Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 2, 1922, Page 7

fhe Casper Daily Cridune j—the estimate that it, for the fiscal year ending June 31, last, will receive WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1922. $1,407,000 as tts share of the revenues | MONDELL JOINS RECLAMATION DIRECTOR IN TRIP | : TO GUERNSEY TO TAKE STOCK OF PROJECT PLANS "== === guaranteeing royalties to states con- taining government owned coal and PAGE SEVEN stomach this Non-partisan The visit of Director Davis, in ents] ‘The history of good roads as chief after a pause in which the grin had | can't connection, is exosedingly significant. | factor ia. petoniog, tess aie to| been reflected—"I am going to vote | } the world was ly sketched, and for you. You did all you could for The area he plans to cover in this! i.5 congressman touched modi the period following the spree of state Glone is eloquent of that His/ passing on the fact that the roads wartime spending, and, tour of inspection was to keep him in| were made sooner possible, not only = = the valley of the lower Platte over/by his active and valuable advocacy Sunday and Monday. From there he/ of federal aid, but at least in one in- Guernsey Unit for Which Wyoming Con- gressman Has Labored Holds Great Possibilities for the Future Matter of considerable importance to the state at large and tremendously significant in its bearing on the future of . the Guernsey district was canvassed jointly Saturday by A. P. Davis of Washington, D. C., head of the federal reclamation service, and Wyoming’s congressman and Republican sena- torial candidate, Frank W. Mondell. The canvass included personal tn spection of the Guernsey dam site in the North Platte canyon just north of Guernsey and a visit to the Sun- ‘rise mine, one of the finest fron prop- erties in the country, Inspection and visit follow definite steps toward the actual beginning of werk on the dam which will provide hytiro-electric wa- ter power for towns and mines in the Guernsey-Linglr «istrict, in addition to impounding wat for the frrigation of more than 50,000 tes potentally, as valuable as the fertilo lands of the famous Wheatland flats. That work on the dam will begin at an early date is indicaced by the fact that the reclamation service al- ready has contracted for lands in volved and now waits only for funds temporarily tied up through congres: sional! gonerosity toward settlers on earlier projects. Thanks to Mondell, the prospect for speedy commence- ment of work on the dam is very bright despite that congressional gen: erosity. just referred to. It was due directly to his efforts that the leasing Dill provided for distribution to recia- mation service, and to states included in the projects of that service, of reve: nues derived from public ofl and coal lands, and revenues so accruing to the service will soon be available for the work, it 1s believed. ‘The dam, a supplemental feature of the lower North Platte project—a project now fully operative in the Tor- rington district—is to cost $2,000,000 and will add more than 50,000 acres to the 220,000 already under irrigation in the area further down the river. It is easily the outstanding foature of this new unit of the project, a unit to be completed in every detail at an estimated cost of not more than $5,000,000. The dam is to be of earth, stone and gravel with steel sheet piling in a tremendous fill 105 feet high when completed, 600 feet wide and 300 feet through at fater level. It is estimated that the dam will “beck? the waters of the North Platte for 16 miles above will provide annually an estimated mean of 4,250 hydro-electric horse power—6,000 in summer and 2,500 in winter—for use in industrial develop- ment in the vicinity of Guernsey and Lingle. Guernsey is especially interested in the promised development of hydro- electric power. Already two mines are in active operation there—the Sun- rise iron mine about seven miles from Guernsey and a rich limestone deposit fust outside the town. There are vast deposits of exceptionally high-grat iron ore in the vicinity of Sunrise and it is more than Ikely that the Colo- rado Fuel & Iron company, owner of the mine now actively operated, will establis) a smelter at Sunrise or G y in the event that hydro- electric power may be had. Ore at present is shipped to Guern- sey over @ spur line owned and op- erated by the C. R.&I. From Guern- sey {t goes to the smelters at Pueblo via the Burlington. In this dual con- nection—railroad and mine-a remark of Superintendent Thomas Tucker {s interesting, particularly at this time. “There is no labor trouble at Sun- rise. ‘There has been none in 20 years.” Notwithstanding that 20-year period of active iron mining, the mining in- dustry in the Guernsey district is yet in {ts infancy, the possibilties in that line alone are little more than sug- gested by what has gone before. For instance, several million dollars worth of copper has been taken from the Sunrisé mine merely as an incidental to the mining of fron. ‘The visit to Guernsey and Sunrise, insofar as Mondell was concerned, followed a brief visit at Chugwater and a longér stop at Wheatland en roufe from Cheyenne and the Fron- tier Days celebration to the Mondell home in Newcastle, Friday night, spent in Wheatland, was marked by a well-attended get-together” meeting in the courthouse at which the con- gressman and senatorial candidate spoke at some length on a variety of and jointly inspect the ground. Director Davis was not in a posi-| tion to say just when the actual work) ot cénstruction would begin, due to) the temporary dearth of funds al-| ready noted, but he pointed out that the lands needec already have been| contracted for, their actual acquisi- tion waiting only telegraphic indorse- ment from Washington, and Wyoming could have no better guar- antee than this of the intention of the reclamation service to proceed with the work at an early date. The fact that the lands have been contracted for is generally regarded as a splendid omen by the Guernsey! There is another ome’ auspicious, perhaps—the Congressman Mondell always has taken a lively interest in this project so important to Cuernsey, to Wyo- ming and to ex-service men, and is very diligently pressing for its early completion. In this connection tt may be noted that the Guerney unit !s much near. er realization, trom the standpoint of finance especially, by reason of Mon- Geli’s intelligent and tireless support of the reclamation service and the in- terests of those states which that progressive department of the federal government serves. Wyoming has had a striking ex- ample of this within the last few days oil