Show LEITERS LEITER'S FULLY FOLLY AIDS IDS WYOMING Reclamation Plan For Vast Acreage Involved Involve in Lawsuit Dr by NEt xI-a Service r Ice SHERIDAN Wyo Nov 27 27 J Joe e Loiter Leiter millionAIre Chicago sportsman who tried to corner the worlds world's orld's wheat market markot some somo 30 years ago has been blen found guilty of ot many follies If It his sister the Countess ot of Suffolk can be believed But what the Countess Countes In her suit now pending in Chicago to remove him from control of ot the huge Loiter Letter estate has h s charac characterized as his greatest tet folly tolly farmers on arid Wyoming land hall hail as their thc chance for fr pros pros- prosperity prosperity 1 after aner hard barren n years of toll toil LEITER BUILDS A few years ago Loiter Letter with machinery bought from the con con- construction work of ot th the canal dug dug- the Leiter Letter ditch to Irrigate a few thousand of ot the vast ast acres In northern Wyoming Now ow he proposes propose to spend to to turn th the rest ot of the tho waters of ot the mysterious m Lake De Smet to the benefit ot of hundreds of ot smaller land near the Loiter Letter estate Her brother has wasted mil mu- mil mil- millions millions lions the Countess of ot Suffolk told the Chicago court She brought up UI the old story of ot how he had tried to corner the wheat market and said her father Levi S Leiter founder of ot the Leiter estate had been forced forcett to spend to rescue his son But Dut she sho and her lawyers stressed most his crazy adventure In Wyoming FUTILE SAY OPPONENTS IS Eastern attorneys argued the uselessness of ot Leiters Leiter's reclamation reclamation reclamation tion project and project and brought figures to prove their arguments argument Leiter brought half halt a hundred farmer friends from Wyoming to tell ot of their dreams and dreams and which hIs his would reach reach fruition only with completion of the Lake De Dc DeSmet Smet project Te To contest for the control of the Loiter millions will be re- re resumed re resumed seemed But Leiter Letter Is already planning the completion of ot the work He recently had a confer conter- conference conference ence here with U S Senator John JohnB JohnB JohnB B Kendrick of ot Wyoming and others Interested In reclamation problems and all agreed that his 1 project was feasible and would virtually give new life lite to agri agriculture culture In northern Wyoming The entire area between Sheri Sheri- Sheridan Sharidan Sheridan dan and Buffalo benefit from Leiters Leiter's scheme The cost according to Leiter Letter and Senator Kendrick would be about 30 an acre It If a comparatively small area Is reclaimed and about 20 It If Leiters Leiter's whole scheme goes through The Tho two agree reo that the cost would be bo small In comparison with the results to be obtained obtained PERIL D IN IN- LAm lAKE What adds to the tho Interest ot of the 1 project In Wyoming Is the pe- pe peculiar peculiar pe peculiar culiar history ot of o Lake Do De Smet The lake has taken the tho lives ot of many men It Is honeycombed with weeds which makes boating perilous an swimming Impossible It Is very deep no no one knows how deep deepA A small fish hatchery has been established at one ono end of ot the lake but even U the e state employ employ- employees employees ees who run the hatchery never venture far tar on the lake and then only in motor boats Now Lake De Dc Smet Is la to be turned to the Interests of ot the tho small owners land-owners who have sur- sur survived survived sur survived barren years ears on waste Wy Wy- Wyoming Wyoming oming lands As it if to aid Loit Leit- Leiter Leit- Leit Leiter Loiter er In his dreams the tho 1 plans lans for forthe forthe forthe the North and South railroad the tho completion of ot which cannot annot be consummated until settlement ot of the tho Chicago and Milwaukee rail rail- railroad railroad railroad road ro row will wll pass directly through tute tI Do Smet district dl giving givIng giving ing the farmers a II direct route to the best markets Like the Loiter Letter venture held up during the disposal oi or the 30 30 estate the North and South railroad Is a question too though Its roadbed has been laid for miles through the region Meanwhile Wyoming ranchers are confident that Letters Letter's plans will still carry They struggle on dry dr lands firm In the belief bellet that they I will some day be bo the owners of fine Irrigated farms |