Every citizen of the United States over 21 years of age who has lived in Wyoming one year and in the county where he is to vote 6o days and in the election district ten days, who can read the Constitution of the State, and who is not insane, an idiot or a person convicted of infamous crimes (unless restored to his civil rights) has the right of suffrage.
The density of population was 0.9 per square mile in 1900, 1.5 in 1910, 2.0 in 1920, and 2.3 in 1930. This was lower than that of any other State except Nevada. Of the 1930 population 94.9% was white. According to the 1930 census there were then 1,026 Japanese, 1,250 negroes and 130 Chinese in the State. In 1926 the Indians numbered 1,899 (1,182 of them full blood), 947 belong ing to the Arapahoe and 952 to the Shoshone tribes. Most of them were settled in Fremont county upon the site of the former Shoshone reservation (thrown open to settlement in 1906).
In 1930, 19,658 or 10.3% of the population was foreign born. Of these 4,514 were from the United Kingdom and Ireland; 3,205 from Scandinavian countries; 1,714 from Germany; 1,375 from Russia, and among the others only Italy and Canada had over 1,000. Of the 90.8% native born whites 12.4% was born of for eign parentage, 9.2% of mixed parentage, and 69.3% of native parentage. According to the 1930 census 71,622 residents were born within the State of Wyoming. In 1910 3.3% of the popula tion was illiterate, in 1930 but 1.6%. Among native whites illit eracy amounted to 0.3% only, but among the foreign born it rose to 4.2%. There were 70,097 urban and 155,468 rural inhabitants in 1930. The percentage of urban dwellers was 29.6 in 1910 and 31.1 in 1930. The population of the six leading cities for 1930, 1920 and 1910 was: Finance.—The assessed valuation of taxable property in
Wyoming in 1926 was and in 1936 a decrease of 33%. A great part of the decrease was accounted for by the fall in value of all real property from $255,527,501 to $135,312,452 in these years. The value of land and live stock, also declined. There are 497 units of government in Wyoming that levy general property taxes, the State, 23 counties, 79 cities and towns, and 394 school districts. In addition, there are drainage and irrigation districts that levy special assessments. For Statc purposes, taxes are limited to 4 mills on the dollar of assessed valuation (generally 6o% of true valuation). For the period from April 1935 to March 1937 a sales tax was levied on every retail sale of tangible personal property including transportation, gas, electricity, heat, and meals served in restaurants. The State in heritance tax ranges from 2 to 6 per cent. The property tax levy in 1936 and 1935 was $2.00 per $1,000, as against $4.13 per $1,00o in 1934. The revenue from this source was $617,000 in 1936, $600,044 in 1935 and $1,269,176 in 1934.
The report of the State treasurer for the biennium ending Sept. 30, 1936, showed total receipts of $36,861,241; total disbursements of $31,320,989; and a surplus of $5,540,251. This shows a decided increase in all figures over the biennium 1933-34, when receipts were disbursements, $25,270,756; and surplus, $3,575,021. Receipts and disbursements for 1935 alone were $12, 147,902, and $10,456,742 respectively; and for 1936, $14,081,177, and $13,689,592. Investments repaid during the biennium amounted to $7,057,140, and investments made, to $7,174,656. The bonded debt of Wyoming in Sept. 1936, was $3,385,000, all except $4,092 being highway bonds. No State bonds were issued during the 1935-36 biennium.
The value of all tangible property in 1929 was $1,167,000,000 as compared with $976,000,000 in 1922. The per caput ownership amounted to $5,227. There were 58 banks (26 of them national banks) on Dec. 31, 1936, with capital and surplus of $7,517,353, total resources and liabilities of $72,095,583, and total deposits of $64,442,536, of which $21,198,889 were savings deposits.