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, 1889-02-20

THE diversity of the natural
and industries Of Wyoming insures a sta.
bility and permanency of growth in Wyo-
ming lacking in other territories. Wyo-
ming has coal, oil. iron, marble, sulphur,
soda, lead, copper, silver, gold, salt and
countless other minerals. Over 20, 900
square miles OF the territory are underlaid
with coal. The output of the few mines
in operation was last year over 5000, 900
tons. Wherever tested the oil fields have
shown that in quantity and quality Wyo-
ming rivals Pennsylvania and West Vir-
ginia. Stock raising has been and will
continue to be a profitable source Of wealth
in Wyoming. Over 1000, 900 head of
cattle range on the natural pastures. As
the agricultural interests increase stock
raising will merge with farming and the
two conducted in connection will form a
permanent and profitable industry. A
distinctive feature of Wyoming is that
it outstrips all the states and terrific
ries in the arid region in the number of
streams available for irrigation. There
are at present over 1000 bitches con-
structed, watering an area equal to the
whole of the irrigated district .of France
and Spain combined. They are distributed
through a region as large as the whole of
New England. With the agricultural
system of the territory scarcely estab-
lished there are lands enough under
bitches and ready for the pillow to make
0 1000 eighty-acre farms and engage the
efforts of a purely agricultural population
Of 200. 900.
The population of Wyoming is, per-
haps, more truly American and less
tinctured with foreign elements than
in any other state or territory in the
Union. With the exception of a few
foreigners working in the coal mines the
citizenship of the territory is made up of
emigrants from nearly every state, and is
American in all that term implies, and
particularly so in the love of self govern
ment, knowing hat they have the intelli-
gence and ability to manage their own at
fairs.
, 1889-02-20
CATTLE AND OTHER PROSPECTS.

SATTLE prospects are more fay,
~ orable this year than they
have been since 1884. The pleas.
ant weather which prevailed last
winter and with which we are
again favored this winter will
bring the cattle into the Spring in
five physical condition. This will
insure a big calf crop as well as q
small percentage of loss in the
older stock.
The strong upward tendency in
the price of beef in the early part
OF last seaso will be duplicated
again this year and many of the
cattlemen will this year realize
more from their product than
they have done in five years past.
Everything points to a year OF
unexampled prosperity and devel-
opment in Wyoming. The rail
roads promise unusual activity
and Wyoming, whose rich posses.
sions are beginning to attract uni.
versal attention, will be the cen.
trail field of Western operations
Those who mediate coming
west would do well to keep theil
eyes on Wyoming for she's go
ing forward with a bound thii
year and no mistake.
, 1889-02-20
"A GLORIOUS CLIMATE.

GONE feature of Cheyenne and
CP Wyoming which receives
comparatively little attention is
health giving qualities of the eli
mate. The entire territory has
an elevation of from 5000 to 5000
feet above the level of the sea.
Cheyenne is GOAL feet above sea
level. The air being free from
moisture as well as rarified is pee
uliarly beneficial to people of con-
sumptive tendencies.
The summer months are partic-
ularly delightful. None of the
enervating heat which elsewhere
exercises such deadly effect upon
the energy of mankind is felt here.
The raritied air does not hold the
heat as in lower attitudes and no
matter how high the thermometer
may register shade always fur
nishes a grateful GOODNESS. 1t is
considered unusually warm in
Cheyenne when the thermometer
reaches anywhere within a few
degrees of 100 in the shade and it
is only on very rare occasions that
the latter figures are reached.
In addition to the great natural
advantages in health giving quail
tiles no sanitation has been neg
lected. The sewer and water
systems are almost perfect in their
arrangement. No epidemic has
been known in the city since 1880
and the II occurring that year
was the first attended with fatal
results since the settlement of the
city. Scarlet fever was the disease.
, 1889-02-20
CONTINUED from pnre IL

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tracks. This must be built of
stone, steel or iron so as to CORES
pond in architectural sightliness
with the Union Pacific depot.
The company will undertake to
build it according to specifications
for $4,000.
A wooden viaduct must be
built at a cost of from S10,0 900 to
$4,000, and some other street
alterations which will cost prob
ably $4,000.
What does the company pro-
pose to give to the city in return?
1t proposes to give free trans
portation TO all material required
by the city in the construction of
the water and sewer service and
the proposed viaducts.
1t will furnish from the COM
pany's %quarries all the stone need
ed by the city, for the purpose
named, at the actual cost at the
quarry.
1t gives 160 acres of land at
$3.50 an acre which lies between
and partially includes the sites OF
Lake Mahpalutah and Lake Alb
saraca, to be used for water or
park purposes.
, 1889-02-20

