Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 22, 1922, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Casper Daily Tribune asd Wyoming Weekly Review ijseued every even! at Casp publics ming) postoffice as second clase mail oer ada eae ne ata nel meet Member cf the Associated Press and Audit Baresu of Circulation. blinher Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Mall or Carrier, ‘Three } One Month Per Copy . . Wyoming Weekly Review. One Year, by secaeeee Prudden, 5 Steger Bldg, avenue, New York City Boston, Mass. THE BEST OF A GREAT EMPIRE. ation. ie artisti such advertising # the best and most ac finish, to ¢ was accepted ! ceptable style have all 00 tention of the newspa o it deals with the t Wyoming peo- terested and engaged, venient form before readers a world of information oth wise unobtainable. ‘While all subjects of general public Saterest are dealt with, such interests and trrigation are exhaustively k, agriculture ot and treated. Live mining, three mor Wyoming’ chief aceets fare no less Mberally in treatment. While other subjejcts have been dealt with in accordance with their importance. There was an object in view throughout the whole work. It was/to fully inform Wyoming people of the vast resources of their state, set them to devising way and means of eco | nomically employing these =¥r y1rod- ucts for the uses of man and for the enrichment end upbullding the state. Incidentally tf there are those at a istance attracted by the opportunt ties presented to them, conclude to investigate and later make their homes among us and engage In use ful business, we have beon more than repaid by the future prosperity that will ensue from such ; ‘Wyoming 1s tho last of the gréat western states, whose developm has been retarded because capital and effort were elsewhere engaged. Our resources have been but touched ‘when their extent and value are con. sidered. The time has now fully ar rived when materials are sought and enterprise has exhausied other fields and is seeking now avenues of wealth. ‘Wyoming offers the opportunity. No- where can capital and energy find wider range and greater return than An Wyoming. Wyoming people are neither pro. vinclal nor selfish. The population ts made up of enterprising men and ‘women from the older eastern states who have been liberalized and broad- -ened by. the wide spaces and elbow room they have found among our plains and mountains. They want more company of the same kin and ‘will extend welcome to all those who come fo the state to make a living ‘by honest effort. We are a people of industry. In fact we are of the gencr- ,etion that has gone back to shirt @leeves. A drone in the hive ts no more use here thau elsewhere and the ‘welcome he receives ts cold and with- out cordiality. Labor there is in suf- ficiency to eupply all present de. mands. Enterprise and development that creates new neods—they are the things that will find the greatest op. portunity and the warmest weloome. The fellow who starts things and Goes things is most at home in Wyo- ming, and Wyoming is always kind to him. ‘The last of the Western Empire ts the best. The choice wine reserved for the Inst of the feast. All of the other territory has been exploited, erected into states and their people settled down to take their places in the great national family, Wyoming is the last of the great West. Population has swarmed al! ground and beyond her. The unseo ing have passed her by for the far off fields that appear green. It made no difference to he untold riches that remained unnoticed. The time was sure to come when they would be re- quired. The time has come and the rewards are ready for the reaper, GREEN RIVER Is RAILROAD TOW Green River, on the Union Pacific Failroad, 320 miles weet of Cheyenne | and 176 miles east of Ogden, ts also | the division point and terminus of the Oregon Short Line. Grren River is one of the most im. portant railroad towns in the state with extensive shops located there. It is also the county seat of Sweetwater cota The city electric lights, an excellent water and sewsr system, fin schools and churches aid a large cae tie soda works, The hunting and fishing is very fine fn this section of the state. Green River, hadbefore prohibition, the larg. ect brewery in the state. It still has it but is not working. The town is THE CASPER DAILY TRIBUNE AND WYOMING WEEKLY REVIEW NORMAL TRAIL) Mie TREAGURE (Continued From Page 1 ral resources of the s' the most productive and of the ral resources in the present stage of| tevelopment petroleum is the most tm- portant. Of the total value of Wyo merchantable physical products during 1921 the petroleum in- sstry is credited with producing ap- proimately 60 per cent. The pro- portion produced by the mineral indus ries af @ group was @5 per cent. Ag-/ ture produced 20 per cent, the! vestock industry between nine and en per cent and manufacturing the remainder, between five and ex per ent. These percentages throw an in- esting Ught on the rapidity of ange of economic conditions tn Wyo- Ing, a comparatively youthful