CRANE

• The La Plata Miner, published at Silverton, Colorado, speaks thus flatteringly of Wm. H. CRANE, a former resident of Mauston, and well known to deserve all that can be said good of him:  "We are reliably informed that friend W. H. Crane, now with Sherwin & Houghton, will start a general store in Ophir just as soon as a train load of goods can be got across the range.  We shall be sorry to lose Billy; but our loss is Ophir's gain.  We believe the good people of Ophir will give him a liberal share of their patronage as they will find him a square man to deal with."  The Mauston Star, 13 April 1882