ACCORDING to the best information
obtainable it is the intention of the Chi
cago & Alton to run two trains a week in
and out of Cheyenne over the Union Pa
ciGc, the cars of the former company being
used clear through. The Union Pacific
will send three trains weekly over the
Chicago & Alton. 1t is thought that
the present time schedule cannot long be
maintained alter this arrangement goes
into effect. Two westbound trains will
probably soon be running again as usual
as the passenger business OF the road is
not thoroughly accommodated by 6 single
daily train west and south of here.
, 1889-02-20
THE CARBON CUTOFF.

NLrticles of incorporation for the Carbon
q Cutoff Railway Co. were filed yes
terday at the Office ofTerritorial Secretary
Shannon.
The new line is a Union Pacific ven
ture and a branch to the coal fields lying
north of the main line between Carbon
and Rawlins will be constructed. The
capital stock of the latest Wyoming rail-
way will be 81, 900, 900 and the contribu-
tors are General Manager Holcomb, 1hos.
L. Kimball, J. s. Cameron, Assistant
General Manager Cumming and Chief
Engineer Bogue, all well known Union
Pacific officials.
The immediate work of the new com
pany will be to construct a line from Sui
phur, a station near Carbon, in a general
westerly direction to a point at or near
Rawlins.
A stated project is the building of
branches to any coal or mineral deposits
in Carbon, Sweetwater or Fremont coun-
ties"
This quotation means much. 1t indi-
Gates that the Union Pacific is not exactly
waking up for it never has been leth-
srgic, but it does indicate that the pioneer
overland route intends to be hampered no
longer in its mission to honey-comb with
feeders the territory which is to become
the greatest commonwealth in the union
Just so surely as the union exists.
The self granted license or assumed
~prerogative to Build branches to any coal
or mineral deposits in Carbon, Sweetwater
or Fremont counties" means for one
thing that the Union Pacific does not pro-
pose to be the hindermost in the race of
railroads to the oil fields of central and
northeastern Wyoming. Then there are
some gold mines near Rawlins. There is
a stamp mill in the Seminole district and
the prospectors of that section claim that
its owners have a bonanza. The mill is
operated two or three months every year
and the wealthy owners will treat ore
from but one mine-thelr own property.
Were the Union Pacific to forge north
from Rawlins to the famous Shoshone oil
basin and the splendid Lander valley the
spur would prove the best paying rail
road property in the entire West. No
agricultural district in the wide expanse
of country designated as the Rocky noun
tain region better merits the title than the
fertile tracts extending for miles along the
banks OF the Big and Little Wind and the
Popo agie rivers in Fremont county.
Again, who knows but what the Car
bon Cutoff may tap the valley of the
Platte and furnish a railway route to the
Wyoming Spa, the Saratoga hot springs2
Of course the primary object of the
projectors of the new line is to place
more and better coal at the disposal of
the Union Pacific; but the company al.
ready has coal to sell to its competitors
and can well afford to look about for
something else.
, 1889-02-20
NEW PIPE LINE.

|
ORR is stated that an effort is now being
'Smade in New York City to form q syn
dictate for the construction of a pipe line
from the Wyoming oil fields in the Big
Horn country to a point neal the North
ern Pacific railway, says the Helena
Mont. Independent. This is a great
scheme and should it be successfully car
ried out would open up a new and highly
important enterprise. These pipe lines
are in existence all through the oil fields
OF Pennsylvania and Ohio and have been
built by the Standard Oil company. 1t
is SAID that this same company have an
eye on the Wyoming oil fields and are
largely interested in the projected branch
of the Union Pacific from Fort Fetter-
man in Wyoming 10 the Big Horn coun-
try known as the Midland route. 1t has
also been intimated that the Northern
Pacific railroad is interested in the or
ganization of this pipe line syndicate, the
object being to shut out the Union Pacific
and its connections with the Billings,
Clark's Fork & Cooke City line, which
proposes to penetrate this oil region. 1t
is given out that this latter company has
settled all of its obligations and has
plenty of funds to its credit in the bank.
, 1889-02-20

