HOMES AT SMALL COST IN WYOMING. 



land is fenced. The unsold land forms a common 

 pasture which is open to stock belonging to the set- 

 tlers. As sales of the land cut down the area of this 

 pasture, grazing lands adjoining the colony will be 

 used as pasture for stock on which an inexpensive 

 system of close herding will be employed, or in the 

 event of the cession of lands to the states, it will 

 be rented and fenced by the community and used as 

 common pasturage for the stock of the settlers. By 

 a combination of farming and stock raising both oc- 

 cupations may be made a source of sure and contin- 

 uous profit, and in no place in the West is the oppor- 

 tunity to do this equal to that at Wheatland. 



AID FROM LAND OWNERS. 



The Wyoming Development Company, while 

 possessing ample capital, does not engage in any 

 enterprises to make money out of purchasers of its 

 lands, but on the contrary, encourages settlers' them- 

 selves to engage in these enterprises. There is a 

 big demand for brick and the company could make 

 a profit by engaging in its manufacture. Instead of 

 doing this the clay banks have been leased to a set- 

 tler who, in addition to farming his 80-acre tract of 

 land, is burning a kiln of 200,000 brick for all of 

 which he has contracts to sell. The company has 

 also decided not to open any stores, or hotels, but will 

 leave all these fields open to individuals. In repair- 

 ing ditches, building new canals, enlarging reser- 

 voirs, cultivating its farms and all other work which 

 it is having done the Development Company offers 

 work to settlers who may have time to spare 

 from their own work, and no outside labor is em- 

 ployed if it can be obtained from the community. 

 All supplies used by the company or its employe's 

 will be purchased from those engaged in business in 

 the community. 



CHARACTER OF SETTLERS. 



The fact that the settlers who have become the 

 pioneers in the colony are familiar with irrigation 

 methods and are practical irrigators will be of great 

 aid to all subsequent settlers. The experience of the 

 pioneers and the invariably satisfactory results of 

 their farming will be infallible guides for all future 

 purchasers. 



THE TOWN OF WHEATLAND. 



A townsite has been laid off by the company at 

 Wheatland station on the line of the C. & N. rail- 

 way, and the building of a substantial town com- 

 menced. The location for a pretty town is unsur- 

 passed. The land slopes gently toward the railroad 

 on the east. On every side can be seen the green 

 fields of grain and alfalfa. The horizon to the west 

 is the wooded summits of Laramie Peak and Squaw 

 mountain and to the north and east the ragged 

 hills through which flow the Laramie and Platte 

 rivers and Chugwater creek. 



Two general stores have been built. They are 

 owned by men who have bought farms in the tract. 

 One carries a $10,000 stock of goods, the other 

 $15,000. Several frame residences have been erected. 

 Contracts have been let for the erection of a brick 

 school house, a brick hotel and several brick resi- 

 dences. A daily train north and south puts the town 

 in close communication with Cheyenne, the capital 

 of the state, and Douglas and Casper the principal 

 towns in Converse and Natrona counties. The town 

 is in close touch with the outside world. It seems an 

 incredible statement, but it is a fact that the 

 Chicago Sunday papers are received at Wheatland 

 at noon Monday. 



Freight rates to Wheatland are but slightly in ex- 

 cess of those to Cheyenne, and lumber, coal and gen- 

 eral merchandise will be sold as cheap there as along 

 the main line of the Union Pacific. Native lumber is 

 close at hand, the entire line of mountains and foot 

 hills west of the town being covered with a heavy 

 growth of pine. 



CLIMATE. 



It is well known that the entire Rocky mountain re- 

 gion both on the east and west slope is possessed of a 

 health-giving, invigorating climate. At Wheatland 

 the winters are short and mild. Very little snow 

 falls and the country before settlement was one of 

 the best winter ranges for stock in Wyoming. The al- 

 titude ensures freedom from fevers and the variety of 

 the atmosphere and its dryness affords in many cases 

 a certain cure for lung and throat troubles. The 

 summers are cool and pleasant. 



GAME AND FISH. 



Hunting and fishing are close at hand to the Wheat- 

 land settler, and if he has time and inclination both 

 are to be enjoyed. Deer, elk, bear, antelope and 



ALFALFA PILED FOR STACKING. 



