Show N THE instant wyoming byomin celebrated the thirty Z 0 ON eighth anniversary of its admission to the union that 1 was a b good g while before the development of its petro petroleum leura and natural gas g as potentialities some coal mining and some metal mining was then being done but these industries ha had not gone far to build up the population of the territory when admission oil had cut cu no n to the union was sought figure whatever stock raising 6 and pioneer farming and a ranching were the outstanding reliance of the small POP PP lation which with true western spirit boug sought ht the rig b self that vested vest d co ca n government and the severance of ties arol of their actions as citizens of the country in what wha the west of pre statehood days was want to term carpet as 39 I 1 has government A writer in a wyoming publication counted the difficulties that had to be met and over cOnle during the days when joseph M carey was delegate it ca vas gress including one of the chief sticking points that tha the delaying action the terri torys meagre pop population of ion writer says says the story is told that the populate populate be of to cheyenne was hohing like what it was presumed ought to be and the capitol was given the tip that it must produce more inhabitants the particular gentleman assigned to the task of building up the population a man who in his later years has served as mayor of the city being hard put to so the story goes went out to the cemetery and listed the names on the tombstones with the remark that if those folks arent inhabitants of cheyenne where in liell hell do they live and they let it go at that the population of cheyenne was found sufficient and wyoming entered the union |