TI1K OMAHA DAILY BEK: WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 1. 190S.
A YEAR 9F MANY THRILLS
Events Which Rise Above All Others
in the Year's Calendar. '
THRILLS OF THE FINANCIAL PINCH
Earthquake Phnrk, Standard Oil Fine,
Coal Mining and Marine Diana
(era Soluble Dead of
tha Year.
Nlncteen-oh-scvcn deserved to be written
down a a year of historic thrills. How
many may be classed as such In thin repub
lic of oura depends on Individual Judgment
as to what constitutes a thrill. Iocal
causes startle Individuals, communities and
atatea and provoke thrills of varying de
gree. Their number Is beyond computation.
The purpose here la to recall a few of the
mighty convulsions of nation-wide extent,
which jolted the peaceful routine of llfo
nd sent a series of sensational thrills along
the spinal column of your Uncle Samuel
and all his relations. '
Towering- above all other thrills of the
year Is the financial thrill of October. It
was not wholly unexpected. A few ob
servers, wiser than their fellows, foresaw
a break In the chain of prosperity. The
links of crjdit and speculation were sul
tccted to undue train and were liable to
snap at any moment. Warning signals ap
peared In the form of high Interest rates.
Wall street cried out In the agony of fall
ing prices of securities, "We haven't money
enough to do the country'a business. Give
us more!" The rest of the country smiled
contentedly and sent bundle of money Into
the whirlpool for enlarged profits. The
Country refused to hoed the alarm. Why
bother about a speculative Jamboree, or
gamble in which the houso was losing?
Prolific earth yielded an abundant har
vest of the necessaries of life. Prices were
good, Industries were thriving and multi
plying, wholesalers were busy every bus
iness hour, work sought the workman at
top notch wages. Thus we hustled con
tentedly, satisfied with ourselves and the
surrounding abundance, mocking the rude
alarms of Wall street and giving the laugh
to pessimists. Tha Fort of Plenty, but
tiessed with loaded bins and cribs, was
deemed unshakable If not Invincible.
Lowering; Clonds.
Suddenly the financial skies dnrkenert.
Money became scarcer and Interest rates
went up by leaps and bounds. An attempt
of the Helnze crowd to manipulate the
copper market collapsed within forty-eight
hours, and the Metropolitan bank, owned
by the defeated speculators, went down
with a crash. Tills failure, though tem
porary, centered public attention on the
disturbance and provoked uneasiness. In
New York City an infection of financial
fear spread rapidly. Depositors demanded
their money from banks and trust com
panies suspected of speculative methods.
Runs grew In magnitude with every pars
ing hour, and In some Instances hundreds
stood In line all night in order to reach
the paying teller the next day.
At this critical Juncture the New York
clearing house rallied to the (support of
associated banks and trust companies
known to bo solvent. Managers and di
rectors of speculative banks were obliged
to resign before the clearing house asso
elation undertook to support the Involved
Institutions. This rule forced the Helnze
brothers and President Morse of the Ice
trust out of the banking business. The
famous Knickerbocker Trust company was
. forced to suspend after paying $S,000.000 to
dTJltors and Its president, Charles Bar
ney, committed suicide. A run on the
Lincoln Trust company lasted nearly a
week. The company, supported by Ihe
Clearing House association paid out a to
tal of $32,000,000 before the demands of de
positors were satisfied.
Spread Over the (aantrr.
The feeling of Insecurity manifested so
itrongly In New York spread over the
country almost with lightning rapidity. In
dividuals began hoarding. Bankers In gen
eral followed the example. Clearing house
associations In every city in the country
practically closed their money chests, as a
measure of self-protection. On one memor
able Monday morning In October every
Omaha bank caller In search of money was
handed a thrill with a promise of a clearing
houso certificate or a cashiers' check. Tha
thrill business was not a Jughandle affair.
Now and then a depositor. Just to show his
good will, handed the banker a package.
Generally, however, the banker had tha
best of It. In Omaha the emergency cheek
circulated as freely as real money and In an
vlmlrabU manner demonstrated public con
fidence in local banks and bankers.
