Show A comparison oar neighboring territory ot wyoming ia trying to make up its milij whether or not it wants the great boon of statehood advocates of measures loorine to this result are loud in their boasts ot the wealth and the resources of their territory and they indignantly resent any imputation that aliey are unable to bear the burdens which the change from their present condition to that 0 a sovereign state would involve A recent isano of the cheyenne which contained a strong article favoring the change also contained a supplement BUpp lement which cannot but be regarded as a ery tin fortunato argument at this particular stage of the controversy tro versy was a list of delinquent taxpayers and a description of property to be cold for such taxes the whole occupying tao largo pages of the leader and representing many thousands ot dollars which alie treasury should have on liand but has not yet received this it should bo remembered ia for one county and we suppose for a single year we understand that comparisons are odious at the aaroe time aliey are often instructive and occasionally interesting te we venture to make one in this instance not maliciously nor boa stingly but by way of encouragement to our bister territory as showing what can be done in this matter of taxation under a prudent economical government by an honest and fore landed community in the forty efto years of history and in the territory all the tax sales put together would not begin to equal aliis one list which wyoming shows for a single county and presumably tor one year aliis may be considered boom literature but every word of it h true |