From our files: Progress opposes new national park

100 years ago, Aug. 29, 1925

The Cowley Progress

People of Cowley in common with every citizen of the Big Horn Basin should lose no time in sending letters in vigorous language to both their senators and representative in Congress, protesting against the creation of another national park. It is proposed to create a new national park, taking in the Big Horn Mountains to the east of us – between here and Sheridan. And the surprising part of it is that the Sheridan Chamber of Commerce is oddly behind the movement.

75 years ago, Aug. 31, 1950

The Lovell Chronicle

Glen Olsen of the Sodbusters 4-H Club in Lovell raised one of the largest cabbage heads ever seen here. The vegetable was on display in the window of the Chronicle office last week and weighed 20 pounds. 

50 years ago, Aug. 28, 1975

The Lovell Chronicle

Construction is nearly complete on the motorcycle racing course here, and the first race is set this Sunday. The motocross course, located just south of Lovell Lake on the old highway to Greybull, was built by the Cactus Smashers motorcycle club of Lovell with volunteer labor. It covers 1.3 miles of hills, gullies and bumps and features spacious pit and parking areas.

Work began over a year ago on the site, with the Bureau of Land Management issuing a land use permit following impact studies and planning. Those helping besides club members included American Colloid with a front end loader, C.E. Spragg with a welder, Glade Williams and Pacific Power and Light with speaker posts, Larry Ellis with farm equipment and others.

25 years ago, Aug. 31, 2000

The Lovell Chronicle

As the hustle and bustle of another school year unfolds this week, a familiar face will be missing from the classroom and coaching ranks at Lovell High School. Tony Mullins, who has coached and taught social studies at LHS for the past 11 years, now finds himself on the go as a territorial business manager for the pharmaceutical company Bristol Myers-Squibb, representing the company through all of Wyoming and part of Nebraska.

10 years ago, Aug. 27, 2015

The Lovell Chronicle

The driver of a semi-truck transporting minerals to a nearby bentonite plant collided with a herd of 110 cattle on Tuesday afternoon on Highway 14A near the causeway east of Lovell, narrowly missing two cowboys on horseback, who were driving the herd down the highway. 

According to Big Horn County Sheriff Ken Blackburn, the cattle, a combination of Angus and Longhorns, belonged to the nearby McNabb ranch. He said the cowboys had called the proper authorities, the highway department, to notify them that they would be moving the cattle from the Crystal Creek area east of the causeway to the Beaver Creek area west of the causeway.

At around 1:30 p.m., Darold Newman and his 11-year-old nephew Trent McNabb were on the highway in the process of moving the cattle when the truck driver allegedly drove at full speed into the herd. Lieutenant Phil Farman of the Wyoming Highway Patrol said investigators estimate that the semi-truck was travelling at a speed of approximately 65 mph.