Every city In the country and every per
lon having business with banks experi
enced the financial thrill. With few ex
ceptions the banks withstood the strain.
Within six weeks over 1100,000,000 In gold
sas drawn from Europe. The United States
treasury adopted measures of relief. As
the year closed the financial thrill has be-.
?ame a disagreeable memory and the
tmergency money ended Its usefulness In
inialia. i
Among the wreckage are one trust com
pany In New York, one national and one
itate bank In Brooklyn, several small
banks In Pittsburg, one large bank in Kan
tag City, now undergoing reorganization,
one In Ban Francisco and some minor banks
In the southwest. Four suicides are trace
able to the panic Charles Barney of the
Knickerbocker Trust company, New York
City; Howard Maxwell of the Brooklyn
tank, Brooklyn; a New York broker named
Straus, and T. Otway Sadleir, manager of
'Jie wrecked Ban Francisco Institution.
ued at lin.oiio.fyio destroyed. Immediate as
sistant was tendered by this government.
Admiral Davis with a fleet of naval ves
sels hastened to Kingston with food sup
plies for the victims. In order to assist
In preserving order, sailors from the fleet
were landed w ith the' consent of minor of
ficials of Jamaica. As soon ns Oovernor
Swcttenhani awoke or sobered up ho be
came Indignant at the presence of United
States sailors on British territory and or
dered thm off. They went. Admiral Davis
and his fleet retired from British waters,
their mission of good will unfinished. The
thrill which this act caused was deeper
than the shock of the disaster, und brought
promrt disavowal, and apology from the
British government. A few we ks later
Governor Swettcnham resigned under pres
sure. Calabria, in southern Italy, experienced
severe earthquake shocks during August,
but the damage wns limited to destruction
of property.
A aiandard Thrill.
A thrill distinctively unique In the va
riety of emotions stirred was the penalty
Imposed by Judge Kenesnw Mountain
Landls of the United States district court
of Chicago on the Standard Oil company
for accepting rebates on transportation of
oil. A subsidiary company owned by the
Standard Oil company had been tried nud
convicted of accepting rebates on the tran
portatlon of oil from the refineries at
Whiting, Ind., to Kast St. Louis. To de
termine the ownership and responsibility
of the parent company for the unlawful
acts of the smaller company, Judge Landis
called the heads of the Standard Oil com
pany Into court. Among them wns John O.
Rockefeller. Having satisfied himself of
the relations of one company to the other.
Judge Landis Imposed the maximum fine
on each count of the indictment, the totul
aggregating $29.250,1100.
rne aters-l'lerce oil company, a
branch of the Standard, was convicted In
the Texas courts In restraint of trade,
fined $1,623,000, and ousted from the state.
The. court of nppeals affirmed the Judg
ment. The next highest penalty imposed fur re
bating during the year was a fine of $;&0,-
000 assessed against tho Santa Fe railroad
by the federal court at Los Angeles, Cal.
A rebating fine of $40,000 was paid In New
York by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul Railroad company.
Karthqaakra.
Three earthquake disasters In widely
separated parts of the world caused vastly
greater lose of lil'e than the combined
record of 1908 at San Francisco and Val
paraiso. Most destructive of the three was
the Karatagh earthquake in Russian Tur
kent&u, last October. This is accounted
one of the moat appalling natural catas
trophes on record. Karatagh, the larger
of twelve villages within the aeismtc gone,
waa practically destroyed and 4.000 Uvea
lost. In the entire region 12,000 Uvea were
sacrificed, aa unknown number Injured, and
28.000 anlmala deatroyed. Descriptions of
the calamity written by correspondent
who subeequeotly visited the scene, make
Dante's Inferno appear a aummer picnic
by comparison. A fierce storm of wind,
thunder and lightning raged before and
during the convulsion of the earth. "The
town of Karatagh aeomed to be repeatedly
lifted high in the air and set down heavily
by mighty handa. In acorea of places the,
ground burst open and boiling watoi
spouted upward. Huge fragments of rocii
were dislodged from the surrounding mouh.
tains and added the thunder of their fall
to the subterranean rumbllnga. Houses
were battered down by falling rocks.
