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Show THE YEAR WITH WYOMING. The State of W3'oming, in common with the other western commonwealths, has had an exceedingly good 3'ear. Tho total valuation of ils productions is given at $68,000,000, a gain of $5,-000,000 $5,-000,000 over 1908. Tho productive mining min-ing industr3r of W-oming is veiy large-ly large-ly in its immenso coal deposits, which aro of exceeding value, commorciall.v and industrial', fo all this mountain region. Tho present population of Wyoming is reckoned at .150,000, an estimated gain of 10,000 during the year. W3'oming is the great range State, its grazing areas affording ample forage for immense herds of cattle, sheep, and horses. It is a splendid game Sta(e also, protecting vast herds of deer, antelope an-telope and oik, and enforcing with rigid sevoril3' its protective game laws. Prob-abl3' Prob-abl3' the greatest herds of elk remaining remain-ing in tho world today aro in the Jackson Jack-son Hole countr3', W3'oming. In minoral and oil the State is also rich. The oil deposits arc b3' no meano well developed, but largo areas of the State have sufficient oil deposits to make prospecting for oil alluring and doubtless doubt-less ultimately profitable. The metal mining is also of value. A good deal of activity is reported in the Encampment Encamp-ment region, including the big smelter proposition there. Gold mining was chiefly confined to tho South Pass and neighboring regions. Thcro was good iron production, but the chief mining product was coal, ils value being placed at $21,000,000 out of the total of $22,-000,000 $22,-000,000 of mineral values given. There has been much railroad activity in W.yoraing during the 3'car. The State is getting well supplied with railroads. One great incentive to railroad building is traffic in coal and in the, immense livestock production which requires transportation to the Eastern markets and is a profitablo business for the railroads. A feature of W3'oming which is dcop-I3' dcop-I3' interesting from tho scientific standpoint stand-point is the immenso fossilifcrous deposits de-posits to be found in various parts of the State, but chiefly in tho northeast, adjoining the so-called Bad TjIir,fls a Dakota. Here immense fossil remains of animals which roamed tho then tepid lakes of that region tens of thousands of .years ago, have been found by scientists, scien-tists, and the museums of the world have been enriched from this source. It has been a .year of tremendous and profitablo industr3' in W3'oming. The Stato is on the best possible, basis financial' and industrial'. It faces the new 3'cnr with high hopes and cour-ago, cour-ago, and Tho Tribune hopes for this, our northeastern neighbor, every possible pos-sible good that its people maj desire. |