Show COLONIZING THE BIG Bla HORN BASIN BASINA A Rich and Country waiting Awaiting Developments Development COLONIES rod J r a O Time Con the 11 r K T h March W A great are going north to many I i this tho coming year i xa tunny will lIL Investigate 1 JOUM oUM In the thi lug Mi i a e for 1 the i of m the tha northern part lart Hum this thin locality win I Wy l looked over tho matter th the Ufa kien of a ai ait v v tery ri i t It for the tho Now News I It n tills letter to describe u uthe t t the r uT not In way 0 tho Ily f i in going there h r to locate r be bei will P think that lie U I at i r c I 1 I adl o him him to look over fre t move tl I AND I biln tn i located n the extremo and tho th iri i 11 of t Wyoming t eR together with the jY i the streams and wagon od mm a commercial appendage e M l with buildings an CA ani CAa 9 business bInesH The lie basin basIt i a nil all of the county o i the san lug lilg Horn la l n a very ur i pins thou io miles wide w 0 o hi t i ng and anil tho bann boHin com coin coma IMS pr P a li all dl of pf this thil urea area A Ait great if I f it however U i mountain C i a U being Included In tile the TeI fl National That Thui hi ti 1 n to settlement comprises the basin i r r and ad consists of land lant landu lantIA u IA yn that follows tit t lldA if e f flu f Jf Born Iloni river That TIB tut of ot It IP is now oW so SI rt t i 1 from Utah Itah especially Item the i s it part IK is to upper and andt t Ti Mij h h re r tile II Horn Silo Sho ar l I I r l bull streams converge 4 the t a 7 streams thaw How Into the tho former Th I II ff Horn Born then proceeds on Oil onH H l a I north terly direction finally ml ill Yellowstone ono one vf tie te ican bundles UllI lIes of the Th tret t r formed t uy y Utah jh li i wire loi l d upon tIPOn the thU ul ther ar fl i two wards namely tn mil ni on that d u 3 drifted In there without ny uy colonization movement ill ul those who went vent In there three rI ar irre tent there largely with t i lit nt ti n t f upon the Rho Sho ShoIL 11 IL e t r i the thi Mormon Mornion po pee PROW I nn fla i hultI prosperous vs x L T i Ml ct of these theae Is I vell ul ei It v u i l some eight yearn tl Hi iii Mormon have au 1 i of fit Ihu thu land there nail anil tr w c pr r to take out another it un n ih bench lying about the thein in I fl thC Itis side of the river gi t n fl iv w ot and F s ure under tinder the tho Idon rn lii a lit n i i linn been token out bf bl th that went ent there under Ut UI ft t n if f Apostle A 0 Wood eod rS in io ii CLIMATIC LIMATI t of this section goe s to rat ins I thin does docs the tho climate mac fIl ir i valley The Tho win winI I ire than we have I I I r l two SO feet thick freezes jha the r n ra they run very ory IT i i are fully full as asT a aj T j IIRI a th ct till the Salt Fait bake volley valley tt ti wt t t I tan can learn tho tue seasons i e t i rr ST t J i mor distinct That Is cl ImPS onia It Is in summer In Iny inel el y aril f l and ami i r i t ti r j i much with spring anil anili i i Ill b All kinds Of up ap Jei In th lia i anti such fruit aa thaI twi vii t c a success liar I f 1 Mif hi winters are arc too NC e iC fT i h I trees or the hurdler j Ul cf ef gia so that they can only te t v a h i greater fare care or In tha thaN th te N FACILITIES I as in i J there that the tho of t f ft t ir I r buhl river were Svera very t of o during the tho past year Th m rear ar ti 1 there aa as here n a very try ry s I I t this Is not opt apt to oc 00 eu ii 5 g the next few fe years th ra r f r me opportunitIes for tt r in Ll the html ot of the stream Pe raff p i j of reservoirs li If will have to be met T f r ti i l this stream during tier t Ii I t fe e irs ra On the he Shoshone I IJ Ih r Is no likelihood ot J I Hf ts i iton for a great many ton tat to toOl Lt summer was as one Ol o i f has 1105 ever been known ll i 1 1 first went vent In lii that eec t M MUt is n t the kept Ut lip t it 1 measured It in t C A Welch 9 ith th of August and I Ii h i nil all the canals tilled r feet per B O 1 the Big Horn river I if f the he stream where ta ih th of July showed il rid rd 1075 feet In the theme thee e me m As most of the he hend oh I nd the greater part parta a it Irrigation cnn be bC beat at time there la Is no iman will lii not supply i 41 lI ion of rANA Hh tu EXPENSIVE te e 4 r to the time the Hie expenses of main to be it it i 1 acres of land landof landof of to oooo lo th t Ugh to carry water n 1 11 which Meg lies under tinder It rea rear reaK hrs r vry y deep and there t 1 rn S ery hArd for canal liSee f mal inal was built In ti a i have hae easily 1 I might state stale