Show TO SETTLE BIG mG HORN ASIN HUNDRED FAMILIES OF MOB MOR MORMONS MONS BIT ROUTE TO SCENE Win Will Secure O Acres cres of Land in Wyoming and Make Permanent Homes S to Lo The Herald Cheyenne Che enn Wyo Slay 1 Charles Kingston receiver of the land office at Evan has filed n papers of the Ig Horn Basin Colonization tion company of which A C Woodruff Wood Woodruff ruff is president Byron Sessions Se jons vice president pre and general manager Chaides Kingston ton secretary The directors are all prominent members of the Mormon church This is 19 the company that is settling in the Big Horn basin with about families of Mormons now no en route to 10 the scene s en Secretary Kingston filed with the secretary of state the he contract made by bythe bythe the Mormons with the state for the settling of a tract of about acres along the tho Shoshone river By the terms of the contract the Mormons pay the sum of 25 cents per acre when they file and aDd when they make final proof six years hence they will pay another 25 5 cents per Del acre At the end of this period the settler In order to get title to land must show that at least one sixth of hl holdings is under cultivation cultivation tion nd irrigation I The canal to water this land Will be betaken betaken taken out of the river about thirty miles bek below w Eagles Nest It will willbe willbe be miles long fifteen feet at the bottom and at the top carrying four feet of ot water The colonists strong met at Kemmerer and from that point will move ve forward to the basin in one body bod bodt It t to I their intention to commence e work on the canal upon their arrival After the canal CAn l has bItS been constructed the will ill look toward permanent There la fa plenty of excellent building stone and lumber near ne r at hand The colonists expect to have the canal canol built and houses house con constructed conI before winter sets in so that I they can begin their agricultural pur pursuits pursuits suits next |