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short crop, while on the 1,500 acres cultivated this 

 season indications are that even on sod land full 

 crops of alfalfa, potatoes and oats will be raised, 

 demonstrating in a most practicable manner the 

 richness of the soil and its productive qualities. 



AN AMPLE WATER SUPPLY. 



Water for irrigating these lands is abundant. The 

 Wyoming Development Company is the owner under 

 Wyoming laws of water rights which entitle it to the 

 use of the waters of the Laramie river at a point where 

 the volume of water is 6,000 cubic feet per second at 

 its maximum which is in the irrigating season. At this 

 point a stone dam, 150 feet across, is constructed and 

 sluices and head gates of great solidity and strength 

 erected. From the dam the water is first taken 

 through a solid rock tunnel 8 feet wide by 7 feet high 

 and 3,100 feet long under the mountain range lying 

 between the Laramie River valley and the company 

 lands. At the tunnel exit the water is turned into 

 Blue Grass creek, which in turn flows into the Sy- 

 bille, and is conducted down the natural water 

 courses formed by the channels of these streams 

 for a distance of twenty miles to the Wheatland lands 



over which it is distributed by canal number one 

 which is 35 miles long, canal number two which is 20 

 miles long and between 120 and 150 miles of laterals. 

 These will be augmented this year by canal number 

 three 8 miles long and 50 to 60 miles of laterals, 



The canals are 25 feet wide on the bottom and 

 carry 4 feet of water. They have been constructed 

 under direction of State Engineer E. S. Nettleton, of 

 Colorado, and Mr. J. A. Johnston, of Wyoming, two of 

 the best hyrdaulic engineers of the west, and are sub- 

 stantial and permanent in character. The head 

 gates are built with heavy timbers and all parts of 

 the system being constructed with a view to perma- 

 nency few repairs are necessary. From the tunnel 

 exit to the heads of the ditches the water being car- 

 ried in the Blue Grass and Sybille creek channels no 

 repairs will ever be required. 



The system also includes two large storage lakes 

 formed in natural reservoirs and needing but low 

 dykes to retain their waters. One of these covers 

 300 acres and is 54 feet deep ; the other covers 600 

 acres and 60 feet deep. Although the quantity of 



water taken directly from the Laramie river is suffi- 

 cient to irrigate the entire tract of land without draw- 

 ing upon the supply in the lakes they will be kept 

 filled permanently as storage reservoirs ensuring 

 abundance of water should there ever be a year of 

 drought of such severity as to affect the water supply 

 of the Laramie. That such a state of affairs should 

 ever exist is doubted as the Laramie river sources are 

 in the perpetual snow fields of the Rockies and it is 

 fed by countless mountain streams of unvarying 

 quantity. 



CROPS BEING RAISED. 



Six hundred acres of the company's land have 

 been farmed for the past six years and a govern- 

 ment experimental farm has been conducted on a 

 forty-acre tract of the property for three years. The 

 results from both are convincing proof of the state- 

 ment that the lands are productive and that large 

 crops of alfalfa, grains, and roots of all kinds can be 

 successfully produced. 



'Alfalfa, the great money-making crop of the West, 

 does remarkably well. Three crops are produced 

 each year. The first is cut the latter part of June; 

 the second early in August ; the third, about the 

 middle of September. One irrigation only is needed 

 for each crop. The production averages four tons 

 to the acre for each season, although this year four 

 tons per acre were cut for the first crop on an acre in 

 the experimental farm. There is a good market for 

 all that can be raised. Owners of range stock buy 

 all they can get and pay good prices. Five and six 

 dollars a ton in the stack has been the price for 

 several years. Owners of range cattle, instead of 

 being forced to send their cattle to the Nebraska 

 feeding farms to be fattened on alfalfa and grain 

 prefer to buy at home, and a market is insured for 

 evefy ton of alfalfa that can be grown in Wyoming. 



Oats yield 30 to 60 bushels to the acre. Several 

 hundred acres have been cultivated annually on 

 the company's farms. Two to three irrigations are 

 required. The straw is short, but the grain and 

 heads are heavy. Prices are good. Last year's crop- 

 sold for 1% cents a pound on the farm. Numerous 

 experiments on the experimental farm have demon- 

 strated that the best varieties are Early Archangel 

 and Giant Side. A fair stand of oats has been 

 obtained this year by several settlers, who planted it 

 on the sod which was harrowed, but not ploughed. 



Wheat yields 25 to 40 'bushels to the acre. Winter 

 wheat does not do well on account of the light snow 



