Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 22, 1922, Page 29

> ¢ fear IND HEAL EARLY PIONEERS FOUND 2 eS \|CATTLE INDUSTRY FIRST, IS STILL BIG FACTOR ‘WEALTH IN RANGE | Statement Showing Land District and County PAGE THREE MILLIONS OF ACRES ARE OPEN TO ENTRY Area in Acres Unsurveyed 45,120 2,700 109,850 603.768 67,960 21,581 20,820 19,840 62,241 30,355 the light natre of the wuck, the pos ‘i 1448683 aimilities of engaging in it with only (Photo by Courtesy of Urcted States | N rye @ small expenditure of capital, and + Forest Service) on = the small amount of tand required 2,541,766 2,541,764 make {ni stespation., eapectiliy at ee a cig in Total gh bane wot id ie * oe tractive women young “peo a Maxon Basin, Washakie Na-| =vanston— a te = ob 251 1,106,563 ple or to those who are not empecialls tional Forest. te: a 1,156,019 eat 613,472 3,790,864 Lower—Sheep being count-| Sreeiws‘er_ - Penton. Sosthtss 563,698 ed as they cross North Brush —_. imeem Creek Bridge into National Total... .sccececsessconecececonoce ss O,876,487 1,278,993 7,153,429 Forest. Lander— +) Ris Born . Seth RULES | (Fis encase 161,933 5 7 3 rig tell the story to illustrate the| Fremont ...... -. 1,191,765 41,677 1,883,35: opportunity in Wyoming to engage in fe consequen’es of trying to manage a this business. Wreamirg business fron; some office | Hot Springs ...........02e-seeseseee ska 40,116 mH in Durvpe. Dibtahee’and inexperience” Gotnbaned |PMEE ---s+0-scccesecdecsedetecevoncoonrns TO5E18 3,184 778,980 vr cece cary tee Pee aatahts * pais deadisacesecncy eosesee RABE.” “eye o0kase 3,185 ‘The Frowen outfit also originated otal ee vaseutsh eitstacsvagetsb tes BSOSAST 89,827 | 8,455,336 i packing plants, i tt located, no distant future date che motor vo Ox Team in Fall and Found They Had Thtived [Sut or business 2“ OPPORTURITIES OFFERED BY clustve attention: of a state official On Range cul Winter Snows Industry’ BeneAtted by Experience. If such an official were created 2. 1s contended his department could de. Poguibilities Opened ‘by Chance When Freighter Lost the iden of a big packing plant on top of Sherman hill and actually invested Jarge sums of money in this foolsh undertaking. Some the packing Dilant buildings remained thore for years. They thought on account of the high altitude, cold nights and fare atmosphere that western cattle “could be slaughtered on Sherman hill and then shipped to distant markets without using any ice, thereby mak- Ing a large reduction in packing plant costs and putting all the older As a mattor of fact, these spec- tacular failures gave the Itvestock tn. /Total Grand Total dee e ese e ee e+ 16,834,437 196,400 218,440 409,120 22,040 1,521,060 18,353,619 Area of Public Lands Unappropriated | TREASURE HOUSE OF WYOMING UNEQUALLED IN ALL NATION vote the necessary time to stamping out the pi of stealing and alter ing the automobile numbers. At pres- ent the practice promises to become ¢ne.of the most highly developed of Sahin pursvlts: ‘weilmated that a total of 30,- duetry In Wyoming a black eye and Probably seriously retarded the growth of the industry.. I know tn the early 90s, after the fact of some of these diamal failures had ‘been fully measured, one cow outft in this state went to @ prominent bank in® Bos- BY BL BROOKS. (Former Governor of Wyoming.) In preparing a’brief article on our livestock industry I feel that Iam treading on familiar grouud, as for over 40 years have been personally engaged in growing all kinds of live- on: Heonses will be issued during the Present year, for whish work a large amount of correspondence is required, necessitating tho entire time of sev- eral clerks. The’ last session to. $287,182.03. stock, ox teams loose on the’zange. The following spring: be was astounded to that his ‘cattle, without care or teding, bad wintered fairly well, and ) >experiences later on hap- rin Talay Spartan an aap ON |California and Oregon tratls, especial- ly along the Platte river tn central. vehicle Ucenses in 1920, was 23,926)" and the total revenue amounted to $287,179.35. From these figures, Mr. Chaplin says, it can be geen that in spite of the financial stringency there was a marked increase in Wyoming in the number of automobiles. The num- ber ls expected to reach the 80,000 mark this year, with a revenue accru- pe, Sunde cag ot $310,000. the retirement of highway bonds. The first