Eureka Reporter | 1906-02-02 | Page 3 | Town That Really is Tough

TOWN IS TOUGH it a in wyoming and whiskey Is 10 a drink persona arriving rom torrington a settlement on the north platte river near the nebraska line re I 1 port that it has become the toughest place in wyoming says the pittsburg chronicle A large number ot graders s em aloyed in the vicinity of torrington in the construction of a fifty mile sec alon of the pathfinder irrigation project and they make the settlement their headquarters tinhorn gamblers shar pers and thugs have flocked to te town and are reaping a harvest from the labor ers two saloons are doing a rela lively enormous one having returned its proprietor 10 clear profit within three months la this place it Is said laborers are drugged slugged and with little effort at concealment Labo reis 1 be made stupid with drink and th b charged for a single drink one man secured three drini a for 30 and then was kicked out of the place because he had no more atton ey later in an outburst pf phllip thropa the proprietor gave him 35 cents with which to secure a meal some of the ditch constructors are understood to stand in with the sa loon keepers and thugs and to enczur ag ethem in robbing the cause the sooner the men go broke the sooner they will return to work