Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-23
EASTERN DISPATCHES.
Material Progress of the Fu-
ture State of Wyoming.
THE CRONIN JURY COMPLETED.
Seven Weeks Consumed in Finding
Twelve Good Men and True to
Try the Suspects.


Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.
WASHINGTON, October 22-Francil
Warren, Governor of Wyoming, has flee
with the Secretary of the Interior lii
report for the year ended June 80, 1889
The population cf the Territory is esti
mated at 95, 900 to 1e5, 900, against 9,11'
in 1870. "The people of Wyoming,
says the Governor, "want Statehood
The men who have braved all the perill
Of pioneer life, have laid broad and deey
the foundations of future homes, towns
and cities, and have treasured up the
means that is to uphold the common.
wealth, are not unmindful of the advan.
tages of State government. Although the
present Administration has greatly re.
lieved the situation by appointing Terri
torial officers from bona .fde residents OF
the Territory wherein they are to serve,
yet the people know from past expert
ence what itiis to live under a Verri orial
form of government, governed by stran-
gers with little or no knowledge of the
Territory, and Indifferent to its future
growth and prosperity"
The assessed valuation of all property
in 1883 was $31 ,431 900, against $11 ,S57,-
600 in 1880, and $6,924, 900 in 1870.
These statements, the Governor says, do
not represent more than one.third, prob.
ably not more than one-fourth of the
actual valuation.
The financial standing of Wyoming,
the report states, is high. Bonds of the
Territory, bearing 6 per cent. interest,
sold at 126 premium, and Territorial
warrants are always at par, and promptly
paid when presented.
The Governor urges upon Congress the
adoption of a more liberal policy in the
matter of surveying public lands. The
inability of the settler to obtain legal
right to the lands selected by him for a
home, it is stated, works three-fold
injury-irst to the Government which
receives no pay for the land; next, to
the county and Territory which derives
no revenue from it; lastly, to the settler
who, il he can obtain no title to the
land, is hazarding his improvements
which are of no value to him in q COM
merical sense, as he can neither sell nor
mortgage them. Moreover there are large
tracts of unsurveyed lands which are
valuable for other purposes than agri-
culture. There are immense oil fields
and coal beds, and vast forests of valu-
able timber yet unsurveyed. In it's
present unknown condition it is impos-
sible to protect the forests against the
depredations of unscupulous men, and
the development of coal and oil lands is
retarded by the impossibility of survey
ing them under the present restrictions.
The aggregate number of acres dis
posed of during the year under the pub
lie land laws, including selections by
railroads, is 1878.
Upon the subject of stock.raising the
Governor says: "Good profits can be
made in the cattle business of today if
properly conducted, and the encourag
ing feature OF the business is that stock
men are adopting better methods of
management. A reasonable increase in
the price of cattle, which is sure to come
soon, will make cattle-raising in Wy
oming one of the most lucrative indus
tries known anywhere under the head of
legitimate pursuits. The settlement of
farmers and grangers upon agricultural
lands has caused division in the area
of open country, but there yet re-
mains a wide field for the business
conducted in the open range way, on
very large tracts that can be used for
grazing only for many years. While the
contraction of the open ranges. and a de-
crease in the animals handled in the old
way has necessarily lessened the cattle
industry in Wyoming the last few years,
yet it is believed ultimately stock-farm-
ing, or the combining of agriculture and
stock-raising, crops being raised along
the streams and arabic lands, and live
stock ranging outside and on the near
ranges, will greatly increase the number
of cattle, also the grade, weight, quality
and profits in the Territory, until there
will be more cattle raised in Wyoming
than at any time in the past.