In this morning's paper, for 2018, we read that an oil prospect is potentially going to be opened up in Converse County that's potentially massive in scale. Over 5,000 wells could be drilled and up to 8,000 job resulting.
That would be another boom in Wyoming's boom and bust economy.
Indeed, it would be such a boom that I'll predict right now it'll shut down all conversation about "diversifying the economy" in really short order.
Will it happen? Well, only time, OPEC, war and the price of oil will tell.
War, but not OPEC, and the price of oil was the big news on this day in the Casper Record. Indeed, it was all oil on that day. Even Colorado shale oil.
For whatever reason, the other Casper paper, the Casper Daily Record, wasn't focused on local petroleum on this Tuesday of 1918.
The war was. But figuring in the center was the tragedy of a killing that was due to Prohibition, and a mistake, apparently.
Not national Prohibition, but Colorado's. A Colorado police officer opened up on what he thought was a fleeing vehicle and a 28 year old man lost his life in the process. The first of many, in one way or another, incidents involving booze, suspected booze, and official authority.
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