bond issue for this purpose ‘was $2,800,000, The taxpayers will note with interest that almost one-fifth, or $530,000 of these bonds have been paid by the state treasurer from motor, ve- hicle tax funds. — Operating at the present rate, in the best short. grass, open range country, tn the world, and cattle- growing on the range developed into & prosperous business,backed by con- servative eastern capitalists and by large sums of English and Scotch money. In the early 80s it was con- sidered a fairly safe and remunera- tive investment, while the romance and adventure of it appealed to the young men of both continents. Thé call of the wild, the inspira- tion of our matchless plains, the ozone from our pine clad hills, crept into the blood and made life in the open worth living. In those glorious days countless thousands of antelope roamed the plains, great bands of elic ltved in the meuntains, and the brush} most important, for practical dates back to 186% when a certain uP and work « big scope of open stockmen. Our range cattle industry f@nge country overy 24 hours. ola time bull team freighter on the Laramie plains was caught In\ a a¢ business through this vere fall storm and forced to turn his -This industry can be sey. y. classified as our oldest and all our eavly settlers were section wrt ‘Y prosperous, Thi ineep, no settlers, and the grass was excellent. Cattle could be run the year Around on the open range at a cost’ of a dollar per head. Those were boom days in the. cattle business. Speculation ran wild and large herds}. et sold and posing ides outfits in this section of Wyoming. The greatest beef herd ever gathered on our plains was made up from the Frewen cattle by Fred Hesse,. the foreman, and driven down to’ Fort Fetterman with:the intention of iship- ping them from as soon as the railroad, which was then building west, reached that city: At Fort Fet- terman, however; Mr. Hesse recelyod a cablegram from London instruct- ing him to turn the beef herd back and ship them from Medora, a load- ing station near the old Roosevelt range in Montana, the intention be- ing to ship them direct to Duluth and export to Liverpool. Jess than a decade the first issue will! along every stream afforded hiding) ‘he herd, numbering several thou- have been out and theze will be/ places for numberless deer. The sand, was turned back on the Jong to spare for the second issue of} range cattle business became a fad. weary trail across the waterless des. money. $1,700,000, , It should be «source of satisfaction to automob’le owners to know that the fees which they are paying are be- ing used to build and maintain the roads:over which they travel and grat- {fying to the taxpayers that these @ebts are not being piled up to be paid out of general taxation. possi... vasier-<Thoscass oe Peace societies, for the prevention of war, were first established in England in 1816. —_——>—__—_. More murders are committed in a year in Chicago than in the whole of the British Isles. Pc Snes aid Dogs, rabbits, chickens, and pigeons are said to be immune from seasick: ness, Certain trees like human beings are said to be Hable to catch coll if ex- posed to draughts. Sons of nobility and collere graduates rubbed elbows with Texas cowboys around the sage. brush and buffalo chip campfires. Wyoming was any man’s land, free, wide open, and red- blooded: cow-men took possession. 1,500 “Punchers” in Roundup. In 1880 I helped Urive a herd of 3. 000 Oregon cattle from Fort Hi Idaho, into eastern. Wyoming. We followed the old Sublette and Oregon tratls, swimming the cattle across the Upper Green river, then east through the South Pass country, cn down the’ Sweetwater and Platte rivers. finally branding and turning the herd loose at the Circle Bar ranch on Running Water. ‘The following year I joined the spting roundup near Fort bbeigealy ore ‘There were tou mess ;wagons on roundup, manned by 150 cowboys, using 1,500, saddle ponies. The boys !were all hard riders and could round- Wyoming Raised eMpiber’ Cattle ert to the Northern Pacific railtoad. Before they cuuld reach the shipping | sotten through with the drive. | years afterwards the cowboys used to recount glorious tales of the hard- ships they endured, and many ponies perished in bringing the horse cavie back to the home ranch. ‘The cattle were shipped to Duluth and arrived there too late for ship- megt