Show THE BIG HORN MORMON OLON t I I Details Concerning the Movciu t to I Wyoming I I Much has been published concerning the Mormon colony about to bx established estab-lished In the V Big Horn basin but I Apostle Woodruff who was selected by President Snow as the man to lead the new enterprise has given some additional addi-tional fads concerning it The colony I will al llrst conslsl of 100 families from I various portions of the States Npostlu Woodiufi said that Kcmmerer bridge in Is to be l lie rendezvous of Wyoming purl lhal the colonlsls had I I been selected very carefully mil that they were men and women of inlelll gcnce and such as are ublo to do nil kinds of work that Is nocefcwiry In anew a-new country Some of the colonIsts come from thc extreme nm 1iorn parts of the Stale and a few from southern 1 Idaho others from Davis county and I Wyoming points The entire outfit expects i V ex-pects to leave Kommeiei bridge on the i5lb of this monlh The locution of the new VV colony will be about fifteen miles from Lovcll which will be the newest poslolllce until one Is oslab Hsbed at the now colony The work of the colonists will be to geL out a canal to water the ground which they Intend to 01 have already taken up There Is a 17000 acre tract which Abe A-be occupied under the provisions of the < ocy act The otiler will be able to acquire ibis land on the payment of 25 coots per acre when he locates upon H n1 U5 cents per acre at the end ol three years when he makes llnal proof upon It In older to make proof al the end of three years however how-ever and thus SHin complete lllle to the land the settler must show thai ho 5lLtcr has onesixth of his holdings under cultivation and Irrigation V Tne canal to water this land will betaken I be-taken out of Shoshone river about V thirty miles bolow Eagles esl I I will be tweniyfive miles long fifteen feet at the botlom and iweniyllve at the top carrying four feet of water I Is the V IntentIon of the colonists to commence work on the cdnal upon their arrival us water iy I the first thing to be considered After the canal has been constructed tIle colonists will look toward building homos There Is said to be plenty of excellent rock for building purposes V close at hand and tlmbor In abundance thirty miles away The colonists expect lo have the canal hull ant houses constructed ill time to bo well shbllercd this wInter lorcd V This being the ease thpiwlll bq in I good trim to commence tosubdue tho I desert early in thc aprlrig Coal cle IIi I-Ii are also very nndy I Just when the colonists will leach their new homes is 1 a matter of conjecture con-jecture Their destination is about 500 I miles fom this city one ns the road Is a rough one It I may be lhal they will be compelled to make several slops ore they can contInue their way As L greal quantity of cattle will also betaken be-taken along the progress will be necessarily neces-sarily slow VV While the church Is behind the movement move-ment the company Is Incorporated and Is known as lb3 Big Horn Basin Colonization company A O Woodruff Wood-ruff Is president Byron Sessions of Rich county viceprosldenl and general gen-eral manager I Charles Kingston of the United Stales Land olllce at Evanston > ecr laiy Hon Charles A Welch of I Morgan treasurer The directors arc Tessa W Crosby Jr Pnngultch John I Croft Poieison Morgan county lly I rum K North Mill Creek Salt Lake I county William H Graham Dennlng place lon Ida liilghnm L TIppcll same II |