lands, that Mondell fought for 10 Years, finally attaining his aim after the people had returned a Republican congress two yaars age It Is tho imasing bill too that sup- plies a considerable portion of the reclamation service's revenue and it ts believed that the reverue this ad fiscal year from this source alone w go far toward making it posgible for) the service to begin work at an early date on the Guernsty unit. Inability of settlers on developed government projects te pay assess ments for construction, returns from which also go into the reclamation fund, ts the main obstacle in the way of immediate commencement of work on the dam. The plight of these set- tlers, as a direct result of the, post war reaction, impelled congress last fall to enact a special bill extending the time for such payments. Other wise thefe would have been ample funds on hand for the dam, Howevér, there is no reason to be- eve that these settlers in time will not be as prosperous as the earlier settlers of the Wheatland flats, and when this time has come, as was pointed out on the brink of the pic. turesque gorge where the dam {s to be, Wyoming will have taken another big stride toward the high place it is destined to occupy states. inthe union of! was to go to Casper in connection| with the Alcova unit, and thence to] the upper valley of the Platte, j where a big dual project ts contem- lated. Completion of this ptoject| ould add to the trrigated area of} Wyoming more than 100,000 acres be- ginning high up in the Saratoge val- ley, near the Colorado line, and ex- jading north to the line of the Union Pacific rafiroad. From Wyoming Davis goes to the Glen canyon district of the Colorado river in Utah, joining a party there ,that will explore the canyon for 125 miles. He plans to proceed from the point of completed exploration to Flagstaff, Ariz, and thence to the Boulder canyon country on the Ari- zona-Nevada line in connection with California’s Imperial valley project— the project that recently brought to Cheyenne the Colorado River commis- sion headed by Herbert Hoover. Congressman Mondell's talk at Wheatland, prior to the Mond Davis trip to Guernsey, comprised a arfety of subjects ranging from the duties of floor leader in the lower ouse—a position second only to that of speaker, and one which Wyoming's representative has occupied for the last two years—to the natural won- lers of Wyoming, described by the congressman as second to none in the world. USCO at the*IO2° Price with No Tax added ST Fall at the $10.90 price it seemed to motorists as if the stance by actual exploration on the back of a too-well recommended “bronc.” ‘The duties of floor leader, Mondell pointed out, were explained at some length because several old friends, in complimenting him on the distinction, had inquired in the same breath, “But* what the devil does it mean?” In explaining the duties Mondell aiso showed, incidentally that Wyo- ming will suffer no loss, but rather be the gainer through transfer of his talents and influence to the senate. Extension of federal credits to farmer and livestock man—saviour of two industries vital to this western country—was another matter touched on. Tho speaker showed how inade- quate was the plan as originally sug- gested and how richly Wyoming has benefited from that finally adopted. The following day an incident oc curred which indicates that the more thoughtful among the farmers appre- ciate this service of Wyoming’s Re. publican delegates to congress, and that too rgardiess of party lines; that they not only appreciate past per- formance but have an eye to the fu ture as well. Just before Mondell left Wheatland for Guernsey a dry farmer vas intro- duced. “Tham a Democrat,” the farmer mitted grinning, “but this yea Consumer Of Coal Last year 7,400,000 tons : of coal, 2,340,000 bar- rels of fuel oil, and 3,000,000,000 cubic feet of natural gas were burned in the manu- facture of cement in the United States. Each 376-pound barrel of cement represents an average fuel con- sumption of 200 pounds of coal, or its equivalent. Fuel is one of the large necessary cost elements entering into the manufac- ture of cement. About 334 per cent of the cost of manufacturing Guernsey, impounding about 140,000] matters inextricably {fterwoven with 30 x 34% USCO had reached far aL acre-feet annually. the future development of the state cement oes for fu Plans and specifications for the|as a whole and of vital interest re- the of tire value. | 4 projected dam were outlin on the] gardless to party lines. ground in elaborate detail by Andrew] His failure to “‘talk politics” at this Yet the makers of USCO have now | Every one knows that coal ‘Weiss, éngineer in charge of the| time resulted in the good-natured ‘ds- produced a still better USCO—a longer | North Platte project. This detailed explanation, prompted by queries from Mondall and other members of the party and occasionally interrupted by suggestions from Davis, who had gruntlement of some who! were not backward in so stating to the speaker in the period of direct personal salu- tations that followed the talk. To all these he promised politics in plenty wearing tire with— Thicker tread—thicker side walls. Better traction, longer service, costs a great deal more than before the war. been over the ground a number tofa little later on. more mileage. ’ In 1921 the coal bill of the times before, furnishes the where-| Director Davis met Mondell at vient ind aled withal for an casily imagined picture|Wheatland, having motored up from And the tax is absorbed by ceme. ustry tot in which Guernsey rivals Gasper as} Cheyenne with Charles A. Guernsey a + an industrial center and treads hard|of Guernsey and several other promt- the manyfacturer. The approximately $40,000,000. on the heels of Wheatland in the ma®-| nent Platte county Republicans. Mon- é ter of agricultural development of| dell, himself, had been met at Chug- ._ The new and better 22a Jans roundabout. water by a party from Wheatland, USCO is‘a tire money’s Ne ed Impounding of North Platte waters|inoluding County Chairman Meglemre worth im- ew above Guernsey, in addition to adding] and Charles R. Mason. From Wheat- . Heat required in cement more than 50,000 acres to the sum|land the joint perty proceeded to possible a year ago. e er Py 5 total of Wyoming's irrigated lands,|Guernsey in three motor cars, Mon- I abl making is about 3000 de- dell and Davis departing by train in 't is possible Fahrenheit. This i MILITARY SCHOOL COLONEL | the ovening for Newcastle and Tor- today only in | grees eit. Lhisisa EAD. rington, respectively, | i BOSWELL, N. 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