Others, with their occupants, sank bodily
Into great flsaurea In the earth. The popu
lace, or auch of them as escaped lnatant
death, appeared to be mad with terror.
Maddened anlmala tore hither and thither,
crushing many fugitives under their hoola.
No written narrative," concludes one cor
respondent, "can adequately portray the
scenes or the experiences of survivors."
The earthquake at Kingston, Jamaica,
early in January, sent a double thrill
throughout the United Statea. Seven hun- g
urea persons perlalied, 4.000 were injured
0,M rendered homeless, and property val-
Mlnlna; Disasters.
Coal mining operations piled up an ap
palling total of lives lost, particularly In
the United States. In December alone
approximately "00 lives were lost 400 at
Monongan, W. Va.; 300 at Jacob's Creek,
Pa., and 80 at Yolande, Ala, The Monongah
disaster is accounted the most destructive
of life in the United States In a genera
tion. The total for the year is placed at
2,300, of which fully 1.0(0 lives were lost in
tlie mines of this country. An Investiga
tion made by the Interior department
shows that In the last seventeen years
23.000 were lost In tho mines of the United
States. The highest mortality this year
waa n the Toyeka mine, Japan, when 470
lives were snuffed out. The greatest single
disaster on record was that at Courrleres,
France, June 1, 1906, causing a loss of
1,200 lives.
Nearly S00 lives were lost in two disas
ters ,at sea. The Frovldence line steamer
Larchmont on Iong Island sound collided
with a sailing vessel on the night of Feb
ruary 11 and sank, carrying to death 1'iO
passengers. The mail steamer Berlin was
wrecked In a storm oft the Hook of Hol
land and 132 lives lost.
Rotable Deaths of the Year.
January Sir William Pearse llowland,
Canadian statesman; Ernest Howard
Crosby, author and social reformer, New
York; Rev. John Cotton Brooks, D.D., of
Massachusetts; Alfred K. Davis, last ot
the pioneer railroad builders of California
Mueaffer-ed'vDin, shah of Persia; Queen
Marie of Hanover; David Overmeyer, prom
inont Kansas ' democrat ; Rt. ReV. George
Montgomery, Roman Catholic archbishop
or San Francisco; Prof. A. I,. Frothlng
ham of Princeton; Rev. Lawrence J. Kav-
anaugh, Roman Catholic educator, Phila
delphia; Rev. James Woodrow, D. D., well
known southern educator snd clergyman,
Columbia, 6. C; General Russell A. Alger,
United States senator, Michigan; Colonel
John Y. F. Blake, New York, commander
Irish brigade In Boer war; ex-Governor
John W. Davis, Rhode Island; Mrs. Isa
bella Ueechtr Hooker, Hartford; Rev.
Henry M, Field, D. D., New York, author
and editor; Rev. Alexander Gilchrist. 11
D., secretary United Presbyterian Home
Mission board; Samuel C. T. Dodd, solic
itor Standard Oil company.
February Judge Charles Parlance.
United States district court, New Orleans;
Bishop William Stang. Fall River, Mass.;
Rev. Edward P. Ingersoll, D. D., secretary
American Bible society; Rear ' Admiral
Charles S. Lorlng, United States riavv:
Rear Admiral Albert Kautz, United States
navy, retired; Dr. William C. Pickett, Phil
adelphia, authority on nervous diseases;
Viscount Goshen, British economist: Count
John A. Crelghton, 'Omaha, capitalist and
philanthropist; Prof. Charles B. Gorman,
Amherst college; Sir William Howard Rus
sell, noted war correspondent; ex-Governor
Frank W. Hlgglns, New York; Leon Ber-
pollet, French engineer and Inventor of
automobile engines; Colonel Henry S. Ol
cott, one of the founders of the theo
sophlcal movement; Rev. Erl Baker Hurl
burt. dean divinity school, Chicago uni
versity; Archibald C. Gunter, Boston, play
wright and publisher; Orson D. Munn, New
York, publisher Scientific American; Wen
dell Philips Garrison, editor New York
Nation.