state. A decade ago the livestock industry was the state's chief reliance, the min eral industries (then chiefly confined > coal mining), was second tn tmport- ance, and agriculture was a poor third. The petroleum industry, now supreme, hen showed a production of less than one per cent of that of 1921. Value of Production. Jue of the output of Wyo ineral industries in 1921 was 50, that of agriculture’s out 39,050, that of the livestock 0,000,000 and that of manu- # $13,000,000. In each Instance sres show a decrease when red with the value of outpat of e industrial dtvisiens in 1920. The 1920 totals were: Mineral, $173, 81F,000; agriculture, $72,832,290; liv Xe, $25,000,000; manufactures, $15,- .000, The same tndustries in 1919 tput products of the value of $2365,- 00,000. Decreases in value of output in 1921, compared with 1920, were: Mineral, $13,469,250; agriculture, $21, livestock, $6,000,000; manu: factures, $2,000,000. It will be ob- erved that in Wyoming as elsewhere, the agricultural industry was hardest hit by 1921 conditions, and that the misfortune of the livestock industry was second only to that of agricul- ture. Wyoming's petroleum production in 1921 was 19665,000 barrels, an in- crease of approximately 1,000,000 bar- bels over that of 1320 despite the fact that conditions in the petroleum mar ket in 1921 were such that it was necessary to restict the production from Wyoming wells. The pro rating of pipeline take during 1921 did not result In @ corresponding curtailment of drilling activity and at the end of the year the developed potentiality of the state's ofl fields is approximate: ly 45,000,000 barrels annually. The minj tp" refined value of the state's 1921 pro- the value—$141,3 of the smalle output of 1920, The 1922 output present conditigns forecast, will be 8,000,000 barrels, ming’s coal mines during 1921 produced approximately 8,000,000 tong worth $24,000,000 at mouth of mine. Approximately 2,000,000 less tons of coal wore mined than in 1920, when the production was 10,000,000 tons, worth $27,000,000 at mouth of mine. The fron ore production of the state was greatly curtailed during 1921 be- cause of industrial and trade condi- tions, The same condittons affected the plaster, building stone and other enterprises conducted in the state. The production of precious metais—chiefly in the form of by-productswas almost negligible. The value of all mineral products other than petroleum and coal may be estimated at $1,000,000. Agricultural s Sub-normal precipitation, demoral- ization of prices and credit stringency were factors that bore down heavily on Wyoming's agricultural industry during the last year. In view of these and other pyramiding misfortunes the industry’s balance sheet for the year may be regarded as truly remarkable. While in a few instances individual production totals of crops were greater than the corresponding totals of 1920, in general the physical production of 1921 was lem than that of 1920, and } 1921, proviuet was distressingty reer than In bushels, in 1921, was 1,700,000 bushels min-| less than that of the preceding year, and its value, $3,500,000, was $8,226, 600 less than the value of the 1910 production. The 1921 oats crop, 10,- 000,000 bushels, was 1,677,000 bushels Jess than the crop of 1920, and its value $5,681,600 less. The potato pro- duction of 1921, 3,844,000 bushels, was 596,000 bushels less im volume and 1,570,000 ieag in value than the pro- duction of 1920, The hay crop of 1921, 2,450,000 tons, was £38,000 tons greater than that of 1920 but fte value was $700,000 leas. A production of 1,615,- 000 bushels of corn in 1921 brought $708650 less when marketed than a 1920 production smaller by 315,000 crop of 1921 wis orly 53,000 bushels less than that of 1920, but {ts values was $918,000 less. Approximately 20,- 000 tons more of sugar bests were produced in 1921 but the value of the crop wag $43,770 less than the value of that of 1920. The 1921 rye crop was 100,000 bushels more than the 600,000 bushel crup of 1920 and sold for $285,000 less. About $3,000,000 less was realized from miscellaneous crops than in 1920, the 1921 return being $9,000,000 as compared with a $12,000,000 return In 1920. Livestock “Coming Back.” The necessity for realizing on herds to obtain means wherewith to meet maturing and un-renewable obliga tions, at a time when prices steadily were receding, acutely distressed the state's lvestock industry during 1921. Despite herd reducticus which in some districts reached 40 per cent, the greater marketing during 1921 returned to livestock g@wers approximately 20 per cent less than realizing sales brought in 1920, the approximate total for the latter year having been §25,- 000 000, compared with $20,000,000 for 1921. The revival of the war fi- nance corporation ag & financing fac- tor during the later months of the year relieved what threatened to be- come a desperate situation and at the end of the year there has been ad- vanced almost one-half of the $10,- 000,000 which {t is estimated will be necessary to put the Wyoming live stock