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Show r , W WYOMING NOTES. The sheep men fn Sweetwater are jubilant, as they had but 'small losses during the winter and are uow securing good prices for their wool, ranging from 17 to 1H cents per pound. The amount of wofd shipped from Green River and Itock Springs will be un usually large. At Saratoga great activity prevails, and the people there are sure they are to have the best town in that region. A capitalist from Rochester, X. Y'., has heed there mid laid out a handsome addition to the town. Its citizens claim that it Is the nearest town to (iold Hill, ml is sure to be tb leading outfitting point. The question of incorporation wus settled in Carbon last week by eighty-five eighty-five majority. The people thare are awake to the importance of direct communication com-munication with Gold Hill. They claim it Is the shortest route, less thin forty miles, and can be made by stage in nine hours. Consideral freight is being be-ing shipped that way, and money has been raised to improve the road. As a prelude to the opening of the Rawlins Normal and Scienliho school, a celebration will ha held at the Rawlins Raw-lins opera house on the .',M itist., to which has been invited Senators J. M. Carey and F. 10. Warren, Representative Representa-tive C l. Clark and Judga II. V. S. (Iroesbeck, A. li. Conway aud other eminent ciUcna It will be a notalde occasion. About twenty gve teachers have already ludioated their desire to attend the normal school and sixty pupils have beau secured lor the mode! school. Cheyenne Sun. The latest from (iold Hill is to the effect that there is greut excitement over the discovery of bedrock at lUitlnlo guloh. At a depth of sixteen feet dirt runs 'it cents to a pan. Hul!',i!o gulch is owned by Rock Spriugs parties, and the present location was abandoned two years ago because bedrock could not bo found. Several rich quart, claims liavs been discovered recently t around Buffalo gulch. The snow is disappearing dis-appearing rapidly. Prospecting is now going on in the foothills and on tho mountain! around Hold Jlili. This is thirty days sooner than was expected. Cheyenne Sun. |