The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-27

p LSEWHERE IN TODAY'S ISSUE OF The
r. Herald-this New Years issue, in which an
effort has been made to chronicle as
completely and fairly may be the
accomplishments of the ntermountan group of states
win be found details as to the progress Wyoming
has made during 1908. Wyoming has no more warm
friends than the residents of Utah We Of this state
interested in the development of Wyoming; first be-
cause 1t is pleasant to ones neighbors making the
most of their opportunities; and second because Utah
inevitably has share in any marked prosperity en-
joyed by its sister state.
The mining industry in Wyoming has not made the
progress all of us would have wished for it. but any
shortcomings in this direction are more than offset by
the gains in others When the name of Wyoming was
first added to the map of the United States it was re-
garded a Wild untamed and untamable land fit only
for cattle ranges, wild and wooly cowboys, desperate
outlaws stock rustlers" and the like. 1t thought
that Wyoming could never be state of homes in the
real home sense.
That idea is being rapidly dssipated The best ey-
dence of this is found in the fact that the debt of
Wyomings school districts increased nearly $4,000
in 1903 An increase in the school debt is the most sat
isfactory possible indication that the population of
Wyoming is increasing; that her people are taking more
interest in the education of their children And when
people are interested in educating their children it may
be taken for granted that they have established per-
manent homes It is hardly necessary to furnish other
proof that Wyoming, a cowboy state, is thing Of
the past
But there is plenty of evidence along this line Agri-
culturaly speaking, Wyoming IS perhaps going for
ward rapidly than any other western state in pro-
portion her resources. Seven hundred and twelve
miles of irrgatng canals and bitches were projected
in Wyoming in 1903. Many of these are well under
way. Some have been entirely completed. Work on
others viii be started soon weather conditions in
the new year will permit And these canals and bitches
viii reclaim an empire-324O 600 acres Of as fertile land
once it has water, any that has ever been blessed
with sunshine.
Wyoming is soon to have one canal seventy-fyo
miles long. This is the CodySalisbury canal IT will
draw its water supply from the Shoshono river and
from Cedar canyon, and viii rrigae 100000 acres at
a cost Of 100000 for the entire work Another big
project is canal sixty miles long, along the Shoshone
river to rrigate $4,000 acres and the lesser undertake
ngs are too numerous for mention in this brief ac-
count Of what Wyoming doing. It is sufficient to say
that an era Of agricultural prosperity such as the early
settlers never dreamed of is about be inaugurated
in Wyoming
in addition to this Wyoming is coming forward in
manufactures and other industries, and the outlook for
the state was never so bright The Herald congraulates
the neghbor state for its showing in 1903 and wishes
for it more power and success in the year that is
dawning.
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