, 1901-01-03
WYOMING NOTES.

The Union Pacific has engaged 100
men to cut ice at Evanston. The COM
pany will put up about $4,000 tons at
that point.
Over 125,500 trout were distributed
in the streams of Laramie county dur
ing the past year by he state fish COM
missioner.
The Tilland canal. near Basin, is
completed and running n good stream
of water. 1t will irrigate over 1000
acres of land.
Frank Cooper, n young man who was
sent to the p~enitentiary n year z for
incendiarism. has been pardoned by
Governor Richards.
Classep, the ~six-yenr-old son of Col
ductor William Storey of Cheyenne,
who was run down by a heavy dray
wagon, died of his injuries.
Farmers on the Greybull have re-
Gently placed orders for thousands of
young fruit trees. which will be plant
ed in the spring. Fruit growing In that
section has proven profitable.
At the recent meeting of the Big
Horn County Wool Growers Associa-
ZION $1,000 was voted and will be used
in paying bountics on bob cats which
are doing great damage in that section.
The John Morton Sheep Company
has filed articles of incOrpora-
tion. Capital stock, 100000. The in
corporators are John Morton, Sarah
Morton and Lewis Jenne, all of Doug
las.
A petition to the postmaster general
is being signed in Johnson county, ask
ing n free delivery route be established
from Buffalo TO Fort Mckinney,
French, johnson, Sayles and Rock
Greeks.
Material is beginning to arrive at
Cody foP the wool warehouse to be
built by the Burlington railroad. The
capacity of the building will be 1,5OO,-
600 pounds and will be ready for the
spring clip.
The Geddes Live Stock Company
has filed articles of Incorporation. Capt.
tai stock, 100000. l~ncorporators are
+. w. Geddes, Lucia Geddes II IL.
NJ. Bennett, all of Cheyenne. The COM
pany will operate in Laramie county.
Senator Warren of Wyoming, whose
present term ms senator will expire
March 4th, has received letters from
zach county delegation 10 the Sixth
Wyoming Legislature. numbering in
the aggregate iifty-three of the fifty
six members, assuring him of their
support for reelection.
The wedding of Robert w. Single,
formerly n w%ell-knOwn newspaper man
in Cheyenne and Denver. to Miss Adele
Widditield, daughter of one of the
w%ealthiest and oldest American fami-
lies in Honolulu, viii occur at Honolulu
next month. Mr.. Single is engaged in
business in the Hawaiian capital.
The members of the Soldiers Home
of Cheyenne We're given Il grand sur
prise party on Christmas evening,
when the members of the Woman's Re
lief Corps, assisted by the relief corps
of Laramie. gave Il splendid supper
and furnished loads of fruit and other
dclicacies for the future refreshment
of the old veterans.
Charles Coulter, Peter Pompell and
Walter Hiland, three prominent sheep
men who have been prospecting in the
FrecZOut mountains, twenty miles
north of Hanna for several years, have
uncovered n rich vein of copper ore.
The ore is said TO carry w $500 in
copper and gold to the ton. Wagons
Were set to hauling n carload of the
ore to Como station for shipment to the
shelters.
A number of the leading stockmen of
Natrona county sent II representative
to Iowa to purchase n number of the
best pure-bred registered shorthorn
bulls, and he succeeded in bringing
back some of the finest ever seen in
Wyoming. Stockmen who will head
their herds with bulls from this ship
ment are: Harold Banner. Ed. A. Me
GrauEh. Bert Cheney, James Kennedy
and the Blattenburg Bros.
The following men We're chosen by
the Carbon County Wool Growers AS
ISOLATION to represent them mt the Ma
tional Live Stock Association, to be
held at salt Lake City on the 18th of
January: j. C. Davis. Andy Johnson,
Nose Doze, II. ID. ~Blydenburg, Ernest
Sundin. NJ. j. Smiley. Charles Jackson,
A. +. Thode. Il. A. Hadsell, John Cos
griff, w. w. Daley, Charles Coulter, j.
A. Dennel, G. Wren, Charles L. Smiley,
S. W. Clayton.
Although the Burlington did not in
tend to commence track laying on its
Taluca-COdy line until next April, the
graders have made such rapid progress
in building the roadbed that the com
pany decided to commence laying steel
Mt nee. A large gang of men began
work mt TaluCa II few days ago and the
steel is being laid Mt the rate of two
miles II day. 1t is learned that the
Burlington has contracted 20 move the
1901 wool clip of the Big Horn basin
country TO market not later than July
10Th, and it is believed the road will be
completed to Cody not later than June
10th next.
State Veterinarian Seabury has filed
his annual report with the governor.
Among other things the official states
that during the year 1900 there passed
through Cheyenne en- route east ST3
carloads, or 21,0I7 head of horses; 1,2SO
carloads. or 1897, 800 head of sheep, and
3,54G carloads, or 10000 head Of cat
tie. Almost all of those shipments were
stopped and the animals fed at the To-
cal stock yards of the Union Pacific.
The official recommends that an assist
ant state veterinarian be appointed
whose duty 1t will be to inspect all
shipments of cattle in transit through
the state and all shipments brought in
to the state for infectious diseases.
The annual report of Professor Ell
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