MIRA. s. MERCER, editor of the Stock
Journal, who returned a few days ago
from an extended Eastern tour, says the
location Of the Union Pacific shops at this
point has awakened the %liveliest interest
in the town and its prospects. Prominent
people with whom he conversed in Chi
cago and Omaha expressed the belief that
the plant which the comrss.iIial.i
mately own here will be much bigger
than the newspapers have yet given any
idea of.
, 1889-02-20
OUR RESOURCES.


o vestors by an expert sent out
to Wyoming for examination of
our resources is nearer to the mark
than anything yet printed in east
erm papers. 1t is as follows:
"No statement will be made in
this report other than such rs are
the result of personal observation,
or taken from official records. A
careful examination of Wyoming
coal fields gives abundant proof
that the area of the country to
which is conceded and reported as
being 10000 square miles is not
overestimated. Veins show a vary
ing thickness of from four to
twelve feet aud of excellent quail
ty. l have been informed that
there are several veins cropping
out near Twin creeks which aver
age 100 feet thick. The supply is
practically inexhaustible, and l be-
lieve of as excellent quality as any
eastern coal. That this fuel can
be used in its raw state in the
manufacture of pig iron has been
demonstrated by practical iron
workers. These fuel deposits are
particularly abundant along the
North Platte river, below the
mouth of the Sweetwater, and to
the north along the eastern border
of the oil belt.
The iron deposits are, indeed,
no less wonderful. | may say,
without fear of contradiction, that
in quantity they are without a
rival, and in quality the ores are
equal to that of the celebrated
mines of Spain, and from which
al be manufactured the finest
Bessemer steel. Ores from which
Scotch pig iron can be made are
also abundant. The deposits lay
near the coal and can be mined
and worked at a nominal cost.
The petroleum fields OF Wyo-
ming are without doubt the most
extensive yet discovered. Besides
yielding an Illuminating oil, lub-
rlcator of as excellent a quality as
any in use, is a product of this new
field. | feel confident that these
deposits will prove of great i'm
portance to the west and will, ina
few years, rival the famous depos-
its of Pennsylvania and Ohio.
The presence of natural gas, since
its introduction as fuel for manu-
featuring purposes, will be of great
value to this mineral district.
The soda deposits, covering
hundreds of acres, are the largest
and most important upon this con-
t%inent, while the variety of other
minerals cannot be approached by
comparisons with any other local
ity. Marble, limestone, granite,
building stone, lead, salt, sulphur,
gypsum and fire clay are abund-
ant, and copper, gold and silver
mines are being successfully
worked.
The minerals lay near the heart
ofthe territory and upon a natural
roadway across the continent
while tributaries of the Big Horn
and Powder rivers open avenues
through a very fine agricultural
country to the north.
There are but a few links OF
railroad remainingto be construct
ed before Canada and the inter,
vening states and territories will
be connected with the Gulf OF
Mexico by a line of road extend.
ing along the base of the Rocky
, 1889-02-20

courtesy of Eyo. Archives & Histories
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1889-09-26

surveyed. II Is known as the Columbia,
or Moses reservation, taking its name
from oil Moses, who was q famous Indi,n
chief. But the settler who takes a claim
there now Aill have to squat on II and
wait Cor the government survey. The
best land Whirh has been surveyed aAd
can be taken at the United States land
Offices without delay is in the Big Send
country, as Il Is called on account Of the
sweeping curve the Columbia makes
around two sides Of It. It Is fifty miles
south Of the British line, and Is across the
Columbia. east from the Moses country,
This Moses country consists Of fertile bot.
onls along the little creeks, with timber
dong the hills. The Big Bend country Is
great table land covered with buncl.
rass. II has no sage brush and does
not look to irrigation for its development.
is like the walla walla wheat country
''Now what will you say is the l'esi
hing for the eastern farmer who sells ou'
ind comes 10 Washin ltnn with q few
thousand dollars. prepared to buy rather
han homesteadP"
That man." said Mr.. Hewlett, "should
.ettlr In the Palouse. walla walla or Yak
ina re. ions. Land CTn still be had nj
-easonabie prizes, say from IS to rs an
ere, and 1t is lound to increase in value.
I Is the kind Of land which procure
hiry-fve bushels Of wheat to the ARE.
There are many old settlers who came in
'aTly and who are willing to sell out nj
phi rs with are cheap, considering the
Productive value. ! think that for fiv
years to come farms tan 10 bought in th'
regions have mentioned at figures below
Ter real values. For several years ]
isaye been buying up old ran, hes ut frOn
$50 to az m acre, dividing them
from go to t2OO an are. That Is = Zen
raj ili alton Of the way things are
:Oing."
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1889-09-26


