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GW-GRAM NINE ADVANCE IN AGRICULTURAL FORCE: Frank Zumbrink, fieldman at Lyman, was appointed EDMISTON JOINS ANDREWS IN DENVER assistant manager at Fort Morgan and Brush. He began Just announced-by President Kemp-the promotion his service four years ago at Lyman and was later a field and transfer of nine men in the Agricultural Department. man in the Gering district. He moves to Scottsbluff July Northern District Manager Lyman D. Andrews was named 18. southern district manager to succeed the late J. R. Mason. Kenneth D. Knaus, assistant to the southern district The district includes all agricultural operations in North manager in Denver, was given the additional position of ern Colorado. assistant general livestock consultant. Before his transfer John D. Edmiston, manager of the Eaton-Greeley to Denver a year ago, Knaus was assistant manager at factory district, was advanced to the job of northern dis Brighton. Previously, he was a fieldman at Longmont and trict manager, with offices in Denver, to succeed Andrews. Ovid. He has 18 years' service. That district covers agriculture in the North Platte Valley A number of other appointments in the field force and the Lovell and Billings areas. will be made soon to fill vacancies created by these pro Andrews moves into the senior position with some 38 motions. years in Great Western agriculture. He was first a field man in Nebraska, manager at Lyman, Sterling, Greeley, TWO MORE SILVER SLOPE DIFFUSERS FOR GW Eaton, and Billings, then in Denver as assistant vice presi FACTORIES, ONE TO BE AT SCOTTSBLUFF dent, and became northern district manager in 1949. Two more Silver Slope diffusers have been ordered Edmiston started with GW in 1933. He was first a by Great Western for installation next inter-Campaign. fieldman in Nebraska and then in Colorado at Longmont One of the twin-screw units will be erected in the Scotts and Fort Morgan. He was later assistant manager at bluff mill, while the location of the other one wi ll be de Brush, manager at Windsor, and manager at Eaton cided later. The Scottsbluff diffuser will be rated at 3,200 Greeley in 1948. Andrews' appointment wil l be effective about Sept. tons of beets per 24 hours, slightly smaller than the unit now being installed at Billings. The new orders will make 15, and Edmiston's on August 26. Until the change-over, a total of four Silver Slopes in GW mills: the other unit Phil Smith will continue as acting southern district man ager in addition to his regular assignment as general was set up at Eaton last inter-Campaign. agriculturist. Lee Butler, manager at Longmont for the past year, RAILWAY'S HARRY WHEELER CAPTURES was promoted to manager of the Eaton-Greeley factory GW GOLF TOURNAMENT TITLE AGAIN district. Butler was previously manager at Ovid, assistant The GW Railway's grand master of golf, Harry to the southern district manager at Denver, assistant man Wheeler, proved himself just that again by winning the ager at Brighton, and began his service I I years ago as a Great Western Golf Tournament the second year in a fieldman at Eaton. His appointment was set for August row at Fort Morgan on June I 5 and 16. This time, despite 12. rain and cold on the qualifying round, Harry fired 151 J. V. (Vic) Ostermiller, assistant manager at Brush and without handicap. Fort Morgan, was named manager at Longmont. Oster Dwight Gordon of Scottsbluff, a former GW champ, miller has I 5 years of service, all at either Brush or Fort placed second without handicap. He shot a 159 net for Morgan. He was first a fieldman and then made assistant the two rounds of 36 hoies. manager in 1950. His transfer to Longmont was sched The handicap champ was Chuck Sword of Fort Mor uled for July 29. gan, with 144. The tourney was played under the Callo LaMar Henry, manager at Ovid for the past year, way system of handicapping. was appointed to the special position of assistant to the The other flight winners and their handicapped President at Denver. Henry was previously assistant to scores: Bob Brenimer of Denver, 145: Les Enwall of Fort the southern district manager, assistant manager at Morgan, 149: Harvey Lemmel of Denver, 152: Lloyd Jen Scottsbluff-Gering, and began his career as a fieldman in sen of Denver, 145; Ed Niehaus of Denver, 15 1; and Al 1946. He will assume his new duties about August 12. Watson of Fort Morgan, 145. W. C. (Bill) McGuffey, assistant manager at Scotts bluff-Gering for the past two years, was promoted to P. S.: A FEW WORDS TO MARK manager at Ovid. McGuffey began his service seven 40 LONG YEARS ..