, 1884-04-22
A SPLENDID SESSION.
Last Evenings Meeting of the
Academy of Sciences.
Several Mastery Papers Read by
Well-KnoWn People.
The Society's Closing Session to be
Held Tonight.

Snnlhlhn IN fhR hmItISt ThnrFl IN hEIAn IN
the exercises of the Academy of Sciences
congremted there last evening The read
ing of the papers was followed with the
closest attention throughout. evipcing the
interest which they had excited Tho frat
paper of the evening was nm historical
sketch of tbe first sattloment of Fort
Fetterman. bv John d O'Brien This
noner was read bv tbn President in the
absence of If, author The second paper
WAS upon tbe .IndustrioI Conob;lities and
Needs Of Wvom;ng , hv III. pr,s;dent
John w, Hovt The sneaker alluded
first tn the resources of the Territory nre-
eminent among which was, of course. the
cattle interest. He spoke of the vast
acreage of grazing land, the best in the
world forIcattle raising and its peculiar and
DISTINGUISHING characteristics. This in
dustry was still in its infancy. Stockmen
had awakened to a realization of the cana
bilities of the industry, and had begun
Ia import blooded stock m Grade mn the
breed of range cattle Fences too were
being run so that the different varieties
might range separateIv. In the same
connection he dwell ON the necessity If
the government permittinp the taxing nm
or leasing of large tracts of the bench
lands that are useless for all purposes
except to grlze cattle on He then took
up the agricultural interest and spoke of
the fact that the Territory contained seven
million acres of the finest farming land in
the world Persons engaged in stock
raising had heretofore looked upon tbe
granger as an intruder. The well watered
ranges he had looked upon AS belonging
to his class and a farmer was considered
little less than am interloper. The sneaker
thought that this should not be so and
to the general interest and prosperity as
well as to the individual success. In
abiding to the timber resources of the
Territory he said they were sufficient to
build up all the ranches, villages and
cities that would ever cover the
land no matter how prosperous and
thriving this section might become.
In abiding to the mineral resources he
half ~apologized for referring to them as
they had always been such a f~avorite
subject with him that he would dwell on
them then less than he desired and less
than he otherwise would have done.
Prospecting in the territory so far had
been superficial and spasmodic. No doubt,
in the hills and along the ranges of noun
tains gold and silver could he found.
While he was satisfied there were vast
quantities of the precious metal within the
territory vet he believed Wyoming's
wealth in this respect Law more in copper,
iron. coal, soda and petroleum. Pennsyl
vania had risen to become the workshop
of the country through its internal re-
sources. Coal and iron had made it a great
state. England had achieved greatness
principally through the same agencies
what. then must be the future of Wyo-
ming, with It's vastly superior area of
mineral deposits. After dwelling with
considerable particularly on the more use
fi metals he took up the need, of the
territory. Capital was of course the first
and greatest requirement. This must
come from the more settled East or the
Old World. 4 progressive and energetic
public spirit was needed to attract il here
1t was needed to build railroads. forces
and smelters. Even with capital and with
out railroads but little could be done. A
railroad should be run north from Chey-
enne through Laramie and johnson
counties to strike the Northern Pacific.
With the present outlet to
the south a grand trunk line would
thus be effected from the Northern
Pacific railroad through CHEYENNE to the
CITY of Mexico. Much had been done for
tile territory by. the Union Pacific, but
that road. unfortunately, only skirted
through the southern border of the ter
ritory. while the greatest wealth-produc-
ing section farther north was left untouch-
ed.EAnd the railroad run north from Raw
Inns through the oil region to strike the
Northern Pacific was also necessary. A
road from Laramie City through the
splendid country to the north west to
strike the Yellowstone Park, and still
another to run centrally through the Ter
ritory from east to west were among the
absolute requirements.
Following this exhaustive address came
a paper by Rev. FL. Nugent, pastor of
st. Johns Catholic church. on The