HOMES AT SMALL COST IN WYOMING. 



A PRACTICAL AND SUCCESSFUL IRRIGATION ENTERPRISE. 



-w' PLAN of colonization, the success and 

 / % practicability of which has been deter- 

 / % mined by actual results, may be found at 

 ^k fgs Wheatland, Laramie county, Wyo- 

 oming, where the Wyoming Devel- 

 opment Company has provided, the means by which 

 at least six hundred families may be furnished 

 homes and a sure way of obtaining not only finan- 

 cial independence, but a reasonable degree of af- 

 fluence. 



The following facts inform the home-seeker where 

 these homes may be found ; how they may be ob- 

 tained; some of the advantages of owning them ; how 

 much they cost, and give some general informa- 



Denver & Gulf railway system. Fifty-eight miles 

 north at Orin is the Cheyenne & Northern junction 

 with the F. E. & M. V. branch of the -Northwestern 

 railway system. Twenty miles to the northeast is 

 the Hartville mining district, containing the largest 

 and richest iron deposits of the West. Seventy-five 

 miles north are the oil fields of Casper and Douglas, 

 from which during the past two months shipments 

 of oil to market have commenced over the Denver 

 & Gulf railway system. The surface of the lands 

 is slightly undulating, the elevation above sea level 

 varying from 4,500 to 4,700 feet. Along the western 

 line of the lands extends a range of the Black Hills 

 heavily timbered with pine. 



VIEW OF A CURVE ON CANAL NO. 2. 



of which may be 

 a personal visit of 



tion of the surroundings,, all 



verified and substantiated by 



the home-seeker to Wheatland, where he can see for 



himself and learn from the lips of the settlers who 



have preceded him just what has been accomplished 



in the short time Wheatland has been opened to the 



home-maker. 



LOCATION AND SURROUNDINGS. 



The lands in question comprise 60,000 acres, all 

 patented and owned absolutely by the Wyoming 

 Development Company. They are about ninety 

 miles north of Cheyenne, the capital of Wyoming, on 

 the line of the Cheyenne & Northern branch of the 



CHARACTER OF SOIL. 



The lands are admirably adapted for cultivation 

 by irrigation, being slightly rolling with just about 

 sufficient grade to carry water freely. They require 

 no clearing having formed for years natural grazing 

 lands on which rich bunch and buffalo grasses have 

 grown in abundant supply. The soil is a sandy 

 loam and clay and is uniform in quality over the en- 

 tire tract. From 400 to 600 acres have been under 

 cultivation on various parts of the tract for the past 

 six years, and 1,500 acres have been put under 

 cultivation-this year. On the parts which have been 

 farmed previous to this year there has never been a 



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