Show FINE PLACE f fOR SfTTlfRS APOSTLE WOODRUFFS TRIP TO BIG HORN BASIN i Abundance of Good Land Tat C Be IrgatedFlourshng Nor mqn Colony Established Apostle Owen Woodruff just In from a trip through the Big Horn basIn In north era WyomIng talks entertainingly of that new country and endorses It as a home for settlers The basIn ho says Is about 1 I miles long by lOG wIde the elevation varies Irma 35 feet to 60 there are tO acres of good land that can be Irrigated Ir-rigated and the climate compares well with that ot Salt Lake aside from sudden changes At Basin City the mnernuz has been known to go down to 51 below zero I amid mjp to 110 in the shade The weather YPr hg nevef remains cold more than three or four days at 0 time Some or tile settlers Informed Mr Woodruff tat they had there seers more warm days In wInter more sunshine and IfS wInd than In any place the ever lived There was sleljhln lat winter the frt time In six years Cattle winter out very well The soil of the basIn Mr Woodruff ref I re-f to be very good Wheat oats corn I hasic alfalfa timothy potatoes and I many vegetitbies including tomatoes and I mEons are successfully raised Lucer does well and the lucern seed Is a good I I source or revenue ac It sells for 9 cents n pound To first killing frost thIs year was on Oct 1 Many fruit tree have been planted ansi good apple have been I raised for several ear There are but few settlers In the Big Horn bin yet because of the difficulty In reaching It Abut 4 members of the I ormon church and 0 few more than that number belonging to other denominations arq 1 that have e settled there ine nearest railroad station Is at Red Lodge Mont 1lr Woodruff and his companions Joseph W McMurrin and Eugene Wood fcr into the basin from Evanston 0 dlsl c of 0 miles This route was over the old emigrant road from near l ntnJnnl Fort 1rl5c roo rr n river p the Big and Little r Land to Pa chic Springs South Pass Sweetwnter Atlantic City Lander across the Shoshone Sho-shone Indian reservation across Wind river In Red canon to TermoPols thence down the Big Horn river to Basin CIty and on to Burlngon rver ApOstle WoOdruff was ent to the basin by PresIdent Snow to investigate the Met mon settlement there WhIle there he organIzed the Burlington ward with Will lam H Packard as bishop and David p Woodruff and William Scve9 as hIs counselors coun-selors He Is now on his way to Mexico |