, 1900-10-04

gion; is third in all the territory west
Of the Mississippi river, and twelfth
in the United States. The state has
teen mining coal for over thirty years.
During the four years of democratic
rule, with the same number of mines
as at present, the annual production
was 2,4J3,311 ton as against $500. 900
tons per annum during the past four
years of the Mckinley administration.
The increase in production can
more miners. more days work. better
pay. So great is the demand for Wyo-
ming coal that some of the mines are
worked night and day and are obliged
to advertise continuously for miners.
Among Wyoming's valuable mineral
resources are great deposits of iron
and copper ore. The depression in the
iron trade of the country which fol-
lowed the passage of the Wilson tar
if bill made the prospects for devel-
oping these deposits very slim. The
change brought about by securing a
protective tariff, and by the general
revival of business in the country has
caused Mornings iron and copper ore
to be sought out by capitalists. With
in the past two years one of its iron
districts which had lain dormant has
been developed. two railroads built to
it. mines opened and a town built which
now is a prosperous mining center.
Copper properties are also being de-
veloped and Wyoming if presen; con
ditions continue, will become n of
the big copper-producing states.
Five thousand men are now employ
ed by the railroads operating in Wyo-
ming, either building new lines or
double-tracking and improving old
ones. Never before in their history
have the railroads of the state been SO
prosperous, employed so many men.
or paid out so much in wages as at
present.
The people of Wyoming have cause
to be well satisfied with its state ad-
ministration. which is republican. as,
we'll as with the national administra-
ton. Under the economical and care
full direction of the state affairs Civ
cen by its officials. all of whom are
republicans. the state has no floating
Indebtedness, has a surplus in the
treasury. and will be prepared when
its comparatively small bonded in
debtedness becomes due to pay it off.
The public institutions Of the state
are all conducted with appropriations
made for them by the Legislature and
some of them are self supporting.
The most hopeful feature of Wyo-
ming's business condition is to be
found in the fact that its local banks
cow carry the credits as fits business
people. The deposits of Wyoming
banks have increased four-fold in the
past four years and the number of de
p%ositors have increased fve-fold. The
western banks are now as Independent
of the east as the east is of Europe.
and it will be difficult, | think, for Mr..
Bryan to convince our people that this
comfortable state of affairs is not due
directly to the wise and patriotic poll
cy of the republican party.
In 1896, when four years of depres-
sion and disaster had almost driven
our people to despair, the alluring
panacea held out in the plausible prom
ises of Bryan won him many votes in
Wyoming and he carried the state by
about $50 plurality. Now if the PEG
pie will spare time from business
from the ranch and from the mine to
go to the polls, this plurality will not
only be lost to Mr.. Bryan but the
Mckinley and Roosevelt electors will
carry the state by a substantial ma
Ijority. FRANCIS E. WARREN,
United States Senator.
Cheyenne, Wyo., Sept. &c, 1900.