on the 250 bushels to 286 bushels per acre|is being increased daily by additional|¢ntire Union Pacific system for the on prepared land. The several ensi-|wells. Unlike most Wyoming -fields,| feeding of livestock in tranait, and lage crops varied in yield from 65|the entire Fock creek structure is|the largest ice plant owned by the bushels to 110 bushels per acre, with| controlled by the Ohio Ofl company,| Pacific Fruit Express company, a rail- the exception of Russian sunflowers|hich is dveloping the field along the;'#4 subsidiary, which operates the which ‘varied from 20 tons to 32 tons|most scientific basis, |Tefrigerator cars of the system. These per acre. Rail Facilities Exceptional are industries which em) Oil Lends Prosperity. Laramie’s railroad facilities are ex- In addition to its livestock and|cc-tional. ‘The city te a district aivi- agriculture many other Wyoming|sion point on the Union’ Pacific rail counties benefited most materially|road, and controls the concentrated through the adjacent ofl development.|transcoritingntal traffic of the entire There are located at Laramie two re-|system. To the east and west of Lara- fineries of the Standard O!l company|mie is extended a fan-shaped network From the above description, Lara- mie’s key situation can be readily real- fzed. There is located at the edge of KENILWORTH GIFT SHOP ‘ Harriet A. Little 236 SOUTH WOLCOTT STREET Te eee 137.500 = tssoool 1 et 117 Hi s2.500]| IIT [$1209 | EFFICIENCY anp ILLNESS NEVER. GO TOGETHER There is just one thing about Chiropractic that sick people are interested in and that is “Will it make me well”? My friend, the common, everyday citizen enjoys the same privilege of opinion that I enjoy. I may argue with him from now till eternity on the merit of the upon which Chiropractic is founded. These things we may never agree upon; yet if we both see health come to our mutual friend after he has suffered for years, and if we learn that he has been regularly visitnig his Chiropractor there can be no argument be- tween us on the fact of what it has done for him. Witness this thing often enough and the matter of the Chiropractic premise is a lost issue. My friend may still believe that surgery, medicine, mental suggestion or diet are excellent things, yet he cannot deny that Chiropractic is effective. We find that all our ents have meant wasted effort and lost time; but the one thing worth while, the only thing that he, as a sick man is concerned about, is that Chiro- practic brings health. Whether the Chiropractor followed one curriculum or another is no longer an {ssué. My friend visits the ‘Chiropractor for just one reason—to regain his health. i How can my friend satisfy himself that Chiropractic is effective, often where everything else has been tried? Let him investigate our National record and the record of his local Chiropractor. Our National record shows us the leading drugless healing system today, while in 1894 we had not been born. Our National record shows that we are legally recognized in over half the states in the Union, because your neighbor and mine demanded Chiropractic service. Why this rapid development? Because millions of sane, astraight-thinking, common people found themiselves getting well under Chiropractic adjustments, Just as sick people everywhere are interested in the one question “Will it get me well’? Bo Ts the Chiropractor interested in the one issue of getting you well. He knows that his greater service to humanity in the future depends on his restoring health to you. You say “Will Chiropractic make me well’? Our answer is our record of growth and this growth is exactly proportionate == to the health Chiropractic has brought. Drs. J. H. and Annie Jeffrey GRADUATES PALMER SCHOOL Suite 318 Midwest Bldg. Phones-——Residence 93; Office, it iit ATTA kKNANMNRs structure. i = = 706 through-| for them——Geneva Times. ARA v E CENTER OF WIDE CIRCLEOF GROWING ACTIVITIES| IVESTOCK, OIL, RAILROAD POINT — HOME OF UNIVERSITY Agricultural Development Important Adjunct to Wealth Production out the season, an averages of 200 men monthly, varying according to the sea- sons. Other raflroad institutions include the large oar and «igine repair shops and the tie preserving plact. The tic preserving plant at Laramie is one of the largest in the west and handies over 2,000,000 ties annually, of which number over 1,200,000 are cut tn Al bany county within the boundary of the Medicine Bow forest. The timber activity necessary to supply this large number of ties for the railroad, alone, is @ large one, and in addition many thousands of fest of lumber are cut annually for manufacture into lumber, mine timbers, eto. Untversity Center, Laramie ts also the educational cen- ter of the state, being the seat of the University of Wyoming, which during the past three years has made such rapid growth that the school officials have been facing a most difficult prob- lem in keeping abreast of the annual increase in enrollment, which has taxed the {nstitution’s physical