The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-08-25

in love and sunshine in one of the COST
est homes in Christendom.
We wish all the opponents of Woman
Suffrage could visit the homes of Lara
mie, where women vote. and thereby
get opportunity to dispel the 6ogies that
haunt them in the shape of uDkempt
children, neglected homes, masculine
women, and general debauchery.
They'd sleep better ever after-that is,
if they're honest in their present oppo-
sition, which we can't help doubling,
if they're sensible. The more we travel
over the mighty expanse of United
States territory, the more do we see of
the Hand of Omnipotent power in paw
ing the way for future generations of
the sons of men and women.
The following description of Wyom-
ing, from the able pen of DIR. Hayford,
which, from what we have seen of the
Territory, wefully endorse, is appended,
both on account of its accuracy and to
save ourself the labor of doing our writ
ing:
Laramie City is one of the most beautiful
towns on the great tTraus-Continental railway,
and its situation is one of the most grand and
picturesque to be found on the continent.
It is the county seat of Albany county, and
! is located in the center of the Laramie Valley,
the most fertile portion of Wyoming Territory,
and is surrounded on all sides by the lofty,
snow-crowned mountains which constitute the
great back bone of the American continent.
The city is only five years old, but it already
has all the appearance and enjoys all the So
cial, moral, and intellectual advantages of an
eastern town five times its size and a century
old.
Laramie City has five fine churches, repre-
senting the Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist,
Episcopal, and Roman Catholic societies, all of
which have settled pastors and regular service.
Each of these churches has fine organ, most
of them are neatly carpeted and furnished,
and three OF them have bells.
Laramie has public graded school employ
ing three teachers and numbering one hund-
red and fifty scholars. II is well furnished
with maps, charts, globes, ETC., and is under
the mana cement of the most skillful profess
siOnal teachers, and is conducted in all respects
after the most approved modern method of in
stitutions of learning.
All the benevolent and fraternal societies
flourish among us. We have three lodges OF
Odd Fellows, Masonic lodge, a Good Temp
lar lodge, and several other religious and be-
nevolent associations, all of which are in a
prosperous aad healthy condition.
Laramie has had in operation for three years
a literary and library association, which holds
regularly semi-monthly meetings for literary
exercises, provides courses of literary and pop.
ular lectures for the public each winter, and
has accumulated library of a thousand ol
twelve hundred volumes of choice, standard
literary and miscellaneous works.
The mountain regions of Wyoming abound
in the precions metals. The same mountain
chains run through our Territory from which
so much gold and silver is being extracted in
Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona south o.
us, and and in Utah, Idaho, Nevada, and Mon
tana north of us. And just as rich lodes
gulches, and placer mines are known to exis
in this Territory as in either of these othel
States and Territories.
There are within hundred miles of Lara
mIe City a hundred miles in length of guche
which will pay an average of five dollars pc
day, in gold, for every days labor, and the!
can be worked with very little outlay of capi
tai.
Wyoming contains enough coal and iron t.
supply the whole world for ages. And situated
as we are, almost in the center OF the West
where an immense demand for coal and iroI
is rapidly springing up, and where we shal
have an ineXhaustible market at our very
doors and on all sides of us, this one resourc,
alone will, when developed, make Wyomin!
to the West what Pennsylvania is TO the Eas
the richest part OF the trans Mississippi coun
try.
From the mountains of Wyoming, too, mus
come the timber and lumber to supply tree
less country thousand miles in extent oI
each side of us, TO build houses and fences
and to build and supply the constant demand
of thousands of miles of railroads all through
the West.
Wyoming is, moreover. destined to becom
the great stOck-prOducing country OF America
Its millions of acres of rich and nutriciOu
grass, upon which cattle thrive and fatten dur
ing the whole year, are destined to be utilized
From its high, dry, and pure air, it is pecu
liarly adapted to the raising of fine-woole,
sheep and goats, as well as cattle and horses
In a few years its export of wool, hides butter
: cheese, taIlow, and beef must bring millions Q
dollars back in return. What Horace Greele
said of this country, that sit costs no more t
raise an OK or COW than TO raise chicken" i
emphatically and literally true.
: Although the Territory is in its infancy, sufi
: cient experiments have been tried in agricult
ure to demonstrate the fact that all the com
mon varieties of roots and vegetables grOv
most luxuriously- Wheat, oats, barley, an
{ other cereals, grow and mature, giving yield
e per acre which would be deemed fabulous il
f the Eastern States, proving that Wyoming vii
be self-supporting in the way of agriculture
products, as soon as our people become inter
I pSted IN farming DurSuftS
We last nightvisited the rolling mills
e where pig-iron is converted into railroa
e rails and rolling stock. The grea
e black throats of the mighty chimney
s sent forth flames of lurid glare, remind
e ing you of Dante's "Inferno' or Milton
!, "PandemOnium." Crude iron goes int
t the mouth of the great gaping furnace
: and comes out after a while as white q
snow and as hot as Hades. Workmer
s as black as Erebus, armed with iro
e tOngs and clumsy wheelbarrows, rus
8 frantically across the rooms bearin
v their heated burdens to the roller
;, where they are thrust into the teeth {
r, great machines that pounce upon theI
:. with crashing roar like falling thur
d derbOlts. You shut your eyes and thin
of eternity, but the crash is soon owe
|, and you gradually grow accustomed I
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