Identifier: handbookofwyomi00stra (find matches)
Title: The hand-book of Wyoming and guide to the Black Hills and Big Horn regions
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Strahorn, Robert E. (Robert Edmund), 1852-1944
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Publisher: Cheyenne, (Chicago, Knight & Leonard, printers)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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nston. Totals 14,750 28,540 $5,516,748 Basing this estimate upon the opinions of numerous well in-formed citizens in different sections of the Territory, the writerplaces the true present valuation of all property at $15,500,000. Wyoming is in a most healthy and gratifying financial con-dition. There is no territorial indebtedness, but the handsomesurplus of $13,000 remains in her treasury. The valuation ofproperty, according to assessment returns just noted, has in-creased from $5,500,000 in 1870 to $9,000,000 in 1876, and $11,-818,449 in 1877. The Territorial tax of three mills for this yearwill place the treasury in even better condition than it is atpresent, notwithstanding the fact that the meeting of the legis-lature during the coming autumn will cause a large drain uponits funds. A majority of the counties can present the same pro-portionate financial prosperity. * Returns from Carbon aud Uintah counties could not be obtained, and are therefore-estimated from best data at hand.
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WEALTH AND PRODUCTIONS. 25 A careful summing up of Wyomings productions for the year1877 results as follows: 9 Coal, 524,000 tons at average of $4 per ton $2,096,000 Gold, dust and bullion 815,000 Hay and other farm products 485,000 Live stock and wool 990,000 Manufactured articles, including lumber, stone, etc 3,918,120 Total $8,304,120 Internal revenue collections for the past five years, as reportedby Collector E. P. Snow, will give readers an idea of the steadyand rapid increase of Wyomings returns to the home govern-ment. They are as follows: 1872 $6,727 27 1873 10,652 94 1874 11,233 38 1875 11,942 11 1876 15,063 37 Total $55,619 07 For a Territory so young and hitherto harassed by savages,Wyoming deserves no little credit for her fine system of rail,stage and telegraph. The following figures again stronglyillustrate what inducements her great natural wealth has heldout to capitalists: The Territory contains 2 railways aggregating a length of 500 miles. 6 telegraph lines aggregat

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