The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-11-11
TIE IMMIGRATION BUSINESS.

The Sentinel, of Tuesday, again re-
fers to this subject and advances
another row OF ideas upon it. 1t is
not what the Immigration Bureau has
actually accomplished for Wyoming.
that excites the admiration OF our CO.
temporary. but what it will probably
accomplish next spring, o II next year,
or the year after, or some other Year.
The Sentinel takes occasion to rap the
first Commits i,uer. Maj. +. F. Bishop.
over the knuckles for want o. interest
in the Territory during the term he
was In Office. We have no objection
to this castigation, believing that Mai.
Bishop has blows to give as well as re-
ceive. But the truth demands US to
state what came directly under our
observation, that during the time lie
was Commissioner OF Immigration,
well written articles upon the resour-
ces Of Wyoming, more particularly its
grazing advantages. appeared fire.
quentIy in the Chicago Evening Jour
nal, Colorado FurHtGr and the Rural
NetU Yorker, over his initials or name.
These communications averaged at
least two each week. These did the
Territory no harm even If benefits
were not apparent, but we submit, in
all candur, that there are numerous
citizens in private life In Wyoming,
who have written private letters to
friends and acquuintaRces in other
F-..TE4E.. 1T 100. F..,aI tI.f1 ,,..r
into the newspapers, and did quite AS
much towards advertising the wealth,
and advantages Of Wyo-
ming. as the contributions of the
Commissioner, which were paid for.
It is admitted that Mr.. JefTrey's in
tellectual labors, as Commissioned, was
slow and that his ''goud pamphlet,
gotten up TO advertise the Of
our Territory, was published too late
to secure much OF the immigration Of
this season." This is an ungraclous
avowal { o make against Mr.. Jeffrey,
10y I'M enthusiastic admircr like the
Sentinel.
So far as the getting up of the good
pamphlet" TO advertise the resources
OF Wyoming, we entertain n shrewd
opinion hat it was not altogether the
work Of Il single brain, and that the
well known modesty of our cotcmpo-
rary is what prevents the whole truth
of the matter from being publicly
known. But this is neither here nor
there. If the present Commissioner
was gifted with all those intellectual
hat so eminently qualify the editor
of the Sentinel to write up or down the
most attractive essays on the geogra-
ply, topography, geology, mineralogy,
agricultural and mineral wealth, eli
mate and scenery of Territory, it
would not make anything in favor OF
the continuance of the present lmmi-
grafton Bureau at the expense of the
Territory.
Two years experience ought to sat
isfy observing and impartial persons
of the uselesShess Of the present Blu
neau. We called upon the Sentinel
10 point out to us the advantages in
detail, to the Territory, of this Immi-
grafton business. 1t might have cited
us to II rancho located and improv-
ed, n stock range taken up and
stocked, one colony, or ono family
even, that was added to Wyoming
through its instrumentality, if, as Il
matter of fact, it could do 50. Instead
of doing this it says:
"1he Cheyenne LOADER propounds
the query To the Sentinel what ben
eft has the Territory derived from
the operations Of the Immigration
Bureau?'
We beg leave to remind our CON
Temporary we have not undertaken To
champion either the Immigration
law or the manne in which its pro-
visions have beer carried into opera
ton. We are free to confess that it
has not resulted in rs much benefit To
the Territory as it might and should
have done. Many untoward things
have served to defeat its object.
We are frank to say that if we con-
sidered hat the continuance Of the
Immigration Bureau, wonld be ben
GfiCial To our Territory we would adj
vocate it. But we do not believe that
il will. We will give nur reasons
more in detail in another issue of the
LEADER.