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WYOMING. 



The census of 1890 reports the number of deaf 

 and dumb in Wyoming as 16, and the number 

 of blind as 7. The State Asylum at Cheyenne 

 for the care of these unfortunates is not in op- 

 eration, and only 2 of them take advantage of 

 the statutory provision for their maintenance 

 and education. These are maintained at the 

 Colorado School for the Deaf and Dumb and 

 Blind, at an annual expense of $250 per capita. 



The juvenile delinquents of the State are sent 

 to industrial schools in Colorado, where, during 

 1894, 5 boys were maintained at a cost of $3.60 

 each a week, and 2 girls at a cost of $3.50. 



The State poor farm, in Fremont County, has 

 been abandoned, there being no permanent class 

 of paupers in Wyoming. The county hospital 

 at Cheyenne and several private hospitals are the 

 only places where the poor are cared for at the 

 exp'ense of the counties. 



Laraiuie Penitentiary. This prison was 

 given by the General Government to Wyoming 

 on its admission as a State. It has a capacity 

 for 150 convicts, and over $100,000 has been ex- 

 pended on its construction and repair. During 

 1894 106 prisoners were confined at Laramie, and 

 7 at the Illinois State Penitentiary, under a con- 

 tract made before Wyoming owned a prison. 

 The State Board of Charities entered into a con- 

 tract in 1891, for fifteen years, that all prisoners 

 of the State should be kept in Wyoming peni- 

 tentiaries at 45 cents a day, or 50 cents when 

 the number is less than 100. Under this ar- 

 rangement all convicts are now sent to Laramie. 

 The total amount expended on the Rawlins 

 penitentiary has been $56,875.35, but the prison 

 is far from complete. 



Corporations. The Secretary of State re- 

 ports that the number of instruments relating 

 to corporations filed since the admission of 

 Wyoming as a State has been 744. The number 

 of corporations created under State laws during 

 the same period was 347, of which 304 are for 

 business and profit, and 43 are religious, fra- 

 ternal, or educational. 



Insurance. The report of the Auditor as 

 ex-officio Insurance Commissioner shows that 

 $6,000,000 of life insurance is carried by citizens 

 of the State, on which an annual premium of 

 $133,000 is paid, while $3,000,000 is carried in 

 the assessment companies. The 47 fire insurance 



companies represented in Wyoming wrote insur- 

 ance in 1893 to the amount of $6,500,000, in 

 which $128,000 were paid as premiums. Losses 

 amounting to $72,632 were incurred, and losses 

 to the amount of $59,000 were paid. 



Fish Hatchery. The appropriation of $7,400 

 made by the last Legislative Assembly has en- 

 abled the Fish Commissioner during 'the past 

 two years to conduct the operations of the hatch- 

 ery and enlarge the buildings. Over 1,000,000 

 fish have been distributed during this period 

 throughout the streams and lakes. 



Mining*. The mineral resources, with the ex- 

 ception of coal, can hardly be said to have been 

 developed. The total production of coal in short 

 tons during the year was 2,202,000 tons, having 

 a market value of over $3,060,978, arid the num- 

 ber of miners employed was 3,458. 



Census Statistics. The statistics of manu- 

 factures in Wyoming, as given in the Census 

 Bureau reports dated Feb. 20, 1894, give the 

 number of establishments as 190 ; value of land 

 $146,369 ; buildings, $209,721 ; machinery, etc., 

 $455,748; live assets, $599,346; average number 

 of employees. $1,144 ; total wages, $878,646 ; cost 

 of materials used, $1,084,432 ; value of products, 

 including receipts from custom work and repair- 

 ing, $2.367,601. 



Political. At the November election the en- 

 tire Republican ticket was successful. The Re- 

 publican candidate for Governor, W. A. Richards, 

 received a majority of 1,008 votes over the com- 

 bined votes for his two competitors Holliday, 

 Democrat, and Tidball, Populist. The new Leg- 

 islature stands : Senate Republicans 14, Demo- 

 crats 4 ; House Republicans 34, Democrats 2, 

 Populists 1. Miss Estelle Reel was elected to 

 the office of State Superintendent of Public In- 

 struction, which makes her, ex-officio, a mem- 

 ber of the State Board of Charities and Reform, 

 and of the State Board of Land Commissioners. 

 For the past four years Miss Reel has been Su- 

 perintendent of Schools in Laramie County. In 

 Wyoming there are 367 teachers, 300 of whom 

 are women, and 12 county superintendents, 11 of 

 whom are women. 



Owing to the failure of the second State Legis- 

 lature to elect a successor to Senator Francis E. 

 Warren, Wyoming has been represented by but 

 one Senator since March 4, 1893. 