industry back into position to regain a substantial footing. Another cheering factor during the Iatter part of the year was a revival of the market for wool. Flockmasters of the state in 1920 were unable to sell their clips and this situation continued into causing acute financial distress and profound discouragement. A dis astrous, possibly irreparable reduction in ever, and In 19: 000 pounds was shorn, this b: 2,422,000 pounds less than th 000-pound clip produced in 1921, now appears probable that at least $5,000,000 will be realized from the 1921 clip, an important factor in the apparently rapidly approaching reju- venation of the wool-growing indus- try. ‘The state’s manufacturing Industry herd strength was avoided, how- A Wool clip of 26,000,- ng only was effectod adversely in 1921 both by restricted market and reduced prices, but {fs in a position for resumption of normal output when conditions war- rant, and for rapid increase over s0- called normal production when that becomes afvisable. Rail Construction at Standstill. ‘There was Iittle railroad construc- tion In the state during 1921, but im- portant activity in highway construo- tion. The Union Pacific Railroad company was the only constructively active raflroad {n the state during the year. It completed a feeder line from its North Platte valley branch to the new town of Yoder, in Goshen county, train service over the branch being instituted in December, and completed the doubletracking of its main line trom LeRoy, Uinta county, to the western boundary of Wyoming and be- yond to Wasatch, Utah. Late in the year the Union Pacifie took over the Saratoga & Encampment, there- ariably the market value of a given’ by preventing the junking of this 40- under way at the end of 1921. { Continued from Page 1) cubte feet of fuel awaiting the release in that étrection, The towns of the state which al- ready know the advantages of gas as & commercial fuel include Powell, Coay, Frannie, Lovell, Cowley, Grey- bull, Thermopolis, Basin, Riverton and Casper. ‘The first gas was piped to Casper hub of the of! industry of Wyoming.|advancement, abundanes of natural by the New York Of] company. Over These same fefineries have made Cas- €88 for fucl and 33 miles of pipeline costing approxi-| Per the lirgest gasoline pyar ea igre Py mately $1,000,000, brought the gas here from the Poison Spider and South Casper Creek fields. Since the advent of this line the Producers & Refiners company work- ing in eonjunetion with the company has piped gas from the Ma- honey dome field to Casper, a dis- tance of 90 miles and the {uvestment represents millions of dollars. The next largest project for open- ing « market for the gas resources; of the state was undertaken by the Ohio Of company tn an 80-mile line which waa built from the Elk Basin field to Billings. This line will have & capacity of about 50,000,000 cubic feet of gas a day which will adequate- ly take care of Billings, Mont., and intervening cities in Wyoming and Montana. Most of the other Ines tn north- ern Wyoming except the line running between Byron and Greybull which ts 41 miles in length and which was constructed by the Illinois Pipelin: company are incidental to the main Unes which have been run great dis- tances to find markets for the vast gs resources which are avaliable in this state. SS mile feeder of {ts main line, Two/(aily {# operated by the Casper Ice 22,096 head of cattle, amsessod other Wyoming short lines, the Colo-| rado, Wyoming & Eastern, extending! from the Union Pacific at Laremie into northern Colorado, and the Wyo- ing & Missouri Valley, in Crook county, were in distress during 1921 but at he end of the year have brighter prospects. A receiver has been named for the former and hopes to be able to place it on a paying basis, and the latter, after long financial involvement, Snally was sold under the hammer to the chief creditor, by whom it now is betng operated. Approximately 600 miles of high- ways were constructed in Wyoming during 1921, of which 200 miles was financed jointly by the state and fed- eral governments and of enduring character. A state bond issue of $1, WYOMING HITS |sGPAUES “CASPER HUB OF BIG INDUST | ( Continued from Page 1) [manufactured and sold to the world approximately $152,000,000 worth of gasoline, lubricating‘ oils, petroleum (compounds, wax and other petroleum products. ‘Through its refineries Casper is the ‘clty in the world. Their annual pay- roll approximates $12,000,000. Following the trend of of] develop ment, Casper has been made the head- jquarters of ofl companies, supply houses and other institutions, inci- dental to field and refinery develop- iment, which yearly add millions in wealth to Casper’s assets. . Casper’s unique location, as outlet of the Lander valley and the Big Horn of central Wyoming. This field is scarcely tapped yet but the advent of huge jobbing houses here, already in existence and contemplated, will en- \trench Casper’s position during the coming years. | Casper ts also a Givision point of the Burlington and Northwestern railroads