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About The Cody enterprise and the Park County enterprise. (Cody, Wyo.) 1921-1923

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WEDNESDAY, MAY S, 1922
Figures Startling On
Forest Fire Losses
Every year forest fires in the Unit
ed States destroy or damage sufficient
timber to build homes for the en.lie
population of a city tie size of Wash
ington, New Orleans, or San Francls
<fo, according to a statement just is
sued by the Forest Service. The area
burned over each year, it Is said, is
equal to a strip ten miles wide reach
ing from New York City to Denver.
The publication directs attention to
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Attomey-at-Law
Cody, Wyoming
Pioneer Bldg. Phone 98
M. CHAMBERLIN
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Cody, Wyoming >
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Hyor, Justin and Teltzel
on Hand
Chaps, Bits and Spurs
Tourists Outfits
SI,OOO Reward
will be paid for information lead
ing to the arrest and conviction
of any person or persons killing
or stealing stock belonging to
W. R. COE
Cody, Wyoming
the fact that fifteen years ago the
bulk of public sentiment against for
est fires was in the East.' Today it is
in the West, where 61 per cent of the
remaining timber supply of the coun
try is located. Over 81,000,000 acres
of forest lands that were formerly
covered with timber are logged oft dr
burned and completely denuded of
tree growth. The solution of forestry
problems, experts say, lies largely in
fire prevention and reforestation.
The National Forests, which con
tain 498 billion board feet of mer
chantable timber, or 23 per cent of
the remaining timber in the country,
are said to bear an important relation
to an adequate future wood supply
for the nation. These forests are to
day receiving protection from forest
fires and are being cut to a limited
extent so as to maintain a continuous
production of new forests.
The fire loss in the National Forests
was limited in 1921 to 376,208 acres.
A total of 5,851 fires occurred; 74 per
cenf of which were due to human agen
cies and could bave been prevented
by care on the part of forest users.
The direct loss amounted to $212,182
worth of timber and forage destroyed,
and $512,106 was spent by the Forest
service in fighting fires.
Fires in the National Forests of
Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon
and California, numbered 3,843 or 65
per cent of the total. In the National
Forests of Arkansas and Florida, 354
fires burned over 118,500 acres.
RangcrHndsNcstof
Foxy Camp-Robber
I
Since the year 1 there has been a
tradition that nobody ever found a
camp-robber’s nest.
Recently Forest Ranger Bruce Tor
gny of the Medicine Bow National
Forest made himself eligible for the
Hall of Fame along with Peary and
Columbus bj discovering a nest of one
of these foxy, feathered nuisances
hidden among the branches of a lodge-;
pole pine in the heart of a spruce j
swamp near Foxpark, Wyoming.
During the years 1917 and 1918 the {
forest service, cooperating with the
state museum of Colorado, organized
a search for a camp robber’s nest
Probably over 500 forest rangers and
woodsmen took part in this search,
which resulted in the finding of only
one neat, with eggs.
The camp robber is said to be the
embodiment of the souls of dead tie
hacks and the woodsmen believe that
misfortune will fall upon anyone who
harms these birds.
THE TYRANNY OF THE
MAJORITY
Alex De Tocqueville, the French
economist, who in the first half of the
nineteenth century was commissioned
to survey democracy as it exists in
the United States, in his comments,
says:
“The greatest danger to liberty in
America is In the omnipotence of the
majority. A democratic power is ne
ver likely to perish for lack of
strength or of resources, but it may
very well fall because of misdirection
of its strength and the abuse of its
resources. If ever liberty is lost in
America, it will be due to the oppres
sion of the minorities which may
drive them to an appeal to arms. The
anarchy which must then result will
be due only to depotism.”
Written nearly a century ago, no
thinking man today can consider this
sentiment as less than a prophesy. It
is true the United States has survived
several periods when tyranny of the
majority has seemed almost intoler
able, but never before has there been
such g derth of defenders of individu
al rights. The right of personal opin
ion and its expression is challenged
by the majority. Proscription is ram
pant. In moral questions despotism on
the part of officers of the law is ap
plauded. The courts are filled with
satraps of the intolerant majority.
There is need for an a wakering to
the fact that our liberties are in dan
ger. The growth of radicalism has
its origin in the oppression and sup
pression from a government sustained
by a bigoted majority blind to their
own interests.
Since the days of Adam, the ques
tion of how far one man is his bro
ther’s keeper has been one of contro
versy. Late years have been charac
terized by more and more taking over
by organized society of the regulation
of the, individual’s conduct. Public
officers, quick to sense the fact that
the majority stands for a close con
trol of individual actions, have gone
sled-length in paternalism. Bureau
cracies, far beyond the wildest dream
of a few years ago, have grown up.
