The Washington herald., 1911-11-12

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STATE IS CALLING YOU.
Therefore, hang close to your musty
desks ye accountants and stenogra-
piers; guard we'll your job, Mr.. Errand
Boy, and remain steady within doors all
you doctors, lawyers, and merchants who
would rather live one day in the crowded,
sweaty city than a month out there
where the cowboys insist that the only
things that cost money are rum and
hired help Stick close, all of you, or
the bogey man will get you and you
will succumb to the terrible fate OF
farming or mining among the hills and
broad prairies and getting rich, with all
the attendant health and happiness.
A car load of governors from the West
is coming next month, and with them
will be Gov. Carey. of Wyoming. In
view Of the fact that newell, anyway,
watch out! The lure of the soft soil
will get you as it has others.
Just imagine the 331, 900 people of Wash
ington suddenly scattered out to occupy
territory $50 miles long and 276 miles
wide. t wouli indeed require some ex-
tensive personal spreading if one were
ever to get sight of his neighbor. Never
theless, that same territory sewn with
Washington citizens would be twice as
crowded as Wyoming is to-day with its
146,OCO souls.
Wants More Population.
According to the last census report,
the city of Worcester. Mass, has just
twenty-one more people than has the
Nrb of No
Gov. Carey, immigration Commissioner
Sh@nck, and the other State officials are
out cunning for more population.
Cool and beautiful in its days of In
dian summer, Wyoming extended the
privilege OF plUckilg a nosegay in its
garden of $1,000 square miles to a score
of the news toilers of Washington. Gar
lands from the slopes of Mount Olympus
never equaled in romance or beauty
those gleanlngs of three weeks in the
happiest. sInniest and most promising
land now remaining open to the restless
American citizen.
Let US wander through the valleys and
among the crags and hills, picking
sample here and there as We would In
any flower plot Begin the bouquet as
you will, 1t must have as its background
the rich dark green of those wonderful
alfalfa fields, with stripping of savage
gray sage from the uplands where roam
the sheep and cattle Gull among those
thousands of acres of muscle-building
oats, and then gather sheafs of the SUM-
Drowned wheat and barley. Add clusters
Of vigorous timothy from the green bot
toms in Jackons Hole, where Owen
Wister stalks his characters and wild
animals still dispute with man over the
wilderness. The distances as well as our
nosegay materials begin to grow mag
nifcent. A cluster of melons and a shock
of corn from the dreamy, low attitudes
of the Big Horn give variety.
More Natural Resources.
Why not hang on a half dozen of
those long, speckled beauties that lurked
for your fly in the swirIing. icy waters Of
Shoshone River and Buffalo Creek?
Luscious peaches and sound, rosy ap-
pies from those wonderful orchards at
Lander will add color to the top of the
bouquet-and while we are here let US
fasten on one OF those geysers OF pure
petroleum, and pillar of rich ebony coal.
There are millions of tons Of anthracite
and million of barrels of oil tucked away
under this great garden. A chunk of as
bestos rock from the producing mines at
Casper a bundle Of woolly sheep, cor
ralful of lowing steers on their way
TO the beef block, a quiverlng quarter of
delicious elk meat, a roaring column OF
ignited natural gas, a patch of Buff
fums winter emmer a champing Clydes-
dale from the horse-breeding ranches at
Sheridan, a snarling grizzly, whirring
brace of sage chicken, a drove of grunt-
ing hogs, a festoon Of yellow Pumpkins,
the fossilized limb of a dinosaur.
moccassined Indian. and at the top where
he can leap high, ''yip" loud, and dis
1of1 fF1fn hn Hrr0
ment-a Wyoming man. He is the most
inspiring OF all the products Of this
great garden. No bouquet of Wyoming
would be complete without him, for he,
himself, is engaged in completing Wyo-
ming.
The Roundup at Cheyenne.
1t was natural and most fitting that
we should have been given the best of
opportunities first of on our visit of siz-
ing up the Wyoming man. The annual
frontier days celebration at Cheyenne is
his show, though to many it might ap-
pear to be an exhibition Of the prowess
OF horses and steers in thwarting the
will of humaR. Certainly there was not
much triumph to record on the part of
the animals the day our party sat and
feasted on the excitement of the occa-
sion. The bronchos were duly busted" 4"
the steers were ''bulldcgged" Cthrown
helpless on the ground by a man with
out the aid o. a rope), the buffaloes were
ridden, and the cow ponies were raced.
Wyoming man was supreme over the
four-legged animals of his State, and
he even had his old-time enemy, the
Indian, doing war dances at his show at
SO much per day.
That night, in a comfortable special
car, We rolled out OF Cheyenne, west
ward, to see how the Wyomingites had
conquered the rest of the elements which
make up their State. From there on it
was a many-day revelation of gorges
and deserts spaned with railroads, of arid
fields made to give up their substance in
plant life, OF streams led aside from
their natural beds and their waters car
ried many miles, of oil, coal, and many
other mineral products brought from
their hiding places into the sunllght-of
scores Of undertakings which make a
country virile and prosperous.
A Sixty-mIle Ride.
Leaving the Union Pacific temporarily
at Laramie, our party rode over a COM
Portable stxty-mile stretch of rail to-
ward the Colorado line and penetrated
to high places among the timbered hills
where Boston capital Is building the
Hahn's Peak line, with the coal fields Of