WYOMING. 



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$237,626.10; total disbursements during same 

 period, $196,381.76; balance in treasury, Sept. 

 30, 1894, $148,335.16. The balances in all ap- 

 propriations, Sept. 30, 1893, amounted to $174,- 

 178.87; there was expended during the year 

 $102,097.91 ; and there remained a balance, 

 Sept. 30, 1894, of $72,080.96. 



The following memorandum is made of the 

 receipts and expenditures on account of the 

 Capitol building at Cheyenne for the two years 

 ending Sept. 30, 1894. The total receipts were 

 $15,901.93 ; total expenditures, $12,655.35, be- 

 ing an annual expenditure of $6,332.67. 



The expense of the construction of public build- 

 ing for the past ten years was $546,567 ; of this 

 amount $50,724.31 was expended in 1894, and 

 $3,987.39 in 1893. 



The report of the certificates of indebtedness 

 outstanding shows : Certificates outstanding 

 Sept. 30, 1893, $8,555.68; issued during the fis- 

 cal year, $10,085.57 ; paid and canceled during 

 the fiscal year, $12,514.42 ; outstanding Sept. 30, 

 1894, $6,126.43. 



Valuation. In 1893 the total assessed valua- 

 tion of taxable property was $32,356,801, and in 

 1894 it was $29,198,041.20. 



It is estimated that the actual value of prop- 

 erty will approximate $100,000,000. 



The Constitution provides that the tax levy 

 for State purposes shall not exceed 4 mills on 

 the dollar, except for the support of State insti- 

 tutions, the payment of the State debt and in- 

 terest thereon. For county revenue the tax is 

 limited to 12 mills for all purposes, including 

 payment of public debt. An additional tax 

 of $2 is levied for schools on all persons be- 

 tween twenty-one and fifty years of age. All 

 incorporated cities or towns are limited to 8 

 mills on the dollar. Several counties have made 

 their tax rate greater than is allowed. The 

 State tax for 1894 was levied at the rate of 5'85 

 mills, or 58| cents on $100. It amounted to $170,- 

 808.54. In 1893 the State tax levy was at the rate 

 of 6-6 mills. The total average levy of 26 mills 

 in 1893 produced a revenue of $851,276.82. Nine 

 counties are in arrears for taxes to the total 

 amount of $13,826.26. 



Banks. An abstract of the statement of the 

 condition of the 3 State and 4 private banks, 

 Sept. 29, 1894, shows their resources as $764,- 

 597.40. The individual deposits were $237,658.- 

 53 ; loans and discounts, $536,199.08. 



Live Stock. The number of horses is esti- 

 mated, for 1894, at 71,283 ; mules and asses, 

 1,532; sheep and goats, 881,695; cattle, 334,- 

 724, at an average value of $10.33 per head. 

 It is probable that the number of cattle assessed 

 does not represent, by a large fraction, the ac- 

 tual number in Wyoming. The live-stock in- 

 dustry represents more than one quarter of the 

 entire wealth of the State. 



State Lands. The biennial report of the 

 Board of Land Commissioners states that grants 

 of the land given to Wyoming by the General 

 Government aggregating 4,042,011 ; 34 acres have 

 been made to the various State institutions. Of 

 this amount, 3,657,630-01 acres have been select- 

 ed, and 241,638-73 acres have been certified by 

 the General Land Office. The number of acres 

 leased is 303,946-62, 770 acres have been sold, 

 and 2,478 acres have been deeded for right of 



way. The State does not permit the selling of 

 any State land at less than $10 an acre. The 

 cash statement as to the land income of tin- 

 various funds gives the following totals: Bal- 

 ances, Sept. 30, 1892, $21,868.69; received to 

 Sept, 30, 1894, $35,344.21; balances, Sept. :;u. 

 1894, $57,212.30. 



Education. The Superintendent of Public 

 Instruction, in his report for the two years end- 

 ing Sept. 30, 1894, gives the total number of en- 

 rolled pupils during the past year as 10,310, and 

 the amount expended as $215,479.61. In IN!:J 

 there were enrolled 9,933 pupils and 424 teach- 

 ers. There was expended for buildings at the 

 close of 1893 a total of $380,073.86, on which 

 there is a bonded indebtedness of $192,707.58. 

 In the Cornmon-school-land Income fund there 

 is now $24,702.63. 



The balance to the credit of the agricultural 

 department of the State University, Nov. 1, 

 1894, was $18,213.84. The amount expended 

 during four years on the experimental farms of 

 the State has been $38,932.22, divided as fol- 

 lows : Laramie, $6,782.22; Lander, $7,050; 

 Saratoga, $4,600; Sheridan, $7,000; Sundance, 

 $6,650 ; and Wheatland, $6,850. In addition to 

 this, there was spent $25,561.45 for salaries of 

 scientific workers, apparatus, printing materials, 

 and incidentals, making the total expenditures 

 for four years $64,493. 



The report of the treasurer of the university 

 as to the amount received under act of Con- 

 gress gives the following figures : Available for 

 year ending June 30, 1894, $22.253.62 ; disburse- 

 ments for instruction in agriculture, mechanic 

 arts, English language, mathematical science, 

 physical science, and economic science, $20,- 

 478.89 ; balance, July 1, 1894, $1,774.73. The 

 State gave to the university during the year 

 $3,797.08. The statement of the Agricultural- 

 experiment fund for the year ending June 30, 

 1894, gives as the amount of cash expended 

 $15,263.27; of which $15,000 was received from 

 the United States, and $263.27 from the sale of 

 crops from farms. 



Charities. For the State Hospital for the 

 Insane, at Evanston, an expenditure of $10,- 

 812.06 was made during the year. The daily 

 per capita cost of maintaining the patients was 

 66-28 cents, 20 per cent, less than in 1892. 

 There was an average attendance of 45 patients, 

 the whole number under treatment being 61. 

 The hospital has accommodations for 100. 



The Legislature of 1891 passed an act provid- 

 ing for the establishment of a hospital for min- 

 ers. By popular vote this hospital was located 

 at Rock Springs, and in 1893 the Legislature ap- 

 propriated $25,000 for its construction. It was 

 opened Oct. 1, 1894. The building is of stone, 

 35 by 78 feet ; the two wings, 45 by 54, are not 

 completed. The total amount expended is $24.- 

 267.58, and it is estimated that $10,900 will be 

 needed to complete the building, and $15,900 to 

 maintain it for two years. The hospital is 

 partly self-sustaining, as all miners who can 

 afford to do so pay $6 a week, and other persons 

 who are able $10 a week. A levy of one quarter 

 of a mill, equivalent to $7,000, was made for the 

 maintenance of the hospital for 1894. A dona- 

 tion of 30.000 acres of land has also been made 

 to this institution. 



