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WYOMING TERRITORY. 



To protect the interests of stock-growers. 

 To create the office of insurance commissioner. 

 To amend an act entitled " An act to reorganize and 

 establish judicial districts of Wyoming Territory." 



Financial* The assessed valuation of property 

 in 1879 was $10,603,203.95 ; 1880, $11,815,- 

 564; 1881, $13,866,118.06; 1882, $17,600,481.- 

 78. The tax levy for 1882 was two mills on 

 the dollar ; for the prior years, four mills. The 

 levy for 1883 was but one mill. The valuation 

 for that year was as follows : 



COUNTIES. Valuation. 



Albany $8,658,937 75 



Carbon 3,0(52,868 50 



Johnson 2,628,48975 



Laramie 7,845,055 10 



COUNTIES. Valuation. 



Sweetwater... 88,147,692 50 

 Uinta 2,096,177 25 



Total.... $22,533,720 85 



The Territory has no debt. 



The balance in the treasury Dec. 31, 1882, 

 was $47,718.35 ; received during the following 

 year, $30,184.40; disbursed, $28,120.07; bal- 

 ance Dec. 31, 1883, $49,782.68. The balance 

 March 31, 1882, was $40,258.41 ; receipts dur- 

 ing the following nine months, $32,814.11 ; dis- 

 bursements, $25,354.17; balance, $47,718.35. 



Public Schools. The following statistics are 

 compiled from the reports for the school year 

 ending in October, 1883 : 



School-houses, 39 ; value of school-houses, $88,546.- 

 99; schools taught, 83; pupils enrolled, 3,352; male 

 teachers employed, 19 ; female teachers employed, 

 70 ; average pay of teachers per month, $57.25 ; aver- 

 age cost of each pupil per month, $2.87. 



Penitentiary Commissioners. The Board of Pen- 

 itentiary Commissioners, after careful investiga- 

 tion, found that while the cost of maintaining 

 the prisoners of the United States Penitentiary 

 at Laramie City was $1 each a day, and at the 

 Nebraska State Penitentiary at the city of Lin- 

 coln 40 cents, they were able to make a contract 



with the authorities of the Penitentiary at Jo- 

 liet, 111., for no greater expense to the Territory 

 than that of furnishing to each prisoner dis- 

 charged the sum of $5. 



Cattle Shipments. According to a local au- 

 thority, the total number of cattle sent to 

 market from the Territory in 1883 was 148,- 

 612. Of that number 110,138 were shipped 

 over the Union Pacific. The Northern Pacific 

 carried to market 21,969 head of "Wyoming 

 stock, and the Burlington and Missouri car- 

 ried 11,826. Over the Sioux City line 4,679 

 head were shipped. About 6,000 cars were 

 ordered of the Union Pacific by stock-growers 

 for 1884. That number of cars carried, accord- 

 ing to the estimate of 19 animals to the car, 

 114,000 head of stock. "Wyoming has mar- 

 keted 114,000 cattle over the Union Pacific, 

 and 60,824 head over the Northern Pacific, 

 making a total of 174,824 cattle as the surplus 

 stock of the season. The entire beef output 

 of the Territory for 1884 produced about $5,- 

 000,000. 



Political. On November 4 a delegate to Con- 

 gress and members of both houses of the Legis- 

 lature were elected. The Republican candi- 

 date for delegate was Joseph M. Carey ; Demo- 

 cratic candidate, W. H. Ilolliday. The vote 

 was as follows: Republican, 7,225; Demo- 

 cratic, 5,586; scattering, 19; total, 12,830. 

 The Legislature, which will meet Jan. 12, 

 1886, has 30 Republicans and 6 Democrats in 

 both houses. Some question existing as to 

 the legality of the election of members of the 

 Legislature, Congress will be asked to ratify it. 

 Toward the close of the year, Crook county 

 was governmentally organized. 



