The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-04-01


had noticeable exceptions. How it is
now no one knows, as the Australian
ballot conceals all that. OF course
woman suffrage has worked no great
moral reform, as that sort Of thing is
not done by voting. Wyoming has i'm
proved wonderfully since the wild times
you remember but all new countries
improve, and it may be mere coinci-
dence. As to women on juries, well, 1t
has been found more convenient to have
jury duty done by men, except in some
rare instances like those mentioned by
Blackstone where the Judgment of dis
Greet matrons is thought necessary.
Continued attendance in court and be-
ing shut up in jury rooms are much more
inconvenient for ladies than for men.
Potatoes and Peas.
At this point the senator's secretary,
Mr.. B. NJ. Ausherman, and another
Wyoming gentleman arrived, and by
contagion of talk there arose such en-
thusiasm about the new state that 1
shall credit the senator only with what
he Endorsed. 1.-The possibilities Of these
little valleys are illustrated by the ex-
perience of your former townsmen at
Corinne, Z. T. A company has cut
canal through the rock up at the rapids
Of Bear river, and thus taken the water
out on to tho highest ridge of the valley,
from which by canal it irrigates vast
region, and so Corinne has become
prosperous place AS you ride through
Wyoming it looks from the cars as if it
were barren, but turn water ON those
yellow plains, and they produce in a
hot raoIIv marvellous Com
gress, you know, has granted 1000, GOO
acres to each state III tho arid region,
and our legislature is now devising n
plan by which settlers may be protected
and yet fair percentage gwen on the
capital invested in the canals. When
such work is done by private company.
there is great danger of grieyOus wa
ter monopoly. The legal rate Of interest
in Wyoming is ~ per cent, but moneJ
can now be borrowed for loss. We can
raise more potatoes per acre than any
other region in the world and have
twice taken the worlds prize fer big
yields of various products. Mr.. j. Ii.
Caldwell of Evanston, on land 6, 700 feet
above the sea, raised the finest potatoes
ever produced in the west, and 56 OF
them picked weighed 50 pounds. On
Fort Bridger plain, which you pro-
nOunced an irredeemable desert, one
man got water from little spring to
irrigate one acre, which he planted i'll
peas. It produced 80 bushels, which he
sold in Evanston at 6 cents a pound.
Wyoming is more than twice as
large as Pennsylvania, but the lowest
point in it is higher than the highest
mountain in the latter state. Yet every
thing will grow where there is water.
The surprising wealth of the state is in
coal, oil and gold, but the great wealth
to be is in sheep and cattle, and If wool
is ever to be worth anything again there
will be millions in it. 1t is the ideal
homo of the fine wooded sheep, and you
may guess what our fellows think OF
your Democratic tariff when we tell you
that wool as il comes from the ranch
only sells at cents pound. hciden-
tally that makes them think Of the eff
fects of monometallism. "
Tt is nearly ~ years since made my
first tour in Wyoming, and surely there
never was a more reckless and mlgra-
tory population in any country or more
eyanescent and roaring towns. In Chey-
enne the first house was erected July .,
1867, and the next November there was
a population of 1000, with city gov
eminent, municipal debt and three
daily papers, and likewise select soc1-
ETY., old settlers, newcomers and hrsV
families Laramie was the next me-
tropolis and then Benton, III the center
of an alkali desert covering at least 2, OOO
SQUARE miles. Far as the eye could see
around the town there was not green
tree, shrub or spear Of grass The
streets. eight inches deep in white dust,
were thronged with motley crowds of
railroaders, Mexicans and Indians,
gamblers, ''cappers, merchants, MIN
ers and mule Svhaozers, and a new
conner from the east with black clothes
looked like nothing so much as cock
| roach struggling through flour barrel
Going to Extremes.
One day there were five serious hghts'
| ending in q most atrocious murder. Inc
road passed on, and every house was
moved with it successfully TO Rawllns
+ Springs, Green River City, Bryan and
| Bear River, which last "oity" closed
! the chapter with regular carnival or
! crime and pitched battle between Wig
| ilantes and roughs, in which - men
! were killed and 90 wounded. was ten
| DAYS at Wasatch, on the summit OF the
mountains, in January, 1859, and the
mercury never once got up to zero.
During the three months Of that term1-
nus towns existence it established
graveyard with As occupants, of whom
not one died of disease. Several were
killed by cave in the railroad cut at
the head of Echo canyon; several more
got drunk and were frozen; three were
banged; five were killed in street fights.
One girl" stifled herself with charcoal
fumes, and another inhaled sweet death
In chloroform. Over on the Central Pa
cific, in the western part of Bear river
valley, was a little temporary town
with such a bloody record that its bap-
tismal name was ignored, and 1t was
generally called Deadfall. Other towns
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