Show I I NW HOP FOR Cheyenne Wyo Dee Dec ming made satisfactory progress n all lines ot of during the past year and the new year dawns with only the brightest pro prospects for the young state The Impetus gIven the state during the year and which will during the next five years It Is believed dou double double ble the population was the Ule irrigation work for never nevel before In the states history were so man many Irrigation enter enterpriSES launched nor were there ever so many irany miles of new constructed in th the same sam period in the state Private capital poured Into the state followed by the hom and home homebuilders builders Many ailY thousands of acres of new land and was brought under ton tion and the preliminary steps taken to the reclaiming of manY thou sandts san G mote acres durIng the coming year of the state engineer that there were vere enlargements lr If ditches or a total of nihlet or average an l of four and to each canal the eti mated cost of which Is and acres of ne new w land There were started new L nI of a total length of 1061 milts miles ostin n a grand total ot of miles costing cOBUn ThE There rE was under the new ditches 2 or a grand total of acres I tinier of old canals and un under Under der ne new This statement dots about acres acree sated t tel by the s general government for nd mation under the big Shoshone In nd 1 Pathfinder projects ts and which will wiil the expenditure or of between and BigHorn Big Horn county us as in the year 1903 ed the greatest t development through irrigation and the population of that section of the state is increasing ht at a rapid rate All sections of the I state witnessed unusual along these lines however and Wyoming is s undoubtedly beginning to 10 feel the ef effects frets of the tho judicious and profitable work has ha been done during the theA A Past Jast few years ears F Satisfactory progress was made on the bIg projects of the government but butas butas as large bodies move slowly the direct benefits from the huge enterprises of Uncle Slim Sam will not be felt for two or three y rs come although the promise of Ap homes has already bad its effect In causing a large influx ur of people to the state Second in importance among g the states and which at the Present time outranks oUtrank all ali others other from froma a dollar and cent standpoint of figuring I is the growing of beef mutton and wOOl and while the year ear 1903 witnessed a retrograde movement in this indus industry 1 t try the year ear just closing saw a Murphy Oil OI Rig ard Near Lander Wyoming Stucco Works Laramie Wyoming I t A AS 4 S I bt t S T ct S S 1 t tS tlc t S S S lc 4 4 5 t S SS 3 1 5 S S S SSt St I s I 4 1 5 5 5 5 t 5 5 S l 4 S t 5 3 g g v 1 I r S h Ll i S 5 4 S S S S S healthy increase in numbers of animals and 2nd valuation aU all along the line The number of sheep in the state remains about the same as in 1903 but mutton sheep are worth more today than they were a 11 your ago and wool sold foriS cents on spring full fully 30 per cent of the coming clip has been contracted for at prices ranging from to 20 cents p per r pound Tite condition of the sheep industry is bet better ter at the time than for many years The flocks are practically free from disease and the fleece Is heavier much cleaner and of finer staple The cattle industry so far as increase in and the improvement of the breed are concerned Is better than ever before but the slump In prices has hati had a rather disquieting effect al although although though the satisfactory condition of f the ranges plenty of hay for winte fe feed d dand and the prospect of better prices In the spring more than offsets the present S S SS SS S S S S S SS SS SS SS SS S S S S S S S t S vot S 4 5 S S SS S SS S S S S SI SS I S S SS SS SS Sir S Sf b S S S 5 5 S SSt St ir S 5 5 4 S S 5 S S e S S S S S i S 5 S Frontier Goal eoal Mine County ng ngI I I I 44 I 4 I I I I I 4 e I e i 1 LL feeling Cling au sed Lt by the slump In price Wyoming continues to attract the at attention attention of the worl with her fine sad saddie I die d driving and draft horses and this state has come com to be r recognized as the home of oC what good jUdges consider the acme of perfection In this noble beast of burden Owners are constantly irn Im I proving the breeds and prices are I steadily In hog raising and sheep feeding the i state is making wonderful growth th the climatic ns supply or of cheap feed etc all being conducive to quick fattening and a healthy condi condition condition tion of the stock In mining and oil development there was not as much done in Wyoming dur during during ing the past year ear at as was expected for forthe forthe the reason that most of the fields in which rich discoveries have be been m made de deare are remote from railroad lines and own owners rs of properties have not felt jus titled in expending much money until th there is some assurance ot oi cheap trans to the smelters and refineries During the year the copper works at Encampment produced over oer pounds or of blister copper from ores from t the famous Ferr Haggarty mine at Battle Lake A large number or of De new properties were o opened ned Ii va camps and many thousands or of dollars doar w were re spent In developing the oM old work lags The Iron mines at Sunrise In I county produced their usual quota our ut ores during the year ear and lId ts have han been ma made et to largely a e the output during the tb year tar The on oil Industry save Me the o of the com an ill in th central part Rrt or of the state was prk aU ally at a the ev it If the plans of several ot of the bIP ivay are carr carried ro posed the coming year As the industry will m boom In t twive e months for Cor the object of these is isto t to tap the old fields elds with one 01 o I re lines S of Probably never before In the of the has so much been d In the ay of n new as S S a t the present time and tt n fl One of the several schemes ure UFe carried out there will be no le than DO 2 miles or of orT T railway JUwa built in the state during IM 1 the proposed roads are the Chi go Northwestern which proposes to build from Casper to the eastern eltern b of the Wind ind River a and amI a hranek from Orne point Tir the western terminus to oil olf e The I to build a line over tb mE route as will be covered by th the theN N The Burlington has tas nor sur in the field anti and it Jg Is that a line will be built Garland on the line to the Kirwin Sold gold mining district thence 4 west through the co l I fields west or of that and on toward the Yellowstone park through th the Snake river country countr and Into Idaho and nd Utah The Laramie Hahns Peak Pad c S proposes to complete its line from Lar Larinto ra into to Centennial and po to lo Grand Encampment The Union pj Paci as s its ils talking taking of building a branek from Walcott tu to the Encampment En district Another proposed road is to run froit ron Denver through Wyoming in a north northwesterly westerly R and d wester westerly direction n Into Idaho and Utah and the to extend its lines front th the Dakotas on through Wyoming Into inte I Ida Idaho a ak k ho hoOf Of proposed lines as ura are given shen that work mrk Is 15 to commence hi fa the early spring on all except posy the Milwaukee extension |