The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-14

for time, aud then went on to Cheyenne.
He had no money to speak of but he got
into merchandising and cattle raising, and
gradually increased his capital by success
ful turns and by his knowledge of stock
until he is now one of the richest cattle
men in the country. He is the president
and the chief stock bidder in the
Warren Live Stock company, and
this company has 100000 sheep,
three thousand cows and about two thou
sand horses. 1t has flock of five thousand
Angora goats, and it has some of the finest
imported rams in the United States. 1t
owns one hundred Thousand acres Of land,
and IL is increasing the number of its ami
mails right along. Wyoming is state of
thousands of hills, ard Warren may well
be called the Job of the Senate, for his cat
tie roam over the best of them. He is like
Job, too. in his other possessions, for he is
man of many interests. His merchandis-
ing interests extend ever the whole state,
and the Cheyenne house has agencies in
Salt Lake and Ogden. He has interests in
the electric light plant of Cheyenne, and
there are lew business interests IN the CITY
with which he is not connected.
HOW He LOOKS.
Let me tell you how this Wyoming Sena
tor looks.
called upon him last night in his room
at the Arlington hotel, and found him "a
good-looking fellow of about forty-six
years Of age, debating like mad 20 type
writer who took down his words on ma
chine that ratified like corn-sheller. The
Senator left off his dictation upon my en-
trance, but the internal clicking went on
during our conversation. Senator Warren
is about six feet tall and his form is as
straight as the stTaightest pine which hugs
the Wyoming slopes OF the Rocky noun
tains. His shoulders are as broad as are
yves tern ideas. and his cnest has been made
deep and fun by the raritied air of Chey-
enne. which contains, | am told. fifty times
as much ozone as any ain east of the Mis-
sissippi. Senator Warren is a blonde. His
hair is Of light brown. His eyes are blue
and he has luXuriant straw colored NOUS
tache, which comes well down over q
strong and clean cut mouth. His
forehead is high and broad, his
nose is straight, and his face is, on
the whole, rather handsome. He dresses
well, talks well, and will, Judge, be man
OF more than ordinary weight on the Sen
ate floor. ! asked him as to the present
condition Of the new state. Said he: 1.-The
state OF Wyoming is increasing in popUla-
ton right along. 1t is true the census gives
US only 60,009, but we had only $1,000 in
$50, and think our population to-day is
really about one hundred thousand. We
have great many out-of-the-way towns
and districts in which it was hard to get an
accurate census. Our state contains about
ninety Thousand square miles. and you
could lose the six New England states in
side of IT, Some of our county seats are a
hundred aud seventy-fiye miles from a rail
road, ami believe that we have about forty
thousand more population than the census
has given us. Nevada is decreasing in
population, but our population will steadily
grow and we viii have, l think, one of the
great states of the west"
''What has the state to make it CREATE l
asked. II thought it was all sage brush
and mountains.''
1--WE have one of the richest mineral
regions in the United States" replied the
/ Senator. ''Our coal and iron will eventu-
ally make us a great manufacturing state
and we have 10000 square miles of good
coal. Some Of our iron cannot be sur
passed in quality and quantity and we have
copper aud lead and gold and silver. We
/ have consi ierable agricultural country and
/ if the government would give Wyoming
its arid lands stock companies could be
formed for its irrigation and great tracts of
desert could be made to blossom like the
rose. We have some of the richest oil
regions in the United States. have seen
oil wells which would throw stream sixty
! feet ia the air and there are il parts of the
state, ponds of oil eight feet oeep, where
the oil has run out from natural
wells and has been caught in
basins 1t is not really known
how valuable Wyoming is, and the state is
in its babyhood, materially as well as polit-
! caiiy. Cheyenne, its capital. is as enter
prising town as you will find anywhere.
! 1t was few years ago the richest town
in proportion to its population, in the
! United States, and now with a population