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Wyoming is a State of large resources, wliose development has 

 only begun. Within its 97,594 square miles lie the most extensive 



coal fields and the most productive kno^\^l oil fields 

 Wyoming. of the Rocky Mountain region, thousands of acres of 



irrigated and dry-farming lands, and extensive 

 areas of splendid stock range: moreover, some of the finest huntin? 



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Although the precipitation averages only 12| inches a year, the many 

 irrigated areas are higldy productive, and the success which dry 

 farming has here and there attained seems to indicate that a 

 still larger area may be brought under that kuid of cultivation. 



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(The average weight of a bushel of oats is 32 pounds.) The value of 

 the State's agricultural crops for 1914 is rougldy estimated by the 

 Department of Agriculture at $22,000,000. 



Noted in the early days as the range of the "cattle king," Wyoming 

 has in recent years become even better known as the home of the 

 "sheep baron." It has attained first rank among the United Stages 

 in the sheep industry, the number of sheep in the State on January 

 1, 1915, being estimated by the Department of Agriculture at 

 4,427,000, valued at $20,807,000. It should not be understood, 

 however, that the cattle industry has vanished, for the State still 

 ranks high as a cattle producer. 



Among the mineral products of the State coal is preeminent. Its 

 coal fields cover about 41,500 square miles (42 per cent of the State's 

 area), and contamed originally about 670,723,100,000 tons. Of 

 this quantity only 178,000,000 tons (about one-fortieth of 1 per 

 cent) has been exhausted, so that there remains in the ground the 

 enormous amount of 670,545,100,000 tons. The production in 

 1913 was 7,393,066 tons, valued at $11,510,045. 



The second in value of production among the mineral resources is 

 oU, ot which 2,406,522 barrels, valued at $1,187,232, was produced 

 m 1913. The production m 1914 amounted to about 4,600,000 

 barrels, equal to more than 60 per cent of the production of Pennsyl- 

 vama for the same year, and places Wyommg, whose oH fields are 

 newly discovered and only partly developed, in the nmth place 



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the undeveloped resources are bituminous shale, volcanic ash, 

 graphite asphaltum, manganese ores, bentonite, tin, salt, bismuth, 

 and perhaps most nnportant, phosphate rock, on wliich the future 

 of American agriculture may largely depend. It is estimated that 