March Dr. Oronhyateka. Toronto, su
preme chief ranger Independent Order of
Foresters: Ada Lydla Howard, first presi
dent Wellesley college; Dr. Carl H. von
Bottlcher, German statesman; Rev. John
Alexander Dowle, founder of Christian
Catholic church, Zlon. 111.; Prof. John
Krom Rees, Columbia university; ex-Senator
James L. Pugh, Alabama; Jean Paul
Caslmlr-Perler, former president of
France; Maurice Grau, New York operatic
manager; Dr. Albert S. C.alschet. Wash
ington, authority on Indian language;
i-ierre i-.ugene Herthelot, Freneh'chemlKt
and statesman; Thomas Bailey Aldrlch,
American author; Brigadier General Theo
dore J. int. V. 8. A., former tommander I
uepanment or the Missouri, Omaha; Prof.
Ernst von Bergmann, distinguished Ger
man surgeon; Edwin B. Haskell, pub
lisher Boston Herald; Galusha A Grow,
Pennsylvania congressman, father of the
homestead law; Bishop John C. Uran
bery. M. E. church aouth; Prof. Don Car
los Taft, university of Illinois.
April Bishop James N. Fitzgerald.
Methodist Episcopal church; Dr. William
H. Drummond. Canadian physician and
poet; General Manuel L. Barillas, former
president t.f Guatemala; Rev. Paul Men
ael, D. D.. president Lutheran Synod of
Ungted Stat.-s; Daniel H. Chamberlain.
New Jersey reconstruction governor of
Bouth Carolina; James H. Eckels. Chicago
banker, former comptroller of currency
Prif James A. Quaries. Wathington and
Lee university; Frana R. KJehmun. emi
nent Swedish botanist,; Denis Kearney
San Francisco, famous labor agitator
Mgr. Bernard O Rellly. New York, biog
rapher of popes; William Duryea, starch
manufacturer; Nathaniel larks, pioneer
in electrical Inventions.
May-Prof. George Sverdrup. noted th
logian, Minneapolis; George R. Butler,
noted American artist, abroad: General
Joseph K. Hudson, Kansaa editor, publisher
and politician; Rev. John Watson. D. D..
Scotland, author and lecturer; Major Gen
eral Henry Ronald Douglass Maclver, vet
eran of eighteen wars; ex-United States
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Over 50.000.00 Worth of High -Class.
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Thursday. January 2d, promptly at 0 a. m. this great specialty cloak and suit house will open its Half
Price January Clearance Sale. The one great event that the women of Omaha and vicinity have learned to
look to (from our last year's wonderful clearance sale) as being the greatest bargain opportunity of the year and,
while our last year's clearance was a great bargain event, this sale will be still greater, owing to the fact that
our wonderfully increased business compelled us to carry an immense fall and winter stock then the recent
flurry in the money market coming along so sudden put a sudden check on business so we now find our
selves with a mammoth stock of fine goods on our hands and the result is that, in order to carry out our policy
of never carrying over a single garment from one season to another, we are compelled to sacrifice more than ever.
This Will Be a V!i0tity Sale and Will Be the Talk of
Omaha and All Surrounding Territory
Be here as .early in the day as possible and remember the sale starts Thursday morning promptly at 8 o'clock
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Tight-Fitting Coats
$f)5.00 Tight Fitting Coats,
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$45.00 Tight Fitting Coats,
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$25.00 Tight Fitting Coats,
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$75.00 Opera Coats, January
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$li7.50 Opera Coats, January
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$59.50 Opera Coats, January
Half Price Sale
$50.00 Opera Coats, January
Half Price Sale
$42.50 Opera Coats, January
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$90.00 Fur Coats, January
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$75.00 Fur Coats, January
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$55.00 Fur Coats, January
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$45.00 Fur Coats, January Hnlf
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$35.00 Caracul Coats, January
Half Price Sale
$29.75 Caracul Coats, January
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I 1.. i lnnn& r I. T T . . I . - I r. . . . . .. 1 ' ' ' 9
Senator E. G. Ross of Kansas, whose vota
saved Tresldoiit Johnson from impeach
ment; Albert Keep, former president Chi
cago & Northwestern railroad; Andrew B.