equip- ment. A description of the University of Wyoming will be found elsewhere in this tesue. Laramie has also been well favored with bighways, being on the Lincoln and Rocky Mountain Righways; the first, the nation’s greatest trans-con- tinental highway, and the second, the newest route to the Yellowstone pari, which is destined with a \uw years’ development to rival.all others, as the country traversed by the Rocky Moun- tain highway ig the kind which the tourist travels thousands of miles to see and comprises a §00-mile stretch of the Roaky Mountains, from Denver, Colo, to the heart of the Yellowstone park. Laramie ts the heaquarters for the Rocky Mountain Highway association, and its offices are constantly besfeged with inquiries relative to this new route to the nation’s greatest play- ground. ‘Within and near the city are four cement plaster mills, which during the last year of record mined 40,000 tons of raw gypsite, from which the plaster is manufactured. There aro also a number of small industries, such as brickyards, planing mills, etc., scat- tered throughout the industrial section of Laramie. annual payroll approxt- 000, and the total bank in excess of $5,000,000. Japan boasts the only woman pearl divers in the world. Our women do not have to dive for them They fish THE CASPEix DAILY TRIBUNE AND WYOMING WEEKLY REVIEW LINKS PRESENT > WITH THE PAST {Much of the History of Northwest Attached Famous Route By GRACE RAYMOND HEBARD (University of Wyoming) merson Hough has said that “of all the great trails of the west, the Oregon Trail had the soberest and most tremendous significance. The road to Oregon was the road of the Uttle fellow; of the business man; and th® home builder; of the man who tilled the soil and pald the taxes fur @ country and increased the nation’s wealth. They were men who reaped where they had sown.” The old Oregon Trail wonded tts seemingly endless way to the west across the entire state of Wyoming from east to west, entering what is now Wyoming on the south sidv of the North Platte river near the present Gay city of Torrington, Goshen county, moving west by the way of Lingle, to Fort Laramie, Guern: Glendo, Orin Junction, Douglas, Glenrock and to Casper. At Casper a crossing by ferry and by ford was made of the river, the road then swinging out to the southwest, on the west'aide of the North Platte; then to Independence Rock and directly west on both sides of the Sweetwater for its banks afforded an overfiow of wa- ter which made a natural meadow on either side, a paradise for oxen and horses and in Inter days for the cattle and family milch cows; through Devil's Gate; in view of Split Rock, to South Pass where eastern flowing streams had their origin; into Pacifico Springs which fed the western streams on their way to the Pacific and the Gulf ot California over the Little and Big Sandy, near Farson (Sweetwater county); through Eden Valley; to the Green and southwest, via Gran- ger, to Fort Bridger ta coun- ty) and then west and northwest out of Wyoming. The Oregon Trail reaching from Westport and Independence, Misd sourl, ‘near Kansas City, to Fort Vancouver, covered 2,020 miles, Fur Traders First Travelers. The earliest deys of the Oregon ‘Trail were confined to the wander- ings of the fur traders and trap- pers and the retinue following the fur companies, fur companies In which were interested, William Ash- ley, whose men discovered South Pass (Fremont county), the Great Balt Lake, the Green river, the Sweetwater and its union with the North Platte; this Ashley who, on July 1, 1825, established the first OREGON TRAIL | general rendervous tn this country, in @ locality west of the Green riv- er about 20 miles north of the ‘Wyoming-Utah boundary line. The rendezvous was a meeting place where the fur men assembled to ex- change whiskey, tobacoo, powder, beads, beaver traps, sugar and cof- fee tbr skins of all kinds, particular ly those of the beaver, Here the last year’s contract was cancelled and the one for the coming year wna consummated. More often than not the lone trapper started out on his new contract minus all ot his earnfhgs of the past months, everything dissipated on cards and drink. Other men of the fur companies were: Smith, Fits patrick, Provost, Bridger, Sublette, Jackson, all of whom have perpet- uated thelr names and their in- Gomitable courage in the names of our mountains, passes, streams, lakes, forest reserves and coun- ties. Original Route Not Obilterated. Tho Oregon Trail was, and ts yet over many stretches, a well defined ané continuous route from the Mis- souri river to the Pacific ocean. Ashley’s men in 1824 opened up the | county directly west of South Pas: and by 1826 the trail was well known from the Missouri to the Sweetwater. This route remained practically the same from this last date until 1869 when the coming of the Union Pacific ratiroad through Wyoming made the trail no longer @ practicable route to the Oregon country and California. True as the emigrants journeyed to