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channels. Why not now give the ocean
some encouragement
WANTS TO BE A STATE.
Wyoming's Governor Sets Forth Scum
Reasons for Admitting that State.

Wyoming's Governor Sets Forth Sound
Reasons for Admitting that State.
WASHINGTON, October 22d-Governor F.
Z. Warren, of Wyoming Territory. has
filed with the Secretary of the Interior
report for the year ended June 80, 1885,
The population of the Territory is esti-
mated at from $1,000 to 5000, against
3, lis in 1870. The people of Wyoming"
says the Governor, want Statehood The
men who have braved all the perils of pio-
neer life have laid broad and deep founda-
tions for future homes towns and cities,
and have treasured up means that uphold
the commonwealth, are not unmindful of
the advantages of State Government, al
though the present Administration has
greatly relieved the situation by appoint
ing Territorial officers from bona fide resi-
dents of the Territory whe elm they are to
serve. Yet the people know from past ex-
perienoe what it is to live under a Terri
torial form of government by strangers
with little or no knowledge of the Terri
tory and indifferent to its future growth
and prosperity. The assessed valuation of
all property in 1888 was $31 ,431 900 against
$l1 ,S57 900 in 1880, and Sc. 924 600 in 1870 "
These statements, the Governor says, do
not represent more than one-fourth of the
actual valuation. The financial standing
of Wyoming is high-bonds of the Terri
tory bearing 6 per cent interest are sold at
126 premium, and Territorial warrants are
always at par and promptly paid when
presented.
The Governor urges upon Congress the
adoption of more liberal policy in the
matter of surveying public lands. The in
ability of settler to obtain legal rights to
lands selected by him for a home, it is
stated, worked three-fold ipjury-frst to
the Government, which received no pay
for the land; next, to the country and Ter
ritory, which derive no revenue from it ;
and lastly, to the settler. who can obtain
no title to the land. He is hazarding his
Improvements, which are of no refuge
to him in 3 commercial sense, as
he Can neither sell nor mortgage
them. Moreover, there are large
tracts of unsurveyed land which
are valuable for other purposes than agri-
culture. There ara immense oil fields and
coal beds, and vast forests of valuable TIM
Der yet unsurveyed. In its present un-
known condition it is impossible to protect
the forests against the depredations of un-
scrupulous men, and the development of
coal and oil lands is retarded by the i'm
possibility of surveying them under the
present restrictions The aggregate num-
Der of acres disposed of during the last year,
under the public land laws, including
selections by railroads, was 301,3
Upon the subject of stock raising the
Governor says: Good profits can be made
in the cattle business of to- day if properly
conducted and encouraged. The future of
the business is in adopting better methods
of management. reasonable increase in
the price of cattle, which is sure to come
soon, will make cattle raising in Wyoming
one of the most lucrative industries known
anywhere under the head of legitimate
pursuits''