| Show mormon settlers the laramie boomerang ot of august 15 has the following folio wing uintah Uin tab according to the rock springs independent is being quite rapidly settled with mormons cormons Mor mons in the past eighteen months about mormon families from utah and idaho have located north of evanston along salt river taking up homesteads and making preparations for permanent residence resi deace they have built log churches which are used for school purposes and public meetings and made prompt application tor for their pro rata of the school fund last year the settlement referred to obtained DOD from the county school f und fund while the total amount of t their heir taxes was this year they will draw at least 2000 each family has irom eig eight h t to t welve nelve children and under our school laws only that number is required dostart to start a public u blics r school chool the county superintendent fe has visited these people and made the necessary educational arrangements no special tax has been levied in the school districts other portions of 4 atah county and parts of sweetwater county have been receiving mormons cormons for the past ten years and the coal mines at almy and at rock springs are worked principally by disciples of joseph smith when the census of 1890 is taken it will be found that the western portion of Wyoming contains a very ery large number of mormons cormons Mor mons sufficient perhaps to control the county elections |
