Show VISIT OF VYOMH G MEN State Officials Spend a Day in Salt Lake ON TOUR OF INSPECTION Gov Richards Secretary of State Chatterton and Justice Knight Make a Side Trip from Evanston to Mix Pleasure with Business They Speak Glowingly of Conditions in I Their State Wyoming1 Sure to go Republican Next Fall Meetiug of Governors There was a distinguished party from Wyoming at the Knutsford yesterday I afternoon Cos Richards Secretary oC State Chatterton and Justice Knight of the Supreme bench of the State They have been on a trip of inspection of Wyoming State Institutions and I while at Evanston thought they would I mako u side trip to Salt Lake for the I day The party was about town yester Ida I I-da and late in the afternoon met I Gov Wells and Secretary of State I II I i I rj1 l r 4 S Gov D F Richards Hammond at the hotel The visitors returned cast in the evening Coy Richards is a man of commanding presence He Is much interested In the I welfare and progress of Wyoming and expressed himself ns highly gratillod at the general outlook In a brief conversation con-versation with a Tribune man Coy Richards said There is no doubt sai about Wyoming going Republican next fall We carried the State at the last election by fully O and will do much better next fall There are quite a number of Democratic sheep and cattlemen cattle-men in Wyoming but the good times under McKinley following the hard times under Cleveland has mado them content to let things go on as in the immediate past and they arc not taking tak-ing any active part in politics Under Cleveland the number of sheep In tho country was reduced OOOOOOO you could hardly give lambs away ands and-s wee selling at H per head Now all this Is changed there have been great fortunes made in the sheep business 1 I busi-ness and tho number of sheep in the country is constantly increasing STATES STOCK INTERESTS The days of the cattle king were ended some years ago and the main tenance of this class of stock Is more and more established on a ranch rather than a range basis Growers hae learned that allowing cattle to drift on the ranges Is not economical hut that It pays better to keep cattle within bounds where you can regulate for instance In-stance their reproduction so that cows will come In in tho spring Instead of In the lato fall or winter and where cattle can be properly attended to and fed during cold weather In the case of sheep they are kept in close herds any way and closely watched by herders < ers and in reproduction the instincts of the animal aided by the care of man tends to preserve their lambs through the trying seasons of the year MEETING OF GOVERNORS When asked about the proposed meeting meet-ing of Governors to dlecugs the arid land question Gov Richards said The meeting will be held the 21st of the month As to what the outcome will be I will not venture to predict and I do not care to push my own views to the front t But the matter is ono of great Interest to Wyomlntr for the leasing and operation of Government Govern-ment lands have been the means of bringing a good deal of money Into the State and Into circulation The sheep men however appear to prefer a free range and protected Wool while the I cattlemen prefer tho cession of arid lands to the States which means u division di-vision up 1 Into districts for leasing 1 for pasture purposes Sheopmcn do not like restricted ranges My idea Is to secure such action as will be of the best Interest to all concerned and the progress pro-gress of the State and believe the cession ces-sion of tho Government lands to the several States will on the whole prove most benellclaL The Governor spoke in 3 very hopeful vein of the business future of the State as Illustrated in the rapid growth of tho towns along the lines of the railroads roadsWILL WILL GO REPUBLICAN I expect the Republicans will carry tho next election by 3 majority of 2500 or over remarked Secretary of State Chatterton Our Democratic citizens are having very little to say In these days of McKinley and prosperity Why the value of our spring wool clip will amount to S 1000000 a great improvement im-provement on the time when wool wau bringing but i cents under a Democratic Demo-cratic administration The election with us is for President and not for Governor as our gubernatorial torm Is for four years and our Executive has three more years to serve The Slate is in a very prosperous condition due of course to the good prices for cattle sheep and wool und tho development of the fIne coal properties and other resources of the commonwealth The Governor Judge Knight and myself are looking over tho Institutions in the southern part of the State and find I them so far In a creditable condition WYOMINGS PROSPERITY I Juatico Jesse Knight takes also avery a-very happy view of tho situation over the State H said Not merely the prosperous condition of the stock interests inter-ests Is adding to the general condition condi-tion of prosperity but tho growth of the railroads and the coal Industry arc proving notable factors The iron dls coverieu and development near Hurt vllle in the eastern part of the Suite means n great deal for its advancement as may be Imagined from the fact that the Burlington 1 is pointing that SWay from Nebraska with heavy main line steel rails Then tha coal industry Is t Htfljitltly being enlarged and there Is the Irrigation project at Fort BrKlgr U which promise more and more to prove revenue makers for the State The copper discoveries In the Saratoga mtottL country Imo passed beyond the limits of prospects to permanently developed properties I I VARIETY OF RESOURCES There are the soda lakes and the Sweotwater oil country yet to be taken I I advantage of and the northern part oC j f the Stale has excellent agricultural j prospects The southern part of the State will probably remain best adaptetl I to stock grazing coal and copppr ml I I nlng Money Is plenty owing to the 1 advanced prices obtained by stockman i for the products I Judge Knight was an old acquaintance acquaint-ance of William Thompson who did In I this city Friday night last and he wau I much surprised to learn of his sudden j I death He referred to the time twelve years ago when the cattle firm oC Crawford I Craw-ford Thompson Co was one of the most substantial business concerns In I the West But after the Crawford murder mur-der and the trial of Crocker the firm I went to pieces and the valuable property I prop-erty followed gradually in the same way wayMEETING OF GOVERNORS I Coy Wells and Secretary Hammond held a very pleasant conference with I the Wyoming visitors to whom they extended such courtesies as the brevity of their stay would admit Coy Wells said last evening that there was no official business brought up for discussion dis-cussion but that they talked Informally Informal-ly of ceding the arid lands by the Government to the several States and < Gov lllchardj was pronounced in favor I I lao I of such a course The Governors of I the different States are expected to meet in Washington on the Uist of lie I t1 I month as a committee to arrange for the celebration of the location of the National Capital a t the present city of Washington and after this matter has been disposed of the Governors will hold a special meeting to discuss the arid lands I heir prpposed cession I by the general Government to the States and Incidentally the question of their final disposition and anything relating to the subject Gov Wells looks forward with Considerable Interest Inter-est to this meeting and thinks that much good ought to come of IU |