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Justice, C. N. Potter, Republican; Associate Jus- 

 tices, Samuel T. Corn, Democrat, and Jesse Knight, 

 Republican; Clerk, R. C. Morris. 



Population. The population of the State, by 

 counties, in 1900, according to the Federal census, 

 \\as as follows: Albany, 13,084: Bighorn, 4,328; 

 Carbon, 9,589; Converse, 3,337; Crook, 3,137; 

 Fremont, 5,357; Johnson, 2,361; Laramie, 20,181; 

 Niitrona, 1,785; Sheridan, 5,122; Sweetwater, 

 >.l.V>; Uinta, 12,22;}; Weston, 3,203: Yellowstone 

 National Park. ::ti!>. 



Finances. The Treasurer's statement of Sept. 

 30, 1900, shows a net balance in the general fund, 

 after allowing for outstanding warrants, of $22,- 

 ::n|.j:;. a u.-t -ruin of *25.9<)2.44 over 189X. The 

 Treasurer's c-.\^\\ statement is as follows: Cash bal- 

 ance. Oct. 1. 1S9S. $103,7N">.ti<): receipts trom all 

 sources, $7 14.1. 'i.VJl : investmeiils repaid, $42,107.- 

 10; disbursements. $025,195.82; investments, $63,- 

 147.1(5; cash balance, Sept. 30, 1900, $171,685.08. 

 This shows a gain in the cash balance of $67,- 

 !M!i.:{!> over the cash balance of 1898. 



The details of State expenditure for the fiscal 

 year ending Sept. 30, 1900, show, among other 

 items, the following: Care of convicts, juvenile de- 

 linquents, and deaf, dumb, and blind, $29,079.54; 

 insane, $17,278.58; Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, 

 $5,234.38; Wyoming General Hospital, $12,894.49; 

 university, $8,726.51; interest State bonded debt, 

 $19,200. 



Valuation and Taxation. The Treasurer's 

 report shows the total valuation of property 

 within the State in 1900 to be $37,892,303.81; 

 number of cattle 359.0(59, valuation $6,154,640.05; 

 number of sheep 2,624,689, valuation $5,426,493.25. 

 The taxes levied in 1900 were as follow: State, 

 s-j-J7,510.13; county, $280,771.12; general school, 

 $48,381.13; interest on county bonds, $80,293.32; 

 library, $4,054.36; judgment and State deficiency, 

 $14,000.97; special school, $159,925.61; payment 

 school bond interest, $19,454.58; payment county 

 bonds, $19,172.11; total, $853,563.23. 



State Lands. The rentals for the State lands 

 increased from $22,268.69 in 1892 to $91,589.81 



in 1900, the great increase having occurred during 

 the past two years, viz., from $40,684.07 in 1898 

 to $91,589.81 in 1900. The State owns 3,001,905.48 

 acres of school sections, being sections 1(5 and 36 

 in each township. Of this amount, 918,054.47 

 acres have been leased, 553,477.93 during the past 

 two years. 



Education. The report of the Superintendent 

 of Public Instruction shows that in the past two 

 years 524 schools were maintained, and more than 

 14,000 pupils received instruction. 



Soldiers' and Sailors' Home. Since the es- 

 tablishment of this institution, in 1895, 71 persons 

 have been admitted. The present membership is 

 21; the gain during the year by admission and 

 readmission was 18; the loss from various causes 

 was 13. The average attendance of men for the 

 year was 21.25; women, 2.66. The average cost 

 of maintenance per capita for the year ending 

 Sept. 30, 1898, was $288.85. The average cost for 

 the past year was $211.56. The total cost of 

 maintenance for the past year was $5,234.38. Of 

 this amount, $1,507 was received from the Gen- 

 eral Government. 



Penitentiary. The average daily number of 

 all convicts, State and Federal, and the total net 

 cost for care and maintenance of them during the 

 past five years, are as follow: In 1895, 107.38 con- 

 victs, cost $5,193.97; in 1896, 111.68 convicts, cost 

 $22,841.15; in 1897, 120.47 convicts, cost $23,570.- 

 60; in 1898, 136.11 convicts, cost $22,964.21; in 

 1899, 144.48 convicts, cost $25,604.41. In 1900 56 

 new prisoners were admitted to the Penitentiary. 



Coal Mining. The State Inspector of Coal 

 Mines reports the output of the mines of Wyoming 

 as 3,777,487 tons in 1899. Seven new mines have 

 been opened recently. 



Political. At the presidential election the Re- 

 publican ticket received 14,517 votes; the Demo- 

 cratic-Populist, 10,298. The vote for Congressman 

 was: Mondell, Republican, 14,539; Thompson, 

 Democrat, 10,017. The Legislature consists of 18 

 Republicans in the Senate and 37 in the House, 

 1 Democrat in the Senate and 2 in the House. 



Y 



YACHTING. Yachting antedates in antiquity 

 most of the sports and recreations of the present 

 day, but its development naturally has been most 

 noticeable during the century just closed, when 

 popular pastimes have kept pace with the enor- 

 mous growth of moneyed interests, and everything 

 social and political lias advanced with a rapidity 

 not heretofore known in the history of the world. 

 Kvidences are not wanting that pleasure craft, 

 propelled by oars or sails, were used by the earliest 

 maritime peoples known to history, and mention is 

 even made of such craft in the semimythical leg- 

 ends of prehistoric times. It is but a few years 

 since a sumptuous houseboat (or whatever may 

 have been the Roman equivalent for the term) 

 was discovered at the bottom of an Italian lake, 

 and it now adorns a neighl>oring resort for the 

 instruction of the passing throng. 



It appears in Pepys's Diary that in January. 

 1660, one Commissioner Pett, a shipbuilder of 

 Deptford, Knglund, was building for Charles II 

 a vessel described us a yacht, and that in July 

 of the same year a Dutch sailing yacht lay in 

 the Thames below London Bridge, and was visited 

 by his Majesty, who did it the honor to dine on 

 board. Subsequently the K i ng defeated his Dutch 

 \i-itor. and likewise at the same time his brother, 

 t he Duke of York, in a sailing match from Green- 



wich to Gravesend and back, the stake being 100 

 guineas. This is the first stated yacht race of 

 record in British waters. 



It is not here intended to relate in detail the 

 history of this luxurious and costly recreation. 

 In England, as has been seen, it had its begin- 

 nings under the patronage of the "Merry Mon- 

 arch"; and while it probably had its periods of 

 depression during the reaction that followed his 

 extravagant reign, it reasserted itself shortly after- 

 ward, and by 1720 the first yacht club wa- estab- 

 lished at Cork, Ireland. The Royal Yacht Club 

 followed in due course at Cowes, England, being 

 organized in 1812 with 50 members! At about 

 the same time wealthy American gentlemen, nota- 

 bly the more prominent among merchants and 

 shipowners, were afloat in handsome sailing craft 

 richly furnished and equipped, some of which did 

 valiant service as privateers in the sea wars that 

 followed. 



The first regularly organized American yachting 

 association was the' New York Yacht Chili, estab- 

 lished in 1844 with 9 members, Commodore John C. 

 Stevens, Esq., being commodore. This grew out 

 of the Hoboken club, whose fleet consisted mainly 

 of sailboats and is hardly to ! rccogni/ed as a 

 regular yacht club. The first stated match was 

 sailed by the club fleet from Robbin's Reef, within 





