Wyoming Trivia (Renamed) (Riverton, Afton, Saratoga: architectural, parlors, most expensive)

[CptnRn]

Ask another question WyoNewk, this one was discussed once before. It is the Great Divide Basin, an interesting place.

http://www.city-data.com/forum/10828227-post415.html

This one of the few maps I could find that shows it.

[WyoNewk]

Rats! It's getting difficult to come up with good questions not already asked!

A manufacturing plant was started in 1939 to produce ag aircraft for high altitudes. It also built an early snowmobile (snowcar) that was used in Wyoming for several years. What was the name of the company and where was it located. (It's still there as a museum.)

[jody_wy]

after Call Air in Afton they built ag planes then polias, and homelite snowmobiles then camper shells then back to pitts and husky's

[WyoNewk]

You know more about it that I, Jody. I stopped there about 15 years ago -- an interesting place. The "snowcar", as I recall, was a prop-driven sled used on Jackson Lake.

Your turn.

[jody_wy]

the year 1955. 400 employed , with a pay roll of $2,000,000, what was the industry and what county? off to the hay field....

[CptnRn]

Petroleum Industry, Natrona County, I can't document it, but that is my best guess.

[jody_wy]

nope not oil

[CptnRn]

My next educated guess would be uranium in Fremont County.

On Sept. 13, 1953, Lander machine shop operator Neil McNeice and his wife Maxine were hunting antelope in the Gas Hills in eastern Fremont County. McNeice took along a Geiger counter for the fun of doing “weekend prospecting.” When he fired up the device, the needle indicating the presence of radioactivity leaped to the right. Recognizing the importance of his discovery, McNeice filed mining claims on the federally-owned lands later that month. Within days, as many as 140 other prospectors had located claims in the same area. By the end of 1954, 7,000 claims had been filed. McNeice and several partners formed the “Lucky Mc” mining company, building processing plants near the mine sites and attracting interest from national investors. Previously wide places in the highway became thriving towns, almost overnight.
Uranium surpassed coal in production value in Wyoming during the 1950s. Previously, mineral production meant coal and oil and ownership usually resided elsewhere. The major coal mines in the 1950s were owned by the Union Pacific Coal Company, a division of the railroad that remained the largest private landowner in the state. A few mines, such as those at Kemmerer and near Sheridan, were owned by smaller corporations, most of which were headquartered in the East. The Union Pacific Railroad, one of the last lines in the country to do so, was switching entirely from coal-powered steam locomotives to new diesels in the early 1950s.

[jody_wy]

nope it a industry that has died not totaly dead yet

[WantWyoming]

Gold mining..or panning for gold?