The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-12-04
WYOMING.

Correspondence of The Egis and Intelgeneer.
CHEYENNE, wYo., Nov. 2lst 1Ssl.-I notice In Q
late issue of your valuable paper (doubly valued
by myself as former fellow c0untian or yours
a letter from Hartford boy at present soJourning
III Texas sCourteously allow me then, Mr.. Ed i
tor. as q Hartford boy in wyoming, TO say tnrougn
your columns few words In regard 10 TINS new a
quire additional expression and force II given In
the form Of contrast with the points made by
our HarfordTeIaS friend.
Your Texas correspondent writes for instances,
that eastern people are not acquainted with
the fine. country, we have until they come to
Texas. remark that Eastern people will find a
fine" country If they come to Wyoming.
Your correspondent is surprised that in Texas
ped with big spurs and bigger six shooters. I
remark that the red-handed pistol-belted. spur
accoutred and whisky-imbibing cowboy is much
more obsolete in Wyoming than he is in Texas
albeit the fact that Wyoming has been a cattle
country for much shorter period than has the
Lone Star State.
Your Texas correspondent says that Texas
soil requires no fertilizers" Wyoming fur
nishes it's own fertilizer-as the soil itself is
mountain ranges, q wash that has been growing
deeper for ages Wyoming soil is therefore as
exhsustless as it is rich.
Cotton is King In Wyoming no one product
of the soil is.'king there being dozens of such
products that are royal in their agrieul i
King" " '
Your Texas correspondent says that land in
that State is worth thirty dollars per acre.. In
Wyoming better lands than this can be purchas-
ed in farming quantities for 81 per acre.
Your Texas correspondent says that In Texas
oats yields 80 bushels per acre and sells Tor ~
cents per bushel." In wyoming the oats yield
is fully as large as this In bushels, but that 1t
weighs from forty to fifty pounds per busnel and
sells for one and one-half cents per pound.
Your Texas correspondent says that corn In
Texas yields from 40 to 70 bushels per acre.
Wyoming does fully as well as this in corn pro-
duct by bushels to the acre. and that on account
of larger and f1rmer grains, one ear or wyoming
corn Is worth two ears of the Texas product.
Your Texas correspondent speaks admiringly
of the "level Texas lands" ana enthusiastically
of the great length to which furrow can be
plowed. In Wyoming for scores nEon scores OF
miles the ground is as level as floor and the
man who started to pillow to its possible limit
would be very tired indeed when he finished.
Why, Mr.. Editor. Wyoming has valleys In
which you could lose dozen Eastern coun-
ties--the valley of the Big Horn alone. for in
stance. being larger than the entire state of
Massachusetts,.
In conclusion. Mr.. Editor, allow me to state
that Wyoming is as rich in minerals, In forests,
in brick clay, in stock ranges, as in agricultural
capacity; that she has the most magnificent
climate on the globe, that her health rate is un
surpassed. that her percentage of her iliiteracy
is less than any of the other American common
where woman has equal political rights with
man, and that, occupying as she does the geo.
graphical centre of the American continent, she
must command. for the disposal OF the products
of her rich and valued resources, the markets OF
America from the Atlantic to the Pacihc-from
the British Possessions to the Gulf of Mexico.
G. W. GALLEY.