The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-01-10
Maintaining Advantages of wyoming

Manufacturing Advantages Of Wyoming
From Gov. Hoyt's report.
1t will be manifest. from the forego
ing account of the great variety ant
vast extent of those natural products o.
the Territory which in all countries
are the bases of great industries; from
the great number and convenient dis.
tribution Of its water powers, as well
as its inexhaustible supplies of coal
from its exceptionally favorable posi-.
ton among the states and territories OF
the Rocky mountain region; and from
the extraordinary facilities for the
transportation of both raw materials
and manufactured products afforded
by the Pacific railway, which for a dis
lance of nearly 500 miles traverses it
from east to west, and by its many
streams and easy wagon roads; it will
appear from all these important facts
that Wyoming is possessed of very SUI
perior manufacturing advantages. With
gold, silver and copper mines multiply
ing and increasing their production,
and with the materials required for
the e duction of these metals from
their ores, it cannot be long ere Wyo-
ming will have her own works as
complete and profitable as any in the
mountains. She may continue to send
her coal and her fluxes to Utah and
other adjoining mineral districts I'M
supplied with the necessary materials,
but she will not be likely to ship her
ores there also.
With mountains of iron, magnetic
and oxide, both Of superior quality,
and lying side by side with perhaps the
best coal in the mountains for reduc-
ing and working that most useful met
al, the people of Wyoming will not
always import their railroad iron, their
merchant iron, their stoves and heavy
hollow wares, and their ponderous
machinery from less favored localities
n and two thousand miles away.
With deposits of graphite equal ed
by few on this side the Atlantic, why
should we not have mills for crushing
it and factories for working up the
product?
With marble preferred by some man
ufacturers, that can be wrought and
laid down in all our mountain towns
and even in the cities and towns Of the
Missouri valley at less than half the
cost of the New England marbles, there
is still another field for enterprise and
capital that should be entered with
out much further delay.
With supplies of native soda, sulphate
and bicarbonate almost in condition to
answer the demands of commerce),
that have no parallel in any country.
it cannot be supposed that we shall be
long without our soda reineries, and
our great establishments for the man
ufacture of soaps of every variety.
With inexhaustible supplies of native
sulphur, works for purifying and ship
ping this article of commerce must one
day be established.
With soda lakes and hads of silica
side bv side and spnnIies Of Ieod az o,,r
very doors, what need that the heavy
and fragile article of glass should be
always furnished to these far-away
communities by eastern cities which
mist first co,lect tbe r.w n.tor;,, 60,
localities bnndred. ~ ,n;,a. arnama
with sora.ts of n;na han,,ao,. 49,,
cedar. We shall, a,so hove nnmaroms Co.
tories for tbe surn,v 90 thasa ;ntar;ou
communities vr;th h...,. ~ 49,.
other wooden woros 10 ro,i No. u;th
lumber latb sb;no,ss and charooaI
with countless herds of huraIo a,L
and dear our ,~l.;,s oaa,,;oa -
dreds Of themselves 20 -
forests ,na wo,ars suanm;n m;.,. g..
hsari,o on;n,.,, -,
t.nl;shmants a. ~ a.asa;nn 80 -,