• years ago at Billings and was later a fieldman at Lyman. He will move to Ovid about July 29. Just in case you forgot to remember, this issue marks Lowell E. Giauque, fieldman at Holdrege, Neb., in the Fortieth Anniversary of publication of The Sugar the Brush factory district, was named assistant manager Press. If you're an old-timer, you'll remember that the at Scottsbluff and Gering. Giauque was formerly a field first issue came out in June, 1917, on mimeographed man at Sterling and Fort Morgan, beginning his service I I paper with a cover resembling a meat wrapper. Who has years ago. He will be transferred July 18. an extra copy around? THE COVER Li1nestone for Great ·western s1igar factories-froni Horse (JrPek Quarry, in 1Vyo1ning. '.l'his scene at the face of the mine shows ,lfotonnan Bei·nie Bartley bringing out a \ trainloaa of limestone froni t h e main rock t1mnel, zeacting some J .130 feet back into t he mountain. F or more about Horse Oreek ana its '·Un cl crground Sugar Tramps;• see Page 4. P llolo by .Joe Ruth. THE SUGAR PRESS ASSOCIATE EDITORS 808 McKEE, Mitchell DOROTHY COOPER, Lyman JACK K. RUNGE, Billings BESSIE ROSS, Lovell LOIS E. LANG, Horse Creek Published Monthly by the Employees of JOHN HENDRICKS, Fremont The Great Western Sugar Company, Denver, Colorado WARREN D. BOWSER, Findlay HAROLD SAXTON, Eaton MARY E. VORIS, Greeley PAUL P. BROWN, Windsor JUNE, 1957 F. H. DEY, Fort Collins BOB LOHR, Loveland RALPH R. PRICE, Longmont LOUISE WEBBER, Experiment Station DICK RIDDELL, Brighton In This Issue ... CLARENCE OSBORN, Johnstown HAROLD CAMP, Johnstown MSG CAL SMITH, Brush UNDERGROUND SUGAR TRAMPS .................................................... 4 GWEN D. BATH, Fort Morgan RUBY REICHERT, Sterling HIGH, WIDE AND HANDSOME ........................................................ 7 G. N. CANNADY, Ovid PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS ...................................................... 8 P. W. SNYDER, Scottsbluff C. W . SEIFFERT, Gering RETIRED SUGAR TRAMPS .................................................................. 9 RUBY BRINKMAN, Bayard C. J. AMOS, Denver OUTSTANDING STATIONS-SCOTTSBLUFF .................................... 10 DOROTHY COURTNEY, Denver EQUIPMENT WEST TO EATON AND LOVELL ................................ 12 DOROTHY HARRIS, Denver JO JACOBS, Denver SELF-SERVICE SUGAR-PART Ill ...................................................... 14 CATHY LEE, Denver BOB MAKIE, Denver MILE-STARS ............................................................................................ 16 HOLDEN NICHOLSON, Denver AMONG THE PERSONNEL .................................................................. 18 RONNIE STAINBROOK, Denver SUGGESTION AWARD WINNERS ...................................................... 30 FREMONT'S SOCIAL CLUB •............................................................... 31 EDITORIAL ASST. ROSE SHIRAMIZU EDITOR JAMES LYON Abol'e-gro1md at Horse Creek, the rock crusher building on the left and tl,e screening building 011 the right alo,ig with the loading tipple and storage bins. This modern limestone plant, ownecl <111<l oper<tted by Great rr·estem, 1rns built in 1947. Underground Sugar Tramps By GEORGE A. BERLIN, Mine Engineer, Horse Creek Quarry They're the men who mine the limestone for GW sugar factories- Great Westerners, too- and this is the story of how they work and how the mine operates at Horse Creek, Wyo. Underground 111 llorse Creelr, Asst. Supt. rf'alfoce Lang takes a turn <ti mucl.·ing in a dernlopment heading. He's drfri11g the drift ,eide enough for double-track. The mobile co111·eyor is used to load into fi,:c-ton main haulage equipment. 4 l!I THE SUGAR PRESS ARALLE1 ,TXG The ( lrcat \Ycs tern t~'pes of sediments which formed nel upward by cutting holes in one P Sugar Company's stature as the sandstones and shales, humped up comer of the tunnel roof every 40 \Yest 's larp;est producer of beet su ove1· the mountain-like laYers of feet along, and tunneling up t·hese gar is our Horse Creek, \Yyoming, blankets, and the sides were nearl)· holes until we 're Hble to widen out mine whieh ranks as the largest straight up and down. )fillions of aho\'e the tunnel below without underground limestone quarr~· in Years or erosion have removed letting the roof cave in. After we the Rock~· )fountain region. ;nost of the blankets and we 're min can widen out the full 20-foot Loeated in a rich nrnching and ing only that small tilted-up portion width of the limestone, we just keep hunting region of the 1,aramie that remains--about 600 feet of br<.'aking- the rock above and letting range, 36 miles northwest of Chey ncarh· Yertical limestone bed that it run out the holes below. enne, Horse Creek <iuarry pro stretches northward along the flank Some of the holes are alwa)·s kept duces 100,000 tons of carefull~· of the old La1·amie mountains for open for tl·avel up and down on graded limestone for C: \\' 's Colo two or three miles. the broken rock to the drilling rado and Xebraska factories each '\\' e 're mining two scams of limc pla<>cs, and enough broken rock is year, and sells another -:1:0,000 tons slone-analagous to two different kept underneath to permit tnwel of undersized rock spalls to out blankets-each of them 20 feet all the way to the top of the lime side users for concrete aggregate, thick and separated hr a sandstone stone J'idgc.