WYOMING. 



773 



WYOMING, n Northwestern State, admitted 

 to tin- Union July 1(1, IN'.M); arm. !I?,M1M) square 

 miles; population in 1890, ' ipital, 



Cheyenne. 



GHMrernment. The following wen the state 



ollieers during I he year : (lovernr, .1. K. ( >sl>orne, 

 populist; Secretary of State, Amos W. Barl>er; 

 Auditor and Insurance ( 'ommissioner, ('. \V. Hur- 

 diek ; Treasurer, Otto Grumm ; Attorney -General, 

 C. N. Potter; Adjutant-General, F. A. Stit/er; 

 Chief Justice, II. V. S. Groesbeck ; Clerk of the 

 Supreme Court, R. H. Reputh; Superintendent 

 of Public Instruction, S. T. Parwell. 



Finances. The Auditor's biennial estimate 

 of the revenue for the two years ending March 

 ::i. ism. is as follows: General fund. $250,000; 

 Capitol tax, $8,064; university tax, $8,064; the 

 fund for the insane, $24,193; State bond tax, 

 *:;s.M(); Capitol building fund, rents, $6.500; 

 Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Asylum, rents, $250 ; 

 insurance fees, $5,000 ; Building and Loan Asso- 

 ciation fees, $350; register State Land Board, 

 fees, $800; Secretary of State, fees, $1,500; clerk 

 of Supreme Court, fees, $200; common school. 

 $30,000; buildings at State capital, $500: uni- 

 versity, $1,500; blind, deaf, and dumb, $1,000; 

 Insane Asylum, $2.000; fish hatchery, $200; 

 other land funds, $3,000 ; revenues from perma- 

 nent land funds, $3,000 ; total estimated revenue, 

 $384,521. 



1 1 is estimate of the expenditures is as follows : 

 Appropriations, $271,545 ; Capitol maintenance 

 and improvement, $14,500 ; State University, 

 $8,064; State Insane Asylum, $24,193; interest 

 on State bonds, $38,400 ; common schools (land 

 income), $30,000 ; other State institutions (land 

 income), $2,500; institutions receiving revenue 

 from the permanent land funds, $2,500; total 

 estimated expenditures, $391,702. 



Taxation. The various rates at which the 

 assessments for State revenue are made are as 

 follow : General fund, 3J mills ; Capitol tax, 

 mill ; university tax, | mill ; fund for the insane, 

 I mill ; bond tax, -tV mill; total rate, 5-fo mills. 

 The rate of taxation in the different counties 

 varies from 9-^ mills to 21$ mills. This does 

 not include school-district levies or municipal- 

 tax levies. Exemption from taxation is as fol- 

 lows : Property of United States, State, counties, 

 school districts, municipal corporations, and pub- 

 lic libraries; lots with buildings thereon used 

 exclusively for religious worship, church parson- 

 ages, public cemeteries, grounds and buildings of 

 literary and scientific institutions incorporated 

 under State laws ; grounds and buildings of be- 

 nevolent, agricultural, and religious societies, 

 used solely by them, not exceeding 3 acres in 

 extent, or the revenue devoted solely to such 

 objects: household furniture, not to exceed $100; 

 polls of all persons over fifty years old. 



Indebtedness. The total bonded indebted- 

 ness is $320.000. The issues are : Capitol-building 

 bonds, $150,000, one tenth payable in 1901 and 

 one tenth each year thereafter; university bonds, 

 $50,000, same as preceding; Insane Asylum 

 bonds, $30,000, one tenth in 1912 and one tenth 

 each year thereafter; public buildings, $90,000, 

 one tenth payable in 1918 and one tenth each 

 yeir thereafter. The interest on all these bonds 

 is at 6 per cent. As a basis for this indebtedness 

 tne State owns, without other incumbrance, pub- 

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lie buildings and grounds costing $491,855.80 



and the Penitentiary, at Laramic, whi< h w. 

 nateil to the State under the Admi-Mon ad. and 

 is valued at about $70,000, making a total of 



Hanks. An abstract of the statement of the 

 condition of the national banks, Dec. l!i. 

 shows: Total specie, :!! l.l."i,"> ; individual de- 

 po-its, $2,080,018; loans and discounts, $2,812,- 

 823; surplus fund, $162,900. The reserve is 

 35'75 per cent., as against 22'97 per cent. Oct. 3. 



State Ititildiugs. Tlie cost of each of the 

 public buildings of the State was as follows: 

 Capitol building, Cheyenne, $295,649.59; Uni- 

 versity building, Laramie, $bO, 753.95; Insane 

 Asylum, Evanston, $66,134.66 ; Poor Asylum, 

 Lander, $5,053.39 ; Penitentiary, Hawlins, $31,- 

 844,41 ; Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Asylum, Chey- 

 enne, $7,^19.30; fish hatchery, Lararaie. $4,500. 



Public Lands. During the year Wyoming 

 received $4,439.40 as its 5 per centum on the sale 

 of public lands. The number of acres of public 

 land vacant in the State July 1, 1893, w;, 

 403,164; the forest reservation was 1,239,040 

 acres; the Indian reservation, 1,818,000 acres. 



Wealth. The estimated population of the 

 State on June 1, 1892, was 74,000 ; the capital was 

 $4,890,896. About 80 per cent, of the farms are 

 cultivated by owners ; 13 percent, of these farms 

 are subject to a total incumbrance of $455,061, 

 which is 35 per cent, of their value. The aver- 

 age rate of interest is 10-92. About 38 per 

 cent, of the nonfarming population own their 

 homes, 14 per cent, of them being subject to in- 

 cumbrances aggregating $589,238, or 42 per 

 cent, of their value. Each owned and incum- 

 bered farm, on the average, is worth $3,600 and 

 is subject to a debt of $1,247. 



Education. The University of Wyoming 

 employed 14 instructors and enrolled 120 pupils. 

 The buildings and grounds are valued at $150,- 

 000, and the library contains 2,300 bound volumes. 

 The public schools, with an enrollment of 9.426 

 pupils, employed 367 teachers. The average 

 number of days in the school year was 120, and 

 the average daily attendance 6',110. 



Live Stock. Wyoming shipped 94,295 head 

 of cattle during 1893. The Stock-Growers' As- 

 sociation reported its financial condition for the 

 year ending March 31. 1893, as follows: Balance 

 on hand March 31, 1892. $822.35 ; receipts, $704.- 

 96 ; disbursements, $209.50 ; balance in treasury, 

 $1,362.05. 



Legislative Session. The Legislature con- 

 vened on Jan. 2, and adjourned on Feb. 23. 

 Comparatively little business was transacted. 

 Among the acts of the session are the following: 



To protect emplovees of corporations, companies*, 

 or individuals, or otlicr persons nominated as candi- 

 <l;iii-s :it any election. in tlu-ir right* its citizens. 



Providing for and adopting a great seal of the 

 State. 



Providiinr t'r the It-vying of and collecting a tax of 

 three fourths of a mill' tor the year Is'.'.".. and one 

 fourth of a mill for the year 1894, for the ereetion, 

 equipment, management, and conduct of a miners 1 

 hospital at Roek Springs. 



Providing for an allowance of good time, dis- 

 charge money, and eloth'mg to State convicts. 



Kixiiiir State senatorial and representative dis- 

 tricts, and dctermininir the legislative representation 

 thereof. 