sonic e r fi tl to contend with il Gf ran along the tho 01 cliff tb ie q 1 I feet above te r ial nal bottom In an K ier v i ia n tunnel SOO tO feet tn i h wild solid rock In III f an t nearly 1000 t feet fe Ii sit f 12 fe feet t had to Ir li n there were er ev t lit f roMs and sev sey seyL L iR and fide r t cy were all quickly two years after the colony had reached thorn them the tho canal was wall out SUCCESS OF COLONY PLAN I hivo known a great J deal al regarding the n Mormon colonies both In Cairn Cana da un parts of the United States anit I in text o but It seems to me 1110 that the BIg horn In l hag 1115 about the choicest lot of settlors that have over been stent to any nn one colony un lees It should be those that President Young took with him to the Dixie country In the th early cathy WH It In h not nota a good place for ni n fl settler to go who thio to men and then If he lie Is not flat to meet he murt not go thoro alone unless lie can unite i Iii some colony lInt Hint la Is al ni already ready realy settled there This Thlu Is n a coun try organized colonists of some size considerable perseverance und arid strong is needed to make n a success but without these three any attempts to colonize will prove a fall fail uro tiro Col W V V I Cody Buffalo has been for a great many years to got get a colony upon grant of ot land there thore which Is the very tract of land on h river but for some lie B has hns so far been un tin unable able to make any great headway to toward ward getting nt at his canal or getting people to settle set tie upon tipoti the land tracts tract of land are ite by the tho state of or Wyoming from rain the guy ROV nt land and aM are arc held by the state to sell noil to the th settlers they have water to Irrigate It tinder tho thu sumo Maine laws they are not allowed to purchase their water except from rein a ca en canal cal nal owner who has bars given bonds to the state to build a within n a specified time Iliac Col oh Cody failed to have hate his canal anal In the specified time nail there Is no work to speak of done on It as yet 10 so that ho lie has hns had bath to a renewal of ot his grant the tue Mormon Mornion colonists who went vent In there n a similar grant to the land now covered by the canal ennal and their operative plan together with ith the backing of a a financial member of if the colony colon enabled them to corn com complete their ditch so that they can raise topS crops during the tho coming coinIng season NW COLONY PROPOSITION When the settlers first went there they Intended to locate on the Whistle Creek bench but this proved to be nt at least In part In the tho Cody grant so that they were compelled tn to taka tako nn air Inferior location upon which th y have founded tire the towns of Byron naIl and owlet Cowler Them are acres of land lenil on an the tho Whistle Creek bench and It will not Ic be nearly 60 o to take out n a canal on It as It has been to complete the tho one on the tho opposite side Mile I am told that thet when the tho Cody grant was renewed tile the stilts refused to allow him to Include this hits bench In It arid that the pies Ident Apostle A 0 Woodruff Is now there gutting getting for a colony to l he e settled on the b bench this spring If tint that Is so this Is now open to settle settlement meat ment anti IO young oung men could rould be lie used to advantage if it they would go gothere gothere there nuil work under proper leader header ship and nn an Irrigation system tern tem to It with water The roll poll rollof of this bench Is partly clay partly loam anti and toward the upper end there Is 1 a great teal deal of find OF SOILS I like the soils along the there Is quite a variety among them but all klaus kinds are Rood genii for certain kind of crops crOlL The Cowley oWley bench Is s n a white clay that reminds me very much ot of time the mail In the northern part of county though It huts has a great deal less mineral In It and time the farm farmers ers there will never have the difficulty of overcoming beds such as those near have been Time The Theland land nt at tavell Is very much the same fame as Ba that on the county bench however the lie bench above I ovell Is a sandy one oneAt oneAt At Byron nil nfl the land Is sandy Intermixed with gravel I noticed the crops on Oils Uris sandy ground mind and it showed mo me that It will not mire ralfe grain to any great Brent advantage until it i has been fed with carbonaceous or nitrogenous I believe however with a few years use as alto fa land will wili put a greet deal of Into hito It hut the clay land that li is found In iii many parts