One proof Of the Yakima pudding Is
found in the shipment If lJO car loads 81
'NelOns this season. Yakima melons are
becoming known NIL ov the new state.
The other day Captain Gray, the veteran
naviSator Of the Upper Columbia river,
came from PascO, his home, to Yakima
on visit. He was conducted to Mayor
Reels ofire, where lie vazed upon q
melon weighing fifty-iOur pounds and sew
ernl other melons weighing something
less. At that stage Of the proceedings q
big knife was produced, one 81 the melons
was cut, and the captain was soon learn
ing that Yakima melons taste rs good az
they look. As he laid down bis third
rind to pick up his fourth slice, Captain
Gray seemed TO think the occasion called
for some defense Of Pasco. lie observed,
in matter-oi-fact tone:
The reason We don't raise melons sue
cessiully at Pasoo is that the vines yrow
50 fast that they wear the melons on
dragging them over the ground. Our soil
Is too rich, think, for melons"
Every Yakima man in the room stopped
eating and looked at the captain, but he
was entirely serious.
"Your soil is too rich, is IT," retoFted
Mayor Reed. Let me tell you, Captain
Gray, the soil at Pasco Is 90 poor that
So, sav.ta s.f.a -, ,,,.,t.-.fl, -. A.. -.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1889-09-26
A woman. D,.sovsry.

Another wonderful discovery has been
nade and that too by q lady In this
Ounty. Disease fastened It's clutches
ipon her and for seven years she with
stood its seyeTest tests, but her vital or
:ans we're undermined and death seemed
imminent. For three months she coughed
necessarily and could not sleep She
bought Of us q bottle Of Dr.. Kings New
discovery FIR consumption and was so
much relieved on taking first dose that
she slept all night and with one bottle has
bcen Internationally cured. Her name is
Mrs. Luther Lutz." Thus write W. C.
Hamrick & Co., Of Shelby, NJ G. Get a
trial bottle free at L. v. Jansck's drug
store.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1889-09-26

washington, u. u, came out 70 NoHtt
Yakima and settled on a ranch Il lGO
acres. That was the beginning Of the
Mckee model farm, viii h is one Of the
famous institutions Of the new state. Mr..
Hubbard Is the iathPr-in-law Of Alexan-
der Graham Bell, the inventor Of the telP-
phone. He was wealthy TO begin with
and the telephone profits made him NOR,
50. He became interested in his nephew's
venture, invested more and more money.
until now the Mckee farm. with l,,O ares
under cultivation and tNire US mmh not
yet improved, with its fine stock, with its
heri on the range, and with it, complete
buildings represents an investment Of
Is 0,EO Of Bell telephone profits. Mr..
Hubbard and his associates have not yet
made any money out Of the farm. but
they have done great thing for Wash
inston. Their investment has been in
the nature Of a series Of experiments
whirh have demonstrated how tn handle
the soil. The present manager Of thu,
Mckee Is William Ker, a stalwart S,atch.
man ne 'anr "e'e nun h'"se wneF
~ yonuuc'e' '"e neIl .e.,P',one D"S'ness'
o"'e' ''s mana, eiie"' ','e 'aL'i ~ "ke'E
70 si,"w some returns Tor 'he none!
spent unless the experimenting goes on
Inc Moxee crop OF alfalfa TINS year Is
o'' IONS II represents nVe suttlngS' an"
y "orsn tiZ = Ton III Noth Yakima to-
"ay' FROM IA acres was harvested a
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1889-09-26

Irrigation has made the Yakima cOun-
Try what it is. But thus far the use Of
he water has been UPON a small scale
compared with what Is to be attempted.
The present ditches lead iF0m the noun
ain streams whi b flow into the Yakima.
tn, re are only two or three larger canals,
which take the wHteF In considerable
quantities from the river itself. As the
result & this contracted way Of doing
things, hundred Of thousands q arTes ii
land, ~ good As that which ''raises every.
thing" are left outside q the present sys-
tenn Of irrigation. But now that the ex-
peTimental stage has passed water is to
he handled IN quantities and on level
not heretofore attempted. Within the
present week surveyingparties have taken
the field at North Yakima to run the lines
for n big canal loo miles long. Charlie
J. Gregory, William J. BTysOn and G. A.
Young, Of Chicago, Walter N. Granger,
Albert Kleinschmidt and J. ID. Mcintyre,
Of Helena, and other men Of means are 10
the company, which proposes to apply
irritation on n gigantic scale. The COM
pany will operate In two localities to be-
gin with-lhe Yakima country in WASH
ington, and between West Gallatin and
Madison in Montana. The plan ol bust
ness Is simple. The company has pur-
s.haaah n n mn as.raa ~ land so,r ,,ktarIy
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1889-09-26
long-Standlng

