, 1905-05-15
PEOPLE OF EAST TAKE DEEP IN
TEREST IN WELFARE OF
MOUNTAIN COUSINS.
Touch of Romance About Wyoming
That Interests Average Yankee,
and He Likes to Hear Men from
This State Get Started in Praise
of the Commonwealth.
Glentlora Springs, Wyo.,

oil and iron. Beastly prosperous, as
Matthew Arnold said Of a western city
where the livestock interests is a feat
ure. You see evidences of it all about
you-great banking and monied insti-
tutions on every corner; more money
than the people know what to do with.
A young man now at the head of a
large banking house and trust com
pany told me his house had been en-
gagged in business only a little over
two years and was founded by two
young men of the place, practically
without any financial means whatever
of their own, every dollar of the cap,
ital stock being subscribed through
their own personal effort. At the end
of the first year the deposits amounted
to $50, 900, and at the end of the sec
ond ear 100000. The concern is now
paying large dividends, doing an exten.
sive business and carrying a payroll of
fifty to sixty skilled employees. 1t is
also worth noting that the real estate
holdings Of the company has increased
over 100 per cent during the period,
The narrative has a touch of Barney
Barnato about it, but | have no grounds
for believeing that it is lot loyal to
the facts, and the instance is cited as
tending to show the plethora Of ready
money in that Anticipated city, as well
as the facility with which it is invest
ed in business ventures.
The east is surely prosperous, and
this means not n little to the west. For
how can the east prosper and the west
not feel its effects? Indeed it is not
yet possible for the west to prosper and
the east to stand still.
1t is gratifying to note the interest
eastern people feel in the affairs of
the middle west. They point to the
marvellous results that it is believed are
to follow the recent national legisla.
ton on the subject of irrigation. Arid
America is now attracting marked at.
tentlon in the older sections of the
country. The opening of the Panama
canal, together with rapid expansion
of our trade in the orient, it is easy to
see, must in the near future give a
tremendous impetus to the growth and
development of the middle west and
the coast states. 1t is only a matter of
a few years in the judgment of those
giving thought to the subject, until
these states will become the richest
and most prosperous in the union.
1t is noticeable here and there, how
ever, that a suspicion exists that these
results may be brought about at the
expense of the east; not jealousy, per.
haps, but apprehension. AS well might
a parent be envious of the welfare of
her W child as the east of the west.
For whatever of success the west shall
achieve must rebound to the common
glory Of the parent states.
There is a touch of the romantic
about Wyoming that interests the av-
erage Yankee. You will be asked to
tell all you know about the Rocky
mountains in ten words. The Indian
massacres and lynchings of former
days, the cow boy, the cattle barons,
the climate among the clouds, the
character of the people and the re-
sources of the country all interest him.
At this point it will be necessary to
be on guard, for the Wyoming man is
enthusiastic, affected more or less by
the altitude, no doubt, and the object
is to draw his fire. Cattle on a thous-
and hills, vast herds of sheep that
swarm the plains, 10000 square miles
of territory, an average annual wheat
yield higher than almost any other
state, as well as oats fifty pounds to
the bushel, potatoes thirty tons to the
acre. AS to wild game no other part
of the continent can be compared with
Wyoming. Take al instance, n day,
when the waters of the Laramie rivers
are clear, and they are seldom muddy,
crossing any bridge that spans the riv-
er there may be seen fish by the wag-
on load lying, so to speak, in the limpid
current; get on your bronx and ride
along the foot of these mountains
ranges a few miles after a sharp snow
fall on the heights and you will see
deer by the o feeding at the base
truly the paradise of the sportsman.
Relating all of which to YOU Yankee
friend conveys but a small modicum of
what Is here. Nevertheless, when the
from the wild and woody west,
reaching this point, stops to take his
wind, the chances are his listener,
with head on one side and a twinkle in
his eye, will depart. Like as not, how
ever, the next time he meets you he
will say How are you, Wyoming?" But
don't matter. We have faith in
and we know 1t has resour-
ces and a future, and its people are
happy, intelligent and prosperous.
This. by the way, suggests a detail
the writer would like to stop to
mention. At the foot of one of the
great mountain peaks that look ma
jestically down upon this city of the
Rockies lives a ranchman, his faithful,
intelligent wife and baby, In a cleft in
he mountain. where his modest but