548 AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
WESTERN Pomo.oaist, Des Moines, Iowa, and Leavenworth, Kan- 
sas. Monthly, $150 per annum. Mark Miller, Des Moines, publisher 
and editor. 
WESTERN RURAL, Chicago, Illinois, and Detroit, Michigan. Weekly, 
$2 per annum. H. N. F. Lewis, publisher and editor; T. H. Glenn, 
Chicago, and Edward Mason, Detroit, Michigan, associate editors. 
WESTERN RURALIST, Louisville, Kentucky. Monthly, $1 per an- 
num. H.M. McCarty, publisher; Lawrence Young, editor. 
WILLAMETTE FARMER, Salem, Oregon. Weekly, $2 50 per annum. 
A. L, Stinson, publisher; Simeon Francis, editor. 
WoRKING FARMER, New York City. Monthly, $1 50 per annum. 
William L. Allison, publisher and editor. : 
AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES OF WYOMING 
° TERRITORY. 
This Territory is situated between the forty-first and forty-fifth paral- 
lels of latitude, and the one hundred and fourth and one hundred and 
eleventh meridians of west longitude, and contains an area of 97,883 
square miles. 
Although lying immediately north of and contiguous to Colorado, and 
like it stretching across the great divide of the Rocky Mountains, in the 
character of its mountains and plains it is very different from that Ter- 
ritory. 
The mountains of Colorado are grouped in a rather compact series of 
ranges on one side, and its plains lie in one body on the other, and are 
of a uniform character; while the mountains of Wyoming are scattered 
in isolated ranges and irregular groups, and the plains are detached 
areas, unsymmetrical in form and differing in character. 
The divide between the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific starting 
from the northwest corner of North Park and running northwest by 
Bridger’s Pass and Creston Station, crosses the comparatively low coun- 
try to South Pass, whenee it follows the Wind River Mountains to 
Mount Madison, where it leaves the Territory, passing out of its west- 
ern border about 50’ south of its northwest corner. It divides the Ter- 
ritory into two unequal parts, the eastern part embracing about three- 
fourths of the entire area, the western part one-fourth. The greater 
portion of the eastern division is drained by the North Platte and the 
tributaries of the Yellowstone, while the western division is drained by 
Green River and its tributaries. 
The arable tracts of this Territory, corresponding with its general 
features, are found in detached areas extremely varied in size and char- 
acter, the extent of irrigable land being limited sometimes only by the 
supply of water, while in others, though the supply of water is ample, the 
extent of level land is very limited. ; 
There is in Colorado no spot that can be called an absolute desert; on 
the other hand, there are few if any spots which wear heavy compact 
swards of green grass, the tuft and bunch being the characteristic growth 
of the plains; but in Wyoming not only the mean but the extremes are 
to be found. 
The chief arable tracts, which as a matter of course depend upon the 
water supply and drainage, are to be found in the following areas, named 
as @ general thing from the streams by which they are intersected: The 
Laramie Plains, the Sweetwater Section, and Hastern Plains, all drained 