Jlendrlx, inventor of Iron oar wheels; Orrln
W. Potter, pioneer stoel manufacturer,
Chicago; Prof. Gustave J. Stoeckel, music
department, Yale; Kdwln H. Conger, Iowa,
I'nlted States minister to China; Theodore
Tllton, Brooklyn, author, lecturer and exile;
Joseph j. Stickney, American correspond
ent at battle of Manila bay; Mrs. Ida Mc
Klnley, Canton, O., widow of President Mc
Klnley; Karl IHind, the German patriot;
General Thomas II. ringer, I'nltcd States
army, retired; Helen M. Goutcar, Indiana,
temperance leader and lecturor.
June Dr. W. G. Neville, president
Presbyterian college of South Carolina;
George W. Llninger, Omaha, art collector
and egyptologist; Julia Magruder, the
novelist; United Slates Senator John T.
Morgan, Alabama; Henry O. Hanks, Cali
fornia pioneer and mineralogist; ex-Knlted
States Senator L,uclen Baker, Kansas; N.
O. Ordway, governor of territory of
Dakota.
July Judge Charles Swayne, United
States district court, Florida; Prof. Angelo
Ilellprln, New York, geographer and ex
plorer; Prof. Louis E. Ahlers of Colorado
college; William von Kardoff, German
statesman; Colonel Will S. Hays, writer and
poet of Kentucky; United States Senator
Kdmund W. Pettus, Alabama; Cortlandt
Parker, oldest practicing lawyer In New
Jersey; Rev. W. M. Henry Ijord, well
known Episcopal clergyman of New York
and New England; Brigadier General
Charles F. Powell, United States army, re
tired; ex-Judge Francis Miles Finch, New
York court of appeals, author of "The Blue
and the Gray."
August David Christie Murray, English
novelist and playwright; Dr. lucy Hall
Brown, eminent woman physician. Brook
lyn, N. Y.; Augustus Saint Gaudrns, famous
American, sculptor; Prof. John Rose Flck
len. Tulane university, New Orleans; St.
George Kempsnn, editor New York Insur
ance Journal; Cardinal Dominloo Svampa,
archbishop of Bologna; Robert A. Pinker- j
ton of Pinkerton detective agency; General
William Birney, United States army, re
tired; Rev. Charles C. Tiffany, for many
years archdeacon of New York; Dr. Seneca
D. Powell, distinguished surgeon, New
York; Nelson Morris, pioneer meat p.icker,
Chicago; Rear Admiral William A. Wind
sor, United States nay, retired; Rt. Rev.
John Joseph Williams, Roman Catholic
archbishop of Boston.
September Pleasant Porter, chief .f the
Creek Indian nation; Rene Francois Ar
mand Sully-I'rudhomme. French poet and
critic; Rt. Rev. Ernest Roland Wlllier
force, bishop of Chichester, England; Wal
ter Scott, inventor of printing press; Rear
Admiral John Grimes Walker, U. S. N.,
former member Panama Canal commis
sion; Frederick George McNally, noted
publisher. Chicago; Rt. Rev. Frederick Z.
Hooker, Roman Catholic bishop of Jolo,
P. I.; General Cecil Clay, United States
Department of Justice; Anna T. Jeannes,
philanthropic Quakeress of Philadelphia.
October Rev. James M. King, execu
tive head Methodist Episcopal Board of
Home Missions: Sir Henry Hawkins, noted
British barrlbter; Prof. James Mattson,
Scottish historian; Maurice Loewy, French
astronomer, director of Paris observatory;
Alexander Maitland, New York, prominent
philanthropist; Gerald Massey, poet and
historian; Dr. Charles Mohr, distinguished
homeopathlst of Philadelphia; Diego Bar
ros Arana, historian and educator of
Chill.
