Excerpt from Report on the Archives of the State of Wyoming Wyoming was made a Territory in 1869 and a State in 1890. The records of the more important officers of both periods are pre served in the capitol building in the city of Cheyenne, but some officers and a number of boards and commissions have their head quarters elsewhere, in Cheyenne or in other parts of the State. The present report has only to do with records, Territorial and State, found in the capitol building or elsewhere in Cheyenne. In most cases some indication is given of the present headquarters of the other Officers or boards as an aid to anyone who may desire informa tion concerning their records. The records in the capitol building are as a rule well protected and easily accessible. The system of vaults is ample for most of the Ofiices, though in some cases they are overcrowded. The lower vault of the governor's office is far too small to allow of any proper method of classifying the numerous classes of records, and the same is true, though to a less extent, of the lower vault of the secretary of state. Important records are usually well arranged, but correspondence and minor records are frequently not so, and at times have been de stroyed or lost. In the Offices of the engineer and the commissioner of public lands are many hundred letter files containing correspond ence. These are not arranged in chronological or any other order. Much of the material in the lower vault of the governor's office is in a state of almost hopeless confusion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.