| Show TO TG OPEN SHOSHONE INDAN RESERVE President Issues maton Putting Up for Drawing Acres ORDER OF APPLICATIONS leil to I Draw rin hIlls h ii In War m ct as lii Entitled I I I t B Ills Big Ia Laud Land lel Lottery I in iii I Wyoming Special Service Republican I Washington D. D C C. June 2 dent Roosevelt elt has issued a of portion o othe othe a atlon opening to ent entry ton ii in the thc Shoshone In Indian lan reservation aton Wyoming the thc area o of tho the lands s so 1 1 opened being heln approximately determine the order ordel Ii In acres To which applications for fOI entry catty of of lands mu must t b be lt presented a will be held a al alI at lion of or applicants wi Shoshoni ThermopOliS am nat I Lander antler at railroad railroad railroad rail rail- Horn Worland Vorland provided time the Big DIg road is doing a passenger CI traffic uthe Uhe u tl l land it the he latter laler place commencing July It alit and ending July 31 31 31 1900 1906 Applicant their heir applications ap for re registration must present In iii pC person on nt at one of oe the des des- desI I n points IJ within iii the period pre pre- pro proscribed scribed except that lint soldiers rs or sailors sailor who vho served 90 JO days or mere in tin the army or oL ml nay navy during the Civil Civi am Spanish American wars or in the Philippines may register by hy an ho aho has power powei of attorney No poi pei poison son can act as a agent nt for or more thai than one sc ic service cn man Th The rho drawing under this registration will be held at Lander Lander Lan Lan- der Wyo ryo commencing wJ Au August 1 1 fOG and continue fo for fm such period perio a w as may be necessary necessary- ry t Mu-t 1 i u t Present PIC Numbers Commencing on fn August 15 15 the apI ap ap- I I. I of those drawing numbers 1 to e inclusive must be he presented to the local land office in Lander Wyo Vo and will wi ill be e considered In thou their numerical order ordel and applications ol or those drawing numbers 1 II 0 1 to in iii inclusive In- In l. must be he presented and aud will wi bi bt considered In their numerical L the second econ day ay and so on October r 13 The price lee to o bo he paid for or the these e lands land the first two years is 50 cents of which Is to be paid when is made and twenty five twenty e cents cent nt each cach thereafter until er acre year ear payment in full ful Is made mantle These The c lands land ire arc subject to entry mtr under the homet home home- t toad teal ad 11 mineral mineraI land laws lairs hut ut lot during tl the sixty days 01 following O j Au mt I 1 15 c I i 1 OI no entries will wll b be except entries g. g One of the tue t t. Hc Cl c rhe The Shoshone reserve Is one ine 0 of th e t In tho ho country containing neary near ear earh h y square miles It 1 Is surround- surround 1 rd l by hy mountain ranges which ho the reservation from severe storms I ft It Is one of the be best t wat watered reserva ions bus in iii the country countr and one nime irrl- irrl Jaton project now under consideration jy Ly y the he 1 gov government will wl r reclaim nough land to make thirteen colonies colonl s the sizo size of or the noted Greeley Colo Cob which Is considered the richest rich rich- est cst st agricultural community In the HIP lw Nearly all ni the thc land In Wyoming Wyo VO ming Is rl rich h. h and needs only the magI mag- mag I Ic f touch of or water to make malee it i brine forth orth Immense crops Wyoming hold the worl worlds world's s 's record for Coi 01 the lar largest est yield of potatoes on 01 one acre anti and of late lato latos lateS s 1 igar ar e beer beef experts have h been n turning to lo the thC state The soil sol is the same me aa at that of oC Colorado which produces tIme the tl finest sugar beets beels In the world voi This rc reservation Is Ss In cha charge chac c of Su Superintendent Su- Su II I. I E. E E Wadsworth The Tho Is at nt Fort Fori namen namer for the greatest chief of the Shoshone Indian There ThEre ar are about 1500 1500 In Ii IndIans Indians In- In on the reservation equally equably divided di di- hIed vided between tl the and Shoshone Shoshone Sho SImo- shone tribes All AU are peaceable p owing to lo the good work of Superintendent ads V in stamping out alit whiskey Only a few ew lays days after Mr Mi 11 Wadsworth a assumed office orce a 0 pitched battle with bootleggers rs wih occurred In Fort resulting i in the death of or two whiskey traders Since then there has hn been een little or no whiskey ov sold and the condition of or the Indians Indian has hn Improved in every way 1 1 Indians lela tl I lS IS Onn in iii is of or the tho lowlands 10 along the river bottoms has hns been allotted to the In In- In each cach member of or the tribe b being bing ing given his hh choice of oC a home tead before beforE the lands are aru alu thrown open to the lie whites But Dut the table lands land arc are lw the I best st for agricultural the Uw In- In f cinn lan invariably selectIng natural gra grass s land In in preference to a 0 homestead that lint requires I irrigation n. n Registration at points will ivill wi doule doubtless bo Ic established at nt Lander and anc Shoshoni the latter bein being lin linn a n now new town on tho the Chicago o and Northwestern's North North- westerns western's new line lne Shoshoni literally sprang up tip In a ni night ht but within a n few few iv weeks boasted a newspaper and and I throe ii iee ha hank bank a la 0 other th or registration ion places will wi be he established hel and will ivill wi be mode known by hy presidential proclamation before th the landI lands are opened It I IK Is estimated that there U will wU be at least acres of or good farm land available for foi- settlement in the Sho- Sho Shoshone lane shone shone reservation In Th rh The climate is Ideal there thero being about the tho same percentage pc of or sunshine as In Colorado Thus the homesteader st ader who Colordo is lucky luck nou h to a ranch in this n res res- reservation will wi Ind Indeed ca be fortunate |
