, 1900-04-19
NOTES.

Guy Scott, Jointly charged with sam
Green with horse stealing, was given d
preliminary hearing and bound 0ver 10
the District Court. Scott says he pur-
chased the horses in good faith, ana, IT
they were stolen, he had no knowledge
of il. The officers are still looking Tor
Green.
The Tuspsr societies of Laramie have
organized TO work for the struggling
Beers. Mannerchor hall will be used
in which to give entertainments, and
donations TO Il general fund will be col
lccted. The money realized will be used
In buying medicines II hospital sup
plies for the Beers.
The Fort Laramie wood reservation.
containing 10000 acres of agricultural
and timber lands, is to he thrown open
for settlement. After the surveys are
made, under the rules of the interior
Department. bona fide settlers are Civ
en- six months preference right for Ill
ing upon the lands they have settled
upon.
1t develops that an organized gang
has been stealing horses from the
ranges in the country surrounding
Rawlins for some time. The snap was
finally exposed by horsemen visiting
the stockyards and inspecting horses
which were about to be shipped. They
found some animals belonging to them
selves.
Governor Richards has issued his Ar
Dor Day proclamation for Wyoming.
designating Friday, April 9th, foy Its
observation and declaring the same a
legal holiday. He earnestly requests
the people of the state to join in the
effort to plant trees on this and all 9TH
er possible occasions, to maintain and
foster our woodlands and forests and
observe Arbor Day by fitting ceremon-
les and by exercises in the public
schools.
State Superintendent lyman has
made the annual apportionment of the
common school land income fund as
follows: Albany county, ~$3,i64.32; Big
Horn, S1,S6i.91; Carbon, S4,212.22; Con
verse, S2.017.0S; Crook, S2,525.39: Ere
mont, S1,932.9O; Johnson, S1.664.1T;
Larimer, S6.2O6.63 Natrona. S925.9S;
sheridan, S4,027.61: Sweetwater, 3d.
10S.17; Uinta. S~9,SG5.21; Weston. ST.
450.4S. Total distribution, S43, 1855. 13.
In 1897. S1O.520: in 1898, S12,617, and
in S 3 the sum of S26,0S4 was distrib-
uted among the schools of the state.
This steady increase shows the rapid
growth of the land leasing business.
The East Sherman gravel pits have
opened with a large force of men. An
other big steam shovel has been taken
to the pits and will be placed in oper-
alton at once. The work of taking
out gravel will be carried on on a larg-
er scale this summer than during past
years. h decomposed gravel will
be used EAST of Cheyenne. where the
JuleSburg line will be well ballasted,
also the main line from Grand Island
west. Nearly LOCO cars have been
lifted up for the gravel service. many
haveing beer built especially for this
service. The gravel is being shipped
TO the cut-offs west of Laramie, where
it is used as ballast.
The Carbon County Wool Growers
Association. at a meeting held to con
slider the proposition of leasing LOCO
600 acres of railroad land from the
Union Pacific in what is known as the
Rec Desert in southwestern Carbon
county and eastern Sweetwater coun-
ty. accepted the same and will lease
the lands for Il period of five years.
paying for them at the ate of one per
cent. per annum per acre. The rail
road company insisted that the asso-
citation incorporate before the lease
would be given, and Incorporation pa
pers will be filed at once. This is the
largest deal of its kind in the West.
The members of the association will d.
vide the land among themselves ac-
cording to the number of sheep owned
by each member.
Word has been received from Sara.
toga which stated that Il rich strike
had been made in the Mohawk gold
nina i'm tho Cold Hill lig,,i.t L., ,.,.i
ern Carbon county. The property was
purchased recently by Messrs. Brown
and Burns of the Brown Palace Hotel
Company of Denver for $4,000. Ore
from n three-foOt lead was literally
studde with chunks of gold. Ii Is as.
serted that n single ton of his ore will
more than fully pay the owners for
the cost of the mine and the develop
ment work. A carload will be Skinned
TO the Denver smelters for treatment as
soon as II can be transported to the
railroad. The Mohawk is situated
about twenty-five miles from Saratoga.
The lead has beer exposed for a dis.
lance of 200 feet, and the matter con.
sists of quartz and porphyry, CARRYING
sylvanite Il tellurium.
The mount of $4,000. appropriated
by the last Legislature for the extermI.
nation of predatory wild animals, is
now exhausted and no more state boun-
ues Will be paid by the different coun.
ues until another appropriation is
made. All the cattle men in the Lara
mic district have banded together and
have formed the Laramie Plains Live
Stock Protective Association. The oh.
Ject of this association is expressed in
Its name. Money is collected from the
stock ralSers according TO their re-
sources. and expended in bounties ON
predatory wild animals in much the
same way ms the state appropriation.
Mr.. Whitehouse, the secretary of the
association. has just issued his report
ior the month of March. 1t shows that
thlrty-eight bounties have been paid al
an expense of so. There is vet a cash
balance of S521.G0 on hand.
The superior Oil Company, a wealthy
eastern syndicate composed of oil on.
orators residing in Binghampton, New
York: Philadelphia and Scranton
pennsylvania, filed articles of incorpor.
atloh With n capitalization of SlO.5OO,.