Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 10, 1910, Page 22

= Qals_—= terman [lats Yiouxe bonds. The sheepien have Invested tieir surplus earnings in catile, horses, farms. ranches, Irrigation enterprises, stoves, bunks and vavious other enter prises, so that It would be difficult to Yaiae an enterprisé that has not benefited the sheep business. Instances could be clted at zreat,length glving names of per #ons who conimenced the business ten to years ago without a cent who are men worth all the way (rom 30,000 (o 1 Tlere is big muney In the business vailing prices A iarke wool warehouse wax built | Douglas by the co-operation of the xiecp- wen of this locality some year: aq The bullding is xi2 feet in dimension on trackage, and has a storage capa of LU0 pounds of wool S XITRITII YOMING cattlemen, once proud last sixteen vears has been marvelous and ol Rrcd, | Aot bor and vale barons of the range, hela if all were told would road Ik 1 fuiey tion of sheep in the R ary 1 havghty head above the lowly tafe, wag 5,191,182 sheep at $23,000.719 rabbits and rattlesnakes on the present shecymen for many years, While Wyoming wool will continue upward in The sheepmen usuaily locate i site .of Douglas, butiC. M. /King had somdrero-batopped COWDOY B price. The consumption in the United towns and many a sprightly city owes ity itehed a tent at the mouth of Auiclope made humble herders dance. Niatox ench year ix H0.0M.00 pounds. or origin to the sheep indus Dobiglas, - CFRSk:Just horth of towh, and waw braupy- Dut out of time's. paradoxical evolution (his yeason there is an era of almost v Converse ¢ nty, is a falr example, for it ing At a store, and ‘beside it was an there has come @ shifting of position—the broken prosperity for Wyoming flock- Is due largely (o the sheep business thar OUUer owned by a survevor named Wattlos sheep |s ahesd of the steer, the former masters, and the contral portion of the Douglas was resurrected from a “busteq &4 @ small I U M) s bon SR vatile baron Js now a sheep raiser him- wtate, with its great siretenes of prazing boomlet” in 1888 with 205 poverty-stricken K cowpunchers mnamed —Blaiedell ¢ #elf and the picturesque cowboy has ex- land, is in position to maintatn its su- pecple to a wealthy, thriving, prosperous, Musley Lad opened a saloon. In July, changed Jariat for shepherd’s orook Premacy as a wool-produclig, coun modarn improved clty of perhaps 3,000 pop- DoUBlaS proper was platted and The phenomenal gains of the sheep In- In /18, Texas, Californis, OWl, New ulation in 1910, and the sheep business con- The rallroud people, however, refused \to weio 19id fo a polit west of the stock continuing through four days. The first now owned hy G. W. Mesfcalf, was the dustry in Wyoming must not be construed Mexico, Montana, Ovegon, 'tah and Michi- tributed very materlally in clevating Con- &/10W even a tent stake to be driven on yargs which was the terminus for about day's sales exceeded $30,000, and in all 242 first on which actual work began. The 10 mean that the cattle business has been gan were ahead of Wyoming in the shoep verse county from an insignificant county the mew townsite and announced that no g year, 1. M. Tyler was the first age lots were sold for a total of $70,405. The first week of railrond service brought in entirely abandoned—Wyoming is still & industry In the order named. The fy of the fourth class, with poor credit and would ‘be ‘& until the rails were \who was succeeded in Mareh of the ful- stieets had been cleared of sagebrush, and train load after train load of lumber, and cattle state and will remain so, but there Wyoming Is now the banner sheep a debt of $120,000, to a strong county of the ald to Douglas lowing vear by C. €. Pardee. Lots in the almost with the first sale building was any man who could drive & nail was pald is more of the Holsteln, more of the Short- wool state of the union is an accomplish- second class on & cash basis with s debt ie raflrosd reached Douglas on Sat- permanent town of Douglas of today were under way and a city was born. The King $ & day. The sound of hammer and saw horn and less of the nondescript. Herds ment of which all oitlzons of that state may rediced to $40,000, including the new court urday, Auguet 22, ard on Monday the rails sold at {on, begiiming September 30 and storeroom, corner Center and Third streets, was heard everywhere, day and night. are not so large as they formerly were, but they are catalogued in a different class. In 1883 there was absclutel¥ nothing but Dougias, 1t is said, was the first town in the state t6 make the matter of planting and caring for trees on the streets, a But to return to the chief topie, which 4 strictly municipal function. The first tree is sheep. There was in