, 1901-03-14
WYOMING NOTES.

The Rawlins Live Stock Company
has purchased the sheep business OF
Deal & Haggerty. The home ranch IS
located near the Nebraska-W Wyoming
line in the vicinity of Kimball, Nebras-
ka. The deal was for $4,000.
The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
Company has purchased n lot at Cap
itol avenue and Seventeenth street in
Cheyenne for $4,000. for the purpose
of erecting II telephone exchange build
ing. The building will I've a handsome
structure and will be erected this
season rs 500 as the plans permit, at
a cost of $4,000 TO $4,000.
A big oil company organized by east
ern capitalists with n capital of $4,000
GOO filed articles of incorporation at
Cheyenne on the 9th instant for the
purpose of developing Wyoming oil
fields. 1t is called the Consolidated OH
and Development Company. Maurice
+. Page of Binghamton, New York, is
president of the company.
New companies are Incorporating in
Wyoming ut the rate of four n five
every day, the total amount of capital
stock ag%gregating 100000 daily. Dur
ing February fourteen companies have
Incorporated, their capital stock aggre-
eating S15.O00,0O0. At the present rate
of filing the year 1901 will show com
panies with "A total capital stock valu-
alton of S204, 3S5, 400.
Chief Engineer Berry of the Union
Pacific has completed plans for the
construction of n magnificent three
story stone building, to be located in
tho depot park, just east of the Union
Pacific depot, in Cheyenne, and to be
used ms Il club house for the 1000 shop
men and trainmen. Tn cost of the
building alone will he 100000, while
the furnishings and fittings will aggre-
gate 100000 additional.
A prominent sheep grower of Carbon
county was interviewed at Cheyenne 81
few days ago and said: Range con-
ditions were never better. We have
had an exceptionally good winter and
two per cent will cover all losses so
far as my observation has extended
Referring to the price of wool, he said:
while the wool market is quite I'M
satisfactory 10 the seller, 1t does not
worry the practical sheepmen, who
OWL their herds. There il always Il
good average profit in western sheep
growing, whatever the price may be-
The comptroller of the currency has
given out an abstract of reports of the
condition of the fourteen national
banks in Wyoming February 9TH.
Compared with the reports of Decem-
her 18th it shows that the total re
sources decreased from SG,013,429 to
SG.OO6.S4J. Loans and discounts in
creased from S5.23G.15J TO S3,349,57l,
and the cash reserves advanced from
S3G3,GIS to S36S, 723, TO which the gold
holdings advanced from S247 800 to
S250,J2O. The individual deposits fell
from $ .12T 1915 to S4,0S9. 0S7. and the
average reserve fell from 33.4T to 3O.6O
per cent.
The Burlington road on the 9TH in
slant made thirty-one filings on coal
lands and on the 9th forty more filings
of the same kind ut the Cheyenne land
office. The two days filings cover H.
800 acres. These lands are located in
the Simolc mountains, northeast of
Rawlins. and but n few miles off the
Gucrnsey-Salt Lake extension. A
large party of Burlington employees and
surveyors are working in that vicinity
mt this time and locating more coal
ground. Since January LIST the Bur
lington has filed on from 10000 to 40
o acres of coal lands along its pro-
posed western extensions, besides leas-
ing large coal deposits in the ShOshone
reservation.
Special agents of the Interior Depart
ment are now in the mountains west
of Whcatland investigating reports of
alleged trespass on government tim
Der land. 1t appears hat the two
eastern tiers of the old Fort Laramie
military forces We're surveyed two
years ago, and since the War Depart
ment abandoned the tract us II part
of the military reserves, homestead
filings on these lands have been made
ut the land office in Cheyenne. This
T,.t In- I,1 -. rIa I,lt.F tI,F Al. .
tire reservation had been made n part
of the open public domain and placed
under the provisions of the general
land law. Under this supposition scv-
eral firms have placed mills in opera
ton and have been cutting the timber.
1t now appears these firms are limo
cent trespassers and will be compelled
to pay for the timber cut. The depart
ment's agents are also Investigating
reports of alleged Illegal fencing of
government lane III the northern part
of Laramie county. 1t is probable
that the Investigations now being con
Quoted will result in court cases.
Details of the unfortunate expedi-
ton in which Il. j. Smith was frozen
to death on Tongue river have been
received at Sheridan. MIR. Smith was
foreman of the Nickel and Copper Re
filming Company. He left Dayton on
Friday morning with A. Il. Giebcl To
return TO he ompany's mines. When
they reached the Horse creek tlumc
Smith said he would not try to reach
camp that night, but Gicbel, being
anxious to 20 on. it was agreed he
should do so and return to Smith in
the morning and bring some break
last. He told Smith where he could
find Il shack with II stove and wood
in it where he could build n fire and
remain over night, this place being
about Il mile and n half away. In the
morning Giebel started back to find
Smith. When he got within four miles
of the cabin he found Smiths tracks
in the snow, and saw that he had cvi-
IDENTITY wandered away without inc
ing the cabin. He followed the tracks
and found Smith lying on his hack
with life extinct. Smith was ~ single
man. about forty-iire years old, an odd
Epllow i'm good standing ana WAS