Blood Diseases are cured By
che persevering use Of Ayer's
srsaparilla.
This medicine Ia an Alternative, and
causes radical change In thu system.
The process, In EOnIs cases, may not DO
quite so rapid ~ In others: but, with
IA'rSiAtsnee, the result u certain.
Real these testimonials -
For two years suffered from q ae-
we're pain 10 my right a.sle, AMI had
1''isT trnnihJA caitsesi nv q torpid liver
and dyspepdR. Aftrr givin{ several
medicines Q fair triAl withOut cure,
began To take Ayers SarstlEIrilla. I
was greatly b'neilte,l bv the drSs hOit!e,
and after taxing Il 10 h1ttles I was cOIIl-
plrtaly eursl." -JO,In W. benson, 20
Lawrence st., lAIwell, Mass.
Last May Large carbnucle broke out
IN my arm. Tie usual remedies hal no
affect AMI I Sas cOniHs,l to NV bs,l TOR
.'sht weeks. A frienl In lnrs-d the 10 try
AYERS Sarsaparilla. LisSS than three
hntfiss heale,l the SIre. In all my sxlpe.
.e with Ine,licin,, Insver saw IN "a
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1889-09-26
Wonderful Results,

Another marked effect Of the uae Of this
me,lirine was the strengthening II my
i;ht."- Mrs. Carrie Adams, Holly
Springs, Texas.
at hal . dry Saly hnm0r for years,
and suffered terribly: anl, ~ my broth
or and sister were similarly afflicted, I
presume the MALAY IL hereditary. Last
winter, DIR. TyrOn, (Of Fernan,lina,
fia.,l recommended tine TO take AYERS
Sarsaparilla, and continue IL for . year.
For tive months I took Il daily. ] have
not had blemish upon my holy for the
last three months. 1T. e. Wiley, ll6
Chambers ST., New York City.
"Last fall AMI winter was troubled
with dull, heavy pain n my si,le. I
did not notice it Inneh - hrst, but IL
gradually grew worse until IL beram0
almost unbHaFahls. During the latter
part Of this time, disorders 81 the stOu-
Al'h and liver increased my troubles. I
began taking Ayers Sarsaparilla, anil,
after faithfully continuing the use II
this medicine for some months, the pain
disappeared and was completely
cured" Mrs. Augusta A. Ftirbnsh,
Ayers SarsapariIIa,
PREPARED NJ
o.. J. Q. Aver 4 Co.. Lowell, Mass
HSisS o.; SiE bottles. o. worth u boatIA
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1889-09-26
A SPLENDID COUNTRY.
How Irrigation Has Wrought Its Per-
feet Work In The Yakima Country.
The Volcanic Ash..A Chemical PrOb.
lem--The Mckee Model RaPms.
Profits Well Invested.


Special Correspondents Of the st. Louis Globe
Democrat.
NoRTH YAKIMA, WASH, Sept. 18th :
There ire Twenty niles Of irri.atin
bitches in this little ,itY Of $40 peoPh
These bitches completely encircle ever.
block, making 1t m island, They ar.
owned by the city. When a man buys .
lot the right to free use Of water from IN,
ditch in front Of him goes With the till
City ofirers regulate the distribution o
this water Us in other municipalities thu :
look after the ash barrels and tn garbage
Citizens W! the system works smooth
and satisfactorily. One can stand in tie
center ofthe city and look in f,ur dire,
tins a mile or more, down avenues wit
shade tr es growing thriftily along hotl
sides Of the roadway. This Is more thai
can he said Of any other iour-years-0l
settlement in the arid belt Of the Unite
States. No rain has fallen here g.
months. The pcople do not remember
when the last shower oerurrel. The,
have no paTti ular interest Ia spe ulatiO.
as to when the next shower will CONT
They do not bore The visitor with an ar.
ray Of statistics designed to holster up y
theory that the rainfall Is Increasing.
They are in the arid belt, and don't cure
how firmly that fart is inipn ssed upo
eveFV hodv WIN s,on,aa alamo Rafusao,