Show IN THE 1 I BIG HORN BASIN Prod I Wy Way I VOlt A with or of und and it Un sun or of lieu ues lii III the So lar Co Wyo 0 Jul July 16 Although there are 0 over hr here out In tints there ta Is not aotoa oa one cue case of lick la In Ute the colony ladles who were wre In IA very VIT poor pooi health when they ther came cam here bIN are rata gil lag tta It strength every day they Mr irs ara tit be beginning ginning to feel 1 u cc though they theT w wets haD a new I hue on oa lit We haY is two Ito stores the corn com where US the people 0 can buy ii al most DIGIt anything th they need U at op cheap ii aJ most mOlt as It can ean be rot got In kit Halt J City W We hay have petitioned the post muter mute at t Washington D c for a W We have bave a daily mall run aug now it t our own owa expanse We are ra taking out a canal caul trout the river which will be about thirty mile loa long It I ii feet teet wide all on the bottom and d feet on top It II II Intended to carry a depth of tour tw test ot of water It covers coveN acres of 01 fine Rne looking land A person cats can travel for tor mIles and not DOt use a rock larger than a hen egg Ses a ibis lIou Havill Der Berry and I measured th the river on Urd W We found that IU Its average vlra width wu was feet Del and th the average ave depth wu u I feet flowing at the t erate rate rat of II 6 13 teet ft per second The rl has haI all an a tall faU of U a feet to tile the mile The Th climate I Is a good climate I at rived b here on I May It 26 and ad MV have never ner man In any frost trott since inGe I 1 aam here hera A cold wn wave swept ov over the basin on June JUD U n Most MOlt or of tile the men worked on the with their coat on In the afternoon W We cIt II thought there would be frost froat nest mornIng but to our surprise there was wan I none aon On the land 2nd I visited some IOme of the along the river but the I frost hid had done doa no damage dmace Some r feW potato potto I leaves singed Ined very slightly 1 wiser where the they were very dry It never nver touched a tomato or bt bean n vine I bout bought potatoes for tor per hundred pounds they are u as fine potatoes potatoe as I 1 ever vr ate ste A man came to our camP about two wk ago aro to sell lell and aad beau beans n II Informed u us that b he raised 10 bushels bubell of at the latter ott on Oils oe acre and nd th they were r Shio beans too tooTh The Th land Id we are working for lor I best located bested ed on benches ranging In sic 1 from to 10 acres crea to a bench and aad they slop tv to the south and wt west A We ox n pact pec to have the water on the lint lest bench beach In about tour four or II Ire wk weeks There are ara bout about acres acre on oa that bench We haY have over th three mU mile of canal and about six Ix feet vf ci water flowing the bead gate te teAll All of the colony Joined together ant and made th the first three miles then they Into two to campe campa one camp eon oon on cit with tb the canal caul the other go 10 I on to the first bench and II there and working up At this date the two camps camp Ire are only about abouL a mile part apart It Ii tX expected when tb they meet that there will bit be a u as the backbone ot of the thin thing will be brok broken TIMBER FACILITIES 1 Four our experienced mn men went to I look lookup lookup up the Ihl timber They were gone oae live ave aveda da days and prospected the mountains mountain to the south of at here UTI the river They found plenty of good fOOd Umber timber mile from here thy they call It bIrds bird eye pine red and nd white fir The Th timber ranges from the she lIe ot of a pole pIle to a saw 10 log two and Ind a hilt half feet teet through There are ara very few tew lImb on It and It holds It Its use 1 well ell Th There I a good road to It but the prospectors II say that the I Is a good 1004 river to float timber down So eo w we think thin that the colony will float their timber down the river and Dd down tb the t canal anal to the town ton tonA A Mr Black BIde who h has a farm tarm about a mill mile from where w we a are at work Y that he hu planted alfalfa seed aeed In th the spring and cut two good crops from It the first year ear lie h has tomatoes grow In tnt from the Ibe seed aeed which he sowed lOWed lu its luthe the garden TIt The tomatoes are already 1 larger than a hens henl ell egg lie has baa a Ins be crop of peas eu which are rip I bought some tine line potatoe last Iut week from him blat and the they are almost ripe no now He HeI has hasa a Od I crop or of whet wheat and nd oats catl NO MORE WINDY TItAN THAN UTAH Soils Iome people condemn this country on oa account of so 10 much wind wlad but I have not seen an any heavier wInds wind hoe I came hire hert than I 1 have bave seen IMn In Utah It hardly bardl ever rains here and tb pound II very rr dry so 0 when the wind blows blow thre Ia I a great t deal ot of dust 8 lag lar whIch mak makes It to blow hard harder er r than It really does FOR ERS ERB Persons looking for borne bomes can lad bd them here bin for tor tb the main essentials are ari here there I Is S rood good climate tret fr frogs frosts long enough to mature tun almost oy any kind of crop plenty plat of good land laH anti aad en an abundance of water at all e eion ion of tile the year yer Any person wishing to 10 know more mar about this country can CUI writs write to BaIrd and nd he will 11 be pleased to give then tb any InformatIon possible Ad Lowell Co 00 CamP Wyoming |