Show CAMPING IN THE TE I BIG BlU HORN BASIN Prodigious Irrigating Canal Project Under Way FOIL f t no willi of a ue asp ur of Sill nets u lu Iii the So ho Ir Far CO Wyo Wro July JI Although there are over Iver people pe hers cam camping out In tents there is Ie not noton OM on cue cal of sickness In tile the Several leveral ladles who were wen 10 v poor health when tilt they osme here bre are pita In da day they are be to feel U though tile they w were having a new I lea on Ute life WI We have two ItO stores beel besides lb corn com where the people can CUI bu buy at al most anything the they need aeed as aa cheap al almost 1 most as It can call be rot got In Salt LAM City We have bay petitioned the general poat master at Washington D C for a postoffice WI We have bae a dill daily nail run fling now at our own el expense We ate are taking out a canal from the river which wilt be about abot thirty miles long It I is fifteen tt ft wide on oa the bottom and nd tM feet on toP It I Intended to carry carr a depth of tour fast of water It covers of tine fine locking land laad A person can travel for miles mile and Ind not see IN a rock larger than a hens egg n Sel gloss or Berry and aad I measured the river on nIt ull We found that Its III average width wu vu lot feet teet and nd tilt the average depth warn waa I 3 feet teet at the rate rat of S 22 21 feet per second The Th river flYer hat ha an aa average VI fill of oC U II tt st to the mile The ell climate mat I Ii a load good I at r rived here heN on C May II tad had have Ive tr seeri n an any frost froat since lloc I came lOa her bl J ai cold wave sw over the but basis on Jun II 18 Most Moat of oC the teen n worked on the canal with coats coat on In the afternoon W We all aft thought t there would be frost next morning but to our there wu was Done bOne un tiie tha I visited some of lb the the river riven but the frost had dons no dame amigo Some Iome fe feW potato lea bears very slightly where UIt they we were dr dry It never touched a tomato ur or bean vine lne I bought potatoes for tor 1126 per hundred pounds they are as AI ito 1111 potatoes U at I ever at ate A mast mall caine to our about two weeks week ito to 10 sell potatoes and lId beans n H us UI that he be raised 11 bushels of t tin hc latter CIa on one acre and ad they thel were nn bean blaM too The Tb land w we are working for II local ed ad ott on benches ranging In III else from to acre acrs to a bench and hey y tv to tb the and nd west W We ex cx ext peel t to have the water on oa the diet Int bench benm In bout about four or ft five weeks T There are about 2000 1000 acres on oa that bench beech W We hive have over th three 1111 miles of canal eom lid and bout about ala be tt feet of water flowing through the bead heid gate tt All of the colony colon Joined together and made the lint first three mile then Ute they dIvided Into two IWo camps campi on one camp con oon continuing I on with the Ibe canal Ih the other go CO III on to the first bench and aad starting there and aDel working up A At this sate date the two are only about a sable apart It It is expected when th they meet that there will Ut be a u as th the backbone of the thin thing will be broken TIMBER FACILITIES Four experienced men went to look lookup lookup up the timber They were wre gone ft five days dal lid and prospected the mountains to the south of her u a Ih the river They found fouad plenty of good timber from here Ibe they call It birds bird ey eye pine red and white fir The Umber timber ranges ranft from the a ala of a polO pole to a saw lot lop two and a halt f feet t through There ThereN Sr N very few limbs on It and It hold It Its iii IM well There I a rood goad road mad to It but the prospectors say that the II a rood good river to float timber down don fin So w we think that t the hI colony will float their timber down tilt the river and down th tb canal to the town A Mr lr Black who h has a farm tarm bout about a mull mil from wile where we art rt at work says UYI that he baa hu plant planted alfalfa seed lied In III the and aDd cut two good lood crops from It tb the dust year tal The Jle has tomatoes grow crow crowIn In log trout the seed which be sowed its In Inthe the garden rarden The Th tomatoes are already larger than a ben hens fill egg lie Jle has bu a bl fin crop of peas which are ripe I bought some fine potatoes lilt last week from him and tbt they are almost almot ripe now n lie has hall hasa a rood good crop of wheat het and oats OIla NO OIE WINDY TIIA THAN Sonic Bottle peo people le condemn this coustry on account or of so 10 much math wind wlad but J I have bay baynot not any n heavIer winds shoe I came calM It here than I have bave seen n In Utah It hardly ever lVer rains here bere and nd thu ground It Ii very ry dry so 10 when lb the wind blow there I Is a great deal of dust duat a fly log which makes It seem to blow hard bad harder bader er than It neatly does doel FOR ERR ERI Persons lookIng for tor homes can CUI find bd theta them he here for the main mala essentials are N here there II a rood goad climate tn free from fruits bong enough noll to mature almost all any kind of cip plenty of rood good land and an abundance of at water at all p pIon Ion of the year oar An Any person wishing to know bow more mort about boul this country tall can write to Robert Baird and nd he 11 will III be to give v them Information possible Ad Address dress Lovell Co io Sheehan Camp Cam Wyoming |