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Show to several gallons a day is made for local uses. The lavishness of the coal supply seems to extend to (lie petroleum. petro-leum. The oil region, as deliued by the hasty prospecting already done, is 300 miles long by 50 to 100 miles wide. Iron ores Wyoming has in variety; also copper, and in the Black hills are found the same veins of tin deposits which are now being developed on the Dakota side of the line. There is also an abundance of salt. In two counties there are nearly a hundred hun-dred so-called salt lakes. In reality these are solid deposits of salt in basins which have no outlets. During the spring and early summer, when the snow is melting on the mountains, a thin sheet of water covers the salt, but for the rest of the year the lakes are dry beds of salt. The lakes vary greatly in size. Some are only an acre in extent. ex-tent. The largest is 1(50 acres. Nobody knows how deep the deposits are. They have been bored twenty feet without revealing the bottom. A measurement has been made of 708 acres of these salt lakes. It appears that they will yield over 80,-000,000 80,-000,000 cubic feet of salt for each foot in depth. The wonderful lakes are fed by salt springs. ' The dry winds of summer evaporate the water and the salt remains in clear crystals. The only use yet made of the deposits is at Laramie, where there are chemical works, glass works aud soap works drawing supplies from the lakes. The salt cake such as these deposits will furnish in immense quantities, is worth at glass works throughout the United States $16.05 a ton. Wyoming people bolicvo that there is a good margin for working the salt lakes as soon as the railroads reach them. WYOMING'S WKAI.TH. Now that Wyoming has been admitted admit-ted as a state attention is being directed direct-ed to her resources and wealth. Tho new state embraces within its limits 100,000 square miles. It is UU5 miles across from cast lo west and 275 miles from south to north. It is as large us Massachusetts, New Jersey, Delaware ami lihode Island combined. It is larger than all new England. In size Wyoming ranks eighth among the states. The wealth of Wyoming in sight is placed at $100,000,000. It has $10,000,000 invested in irrigation ditches; $1,000,000 in school houses; it has 1,500,-000 1,500,-000 head of cattle; 1,250,000 sheep; and 150,000 horses. In gold and silver Wyoming Wy-oming has not as yet made much of a showing, but the people have great faith in the f uture'development of the precious metals. The miners have found encouraging geological conditions in the Wyoming Black Hills, but they have not been able to locate ore. Albany Al-bany county, in the southwest part of the new state, has a mining camp on Douglas creek, where JMO ore is obtained, ob-tained, i'urther north, in Fremont county, a" French syndicate has put $','5,000 into a placer plant and expects great things. Fremont Fre-mont county has turned out more gold and silver than the rest of Wyoming. Her mines havo yielded about $5,000,000, but that is a small amount compared with what has been done in Colorado, Utah, Montana, or even Idaho. But Wyoming has abundance of coal. In thiS article it. is the-Pennsylvania of the west. The Uuiou Pacific mines turn out 1,500,000 tons annually. Nearly every part of the state is supplied' with iuexhauslible deposits. It is said that coal fields underlie 30,000 square miles an area twice that of Pennsylvania coal deposits. In describing the Wyoming Wyo-ming coal fields, a correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat says: Tho Rock Springs coal'is known from Omaha to t re Golden Gate. There are six seams that are worked at Hock Springs. None of them Is less than 4 feet thick, and from that they range to 11 feet.. At Banna thoro are three veins, each IS feet thick. Away from the railroad rail-road the development of the coal resources has been only such as was necessary to get supplies for the ranches and lntorior towns. But the outcvoppiugs on the hillsides and the gopher diggings show that only a little way below the surface there is coal in every county of Wyoming. Some of tho deposits are of extraordinary thickness. Some of the measures near the surface contain too much water and slacken so as to be of no value for ti'iuisportatlon. The fact seems to he that nature overdid herself in supplying Wyoming with coal and couldn't finish the work properly. prop-erly. When the railroads which are now pushing push-ing their way towards the interior, get fairly to work on the distribution of this great coal supply there will be no more coal burning. At Mount Zion a coal mining plant has been freighted overland and the seams have been opened. The company is spending y,500,000 in getting ready to ship coal when the railroad reaches that point. Two mines onened thnm will turn out 200 tons an hour. There is in sight a singlo vein which will yield 3,!iOO,ouo tons to the square mile. This is but the beginning be-ginning of Wyoming's coal development. Tho oil fields of Wyoming have, for several years past, attracted the attention atten-tion of capitalists, who have at last made heavy investments in them, and intend to develop them at an early dav just as soon as the railroads reach them. There has already been some development in Fremont county. Near the Fopo-aigie there is a small oval valley, val-ley, surrounded by high hills, which are almost cliffs. From the.crevices around the valley oil and gas can be seen escaping. es-caping. Three wells have been bored. They are from 850 to ' to BOO feet deep. When the valves are opened the oil spurts up 75 feet. Then, when the pipe is relieved re-lieved of tho sudden outburst, tho well settles down to a steady flow of 600 to 1000 barrels in twenty-four hours. Tho nearest railroad point is 100 miles away. The wells have been closed to await the coming of transportation. But the pressure is ' so great that the oil can not be entirely shut off. Several lakes in the valley are now covered with this escaping oil to the amount of thousands of barrels. The color of tho oil is black. When fresh it contains absorbed ab-sorbed gas in large quantity. Long before be-fore the lakes in the valley can be seen they can be smellod by the escaping gas. In other purls of Wyoming oil springs are found.. There are plaoes where, by nieaos of shallow pits in die ground, a collection of oil amounting |