Show The Big Horn Colony Speaking of the movement of 400 Mormons from Utah to the Big Horn basin of Wyoming Charles Kingston one of the leaders In a recent interview Inter-view wild The Mormons who are I migrating to Wyoming lire not poor people There is not a member of the I new colony who has IcTTs than 1000 I and many arc worth much more They represent the best class of Mormons They will prove as their fathers have great colonizers Frugal of exemplary habits and good morals they will I feel sure convert the BVg Horn basin into one of the garden spots of America Ameri-ca We have 200 scrapers on the ground ready to begin work on the great Irrigating ditch This will be thirty miles long twentylive feet wide at the top fifteen feet wide at the bottom bot-tom with a depth of five feat When finished It will Irrigate 20000 acres of land It will cost about 40000 Although Al-though our present contract with Wyoming Wy-oming includes only 20000 acres of land it Is our desire to obtain a great deal more On the north side of the Shoshone Sho-shone Is a vast tableland of about 100 000 acres We hope to irrigate and develop de-velop this land too The Burlington railroad is now building an extension into the Big Horn basin from Toluca Mont Cheyenne Leader |