, 1900-02-01
WYOMING NOTES.

The Union Pnc1nc VIII Snortly peSin
work on u new $4,000 passenger depot
at Rock Springs. The building Will De
of pressed brick. The present building
will be used as a freight depot.
The first shipment of iron ore from
the Hartville mines to come gu over
the recently constructed spur from
Badger to the North Platte river.
passed through Cheyenne on the t
en- route to the smelter at Pueblo,
There were four cars in the shipment.
From this time on there will be regular
shipments. the Colorado ~ Southern
handling the trains which will u
over the Denver Pacific from Cheyenne
to Denver. The output of iron will be
about five carloads per day until the
spun is completed TO the mines Mt Hart
vile. which will not be until April or
May.
The miners under Contractor FOWLER,
at work on the Sunrise mine at Hart
vile, struck an old Indian cave. The
mouth of the cave was encountered
about eight feet from the surface of
the earth. 1t shows a large cavity i'll
which are bows. arrow heads, stone i'm
plements and other evidences of the
red man. The cave is in the soft oxide
or iron or paint" and ii is TIE theory
of those familiar with the Indians that
this is IA place where they took out the
iron which they used for paint, and
which was largely an article Of barter
among the Indians. The cav Will be
left undisturbed until it is photo
sraphed.
officials of the Union Pacific have
called the grievance committees of the
boilermakers and mach!nists of the
Cheyenne shops together and notified
them that the company had granted
them an increase of from 32l2 cents
per hour to "a cents per hour. the same
to I've in force from January /, 8
This puts an end 10 the differences be
tween the men II company. Tie men
are highly pleased owe the turn OF af-
fairs, their only regret bairg that they
did not present their ~grivance: 10 the
company instead of striking and giving
no time for IA consideration of the de
mands. The company announces that
all men who are not competent will not
be retained in the service.
Colonel w. +. Cody Buffalo BID.
who is nj the head of IA great irrigating
enterprise in the Big Horn basin. and
of II company constructing a canal
which will water 100000 acres Of land.
is negotiating a sale with the Mormon
leaders of the whole tract for the
settlement of II colony of that faith.
When the deal is consummated Il large
colony of from q so 1000 Mormons
viii be settled on the tract which is 10
Gated around and in the vicinity of the
town of Cody. one successful settle
ment of MormOns has already been
made in Big Horn valley and the
whole section is an ideal agricultural
and stock raising country, attractive
to settlers acquainted with irrigation
and systematic farming. like the Nor
mons.
The fact that the state bounty fund
is becoming exhausted. is stimulating
the formation of local associations of
stOckmen Offering extra inducements
to wolf killers. As n rule the associa-
tiOns pay $50 each for gray wolf and
mountain lion scalpS. The Laramie
Plains Live Stock Protective .AsSoCia-
ton now being organized, will be one
of the largest of the kind in the state.
one of the StipulationS required be
fore the organization begins business.
is that at least one-half of the stock
raising interests of the entire county
must he represented. The membership
has nearly reached the required limit
and the leaders of the movement say
they Will secure the necessary num-
49, ~ "a wv 'iN -. llulISH IlbIt llil
1000 wolves have been paid for out of
'he state bounty, stockmen say the ami
mails are as plentiful as ever and are
doing an immense amount of damage.
Governor Richards will issue in Il
few days at letter to the ladies of
wyoming, calling upon them to take
charge of the work of raising subscrip-
lions 20 a fund, which will he used for
thep purchase of II silver service for the
monitor Wyoming, which is being con
structcd by the Union Iron Works at
San Francisco. This idea of the ladies'
of the state raising the money is IA
novel one and originated with the gov
ernOr. who will make the presentation
In the name of the ladies of Wyoming.
y silver service such as the citizens of
this state desire 10 present TO the war
vessel III in honor of the young
commonwealth will cost between So
900 and $4,000. The Wyoming is an ar
mored monitor of the Monterey and
Monadnock type. but Will be IA much
ner vessel than either. She will be
more powerful in her armament and
better protected. For sca-going pur-
poses she VIII OutclaSs the others, as
the builders Will eliminate the little de
fects found in the construction of the
Monterey II MonadnOck. The Wyo-
ming will be launched some time the
coming summer.
II is stated that the Union Pacific.
the Oregon Short Line, the Oregon
Railway * Navigation Company. with
the Dlamondville and Eemmerer Coal
Companies. are forming Il big syndi-
cate TO control thousands of acrcs of
valuable coal lands in western Wyo-
ming and the output of the mines.
They propose TO construct Il line of
railroad south from the DiamOndville
n Eemmerer Coal mines on the
north, IA distance of sixty miles, to the
Aspen COa mines Of the Union Pacific
on that road. The new line will ira
verse Il tract fifty miles square, which
Is underlaid with an excellent auality
of bltuminous coal and which will be
controlled by the combination. A large
number of mines are TO be opened along
this line of road, the product going To
market via the Union Pacific on the
south and the Oregon Short Line and
oregon Railway X Navigation road ON
the north. Rates and prices will no = 4,