November Brevet Brigadier General
Thomas Elwood Rose, U. S. A., retired,
who led the escape from Ubby prison;
Lewis Emory McComas. former United
States senator from Maryland; Mrs. Har
riet Farley Donlevy, first woman editor
of Woman's magazine in the United States;
Sir I.ewU Morris, Welsh'poet; Moncure I).
Conway, American author, minister and
lecturer; Horatio Richmond Palmer. Amer
ican author and composer; Admiral Sir
Francis Ieopold McCIIntock, discoverer of
the fate of tho Franklin Arctic expedition
in 183!V
December Lord Kelvin, distinguished
British scientist; Thomas Fitch Rowland.
New York, builder of Ericsson's "Moni
tor." William H. Hinrlchsen, well known
Illinois politician; Gus Ringling of Ring
ling brothers, circus men; Henry O. Have
meyer, New York, head of American Sugar
refining industry; King Oscar of Sweden;
Stephen R. Mallory, United States senator
from Florida; Mrs. I-etltla Tyler Semple,
Washington, niece of President Tyler and
former mistress of the White Hous.
WYOMING BEST SHEEP STATE
Industry Increasing by Leaps and
Bounds in Western Country.
LEAD 0VEE MONTANA CLAIMED
TINY ECLIPSE OF THE SUN
Phenomenon Dae Friday and Will lie
Confined to Pnelfle Near
Kqoalor.
Father William lligge, S. J., of CreiBht.n
university 'makes this s"iuounceuicnt of a
"tiny eclipse" wrnrn the new year will
bring: "On January 3, there will be a total
eclipse of the sun. The line of totality will
be confined entirely to the Pacilic ocean
near the equator, und across so few and
sucli inhospitable islands ttiat only one ex
pedition, the one from the Lick observa
tory has been sent out to observe the
eclipse.
For Omaha the aclipce will reach the ex
ceptional magnitude of 2 per cent; one-fifth
of tho sun's diameter is all that fair
tyntlila can hide from us. And this maxi
mum ooscuration will occur at the very
moment of sunset, at least, this is the case
at the Crelghton University observatory.
On account of the height of our western
hills sunset always occurs at the observa-
I iory ix minutes too soon. The sun Is said to
set on January 3 at 6:04. but tr the reason
I given thL time Is In reality 4:58.
"Ti e e.'i'j.'se will begin In Omaha at 4
j o'clock, il minutes, lu seconds, so that
j we will nave about seven minutes time
I to it at it. The moon will tx riii to In
dent the sun ut a point 45 degrees to the
left, or eHst, of it a lowermost point. A
telescope will be very useful, but probably
not necessary, as a keen eye may possibly
do without one. Dark glanses also may not
bo needed, or at least they need not be
very dark.
'Two per cent is all of the sun we can
obscure on January 3. but on June 28, we
promise to make It fifty."
Vnat .Mineral Wealth llapldly Ilelnu
UiicoveTredtiroH t h of llall
ronds und Irrigation
Marvelous.
Wyoming's Record During 107.
Population (estimated) lSVJIH)
Bank deposit, private, state
and national banks $16,in.nin.0o
Increase over 1h5 uUO.oM .00
Deposits, per capita 1.10.(10
Receipts, rental state lands .. H0,!i;9.34
Area of state, square miles .. !',!)
Area that can bo irrigated, acres 9,Nuu,wu
Area subject to entry under I".
S. laws, acres 4S,000.0(k
Lands reclaimed, i acres 11 ',(
Permits for new ditches 1,723
Total cost Irrigation works, com
pleted and under way f:S5,OOO.OiV).O0
Value of farm and grazing lands ;ii,000,uuO.
aiue or all property, us re
turned for asHesHincnt 8i.419.177.9S
Increase over 1906 3. Utn.ft75.il
State's bonded d -lit ltW.WO.t.iO
Decrease from !!X 2o.UOO.00
What WjoiiiIii Produced in 1907.
