, 1889-02-13
HATES or ADNERTIsING.
WYOMING is ALL RIGHT.

We have not lately come across a more
compact and intelligent presentation OF
Wyoming's claims to statehood than are
found in a special telegram which was
sent from here and published in the Chi
a & Tribune of last Monday. 1t is well
worthy of a wide circulation. The tele-
gram Is as follows: ITO the outsider,
whose knowledge of Wyoming is limited
to the facts that the area of the territory
is 1000 square miles and the population
about 90, 900, or one person to each square
mile, it is perhaps a natural conclusion
that Wyoming had better wait for the
privilege OF statehood until she has at
least two people to the square mile to en-
Joy it. But the Wyomingites won't have
it that way, and, with the exception of
Governor Moonlight, every individual Of
the 30, 600 is for statehood. The Illinoisan
or Nebraskan who attempts to cough
down a Wyomingite with the argument
that Wyoming hasn't population enough
TO warrant statehood will be confronted
will Nv lhNA That lllllOlb was hAlIlAAih
with less than $4,000 population, Ne
braska with co. 900, Colorado with 1900,
Oregon with 10000, and Mississippi, Ar
kansas, Missouri, Alabama and Louisiana
with about so, 600 each. The Wyoming
lite will also proudly advance the argument
hat the credit of Wyoming is better to.
day than that Of half the states; that the
territorial bonds recently issued for the
building of public buildings sold in Chi
cago at a premium Of 10 per cent.
Perhaps no state formerly n territory
was so well prepared for statehood at the
time OF its admission as Wyoming is at
the present time. The capitol building
at Cheyenne, completed and occupied, is
a better building than a score OF the
states now have, and would do credit to
any commonwealth in the world. The
university building at Laramie is a mag
%niicent structure, fully equipped with all
the requirements of a modern educational
almost completed at Rawlins. an insane
asylum at Evanston, and a deaf and
dumb asylum and a poor farm are located
at other towns. With all of these insti-
buttons completed the Indebtedness OF the
territory will be but $500, 900.
THE diversity of the natural resources
and industries Of Wyoming insures n 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 hat in quantity and quality Wyo-
ming rivals Pennsylvania and West Yir-
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 Lof 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
1000 eighty-acre farms and engage the
efforts of a purely agricultural population
Of 0 1000.
The population of Wyoming is, per-
haps, more truly American ami 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 that they have the intelli.
gence and'ability to manage their W at
fairs.