The idea of freedom itself has chang
ed from a belief that the individual
is entitled to work out his own desti
ny with the least necessary govern
ment, to a belief that the ramifica
tions of government must be infinite
that the individual may have proper
••freedom.’’ The first belief grew out
of a confidence in democracy; the sec
ond, whether its supporters will con
fess ‘t or not, comes from a vast dis
trust In democracy.—From Henry
Ford’s paper. The Dearborn Independ
ent.
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LEGION
(Copy for Thia Department Supplied by
the American Legion News Service.)
LEGION’S GENUINE 'CAVE MAN’ j
Parlee Gross, Buckeye Soldier, Spe
cializes on Underground Explora
tion—Says “It’s the Life.”
Remarkably few newly married cou
pies ever think of settling down In a I
little cave in the j
Ozark mountains
And yet Parlee C.
Gross of Mc-
Comb, 0., say?
that caves are
much warmer
than apartments
and farmhouses. ,
They are also;
much cheaper.
When Gross,!
who is a maga
zine writer con
nected with the
V.
See-America-First movement, returned ;
to McComb from an exploration of’
the celebrated Ha Ha Tonka region
in the Ozarks, he didn’t understand
why his American Legion post hadn't
picked out a nice ripe cave for Its
quarters. He said cave life was the ;
only life. He has become not only a
cave admirer, but a cave connoisseur
as well, and in appreciation of his ex
ploration achievements, officials have
named an interesting geological for
nation which he discovered “Gross’s
Giant Gnome.’*
The American Legion at McComb if
proud of its genuine “cave man’’ —par-
ticularly proud of the fact that be has
been selected as one of the member?
of a party to penetrate the unknown
regions of Wyandotte Cave of Indi
ana and the Great Onyx Cave of Ken
tucky.
DENVER LEGION BOOSTS HER
i
Mlm Edith Adame, Beautiful Adrets,
as Genuine as the Centennial
State’s Mountains.
Members of the American Legion in
Denver testify that all the ex-eoldler
talent this side of
the Rockies does
• not compare with
a good - looking
girl, when It
comes to putting
. on a show. They
are gradually
1 coming to this
i con duel on—being
' some few years
behind Broadway
managers, who
discovered the se
cret several sum-
mers ago by reading old Egyptian
! and Syrian manuscripts.
Legionnaires in Denver didn’t breathe
any of this to Miss Edith Adams when
they asked her to join their show, be
cause, after all, they don’t like to ad
mit it except In plenary session, with
newspaper men excluded. But the ru
mor Is that Miss Adams knew it any
way.
The particular thing about Miss
Adams which her Legion friends are
proud of is that she doesn’t "flap.”
The foibles of the eastern debutante
fail to interest them (or their audi
ence) when they can find an amateur
actress “as genuine us their own Col
orado mountains.”
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’ USED THE GOLD BRICK CURE
“Treatment” Ended Many Cases of
Flat-Feet, Semi-Blindness and
Other “Defects.”
A gold brick which made the lame
to walk and the blind to see is told
of by Capt. P. H. McCarthy, Develop
inent Battalion No. 4, Fort Benjamin
Harrison, Ind., who gets the credit for
introducing the term “gold brick" into
the army during the war. The unwill
ingness of certain recruits to submit
to “development” brought the brick
into play.
Innumerable cases of flat-feet, semi
blindness, and other ailments were
continually reported by reluctant sol
dlers at the camp. It was up to Cap
tain McCarthy to discover whether
these were ailments or alibis. When
the medical profession failed, the brick
got in its work. The soldier would be
handed the gold article and told to gc
about as he pleased, free from drill
hikes, labor of any kind, but he must
carry the brick. JWhen he saw an offi
cer he must hold the brick out with the
left hand and salute with the right.
The sick man was invariably back
drilling with his or'flt the second
day. Flat feet and cold ones alike
were cured.
Foch Sees Himself In “Movies.”
Marshal Foch sat comfortably hi
Paris the other evening and saw films
of Ids 10,000-mlle tour through the
United States. The “movie” was part
of the entertainment which the Paris
post of the American Legion had ar
ranged for the marshal. Ambassador
Myron T. Herrick said, in introducing
Foch: “If it had been possible for
Germany In 1914 to have seen a pic
ture so truly representing the love
tietween France and America, the war
would never have been.”
Early Potato Growing.
Although potatoes were cultivated
privately in Scotland in the beginning
of the Eighteenth century, they werf
rarely raised in fields before 1735. In
1697 the first Scots writer on hus
bandry strongly recommended theli
cultivation in the fields.
