, 1900-01-18
VYOIING MITES.

A. b. Orlitz reports the discover.
near Hartville of a large deposit oi
brick clay and a greater distance rom
the town of a big bed of potters ciAy'
As lumber is selling in Hnrtvlle IL
S25 to $50 per 1000 the brick ciaA
will give at once Il cheaper and nloit
substantial character to future Hart
vile building.
Several members of the SrieTnir
committees who have been in OMAN
for some time in conference with tn
head officials of the Union Pacific rel.
tive to schedule of pay, etc. have 4,
turned home and report that they wrr
well treated in Omaha, and that the.
believe the company will grant the au
vances asked and other demands mau'
by the engineers and III
Professor Elwuod Mead. expert n
charge of the irrigation investigation u.
the Department of Agriculture, has
gone to Lafayette. Indiana, where III
will be married to Miss Lutz of ina
city. Mr.. Mead is n widOwer. his VII,
having died several years ago. Friends
of Mr.. Mead say there Is IA romano,
connected with this marriage to Mis-
Lutz. she having been n warm friend
of Mrs. Mead and had kept compnn!
with Mr.. Mead many years ago
The Warren Live Stock Company has
purchased Il large steam sheep sheaI-
ing plant which will he located mt Cam
station, twenty miles south of Chey-
enne on the Denver Pacific. The Wa
rem company annually shear thousands
of sheep south of this place, the wool
being hauled to town for shipment.
With a steam plant their w shear'n!
will not only be facilitated and cheap
AttAI It,t ,V1..V- .l,N,,. man ia I,..
flocks in that section will probably be
permitted to shear their sheep mt the
plant. The wool can then be loaded
on the cars Immediately after shcarinr
as Carr station is provided with side
tracks and other accommodations for
shipping.
Attorney j. c. Baird ut the Instance
of the Cheyenne Citizens League anti
gambling committee has given an clab-
crate opinion of the status of our laws
relating to the gambling question. Mi.
Baird asserts that his Investigations
prove that the city has full legal au-
thority to prohibit gambling. Attorney
W. r. Scott. who has also given the
matter considerable study, comedies
with Mr.. Baird in his opinion. As the
city attorney has given an opinion to
the contrary the matter becomes one of
public interest. The Anti-Gambllng
League now reinforced by the opinion
of able attorneys. will push its cam
paign to Il final battle in which the ac-
ton of the courts will be invoked.
Wool prices are on the jump says
Secretary Snow of the State Sheen
Commission. They are now higher
than at any time in the last twelve
years, and it is the prediction of well
posted sheep growers that next sum
mel will see wool selling at ~ cents
and upward. Within the past week
sales have been made nj 20 cents per
pound. Ormsby of Boise City, Idaho,
"A few days ago sold 100000 pounds nj
that price. The shortage in the Austria
liam crop accounts for some of the ad.
vance. Within the past three years
that country has lost from 40,OOO,oOO
TO 50,0O0,0OO sheep. This gives a
greater demand for American wool to
make up the shortage of the worlds
supply"
The sheep men of central Wyoming
are up in arms over the bill now be-
fore Congress which provides for the
regulation of the land leasing business
in this state and the closing of the for.
est reserves to range sheep. The sheep
men say that the bill was prepared
by and for the benefit of cattle
men. who are doing everything in tbeir
power TO drive the sheep men off the
ranges of the West. If passed, they
say, the measure will result In the
generalization of the sheep business
and will have the effect of driving the
small owner out of the business. An
organization has been effected and n
petition is now being circulated which
Will be presented TO the states repre-.
sentatives. calling upon them to use
their influence 10 defeat the measure.
There iS great activity in the Hay
creek coal fields surrounding Aladdin,
ana from present indications Aladdin
Is destined 10 be a second Rock Springs
IN the near future. so rapidly is the
demand for the coal Increasing that the
company is away behind in its orders.
Under present conditions it is impossi.
Bile to put on an increased force of min,
crs. and not until the new stope. which
has been run into the hill of u distance
of loo feet is timbcred. can the outpu
from the mines be increased. At pres.
n lUO tons per day are being mined
and shipped to points In the Black
Hills. Nebraska and as far east as
Creston, Iowa. Almost all of the out.
put. however. is used in the Blnck
Hills. 1t is expected that when the i'm,
proVements now in progress are com,
pleted an additional force of miners
will be put on and the output increased
10 o tons daily.
a dispatch from Hartville says: The
completion of the spur from the Chey,
enne u Northern to the Platte river,
tive miles from this place, will give "A
great impetus 80 business here. 1t is
known that II large number of miners
ana prospectUrS are waiting for the
road TO be completed before shipping
IN their outfits and stores, as the pres
ent rates for transportation from the
Cheyenne X Northern 80 Hartville by
wagon are too high. The Colorado
Fuel ~ Iron Company already has
about 100 tom of ore stacked up at
the river awaiting shipment. The
building of the road will result in n
number of private mine owners open
ing their mines and shipping ore ia
Denver. 1t is expected that the freight