The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-08-29

- ISL VI the Union Paclnc rail-
road depot, the route to them passing
through Laramie's big business hear
and beautiful residence scenes.
Laramie, long known to fame as
Inc Gem City" has had, with hel
eVer-SroWing beautiful buildings and
ornamental grounds, bestowed upon
her the later and well-deserved sur
name of Lovely Laramie"
Inc city is the second in size in the
state, while its possession of the mag
innocent state university makes it the
center OF Wyoming learning, literature
and art.
Connected with the university are the
agricultural and state experiment sta
agricultural college and state expert
lnent station-the energetic and sue
CeSsful work Of these institutions an
I nualiy adding alike to the harvest pro-
ducts and values of the state. By the
recent absorption of the grounds and
buildings of the former government
penltentiary, the experiment farm now
i numbers $40 acres, and furnished with
I commodious and effective official and
working quarters. In addition to the
superb irrigation results attained by
the farm. successful experiments are
being chronicled in the introduction of
long list of dry forage growths.
fleid peas are displaying yield of
Two tons of vine growth and heavy re-
turn of the pea itself.
The mangel wurtzel beet grows 20
tons per acre, and is developing eX-
ceptionaliy valuable properties, both
as beef producer and hardener.
Laramie has railroad rolling mills
with d capacity of seventy-five tons of
rails per day, and present monthly
payroll of $1,000; a Union Pacific tie
picking plant with seventy employees,
a 5000 monthly payroll and this years
turning out of 100000 ties; big stucco
or native plaster mill, which is annu-
ally heavily adding to its market scope
ana local wage distribution; a large
and excellent brewery: and is now o1F
gantzing pressed brick syndicate to
Work clay deposits unexcelled any
where.
The limestone quarries of Messrs.
Angel & George. in the city suburb.
are now sending 100 tons per day of
this clarifying rock to Colorado beet
sugar plants. A railroad spur is now
being put in to these quarries. and |
upon its early completion, the quarries !
VIII snip seven or eight cars per day, |
he market of the Laramie rock be- |
ing lately largely expanded by demands |
from Colorado smelters.
Inc Laramie stocI1yards have just |
been moved farther from the city and /
are now being increased to Il capacity |
OF AGO cars of stock with twelve load
ing chutes. These yards are the larg-
est and busiest in the state. if not in
the entire west lately handling $4,000
sheep in one day. a fact which can be |
appreciated when it is remembered
that 10000 sheep per day is the high
water mark of the Omaha yards them
selves The Laramie yards have wide
ind Well-grassed pastures attached
md are now putting down a superb
series of artesian wells for stockyard
md pasture watering purL loses.
The city is negotiating for NAM
moth gas, light and fun plant.
Laramie building. now in process of
obstruction or actually arranged for,
include the 100000 Abbotsford hotel.
icing erected by the Van Horn Miller
the S25, 900 Laramie Grocery
ompany block; the 100000 federal
,uilding; a $4,000 Methodist church.
he $4,000 Carnegie public library, and
$4,000 gymnasium building for uni
ersity service, and a commodious and
equipped county hospital. |
New. residences are springing up
onstantly all over the city at costs
angling from $1,000 TO $1,000.
The Laramie. Hahn's Peak &, Pa
ltic railroad is rapidly pushing it's $
and has already dfsbursed {
$1,000 in Laramie depot and yard ,
uildings. AS an earnest of the pro- {
ress and prosperity of Laramie is the
ict that the Van Horn Miller syndi-
lte alone has in the past few years 6
Spended millions of dollars with the ,
ty as the cash distributing point.
The Laramie railroad shops are busy ,
nd are to be largely increased in ca 6
acity, it being in significant connec- t
on Herewith that the Laramie shop
ficials and general employees are pur-
lasing and improving Laramie homes. 7