abroad, as the lakes had frozen over. After some endless cablegrams. the cattle, which had been turned loose in the snow and were sold for a song. Many of the men estimated the oy asco as at least $200,000, In the early 80s the range cattle were no £ 5 FA k ah fish in Massachusetts bay. Since these early colossal and ridie- ulous failures in Wyoming the cat- edge gained through the hard school of experience, stockmen—even on the pen range—rarely have bad losses. Grain, ofl cake and hay are great life savers and can be fed successfully. The Wyoming livestock industry ts here to stay and waquestionably will continue for years to come as the greatest and most successful industry in cur state. The more acres put in cultivation the more forage produced; and this means ultimately 4 greater number of livestock. To people com- ing to. our mountain country from eastern. sections, we can aay that with reasonable management, this indus try will return a greater net profit than canbe obtained in other sections of our country. The opportunities for to giving close personal attention and supervision to the business will sede the old haphazard range Ways and conditions... Wyoming will suo- cessfully grow, with fair profit, more cattle, sheep and horses than she has ever produced in the rast. CARBON BACKS ~NEW PROJECT: Realization of Big Creek Plans Would Place Big Acreage a Under Water. iii ia Pe ge armen ton, offering as security tor a large joan a mortgage on severa) thousand head of cattle on our ranges, and the banker told him that he would just a3 soon have a mortgage on the cod- achievement of men. It has taken men with a broad vis- ton, with determination. energy, talent ‘and nerve, to prove to the rest of the union that our moun! Qre treas- ure. vaults and that our plains and valleys can produce food and clothing for millions of people, From an agri- cultural standpoint, we are aware that in the past 10 years, there has been a ‘wonderful transformation in our state. The breaking up of the big open range herds and the advent of of thousands of new eettlern, ‘have changed the whole face of "the country. Hence wo are witnessing a new order of things, well.improve’ farms with orchards, granaries and dairies, tak- ing the place of large areas of pasture and range lands; trails are broadening int highways; well constructed schools have supplanted the old shack; banks have sprung up all over tho state and are now operating where ‘a fow years ago farm loans would have been con- sidered hazardous; while the broad ex- er-| Panse of more than one ranch has be- come the precincts of a city. There is no questioning the fact as to the desire of people, qualified for agricultural rursults to leave the over- crowded sections of the middle west >| and east and settle on and develop the fertile lands of Wyoming. Farms and ranches have increased «| more rapidly in Wyoming than in any other state in the union, with but one exception. - The increase in 1920 over 1910 was 42.1 per cent. In 1910 we had 10,987 farms and ranches, valued $97,915,277; In 1920 we had 15,748 125. Our farms and ranches today cover 11,809,351 acres. Tho surprising fact is that the majority of these farms are from 100 to 500 acres, thus prov- ing beyond a peradventure of a doubt that intensive cultivation of the soll begin to see now that time and thought in settling up Wyoming has Not completely been in vain; that our progress is not a phantom of the jee that we are united in miles from Cody, the county seat on farms and ranches yalued at $234, 748.-| state next year. Wyoming, a part of the great west, constitutes the richest free gift that has ever been spread out before civilized man. To those who will make this state their home, it offers an exit into a free life and a greater well-being, among the bounties of nature, midst resources that demand manly exertion and in return yield tu each, an indefinite ascent into the social the up-building of the state; that we have been growing for many years and now approach the prime of our ood, ready to take our place with other states in agriculture, industry and wealth. SUGAR BEETS BUILD WEALTH Bugar, once # luxury, has now be- come a necessity. Tho civilized na- tions hav become so accustomed to its use as en important food that great inconvenience is experienced if it can- not be had, or if the supply is reduced. This has