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UNITED STATES : — WYOMING

and (at Milwaukee and Racine) manufactured articles. There is, besides, at Milwaukee a heavy passenger traffic.

In 1910 there were 7,475 miles of railroads operated in the State besides 790 miles of electric railway track. The leading railway lines are the Chicago and Northern- western, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha and Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie.

Books of Reference.

Reports of the various Administrative Departments.

WYOMING.

Governmeilt. — The Legislature consists of a Senate of 27 members, elected for four years (about one-half retiring every two years), and a House of Representatives of 56 members elected for two years.

The suffrage extends to all citizens, male and female, who can read, and who are registered as voters and have resided in the State one year and in the county 60 days next preceding the election.

Governor.— J. M. Carey, 1911-1915 (4,000 dollars).

Secretary of State. — Frank L. Houx.

Area, Population, Instruction.— Area, 97,890 square miles, of which

315 square miles is w^ater. Of the total, about 3,300 square miles are com- prised within the Yellowstone National Park, which since 1872 has been reserved for public uses. An Indian Reservation wdthin the State has an area of 2,742 square miles. The Federal census results since 1870 show th(! population to have been as follows : —

Ye^^rs

Population

Per sq. mile

i Years

1900

1 . 1910

1

Population

Per sq. mile

1880


 * 1890

20,789 60,705

0-2 0-6

92,531

152,056

0-9

1-5

In 1910 the population included 91,666 males and 54,299 females ; 27,165 were of foreign birth ; 2,235 were negroes ; 1,486 Indians; 244 Chinese. and 1,571 Japanese. In 1905 the Indians on the Reservation numbered 1,694. The classification of the population by occupations was : Professional 1,087, ranchmen 9,499, miners 5,823, merchants 939, others in business 5,761, labourers 18,069 ; total workers, 41,178.

The largest towns are Cheyenne (capital) with 11,320 inhabitants, Laramie with 8,237, aud Sheridan with 8,408.

The religious bodies with the most numerous membership are the Roman Catholic, Mormon, Protestant Episcopal, Methodists, and Presbyterians.

In 1910 the jmblic schools had 1,109 teachers, and 24,584 enrolled pupils, of which the public high schools had 54 teachers and 867 pupils. Teachers are trained in the normal school which is carried on in connection with the University of Wyoming, at Laramie. This University was founded in 1887 and in 1910 had 37 professors and instructors aud 255 students. Besides the normal school it comprehends an Agricultural College, a school of mines, a college of mechanical engineering, a school of commerce, a school of music, and a preparatory department.

Charity. — The State has a Penitentiary and other penal or reform institutions. Its charitable institutions are numerous, comprising county poor asylums, poor farms, a soldiers' and sailors' home, three hospitals.