, 1900-01-11
WYOMIN NOTES.
Murat Halstead lectured at Cheyenne

The shipments of iron ore from the
mines south OF Lusk to the Deadwood
smelters continues. The ore is used
for fiuxing and is proving a superior
article.
The largest deal ever consummated
IN sheep in that section was closed at
Lander Tuesday, when Bunce u Del
fielder purchased of John WisebOro ST.
900 head of sheep. paying for the same
the sum of $4,000.
Andrew Carnegie, the millionaire
steel manufacturer Of P~ittsburg, Will
give Cheyenne Il $4,000 free public Ii
brary building. The following commu-
nication was received from him by
Robert C. Morris, of the library asso-
citation. who recently took the matter
up with Mr.. Carnegie: Your favor of
the 10th inst. received. When the city
of Cheyenne is willing to furnish n
proper site for a free public library
and maintain it at n cost of not less
than $1,000 per year, ! shall be glad TO
give $4,000 for the building. \ pub
lie library cannot be maintained for
less than $1,000 per year, and it really
| should be $4,000" The citizens have
been raising funds for n site for some
time and one will be secured in n few
weeks. In all probability work on the
building will then be commenced.
There are eight distinct copper belts
in Wyoming. us follows: The Battle
Lake and Grand Encampment in south
ern Carbon county, ten miles north of
the Colorado line; the second is situat-
ed about twelve miles east of SaratO-
ga. and also in Carbon county: the
third is situated farther east in the
Medicine Bow mountains about forty
miles from Laramie; the fourth is
about ten miles northeast of Laramie;
the fifth is situated in Whalen n
about 100 miles north of Cheyenne; the
sixth Is situated in the Laramie Peak
district in Converse county: the sew
enth is in the Casper mountains, ten
miles south of Casper. and the eighth
is in the Big Horn basin. Prospecting.
however. has proved that copper is to
be found in almost every part of the
state,
c. w. Garbutt, superintendent of for
est reserves, has just returned from the
Laramie mountains. where he made
an examination of the proposed Crow
forest reservation, which includes six
townships in these mountains to the
a Of Laramie, the west boundary
being only five miles from that place.
The mt in the proposed reserve were
withdrawn from settlement by the
government in 1882, at which time
there were n number of settlers In the
region. 1t was the idea at the time
that these forests were needed to con-
serve the water supply for Cheyenne
and Laramie, but it has been ascer-
tained that there is little timber there
and not enough to make any material
difference in the water supply. Mr..
Garbutt will recommend to the com
missioner of the general land office that
the order of 1882 be revoked and the
lands be thrown open to settlement.
Assistant Superintendent George l..
Black of the Union Pacific Coal Com
pany says: I'VE are employing about
1000 men in the Union Pacific mines
in Wyoming. and of this number 1900
are at work at Rock Springs. AT the
present time we are behind in our Or
ders, but If the present warm weather
continues for II week or ten days we
will get caught up. At Hanna we are
about o cars short, and at Rock
Springs we are behind in our orders
about the same number of cars. We
have only commenced to tap the i'm
mense deposits of coal in that region
and have found no trace of the basin
as yet. In all of the years that we
have been taking coal from the mines
there we nave found no indications
that would lead us to believe that the
supply was running short. The veins
still continue to dip and should the
basin be reached this year, which is
not at all likely, We could continue
taking out coal at the present rate for
a century TO come and not exhaust the
supply"
Nearly nine times as much land was
sold during the last ear by the Union
Pacific land department as during the
year 1898, according to Special Agent
Wantland of Denver. The figures, with
the last few days in December esti-
mated, show a total of BOG, 900 acres.
divided among the states in this man
ner: Utah, 29I 900; Wyoming, 80, 600:
Colorado, 157 1000: Nebraska, 100000
and Kansas, 1900. This was about
one-eighth of the total land holdings
of the Union Pacific mt the beginning
or 1899. During 1898 the total sales
were 100000 acres. The sales were
made principally for grazing purposes.
The grazing situation has changed very
materially in Wyoming. Colorado.
western Nebraska and Utah during the
past two years and now owners of cat
tle' sheep and horses are compelled to
secure a title TO n range in order to
avoid the trouble incident to n division
'bNh iahSN. III wyoming pSDt-
clally has this condition prevailed. ana
In Utah the situation has been little
better. Range fights were of frequent
occurrence and the results were very
oiten disastrous to both sides.
MIR. NJ. p. Wheeler. secretary of the
committee TO establish n wool sales
week twice n year at Casper, has
furnished II statement of the benefits
to be derived thereby for nockmasters
he SAID: THE fact that Montana
wool has heretofore brought more
money thai Wyoming wool ia nj.
trlbuted largely to the fact that the
e~nterprising men of the north have ON
stated occasions brought wool BUYERS
n the wool sellers face TO face i'm
the presence of the wool, to the mutual
advantage of both of them. We NAV
secure SUCH a result at Casper. The
purchasers of wool desire it, the rail
road company will do its part, and
the only thing left for us to do is 10
cause to be assembled here at n given