Show WYOMING WY PRESENT AND FUTURE v T ONCE CONSIDERED a at Desert eert I 1 Y waste Wyoming V whose hills were considered too bleak anSI and forbidding to attract the atten AtteR attention I I tion of the or the prospector has come 1 rapidly to the fore in 1901 The impetus which has hasI ha I t beet been given that state will win keep it moving through the I coming years reUSt and Wyoming will within the fi t decade of the te new DeW be recognised as a 11 commonwealth alth althof merit rii She Shei i earning her heril of i H power ower of industry and of m ig D place il ee by dint of hard work and aud steady 1 I It has been established beyond the question of n ii doubt do that jha t the highest grade grApe of illuminating oil ever eer found in the United States was discovered in Wyoming near Ute the Utah line Although the Union Pacific rail raW railroad railroad road od on whose property the dle wen well Avas ivas located made every effort to suppress the news it leaked out and andi all 1 i created cre ted great excitement Now Jowa a number of companies I re e been heeti ll formed and there is every eT indication that W fame as lIS a p leer of oil will spread to the uttermost parts Arts Ox OL o he rhe earth e rth It is not on oil alone that bases her lIeI claim i io 40 o recognition io l before there t re was as any anT oil in ix the state stat rapid progress p reSs was being made in other lines Jines Notably is ii this true of of All of the precious metals have been Holl found there ther and mined iu in paying quantities Outside capital has been inter interested interested interested I ested awl a id I the mining campaign for 1 S will be he prose prOM more vigor ever everIn everIn everIn In coal mining milliner Wyoming takes a place in the front rank of western states This year men were em cm employed employed in ill digging coal and mined tons d it not notable notable notable able increase over last lat years years pr luction The TIle coal of ef Wyoming is high in quality for all U 11 purposes urpo s ami pd nd is shipped out of the state to points all through inter intermountain intermountain mountain country and the Pacific slope As a cattle and sheep state Wyoming W is boat best known and ami has perhaps scored the greatest advancement In lu 1101 as compared with wid 1900 the thc number of sheep in increased increased creased and the die cattle A decrease is shown in the number of horses but this is because so 80 many Wyoming steeds are now carrying ing British troop troopers ers era in South Africa Arica Hundreds of horses were pur purchased purchased chased in Wyoming for the British army and rf gUsh agents a are still at work there securing more Wyoming is going forward industrially also as the number of articles of incorporation filed during the fhe year bear testimony All AU kinds of manufactures are represented in the list and the finished products are arc finding a ready market m et In the direction of agriculture ture Wyoming made great strides in 1901 More ore land laud was brought under irrigation and with government aid which now seems possible many more acres will be made productive |