mude the sugar producing Plants almost as staple as those from which bread is derived. As @ result, sugar beets have won an important place among ths profit- able crops of Wyoming. From re- liable reports received, it ts estimated that very close to 47,000,000 pounds of sugar was produced from sugar beets raised in Wyoming. From this it is readily seen that Wyoming has entered for all time the best of sugar producing states, Sugar beet ratsers received hundreds of thousands of dol- lars this year for their beet crops just at m time when the market for all other crops was decidediy demoralized. There should be a good many more acres of sugar beets grown in the Sa POWELL JUMPS IN POPULATION Powell is located in Park county, 22 Greenhouse Order We Are Operating to Full Capacity. 1922 and Nursery Early. of the plans forsee for 1930 a popula- tion in Rawlins of 25,000; in Saratoga, of 8,000 and in Wolcott of 1 .000; sev- large suger factories and other ‘industries, and a-Saratoga & Encamp- ment raflroad that would much morse |} WM. MOSTELLER Box 1105, Casper, Wyo. than pay running expenses. coeseesooococovenoocoooosoooocooososes Character Mountainous, grazing, agricultural Dry farming, grazing and rolling Grazing, billy Grazing, mountainous Agricultural, @rz farming, grazing OT OGKRAISING ACREAGE TAKEN eee 19 10,701 AGb Dry lands, rolling Agricultural, grazing Grazing, mountainous Grazing, mountainous Mountainous, some timber Léountainow* arid, timber | Broken, griatng and dry farming Prairie, grazing and dry farming Prairie, grazing and dry farming i Mount plains} zinc mountainous Farming, Farming, grazing, timber Pry farming, grazing, alkaline Dry farming, grazing grazing, Grazing, agriculture, timber, moun-| tainous Mountainous, arid, timber, farming, some atone } Farming, minal, grazing and timber } Timber, stone, farming, grazing, | some mineral Broken, farming and grazing Broken, grazing Prairie, grazing Rough, some timber Broken, grazing ! Small areas of timber, rolling, and grazing the ©. B. ang Q. It had a population at the present time of 800 but should be one of the fastest growing commun- ities in the northern part of the state. Powell ts the government headquar- ters for the Shoshone irrigation pro}- ect, which will receive for agriculture thousands of acres in this part of the| state, | j those who lontry. \Legislative Act Provides Homesteads for Thousands At the close of the Civil war, congress enacted the or- liginal homestead law of 160 acres as a reward for the services of those who partici pated in it € uence e But it was soon re b | was not st for the suousss of in the western states jof higher altitudes and lighter precip! tation. Later it was amended by the [stone and timber act, Carey, and desert acts and the tnauguration of the United States Reclamation service, and the 20 and 640 acre homestead ots. The passag? of -he 649 acre grazing act, prior to our entrance into the Great war, was the cause of thousands of ex-sérvice persons filing upon mil- lions of acres of auch land in Wyo- *|ming. The fact that their service, up to and including two years ‘in the army, {ts credited to them ‘a lieu of residence on a homestead, is fast caus- | ing the best grazing land tn the state to pass into private ownership. In 1909 Wyoming had | 87,165,000 acres of vacant public land subject to From that year up to the first ay of July first, 1921, 18,791,488 acios have ben filed upon, leaving 18,353,519 acres now open to entry. In connection is a statement of the femaining vacant land of Wyoming by jcounties and land districts. the south,/ brings considerable rev- enue to the town. There ure coal mines fn the tmme- diate vicinity and the natura! gas line from Elk Basin to Billings taps the town. This provide cheap fuel that ought to attract industrial enterprises \in the near future. The city has a cen- tralized school system and a high school costing 80,000. The principal industries of the re gion are sheep raisine, farming ang* @airying. The Elk Basin oll field, to of the future. eS J.F.J “The largest town in the ig Horn Basin is the slogan for the Powell ONES & COMPANY REALTORS Suite 2, Zuttermeister Bldg. Casper, Wyo. Phone 1204 Res. Phone 690-J We Sell Homes We Sell Investment Properties We Write Fire Insurance We Loan Money We Represent the Security Building and Loan Association We Represent G, H. Murray & Co,