will ihl raise the very lest grain crops for a great many years year without needing n a great amount of or fertilizing RAILROAD FACILITIES There lucre U ii J just t one ope line litre of railroad here U It U is a branch of the Missouri railroad which leaves the main mala line of tire the Burlington at lit Toluca at the tho Center of the Crow Indian reservation and runs down as asfor asfar for far as Cody oily It Is within 10 miles of four fourteen fourteen seven miles of Byron Hyron Cowley teen miles of Ix vell and auth live miles of settlements that might be made on Creek beach while It ra parses sc along through the center of Col Coi onti right Codys tract It U is evident that railroad considers the tho country n a good the otis one T I never saw so go d n a road roadbed roadbed before bed built for any branch imp lino turns the tho grade no twists or There ore are wide Ith uth well made exceptionallY Is and nd cal cul culverts Cults and Rood good bridges verts put in wherever the line crosses waterway Fire company Is i exceptionally a kind hiatt to 0 W Utah h settlers anti m is ft lively Interest In nil all tue Im Improvements made beside giving rates AND D FUEL The settlers have quite a way to go O timber It Is for roAds and the forestS to good pine build hut the quite arl to been have quality excellent timber is of an of It within fair there Is a of the towns A of most an miles is used lumber great deal of coIl litre and for some uses ti proves to be nt though It wIll In better houses Fire Firewood do for or orun building wood is about trifle Ot ten miles frS of a iUt u It is onlY a depended on be have to un until I coal will wll of for fuel There are seams coat coal close floso by so that with the tho railroad facilities all this hits will tot hot romo very ory high MINING MI AND There are arc na n mines In close chose proximity to the basin though judging from roni tho appearance of the moan moun and time the different formations that can all he easily seen I believe that lint It will willbe be 10 n 1 mineral country The Tue markets thieve there are arc fairly good They are not a it great groat distance away train from the tho mining camps of Montana to so that timers there will never be any great surplus of farm products be marketed by shipping thorn them out Jn in lots NERD OF cF FLOUR MILL MILLAs As ts yet there hero are no Hour flour mills In iii close proximity to of u settle settlements meats ments and amid those who raise wheat are compelled to haul It CO Gd miles to the lie mill millor millor or to sell ell wheat and then lien buy by their flour They Usually choose time the latter method so that u a flouring mill Is Isone Isone one of the greatest I am ails told that one will be he put In on the tho between Cowley und and during time the coming coining y or In general ought tobe n it good deal of man manufacturing lone done along the lie Shoshone It ItIs Itis Is n a very tory swift running stream amid this the fall Is feet mile so that hint one mile of would give a very large tall full Th The of f water for culinary purposes Is quite a problem nil along these streams There ore aro no mountain streams which cnn can be lie piped within any reasonable distance cannot be kept In the canals during the winter inter and wells cannot be dug on benches stich as Cowley and are located upon It seems to mo me that water tow era erected smear near the river with pipes running Into the tho towns tow will bo to time the most niost practical method of solution If any settlers settlors want to go there this sprint sprIng they thuy hail had better calculate on having enough ready moans means to buy for front from one to two years There line has always been n a good deal of work In this section tIme the colony had a large railroad from time the It was tas building Its branch President anil coun counselors have also hind had n a contract to build a wagon road ronI Into the Yellow Yellowstone Yellowstone stone Park anti and those who have goo Jn In the past have thus been lieen enabled to support themselves and families to n a considerable extent but on cam far na as known the for work dur lag ing the next few years will not be so good goodIn In general It Is a good country a country which Is destined to have large towns town large canals and an extra good supply of Irrigation water Grazing facilities are something that lint I cnn cats say cay little about ns n thin the year waa dry but there was vas very er little brush In the country so that salt grass anti sage are time the chief feeds which can be de depended upon for grazing crazing H CROSBY JU ill |