WALTER SWANSON.

WALTER SWANSON.
Walter Swanson, proprietor of the Washakie Hotel and Sanitarium at Thermopolis, which he has made a very popular resort with the traveling public and with the local patrons as well, was born April 18, 1869, at Malmo, Sweden, his parents being Nels and Ingrid ( Pearson) Swanson. He pursued his education in the public schools of his native city and pursued a technical course in the Malmo University. He was afterward employed as shipping clerk by a wholesale hardware company in Malmo from 1886 until 1890 and then determined to try his fortune in the new world. Completing his arrangements to sail, he bade adieu to friends and native land and in 1890 crossed the Atlantic, making his way to New York city. In 1896 he was naturalized. He took up his abode in Colorado in 1890 and there engaged in mining in the mountain regions adjacent to Denver. He was interested in mining at Creede, Colorado. in 1890 and 1891 and became a lessor and mine operator in the Cripple Creek district, where he continued from 1892 until 1910. at which time on account of ill health he had to leave the mines and ventured into the wonderful Hotsprings of Thermopolis, Wyoming. Here he took a lease on and began the management of the Washakie Hotel and Sanitarium at the Big Horn Hotsprings, Thermopolis, in December, 1912, and purchased the property on the 18th of February, 1915. He has made his place very popular and in fact it has been so liberally patronized that he is now erecting a fine building at a cost of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for hotel and sanitarium purposes in order to properly care for his growing patronage. There is a new bath and plunge completed May I, 1918, at a cost of one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. This department has been conceded by men who have traveled extensively to be the finest of its kind in America. Mr. Swanson hopes to have his hotel completed before the close of 1918. His business has become most gratifying and annually yields to him a very substantial income. Mr. Swanson was a young man of twenty-one years when he left Sweden and came to the new world, attracted by the broader business opportunities which he believed he might secure on this side of the Atlantic. As the years have. come and gone he has reached the fulfillment of his hopes and is now a prominent figure in business circles in the west, having so directed his efforts that substantial prosperity has rewarded his labors.

Walter Swanson, proprietor of the Washakie Hotel and Sanitarium at Thermopolis, which he has made a very popular resort with the traveling public and with the local patrons as well, was born April 18, 1869, at Malmo, Sweden, his parents being Nels and Ingrid ( Pearson) Swanson. He pursued his education in the public schools of his native city and pursued a technical course in the Malmo University. He was afterward employed as shipping clerk by a wholesale hardware company in Malmo from 1886 until 1890 and then determined to try his fortune in the new world. Completing his arrangements to sail, he bade adieu to friends and native land and in 1890 crossed the Atlantic, making his way to New York city. In 1896 he was naturalized. He took up his abode in Colorado in 1890 and there engaged in mining in the mountain regions adjacent to Denver. He was interested in mining at Creede, Colorado. in 1890 and 1891 and became a lessor and mine operator in the Cripple Creek district, where he continued from 1892 until 1910. at which time on account of ill health he had to leave the mines and ventured into the wonderful Hotsprings of Thermopolis, Wyoming. Here he took a lease on and began the management of the Washakie Hotel and Sanitarium at the Big Horn Hotsprings, Thermopolis, in December, 1912, and purchased the property on the 18th of February, 1915. He has made his place very popular and in fact it has been so liberally patronized that he is now erecting a fine building at a cost of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for hotel and sanitarium purposes in order to properly care for his growing patronage. There is a new bath and plunge completed May I, 1918, at a cost of one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. This department has been conceded by men who have traveled extensively to be the finest of its kind in America. Mr. Swanson hopes to have his hotel completed before the close of 1918. His business has become most gratifying and annually yields to him a very substantial income.
Mr. Swanson was a young man of twenty-one years when he left Sweden and came to the new world, attracted by the broader business opportunities which he believed he might secure on this side of the Atlantic. As the years have. come and gone he has reached the fulfillment of his hopes and is now a prominent figure in business circles in the west, having so directed his efforts that substantial prosperity has rewarded his labors.