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Show AGRICtJLTTTTiE UTAH STATE EXTENSION SERVICE HOME ECONOMICS FARMandHOMEto U. S. Dept. o Agrl., Utah State Agri. Clege and Count? Commission Cooperating One hundred four individual farm units of about 130 acres each have been opened for homestead settlemen on the Heart Mountain Division of the Bureau of Reclamat ion's Shoshone Project in northwestern north-western Wyoming, according to K. F. Vernon o Billings, Mont., director di-rector of Bureau's Region 6. Included in the opening, the 3rd on this division since the end of World War II, are 12,073 acres of irrigable land. The average farm unit contains 116 acres of irrigable land and about 15 acres of non-irrigable non-irrigable land suitable for pasture and other purposes. Veterans of World War II are given preference application. Applications for the irrigable farms received by the superintendent superintend-ent . of the Shoshone Project at Cody, Wyo., by 2 p. m., July 12 will be considered simultaneously filed. Copies of the public notices, application forms and detailed information in-formation about the opening may be secured from the regional director's di-rector's office, R H. Workinger, manager of the Big Horn District, Bureau of Reclamation, Cody, or from the Shoshone Project office. One hundred of the 104 units are near Ralston, Wyo., the remaining four are three miles north of Cody. The units have never been cultivated. cultiv-ated. Canals, laterals and other structures to bring the irrigation water to the farm units have been constructed by the Bureau of Reclamation. Re-clamation. Applications for the farm units received before the close of the simultaneous filing period and which are complete, including proof of veterans' preference, will be entered in a public drawing to establish a priority by which veter ans will be considered for the a-vailable a-vailable farms. Following the draw ing, the applications will be re viewed by an examining Board composed of local citizens and one of Reclamation employee. If the applications are found in order and the applicants meet all requirements, require-ments, they will be alowed to select se-lect farm units in the order established estab-lished by the drewing. Minimum requirements provide that prospective homesteader must have had the equivalent of at least two years of full-time farming farm-ing experience after reaching the age of 15, have $3,000 in cash or useful assets, must be of good health and character, industrious, and be able to meet the requirements require-ments of the home stead and reclamation re-clamation laws. The Bureau of Reclamation plans to make available to the new homesteader for use as farm build ings, the approximate equivalent of one barracks building at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center midway between Cody and Powell, Wyo., as an incident to completion complet-ion of the project, the Bureau will assist entrymen, in appropriate cases and on a reimbursable basis, in the clearing and rough leveling of the land and in the layout of farm ditches and irrigation structures. struct-ures. The soils on the Heart Mountain Division are well adapted to irrigation irri-gation farming. Major crops are expected to be beans, peas, alfalfa, sugarbeets, clover, small grains, and potatoes. Livestock raising and fattening will be another major activity on the new farms. Regional Director Vernon reported re-ported that 50 farm units, containing contain-ing about 5,900 acres of irrigable land and about 600 acres of non-irrigable non-irrigable land, are slated for opening open-ing later this spring on the River-ton River-ton Project in central Wyoming. , Application blanks may be obtained ob-tained from the County Agent's office in Delta. |