, 1899-12-28
WYOMING NOTES.

Wolves are doing great damage
among stock southeast of Laramie and
near the state fish hatchery.
Work will be begun early in 1850
upon the erection of the new science
hau NJ the State University, S350 M
having been appropriated by the STATE
for tint 1t will contain the
valuable museum of the university ON
one floor. The building will be erect.
ed on University Heights and will add
much to the beauty and accommoda.
lions of the university situation.
Postmaster L. S. Druary of Grand
Encampment was arrested the other
day by Postoffice Inspector Bennett of
CHEYENNE, charged with opening a LET.
ter addressed 10 another. The letter
opened was addressed to a friend of
Druary's and after reading its contents
Druary enclosed the following: Dear
Jim: / steamed your letter open. Dru.
ary." The prisoner will be taken to
Cheyenne.
One section of n huge petrified snake,
or sea serpent, has been brought int
Rawlins by Mr.. Aggers of Fillmore.
and is now on exhibition at the Jour.
nal office. At the deposit where 1t was
discovered the snake has been uncoy.
cred for n length of slxty-five feet and
In life must have been eighteen inche.
through the body. A number of east
ern scientists have arranged to explore
the fossil grounds In the vicinity of Fill
more next summer.
Horace c. Alger of Sheridan. and
George T. Beck of Cody. Wyoming. are
in Washington to urge the issuance of
patents for 10000 acres of land We
claimed and placed under irrigation IL
Big Horn Basin, Wyoming, by the
Shoshone Irrigation Company, Of
which Buffalo Bill is president. This
land has been reclaimed under the Ca
rey land act and is the first large tract
OF aand in Wyoming so reclaimed and
made ~patentable.
A w~ell-known mining man of Chey
enne advances the novel idea that the
Sherman Hill %tunneling project to be
undertaken by he Union Pacific road
is n big mining proposition. Stuff
cient investigation has already beer
had to demonstrate the fact that the
GRANTEES of that section carry a per
centage of gold running from $1.25t o
So per ton. while the whole formation
through which the tunnel will pass is
scanned and honcycombed with quartz
veins all of which are gold bearing OF
the surface.
ing ore on sleds from the Rudefeha
copper mine down to the edge of the
timber. was visited by n snow slide
one day last week. ut n point two miles
below the top of the divide. A four
horse sled was passing NJ the time anG
was caught in the a~valanchs. and car
ried over n cliff eighty feet in height
Horses. driver and sled were complete
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~. ,n5 10 5,;ror Al nonoa,
slightly injured. Dancer was just
emerging from the debris when assist
ance arrived.
pro,,miporr .t,ns Iool,;pg IN the .s
,-,Ii,,hn,an, -, n ,ir,ntin coal ,nf
- h,,sinoss h,vc boen taken a,
Cho,onno Rrcn,on II WalJs senio,
n,ornba,. NJ tbn shon n,anufacturin
arm ~ Wills &, % chicago
b,s 6led iu~cnrnnrntion noners of ths
EyceIsior unct Snrings Coal Comnany
and ,ha Nnn,rch SnnpIy copnonv
with n comhinnd conitaI Of 81 onp 0O1
Wcnlthv residents in wvominp have
,ssnciofod themselves with Mr. Wells
vii has ocnuirnd title to n large trac,
nf valuable coal land in Sweetwater
county Wvominp There are sever
distinct veins pf hiph grade coal. and
il is tbc intention 70 nat only mine con
nm , LARGE srnIe hnt also to manufac
tire coke bv the process
which has been tried successfully by
the Letters of Chicago. A kiln will be
established nj the mines, which will
he rencbed Inv n roilrood five miles IL
length and connecting with the Unior
Pacific nj Rock Strings Large build
inys for mower Dlnnts. stores
and cottages for The employees are il
process of erection
Avon, civ rra.r, st,oo family ot
cni".ants nonaS S,rnnr annnJ a,
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