, 1902-01-02
WYOMING NOTES.

on the 10Th instant.
Reports from the Red Desert country
iay that coyotes and wolves are play
ng havoc with the herds of sheep scat
cred by the recent storm.
The school children of Cheyenne re-
>ently contributed half a ton Of food
10 the poor of the city. A large amount
IF clothing was also donated.
The big steel bridge over the ShO-
shone river Mt Cody City, which con-
nects the town with the Burlington de
pot and yards, has been completed.
Basin advices state that work is pro-
crossing rapidly on the big canal on
the north side of the Shoshone river.
This canal will be completed in the
spring and will irrigate 1900 acres Of
ine bench land.
Irving j. Rendle. n sheepherder, who
was lost for two days and nights, was
brought into Rawlins with his face,
hands and feet badly frozen. He suf-
Tered so much that he lost his reas on,
but is now improving.
Captain II. G. Nickerson, agent of
the Wind River reservation, has con-
tributed 50 to the Mckinley memorial
fund. Captain Nickerson is said TO be
lnt Only NAN III NN'ilihS " hhihr
that served in the same regiment with
the late President.
Laramie physicians deny the Story
recently printed in the Denver News
which stated that n convict at the state
%penitentiary died of leprosy in 1893.
The dead man was examined by eX-
perts who pronounced the disease non
parasitic skin trouble.
- ..a-z1 - no,
by. Il relay station on the Rawlins-
Lander stage line, December 10th. A
nan in the employ of John Carmody is
alleged to have committed the crime.
Warner was n stock tender for the
Lander Stage Company.
The patients Mt the Laramie county
hospital were given n Christmas enter
tainment and tree. A number of the
sick are little children, and for each
presents, and If their condition allowed
II, candy We're provided. The county
paupers We're also given n celebration,
and the prisoners in Ii county Jail.
During the first eleven months of
1901 400 patients were treated at the
State hospital at Rock Springs. One
hundred and siXtysiN cases were med
cal and 230 surgical. The railroad
company and the coal companies fur
nished 1865 of the surgical cases. of
these the Union Pacific furnished 144.
II. Larson and his associates, who are
Interested in the development of n vein
Of anthracite coal, in the Muddy basin,
forty miles southwest of Rawlins, have
a number of men engaged in opening
the vein. While no analysis of the coal
has been made, stove tests show that
the coal is u good grade of anthracite.
At Cody fire was recently applied to
the first kiln of brick prepared IN Big
Horn county. The kiln was erected
and will be operated by agents of Col
Onel w. f. Cody. and all of the brick
have already been contracted for. The
kiln contains 100000 bricks. The clay
vas obtained within the city limits,
and is of excellent quality.
II is stated Mt Rawlins that the
building of the aerial trumway from
the Ferris-Haggnrty copper mine at
Battle Lake to the BostOn-W Wyoming
,melter at Encampment is now AS
mred. Charles +. Knapp, president of
the company. says that the money has
been secured and work on the project
will be commenced in the near future.
1t is learned hat the Union Pacific
Will not put on Its electric-lighted trains
until the middle or latter part of Jan
nary. 1t was the intention to adopt the
new order of things on the first Of the
year, but this cannot he lone. The
work of equipping the cars with cleo
trio lighting apparatus is going for
ward rapidly, however, and inside of
three or four week all last passenger
rains on the overland will be electric
lighted.
Madore Cushman recently sold his
bunch of cattle. numbering seventy
four head, to Noah Wagner. He has
Ave head left, this number being all the
progeny of II ~twO-year-old heifer pur-
chased by Mr.. Eastman fourteen years
ago. The heifer, now n stately old cow
Of sixteen years. will be kept as long
as she lives as n kOnd OF mascot. Cush>
man is n sort of n hermit in the noun
tains beyond Grand Encampment,
where he has spent the last quarter of
q century.
j. +. Buckley of Rawlins has secured
q title to the TOWNSHIP Of Walcott, Car
bon county, in the land office at Chey-
enne. A year ago. realizing the posi-
bilitleS of the place, he covered the
ground with n homestead entry, but or
account of complications which arose
determined to ecu n title with sold
lers' script. In this ann he was
given n patent to 100 acres by the pay
ment of So per acre. WalcOtt is the
gateway to tine Grand Encampment
and Upper Platte mining districts and
is becoming II point of Importance. A
railroad from the Union Pacific into the
district may be built from or near Wal
colt.
Colonel Cody was interviewed while
In Cheyenne II few days ago. He says
there is water enough in the Big Horn
basin to irrigate millions Of acres of
land. The Shoshone alone carries
enough water to irrigate more than l.
100000 acres. The soil is very rich,
and is especially adapted to the row
ing of sugar Deets and alfalfa. The
climate in the basin country is superb.
The percentage of days of sunshine is
greater than in any other portion of
the state, frosts come early in the
spring and late In the summer. 50 that
tho seasons are plenty long enough for
all kinds of crops to mature Hail sell