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Show BUSINESS MAN FROM CARTER, WYOMING W. H Harvey, merchant and stockman stock-man of Carter, Wyo., is in the city on business and shaking hands with friends Carter Is among the old time sta tions on the Union Pacific with no importance at all except as a distributing distrib-uting print Mr Harvey says that nine postoffices of the rural dlstric ts get mall at Carter and that all products prod-ucts shipped to those points are unloaded un-loaded at Carter It Is an uninviting barren section. Mr Harvey says. In the palmy days of Fort Bridger. only ten miles away. Carter was a lively railroad station, and the record rec-ord show 8 that some stirring tiroes were experienced. At the time of the building of the Oregon Short Line from Granger to Portland, grading outfits along Hams' Fork receive, their supplies at Carter and the graders sometimes started things in the saloon in Ihe little station on the Muddy river. A company is now erecting a rig for boring for oil at Carter with fair prospects of getting a flow Mr. Harvey does nearlv all his buying In Ogden. In fact he seldom goes elsewhere to purchase. |