the early davs of 6 M 99 \ere planted by the town. There are now R S oy e o RN DAy e i bt because ft was classed as & “tame’ ocou- thie streets as are to be found in all th pation. The cowboy was a ploturesque, : $ J 4 i residence lots. From one end of the town higkly-respected figure. The sheepharder “I"r:"l":“k“;"‘“)‘“"“ s Ne ";'”‘ and Ne L WA Sliver coin, 25 cents, date 190 ‘(”"‘1""“ SF: T s passuEING the pecessary funds, and the work hasi Pro- (o (pe other the streets are lined with o 0 % y praska Odd Fellows Mo P hot:graph of ). Snyder and his lodg Siiveb cdin cents, date 1900, otal membership in' the United States s ' was @ mollycoddle in public estimation. York last Monday marked an history i i in, 10 cents, date 190 estimated at over 2,000,000 turifiy shade trees, all planted undcr tow supervision and watered and otherwise cared for at town expense ceeded gradually ever since. Much time | Cowboys were prone to become bibulous o i ' Nickel « cents, date 1907 & squired for the culmination of such a g ok co ol g B i o asoeh in. the prosress of et Photograh of locating. committee, 180, Gopor Coun' ) cent, dage 14 ore 1s o ‘.,m..;x.m., 1 OF fietx CONCETD: mgvement. and It was ot until 190 that i€ they fnbibed at all, slunk off into soli- SR ik SVARERMREC S P CTINOL R0 S0 LT 00N Copper coln, 1 cent, not readable R i FISTANNDJin . Nehreake the site was selected. It consists of 100 tude and had thelr hout with Bacchus @ crowd of wmembers from various Photogriph of first shovel of dirg at 4 3 Number of lodges in staté, 310, entirely free from gunpowder saturnalia parts of the state were in attendance and breaking of sod for new building. e © the event was characterized Ly mingled 1900 proceedings of grand lodge, grand uid, 1909, $35 143,80 In reality, it is in some ways the most ) 8 3 N Y coneeded iv E nore sightl, ' ore Wyoming is now the banner sheep relsing iy una enthusissm, encampment, Rebekah assembly and de- Copy of The Omaha Bee, Sunday fssue, First move for home in 156 to rais needed that a more sightly and more oo’ el problem of thelr u state of the union, eclipsing Texas, which This b " 4 v ) dowment fund, which now amounts generally advanta, s location could not diate future. oo R g o (gt | \s home which, when completed, will partment counell, July 3, 1910, glving a description of ‘the gy AN ey it anan Faivaipta, Tufuly o 4 v be one of the finest in the United States, Ccpy of the constitution of each of the Home building and the program for the 1ding # 00 G SRER § e b 3 "' The wealth of romantic and pieturesque strong rival; Utah, the natural home of th 'y 3 by« stitutio ch o Building fund begun Junuary 1 1905 10W axolusive o v oh O Y o wealth of romantic and pietu of the . gor the benefit cf Indigent Odd Fellows four branches of the arde exerclees of the day. amounts to $25,000 ”‘m‘ oy '\"““l:l‘\"""“‘_ “_(”Q'l'm“”'_ 1t Cllre” incident and adventure surrounding the and the widows and orphans of deceased Bible, the gift of Grand Becretary 1. P. The growth of the Odd Fellows' order Value of home pic York, $z5,00; 40 ok i il I‘ AR o g 45 "m earlier chapters of the history of Wyoming 0dd Fellows. Gage. In Nebraska, as well as throughout the &1 paid, of Whie™ cltize York': gRva WCApe. eXROFH AN he nploved to OMUtiY st always be fascinating and entertain et (Bt (Giiasedt 4 v . B VETRBERL: o 40 A A ket by $10,000. the grounds, and when thix work is fin.. o & Bistab TN fa b of andi The Introduction of sheep Into Wyoming .oy o mer e "1 ;'n:;l(elo history ot Home enterprise from country at lerge, has been phenomenal. In TS i, e ot iy & bradit o 'No. ing. But the bistory likely to be of endu Ates from the y 18 whe e, ‘ 3 conceptioh to the laylng of the the nineteenth century the first lodge Was {4 the gift of Paxton L 4, Paxe 4 9 ol 0 N0 ing interest to the practical American mind . :or;od . -m:l'i Rand l:l:w:n:x:u:";ul;u:: ‘,“‘,’:.‘:II“\W“;}" ‘;M:":L'T"’J"“;‘"“l':"‘w;m‘.; cornerstone July 4, 1910. organ‘sed in Daltimore, Aprfl 2, 181, andton Neb. e brasite Q0d Fellows, but one of the MAtS's: \ % \y4 in the P riod of solia materisi ad BRRETR 10 Mawhida Butieg - T shout the Lo s w3, W Hoad » Program of the day's exercises. by 180 thik lodge of five members A }r,;‘:.v; ated cost e A% et tar dient - Gaa faialc L AJSpAR. I el brokl) snesp o industrial Year 189 John Morton and J. J. Hurd and site lhe cornorstone went o toa whicy CoPY of Nebraska 0dd Fellow, spread to 175,000. That looked like & big . ; g 2 e T i favyme dNYSlapmeris - Whidh egan s{fdulianeiusl Gold ¢ 1n, $260, date 1805, number fn that early day, but it paled futo Struction of the home ai York ! with the beginning of irrigation projects others came up from the Unfon PAcIfic (. iicq oo Fo o E 1898 At that t ommittes was with @ home that will vie with the best country with bands of sheep. In the year U o lco Metentos us follows Sllver coin, §1, date 1904 insignificance by the census cf 1890, showing In \C that time committee figtse here and with the discovery by larg 1892 the Platte Valley Sheep company wus FLOLSTADL oL Grand Master Jo W, Slver coin, 5 cents, date 1910, _& total membership iroughout the Jjurls- selected 1o begln the work of aishig nem portlon af Wyoming ‘peaple. that the state organized. The Introduction of the sheep contained something more than a few fertllc business met with decided opposition $ viver valleys surrounded by unlimited range Ranchmen and cattlemen objected to uny- ecp and cattle one Inyading what they considered thelr Wit time the impression of Wyon perquigites—the free use of the public ed 10 the minds of & vast majorlt range. About 1893 a number of sheep out- 2 land chlefly useful as a fits were visited by armed bodies of ranch- o 1ds leading to more fu men and cattlemen, who were called “gin- 3 g . 4 1 ast and west, and to hay uysagkers" on account of belng disgu , with & gunny sack over thelr heads, and s ¢ ; bad Indians and worse white who marked off deadlines on the range ko 3 B e ' mmon through the easterr Sheap wagons were burnad, sheep shot and \ i : , " 3 Y vere Lrue; mos clubbed to death and herders shot at and g et 4 § L 4 ‘ : mistreated. H ¥ oY - t g 0 The sheepmen at this time, with few ex- HOME : g v lova ceptions, were without fixed habitations bt s s i ‘ o ymplete and general five yes and were content to start the herders out 3 & " g 3 e , 2 y 3 a that time Wyoming's industrial with bands of 2600 sheep and a sheep R 3 - A E. V.. 1 has been moving forward by wagon, and In some Instances with a pacly e E 5 $ 7 . R ' " until today there is no outfit. The increase in prices from $1.50 ety % — . 5 c W { the brilliant and $2.60 for grown ewes to M gave the sy S » y z ities and towns as {ndustry an impetus in 1896, and people e 3 e - $ . 7 s g o 2 %, ra hing out in- all gaged In the business o such an extent ks ' S o T # 2 E y 1 i " are belng estab. that it has rapidly incressed in volume ¥ e - 4 A ¢ and mines are beiug ex and extent up o the sent time, It e oo ko : 5 : 1 and most important of all spoedily became apparent that the business " e s > - E : 4 ex of the land are being i had come to stay, and men who had been 3 - S X 5 Y . made k n; for it is in agrl the most bitter “gunnysackers’ engaged in b r . 3 g 5 X development has it and are today wealthy men. ol " . . - e nd it 1% to the land The value witter 18 only beginning acres of fine land, adfoining the beautiful Two Lincoln pennies. et to be realized by the people of Wyomin Members in-the state, 22,1%. litle city of York, and it is rerally . ke i Three souvenir spoons. Lelief sheep; Oregon and other states from whence came the mutton' chops and the wool clips of the world show places, as well. Many of the states o : iy 3 ¥ wad avoldance been possible Sheepmen began to see the need of fix.d o 4 3 " / i o . k for Ite greatest atio cured permane A s 2 , Jove ure ters and b land and ranges, stinet 1g a well de ing, character, The « much tu conque ve back the trontie ho crossed the Is instinct more wdventure or the lure th into strange lands oming was the cattle ltte and from the the present i Y10 no sheepman thunks of en Faging M tho business without having at least one-fifth of his capital (nvested in lend and range. The present plan of man aging the business s on much safer lnes than it was in the past. Now nearly every sheepman provides graln and hay in large quantities Experienced and far-seeing shecpmen J. T, Wililams, John Morton, Dr. Wilson, W. F. Hamfiton, E. M. Gibson, 1, Do Richa:ds and other are putting thousands of dollars into Irrigation and agriculturai products, and the prediction Is freviy made, without fear of contradition, that within five yoars this vielnity on cumpletion of the irrigation enterprises now building wili 1o & sccond Fort Collius lu lta sheep-(oed- o Industey The sliesp business ja vastly more p fitable than the cattle and ranch busine The catteman hus to wail three years (o much of & return; the sheepman has his wool €llp sad his lambs the firat yvae. The &Owth of the ep business during ¢ and the methods of ation, @ i anted no nelghbors. real h who undertook 1o the pialns and the valleys to agr culture, encountered many difficultie Irrigation has not kept pace with the gress of wettlement and clyilization in yming. It Is clear that the agricultural ources of th ate are measured by the ter supp The power of the wsofl Is nd question. People are beglnning (o derstand that to control the water 1s Lo fusure the harye Floods and drouths aunually vislt the trusting farmier we be unknown