Coal. (i.S&n.noo (estimated) tons. .tl7.Ni0.nOii.00
Iron, ?.()0 tons
Gold
tVippor
Building atone, onyx, etc.
Silver
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Total mineral production . . . MS. 375,000.00
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cold. It stops the cough, heals the lungs
and prevents serious resulta from a cold.
Curea la grippe cougha and prevents
pneumonia and consumption. Contains no
opiates. The genuine is In a yellow pack
sue. Refuse substitutes. All druggists.
Total value livestock exporter. Slti.otl.KS.uo
Wool exported, pounds SJ.iBT.hk)
Value of wool exported $ 7,11,77;!.iiO
Value of agricultural products,
exports and consumed at
loutie is.ftoo.rno.nn
VaUio of manufactures I,3).ont)ii0
Value of oil production &)0,0ti0.00
Total value products
ducts In lm7
In lW..$1.92S.fi!.oo
$U,!)2S, 598.00
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dee. 30. -(Special. )
The story printed a year ago today, telling
of the progress made in Wyoming- during
the year 1M6, could well apply to the ad
vancement In all lines of business In this
state during the year 19"7, only rreater
strides were made in some directions than
were recorded in !. At the close of
last year It was thought that Wyoming
had made a record growth and development
in twelve months, but the accompanying
statement of exports of live stock, wool,
hay and agricultural products, Irrigation
development, production of the mines, etc.,
shows that lawt year's record has been
eclipsed. This Increase is slight In some
Instances, but large In others.
Live stock growing U Wyoming's greatest
Industry, and of this particular business,
that (if raising sheep ami the growing of
wool ranks first. The year wltneasud
the pushing of t lie cattle business from
first to second place, and during the year
Just clobed the sheep business not only
maintained the lead, but increased the same
over the rattle business.
l-ada 1 nlted Males.
While the sheep business leads all other
Industries in Wyoming, It also leads tha
Daiance Of the United States, and for the
first time in the history of the business
yomlng Is now the banner sheep and wool
state of the union, having passed Montana
which has been at the head for many years,
auring the last twelve months. Starting
with one buck and a few ewes In the early
eighties Wyoming has rapidly Increased her
sheep holdings until now there are being
grazed In this stato appromlmately 6,000,000
sheep. Range conditions are Ideal, scabies
has been eradicated, the sheep are in
splendid condition, and with hundreds of
thousands of tons of hay In the stack for
feeding during stormy weather, the In
dications are that Wyoming will Increase
Its lead over its rival, Montana, during the
next twelve months.
There are nt the present time approxi
mately goo.000 cattle In the state, valued
at W),u00,000. During 1907 the shipments of
cattle from this state were Valued at ap
pioxirnately JS. 000,000.
Something like 15,000 horses were shipped
from the state during the year, returning
approximately $1,500,000 to the growers.
The hog Industry la growing, and there
were markoted during the year about 5,000
swine, returning to the atate about J5O.0O0.
Coal Minion.
nai was hi rirst ueiievea to be a se
vere blow to the coal mining business of the,
state may prove a blessing. The with
drawal of coal lands from entry, and the
declaration of the Unloa Pacific Coal com
pany that It would cease mining com
mercial coal on January I, 1!, lead many
to bolleve that the production of coal would
show a considerable falling off for a few
years, but a number of companies, barked
by private capital, have Jumped Into tho
breach, and new properties are being
opened in several counties In the state. Tho
chief among the new mines may be men
uoneu me hock Kprings-uinraltar, near
Rock Springs; the old Almy mines, near
Evanston, re-opened; the Willow Creek
mines, near Kemmerer; the Indian mines,
in Fremont county; the Gebo properties In
Big Horn county; the Kool mines near
Sheridan In Sheridan county; the Ryan
mine near Walcott In Carbon county, und
properties near Clark, In northwest Big
Horn county. Other smaller properties are
being developed In almost every county In
the state.
