The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1895-03-13

years OF woman Suffrage. 10 me won.
en- generally vote, and, if SO, what is the
RESULT"
We'll, about the only criticism
have heard is that it makes things lust as
they were before, only little more so.
1t certainly has done no harm, and in
two respects think it has done some
good. We have no more of those cleo
ton rows which are SO common in new
regions. Around the polls it is as quiet
as Sunday school picnic. And neither
party dares to nominate man of known
immoral character, as the ladies would
certainly defeat him. There was a good
deal of talk about dissensions in fam.
lilies, but [ think there is none. | GER.
tainly have neither known nor heard of
any. 1t is assumed, of course, that a
family, husband, wife and grown daugh-
tors, If any, vote as a unit, but we have
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 a mere coinci-
dence. AS to women on juries, we'll, it
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. M. Ausherman, and another
Wyoming gentleman arrived, and by
contagion of talk there arose such en-
thusiasm about the new state that I
shall credit the senator only with what
he indorsed. ''The possibilities of these
little valleys are illustrated by the ex.
perience of your former townsmen at
Corinne, U. T. A company has cut
canal through the rock up at the rapids
of Bear river, and thus taken the water
out on to the highest ridge of the valley,
from which by canal it irrigates vast
region, and so Corinne has become a
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
manner that is really marvellous. Con-
gress, you know, has granted 1, 900, 600
acres to each state in the arid region,
and our legislature is now devising a
plan by which settlers may be protected
and yet fair percentage given on the
capital invested in the canals. When
such work is done by private company,
there is great danger of grievous wa
ter monopoly. The legal rate of interest
in Wyoming is IL per cent but money
can now be borrowed for less. We can
raise more potatoes per acre than any
other region in the world and have
twice taken the worlds prize for big
yields of various products. Mr.. j. II.
Caldwell of Evanston, on land e, 700 feet
above the sea, raised the finest potatoes
ever produced in the west, and 56 OF
them picked weighed IS pounds. On
Fort Bridger plain, which you pro-
an irredeemable desert, one
man got water from a little spring to
irrigate one acre, which he planted in
peas. 1t produced so bushels, which he
sold in Evanston at 6 cents 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 II wool
is ever to be worth anything again there
will be millions in it, 1t is the ideal
home of the fine 47ooled sheep, and you
NAV guess what our fellows think OF
your Democratic tariff when we tell you
that wool as it comes from the ranch
only sells at cents a pound. Inciden-
tally that makes them think OF the Ell
fects of monometallism
It is nearly ~ years since l made my
first tour in Wyoming, and surely there
never was a more reckless and mlgra-
tory population in any country or more
and roaring towns. In Chey-
enne the first house was erected July 8,
1867. and the next November there was