and averages yearly greater freight \tonnage, due principally to oll ship ments, than many of the great indus- | trial cities of the country. ‘Casper supports a packing plant which has an employing capacity of }100 persons. The Natrona Power com- any furnishes electrio servies Doth power and lights at a moderate rate. The plant investment of the company here approximates $1,000,000, A huge artificial ice plant capable of furnishing hundreds of tons of ice company. An adequate water plant which provides water meeting govern- ment specifications is owned by the municipality. Casper has an approximate valua- tion of $30,000,000. It is the capital of Natrona county which has an as- |sessed valuation of $61,000,000 all of | which js tributary to Casper and finds its outlet in this city. It is the home of the best school system in the statc ¢f Wyoming and jmany modern bull@ings, including even modern grade school buildings, @ general bigh school and a new vo- cational high school, which represents investment of over $2,000,000, are ope rated here. During 1920 and 1921 Casper spent |approximately $32,500,000 in municipal comprehensive highway construction previously planned and undertaken. The 1922 building program walls for & season of continuous activity that will add several hundred more miles to the graded and maintained high- way systetn of the state. Provisions of better highways is resulting in a steady tncrease in the number of ‘mo tor tourists visiting Wyoming. Ap- proximately 100,000 such visitors were in the state during periods of varying length in 1921 and these, with 50,000 others who came by rail, spent, it is estimated between $5,000,000 and $6,- 900,000 in the state. Irrigation Projects, A number of tmportant trrigation Projects were developed during 1921, construction of which will continue during 1922. These projects, and others definitely ogntemplated, will add half a million acres to the culti- vated lands within the stats. The fed- eral reclamation budget now in prepa- ration allots $3,745,000 for continuation of development of the Pathfinder, Shoshone and Riverton projects. ‘Wyoming banks and other financial enterprises weathered the trying finan- cial situation of 1921 triumphantly. There were a few bank failures in the state during the year, in each instance of @ small state or private bank, and in almost ¢very tnstance the loss to depositors was small. The banks of the state cooperated enthuslastio- ally with the federal government for relief of distressed industries. A revival of building activity ts well riding qualities, few great cars of MAXWELL first glance, such the headquarters for the stockmen of Sweetwater county. latio dium weight, medium priced car, to the point where it The new series of the CHALMERS WILLS ST. CLAIRE The car you have been waiting and longing for—a high grade car of smaller dimensions, a car of less weight and more convenient wheel base, of greater tire economy and lower fuel consumptioa, but one which possesses exceptional roadability and unsurpassed the world today. Casper, Wyo. Corner East Second and Park Ave, The Quality First car—durability and economy combined, in a me Developed by Chalmers engineers is now accepted by the public as one of the good Maxwell—a car which reveals, at your a wealth of beauty and 1 seems unbelievable. . AE ee Cc. E. KENNEDY Phone 1419-W every section of the city, Casper is now one of the most im- Portant cities of two-automobile high- ways, the Grant Memorial highway which extends from Chicago to Port- land, Ore., and the Yellowstone high- way which Park highway avenue to visit all national parks in the western country. Ps Basin has made it the jobbing center|®> is looped with the Park to affording continuous|® quart. The price will remind most RY | potential In the accomplishments of the past ' 350,000,000. The banking institutions of Casper have kept pace with the ci Camper's chamber of commerce, boasting of 1,800 members and the largest perapitn membership of any jcity in the country, has done much to foster the growth of the city and as- sist in jts upbuilding during the past few years. In addition to its of] resources Cas- per is the center of vast rural inter- ests made up chie@ from the live- ‘stock industry. The listed rural as- sets during the past year follow: § valuation ~...-..--.---$ 819,500 093 head of sheep, assess- ed valuation —.--_.... 1,176,671 6,340 head of horses, assessed valuation» -.-..-.--_-___ 202,125 ———+—+—_— POPULATION 0 RAPID INCREASE ( Continued from Page 1) This is an outstanding example of what nm sugar factory will do in a good irrigated district. All other cities with few exceptions have shown steady and permanent ———__. speed record has just been es- tablished for turtles. It is one mile in four years. The only thing slow- er is a German reparationn payment. —Burlington News. Strawberries are offered at 90 cents People that strawberries at this sea- son are likely to be sour.—Detroit 2 jearly every roligious denomination Free Press. 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