Iron Production
Second to coal In importance in Wyoming
mining Is that of Iron. The only pro
ducing mines are located at Sunrise, Chi
cago and Hartville, In the northern part
of Laramie county, although large deposits
of Iron havo been located at Iron Moun
tain, a few miles north of Cheyenne, and
also in the vicinity of Rawlins. Little de
velopment has been done in either of these
districts, all hough diamond drills have
been at work In the Rawlins field for some
time.
A significant move was made recently
when agents of the Harrlman lines secured
optlona on largo tracts of Iron land in the
Iron Mountain district. The statement
has also been made that the Harrlman
lines will In a few years manufacture their
own steel rails and other railroad Iron,
and that the ore is to be taken from the
Iron Mountain district. For years the Iron
ore here has been regarded as Impossible
of treatment, but it Is now asserted that a
process has been discovered by which It can
be handled. The plans provide for the
extension of tho Union Pacific up the
o,tn aUo rJvor tn
thence to a connection w(tll n"
VXT'0 -are",':
AVyomlng produced more of the precl,,,,,
metal, during the year than the p ecedln
ar,8V,t,onr,,8'Ib:,t " that Ul6 OU'"ut
cin mT' T t" n,lnrs the A'
City, Miner's Delight and South Pass dia.
bul'lion"8 maki"g re8U'ar "h,P"'-nt. ol
Irrigation and Farming.
Irrigation received a great Impetus dur.
Ins- the year, many thousands of acres ol
ih .I" WCre brUK,,t "nder dl,ch" "
cultivation, and many miles of additional
canals were built.
The stato engineer Is authority for th
statement that during the lust two year,
work has been started, and In many n-'
lances the enterprises have been com
pleted, railing for a total expenditure of
mere than $35,000,000. During this period
permits have been granted for 1.777 21S
acres. Those permits provide for canals
having a total length of 3.579 miles. ri,
cost of which will HDuroilmatA lnwiu
which, when all reclamation expenses are
Included, will approach $27,ono.or1o. The tn.
tal cost of reservoirs started, completed or
p.annea curing tho same period Is over
$4,000, which means an expenditure of
18,000,000, or a total expenditure for Irri
gation work during the two Vars of ap
proximately $,'5,000,000.
Oil Industry.
During tho past year marked progress
was mado In developing several oil fields
In Wyoming. In the Salt Creek fields
northwest of Casper, in Natrona county!
new wells were brought In. and the rI
finery at Casper was worked overtime
In tliA .... A . .i i ,
" "i"" neiuH, near lender, sev
eral additional wells were brought In. In
tho Douglas fields, in Converse county,
operations were continued, and In the
Uinta county fields -neveral producing
wella were added to tho list. In Big Horn
county oil and gas were struck In several
places near Oarland, and In Crook county
additional wells were brought In. IJke
coul, oil Is found In almost every county
In the Btafe, und soma day the oil In
dustry will be one of tha state's chlf
wealth producers.
Railroad Ilalldlnjc.
The railroads are doing their share to
ward bringing prosperity and Increased
population to the state. During the yPilr
there was a total of I miles of new road
constructed In the state. This mileage waa
divided between the Union Pacilic branch
lines and double tracking, spurs to coal
mines, etc. I Hiring tho c oming year tha
Ijiramle, Halm's Peak & Pacific will be
extended Into Colorado, the Saratoga A
Encampment, built during the year from
Walcott, on tho Union Paelii,., to Hr:
tiga. will bo extended to Crund Eiicainn-
ment, and possibly Into Cnlnrtn -m.-
Burlington will extend its Woi land-Klrbv.
Thermopolls on Into the Interior of the
stale, and will bul'd another lino north
westerly Into Montana from the Toluca
Cody branch. The Wyoming Bhort Una
company will build from Oreyblll to the
eastern edge of the Yellowstone park
the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul la to
extend from Bouth Dakota to Buffalo,
Wyo., and the Colorado & Southern con.
templates an extension of Us Chewnn
Orln Junction line.