Serial No. 013741
NOTICE OF THE APPLICATION
of the Oregon Basin OH and Gas Com
pany for a United States Patent to
the Chitty Oil Placer Mining Claim
United States Land Office,
Lander, Wyoming,
February 16, 1922
Notice is hereby given that in
pursuance of Chapter 6, Title 32 of
the Revised Statutes of the United
States, the undersigned, The Oregon
Basin Oil and Gas Company, a cor
poration ogani zed and existing under;
the laws of the state of Wyoming, I
with its principal office and place of
business at Cheyenne, Wyoming, by :
Wilfrid O’Leary, its duly authorized ■
agent and attorney in fact, claiming ■
one quarter section or 160 acres of oil •
placer mining ground, known as the ■
“Chitty Oil Placer Mining Claim,”
situate, lying and being in Park Coun-'
ty, Wyoming, has made application to'
the United States for a patent for
said oil placer mining claim, which is
more particularly described as fol [|
lows:
The Southwest Quarter (SW%) of
Section Twenty-eight (28), Township
Fifty-one (51) North of Range One
Hundred (100) West of the 6th P. M.
The notice of location of said
Chitty Oil Placer Mining Claim
is of record in the office of the Coun ;
ty Clerk and Ex-Officio Register of,
Deeds in and for Park County, State ;
of Wyoming, at Wyoming, in
Book No. 6 of Location Notice Re
cords at Page No. 234 thereof.
That said claim and premises, to
gether with the surface ground there
in contained and hereby sought to be
patented, is bounded as follows:
On the north by the Cardan Oil
Placer Mining Claim;
On the south by the Caroline Oil
Placer Mining Claim;
On the east by the Wiley No IX OH
Placer Mining Claim;
On the west by the Mars Oil
Placer Mining Claim;
Any and all persons claiming ad
versely to the said oil placer mining
; claim and premises or any part there
; of, so above described and applied
for, are hereby notified that unless
their claims are duly filed according
to lav. and the regulations thereun
der, within the time provided by law,
with the Register of the United
| States Land Office at Lander, Fre-
I mont County, Wyoming, they will be
■ barred by virtue of the provisions of
said statutes.
IRVING W. WRIGHT.
Register.
First publication March 15, 1922.
Last publication May 10, 1922.
Serial No. C 13745
NOTICE OF THE APPLICATION
of the Oregon Basin Oil and Gas Com
pany for a Un s ted States Patent to
the Wilson No. 2 Oil Placer Min
ing Claim
United States Land Office,
Lander, Wyoming,
February 16, 1922
Notice Is hereby given that in
pursuance of Chapter 6, Title 32 of
the Revised Statutes of the United
States, the undersigned, The Oregon
Basin Oil and Gas Company, a cor
poration oganized and existing under
I the laws of the state of Wyoming,
with its principal office and place of
business at Cheyenne, Wyoming, by
Wilfrid O’Leary, Its duly authorized
agent and attorney in fact, claiming
one quarter section or 160 acres of oil
placer mining ground known as the
“Wilson No. 2 Oil Placer Mining
Claim,” situate, lying and being in
Park County, Wyoming, has made ap
plication to the United States for a
patent for said oil placer mining
Claim, which is more particularly de
scribed as follows:
The North Half of the Northeast
Quarter (N%NE%) off Section Six
(6); and the Northwest Quarter of
the Northwest Quarter (NWtfNWtf)
of Section Five (5), Township Fifty
(50) North of Range One Hundred
(100) West of the 6th P. M.
The notice of location of said
Wilson No. 2 Oil Placer Mining Claim
is of record in the office of the Coun
ty Clerk and Ex-Officio Register of
Deeds in and for Park County, State
of Wyoming, at Cody, Wyoming, in
Book No. 6 of Location Notice Re
cords at Page No. 247 thereof.
That said claim and premises, to
gether with the surface ground there
in contained and hereby sought to be
patented, is bounded as follows:
On the north by the Purple and
McMahan Oil Placer Mining Claims;
On the south by the Wilson No. 1
Oil Placer Mining Claim;
On the west by the Anderson Oil
Oil Placer Mining Claim;
On the east by the Wilson No. 3 Oil
Placer Mining Claim;
Any and all persons claiming ad
versely to the said oil placer mining
claim and premises or any part there
of, so above described and applied
for, are hereby notified that unless
their claims are duly filed according
to law and the regulations thereun
der, within the time provided by law,
with the Register of the United
States Land Office at Lander, Fre
mont County, Wyoming, they will be
barred by virtue of the provisions of
said statutes.
IRVING W WRIGHT,
Register.
First publication March 29
Last publication May 24th —1922
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