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Show CAREY ACT IN OPERATION. A canal and cnlonlratlon scheme thnt will probably vtnml ns tho first prnetlnal prnetl-nal operation of the Care) act Is Hint of the lllg Horn folonlxallon company In W)omlng Home two )eais ago a company of Halt Lake City capitalists, with Apostlo A. o Woodruff at the head, organised a compnny for building build-ing a canal and securing settlers for a tract of ahntit 30 000 acres of land In lllg Horn county, W)omlng, The cantil, which has Just been completed, li thirty miles In length, fifteen feet wide on tho bottom and twenty-live feel wide on top, und coat a little moro than J100 000 The water Is taken from nn abundant supply In the Hhortione (formerly called Htlnklng Water) river, mil is splendid quality Tho greater I art ot the soli tinder the ditch Is of n light or medium sandy loam, about seven feet deep, and produces won-delful won-delful clops of lucern, vvhlcji fact Mtnplj Indicates that all thn cereals mid root crnoa will thrive there In the five settlements, viz, t!)ron, Cowlc), l.ovell, llurllngton and Otto, there are now npprnxlm.ite-1) 1S00 people. peo-ple. Many more farmern are contemplating contem-plating Immigration, being nttrnetcd bv the fine soil, good water suppt), splendid open range, nnd, withal, a climate cli-mate equal to that of Utnh The In-ter-Mnuntaln Fanner and llanehnian will gladly report the gratifying progress prog-ress of tho lllg Horn communlt), first, because It cornea within tho lcgltlmato terrltor) of this papei, and. second, the prosperity of the colonists there will bo most pleasing to the people In Utah, fiom whom tho colonlma were gathered |