the setting oun, numerous cut-offs were estab- shed here and there, but substan- tially the route remained that of the Ashley men during its contin- uous use for half a century, The Oregon Trail was a natural road, a broad highway, though the govern- ment nover contributed toward its improvement or surveys. It was a natural road of opportunity and the longest in the world’s history ex- cepting one in Russia. In Siberia there is a longer highway but at stated intervals along its way are buildings inhabited by man and his family. For many years there were but four houses or posts between Independence and Vancouver, Lara- mie and Bridger, in Wyoming, Hall and Boise in Idaho. No engineer ever placed his rod’ or transit on this trail; no grade wes ever estab- lished on it; no bridges were bullt over the streams crossing its path; no fillins were constructed; no mountain pass urveyed, yet lacking all of these more modern methods of road construction, Fa- UWE ID OOMT AI BONE me Phone No. 794 Pine Mountain Field a perfect geological structure, already proven for oil and gas. The heavy paraffin oil now being produced is an exceptionally high grade lubricant. It is particularly adaptable for use in heavy machinery and has given superior service for use in lubri- cation of tractors and railroad equipment. The California Oil Company is now developing the most favorable part of this remarkable Office 317 Consolidated Royalty Bldg. PAGE FIFTEEN Marker On Old Oregon Traii ther DeSmet tn tne 403 prono’ the Oregon Trafl one of the finest highways in the wo turies this road was the Indians as well as trail wild animals the “first surv not by compass but by It was the path of least in part Was @ natur Raliroads Follow Trail. Practically over the entire length of the Oregon Trail, been constructed way for t There is, h ott thia stretch reach south and west to is unused portion of is due to the f: route saved over 40 miles for the railroad in {ts run within Wyo- ming. who tn 1832 obssi ma Jo the presence of oi! tn the vicinity of Casper; the mission- aries, Lee, Parker, Whitman, Spaulding, DeSmet; the govern ment explorers, Fremont and Stans- the forty-niners, the Mor- the first Iine, the to protect the emigrants on the journey toward the western country where opportunity seemed to unresistingly use « beckoning Onger, and, finally the homesesker, the man with the family who held the Indian back, and who made the “Great American Desert’ give up her treasures in gold, minerals and agriculture. The fur traders found the Ore gon Trail throughout. It was the home-seeking population which deepened it, made it permanent and called aloud for a transcontinental railroad. Casper Dry Cleaning Company Enjoys Growing Patronage The Casper Dry Cleaning cam- pany, which has passed through numerous hands in the last two years, 1s now in sole charge of Les- lie Gaunt and ©. Gterson, wio are concentrating all of thelr efforts in making the complete establish- ment one of actual service to the public, Mr. Gaunt was formerty associ-} ated with the Midwest Cleaning company as manager, and has built up @ wide circle of friends through his business who now depend upon the Casper Dry Cleaners for their work. Mr. Glerson has been {n the game line of business for many years and is an expert operator as well as @ manager. Ho is direotor of the shop under the partnership recently formed. Since the company has comp into the bands of Mr. Gaunt andi Mr, as in the promptitude of service, The establishment at 1230 East Fifth street employs in the work of cleaning and dying and pressing every known machine for dompan- ies of Jts kind, and is well fitted to care for the oneday service, while special emphasis is bet: put on the one or two-hour is work, Alternation and repair rooms have been added to the space and effic- tent help has been hired to care for the needle work and tafloring with the business, The company has nine persons employed who 4@re sutted to the work through years of experience, A new delivery motor car has been recently added to the garage, and response to calls is now tmmediate- ly posstble in any kind of weather, The French process of dry clean- ing, which ig used by the Casper dry cleaners, is absolutely santtary and employs gasoline with certain other ‘harmless chemicals which are effective In removing all dirt, spots and stains, Plenting of all sorts, plain, ac cordian, knife and box, is also a specialty of the company for tha poular sport skirts and dresses which are so much fn vogue. Bpectal care fs taken In the dry ‘x and repairing of kid The dying department of the firm bas been unusually success. ful in its undertaking, and al- though no guarantee is made on articles to be dyed, woolen and silk materials have been beautifully done by their process. The motto of the concern {fs to cater to the public and to give true service in every case. Since taking over the busincas we have doubled our out-of-town business @hd parcel post business will be given prompt attention.