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WYOMING. 



The assessed valuation of the Territory is 

 about $31,000,000, or over $1,000,000 less than 

 in 1887. As the Legislature increased the 

 bonded debt up to the prescribed limit of one 

 per cent, of the valuation on the basis of the 

 assessment for 1887, which was the latest then 

 available, it follows that the Territorial in- 

 debtedness of $320,000 now exceeds the one 

 per cent, limit. The valuation of railroad prop- 

 erty, included in the above total, was $5,908,- 

 984, an increase of over $150,000 above 1887. 

 The tax-levy for Territorial purposes was in- 

 creased this year from slightly over 3 mills in 

 1887 to 6 T Vo mills, apportioned as follows : 

 General fund, 2$ mills ; Capitol-building fund, 



$30,000 this year for its completion and en- 

 largement. For finishing and enlarging the 

 new University building $25,000 was appro- 

 priated. A Penitentiary building at Rawlins 

 was also provided for by the Legislature of this 

 year, $30,000 being appropriated. The sum of 

 $5,000 was appropriated for a Poor Asylum 

 building at Lander, which shall cost, when 

 completed, not more than $25,000. A build- 

 ing for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Asylum at 

 Cheyenne has been erected, with the appro- 

 priation of $8,000 made by the Legislature of 

 1886 for that purpose, but no provision has yet 

 been made for the support or management of 

 the institution, and the building is unused. 





STATE HOUSE AT CHEYENNE. 



2 mills ; university income-tax, mill ; Ter- 

 ritorial bond-tax, ^ of a mill ; insane asylum 

 bond-tax, -^ of a mill ; stock indemnity fund, 

 Y^ of a mill. 



Public Buildings. Prior to 1886 the Territory 

 was almost without public buildings, but the 

 Legislatures of that and the present year have 

 provided liberally therefor. The Capitol-build- 

 ing, begun in 1886, was so far completed in 

 January as to be occupied by the Legislature 

 during the session, the sum of $150,000 being 

 expended in its erection. A further appropria- 

 tion of $125,000 was made this year for en- 

 larging the building by the addition of wines, 

 and an extra tax of 2| mills was imposed for 

 1888 and 1889 to raise this sum. The building 

 already completed is a substantial structure of 

 cut and dressed stone, provided with the latest 

 modern conveniences. 



The Insane Asylum building, for which $30,- 

 000 was appropriated in 1886, received another 



Education. The latest report of the Terri- 

 torial Superintendent, for the year ending with 

 October, 1887, presents the following statistics: 

 Number of school -houses, 124; schools, 197; 

 male pupils, 2,890; female pupils, 2,732; 

 teachers, 231. The average monthly salary of 

 teachers was $59.90. The first year of the 

 University of Wyoming, which began on Sept. 

 1, 1887, was considered successful. An addi- 

 tional appropriation of $25.000 for the comple- 

 tion of the University building at Laramie City 

 was made by the Legislature this year, and the 

 annual levy for its support was increased from 

 one fourth to one half of a mill, providing an 

 income for 1888-'89 of about $15,500. The 

 school and university public lands given by the 

 Federal Government to the various States and 

 Territories for educational purposes, do not by 

 law become available until Statehood is at- 

 tained, but, by a special law passed by Congress 

 in August, the Territory of Wyoming is author- 



