. The state of Wyoming; a book of reliable information pub. by authority of the Ninth Legislature ... rchandise in the state, and themerchants push their trade into the mining districts of CentralWyoming and the cattle and sheep country lying in all directionsfrom this enterprising market. Industries—The county is well suited to sheep raising, andmany citizens are so engaged. The broken and diversified char-acter of the country, covered as it is with white sage and nutritiousgrasses, furnishes just the conditions conducive to the successfulmanagement of that class of live stock, 1,697,290 head
. The state of Wyoming; a book of reliable information pub. by authority of the Ninth Legislature ... rchandise in the state, and themerchants push their trade into the mining districts of CentralWyoming and the cattle and sheep country lying in all directionsfrom this enterprising market. Industries—The county is well suited to sheep raising, andmany citizens are so engaged. The broken and diversified char-acter of the country, covered as it is with white sage and nutritiousgrasses, furnishes just the conditions conducive to the successfulmanagement of that class of live stock, 1,697,290 head being runupon the plains. The entire county is underlaid with veins of coal, which, how-ever, have been more extensively developed at Rock Springs thanelsewhere, and the term Rock Springs coal is synonymous through-out the west with coal of exceptional quality. The output is2,000,000 tons per annum. There are vast areas of undeveloped coal lands in the county,principally to the north of the railroad, much of which on beingprospected shows excellent coal in veins from three to twelve
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