, 1900-09-27
WYOMING NOTES.

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Never, since the country was settled,
has there been so much crime in the
vicinity of Laramie as at present. 1t
Is due to the presence of tough men
working on the railroad grade.
Captain ii. A. Clarke, inspector of
rural free delivery routes, has arrived
at Cheyenne en- route to Sheridan,
where he wi. investigate the applies
ton for free delivery. He will also
make Investigations at Whentland,
Casper and Laramie. AT the present
time there are no rural free delivery
routes in Wyoming.
j. A. Mcconnell of Pittsburg, Penn
sylyania, hes been at Casper looking
after the preliminary work on the as
bestos mines of Casper mountain,
which are owned by his company.
There is n vast quantity of asbestos
now being opened NJ and efforts Will
be made to open a wagon road by n
practical route in order TO ship the
product to the railroad.
The Burlington road has given n con-
tract for the rock tunnel and big noun
tain cut of its Toluca-Cody line in Big
Horn county to McShane q Co, of
Omaha. The contract covers about
eight miles, the tunnel proper through
solid rock being 600 feet, the balance
heavy cuts and fills. The locality of
this work is in the vicinity of Pryor
gap, southwest of Billings.
1t is reported tina an eastern syndi-
cate is making an effort to gain CON
troll of the Big Horn hot springs at
Thermopolis. If the scheme is carried
out thousands of poor people who an
nually visit the springs II battle in
the medicinal waters will be deprived
of the privilege unless they pay for the
same. At present the springs are pub
lie and anyone can battle there.
The S2,OOO,0O o option on the Ferris
Haggerty copper mine at Battle Lake.
held by IN eastern syndicate, expired
on the 18th. 1t is understood the syn
dictate asked for a renewal of the OPP
ton, but that the owners refused TO
grant the request. The present owners
are making regular shipments to smelt-
ers in Illinois and are making money
rapidly, consequently do not care TO
| dispose of the property.
The Union Pacific is having Difficult
ty in finding rack labOrers to take the
place of the large number of japanese
section men called back to Japan. In
this vicinity few japanese remain and
these are old men, unfit for service in
the Japanese army. While the Japs
were orderly and worked hard, no IL
is sorry 10 see them go back. They
work for about half the amount paid
white labsr and spend little of their
earnings.
Cheyenne will get no public building
this year. This is the conclusion
reached by the supervising architect
of the treasury after the second lot of
bids for this building were opened on
the 18th, and all were rejected. As
heretofore stated. there is but S1TO,2T5
available for this building, and the
lowest bid received, that of Foster x
Smith of Minneapolis, was 1S6,9O0.
using sandstone and granite, or $lS9,9OO
using limestone and granite.
The wyoming & Western Railroad
Company has been Incorporated by off
cials of the Oregon Short Line. The
capital stock is S3,OOO,OOO and the pur-
pose is to build n railroad from n point
on the Short Line near Kemmerer TO
n point on the Union Pacific between
Evanston and Piedmont. The line will
be forty miles in length and will tap
extensive coal fields near Kemmerer
and the new coal mines of the Union
Pacific at Happy Hollow, between
Evanston and Piedmont. Work was
commenced about ten days ago and n
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up roadbed south from kemmerer.
The Wyoming & Western railroad
filed articles of incorporation on the
18th, the ~incorporators being the man
ayers of the Oregon Short Line, who
, are building a branch of forty miles
from their line to onnec with the
Union Pacific at some point between
Piedmont and Evanston, for the pur-
pose of tapping the new and rich coal
fields along the proposed road. Work
on the branch has already begun, and
the construction will he completed at
an early day. The coal mines are also
being opened up, and will be ready for
n large production as soon as the DAD
is built, and will he the means of es-
tablishing several prosperous and
growing town in that section.
Messrs. L. a. Hoyt, n conductor on
the Cheyenne n Northern, and JOIN.
Brown, proprietor of the Normandie
hotel at Cheyenne, are in n fair way of
becoming wealthy very soon. A few
months ago they purchased the Cooney
Hin copper mine. situated twelve miles
west of Wheatland, for n nominal sum.
Experts pronounced 1t worthless,
claiming that the formation was not
right. A few weeks ago the new owners
reached a depth of thirty fest and
struck ore II n ran S2l in copper 10 the
ton. AT n depth of forty feet the ore
ran 500, and Il few days ago ore was
taken out at n depth of fifty feet that
assayed about $40. The vein is four
and a half Get wide and the indica-
tons are hat the ore body is ut least
thirty feet in width.
A train load of Mormon immigrants
is now en- cute to the Big Horn basin.
having started from southern Utah last
Sunday. The party consists of three
coach loads of men. women and hill
dren and thirty carloads of household
goods, implements, seeds, etc. The
Mormons will join The colony of 400
that settled on the Shoshone river last
spring. The first colony was an eX-
pertinent, and ms the colonists have
met with success in growing crops the
first year this second movement is the
result. The indications are that next
spring thousands Of Mormons will
make their way from Utah and Idaho
TO the fertile valleys of the Big Horn