PULSE OF THE IRRIGATION INDUSTRY. 



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The tract of country intended to be reclaimed by this 

 company is especially valuable. The land itself is 

 fine in quality and in its formation. Sloping gently 

 from the foothills to the river, it affords every facility 

 for thorough irrigation with good drainage, which is 

 so essential to successful farming by irrigation. A 

 large portion of this tract of land is already settled 

 upon by a thrifty and good class of people, who will 

 be glad to purchase water from this company to make 

 their lands productive. Most of these farms are well 

 improved, with fine buildings and good fences on 

 them. All these lands are adjacent to the Fremont, 

 Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad, which makes 

 a junction with the Denver and Gulf Railroad at Orin 



practically inexhaustible, and the cost of constructing 

 the irrigation works reasonable. 



One of the principal promoters of this enterprise is 

 the Hon. DeForest Richards, State Senator from 

 Converse County, and President of the First National 

 Bank at Douglas, Wyoming. Mr. Richards has had 

 extensive experience in irrigation matters in Wyom- 

 ing, and is convinced of the soundness of this enter- 

 prise and of its ultimate success. 



CLIMATE AND PRODUCTS. 



There is no finer climate on earth than in Central 

 Wyoming. The altitude is high enough to make the 

 summers pleasant, but not so high but what alfalfa, 

 corn, tomatoes and other such crops mature and 



FARM BUILDINGS ON THE LINE OF THE RIVERSIDE CANAL, CENTRAL WYOMING. 



Junction. At this point this company will have their 

 canal high above the town, affording facilities for 

 using the immense water power to be obtained from 

 a fall of twenty feet from the canal, which can be 

 used for operating mills, electric light plant, etc. A 

 pipe line is now under construction from the oil fields 

 at Casper to Orin Junction, where the oil will be 

 shipped on the cars south. When this is completed 

 it will make Orin Junction a lively place. 



There is no ditch enterprise in the West that has 

 better prospects of success in their undertaking than 

 this one. The land is excellent farming land, the 

 location is all that can be desired, every acre of the 

 10,000 acres being near two railroads, the water supply 



flourish. The farmers, therefore, who have located 

 in the Platte valley, and have succeeded in irrigating 

 their farms, are the most prosperous of any of the 

 people in the State. The market for produce of all 

 kinds can never be glutted, for the reason that the 

 land capable of being cultivated in Wyoming is only 

 about four per cent, of the total area of the State, and 

 the uplands will always be used for the grazing of 

 vast herds of cattle and sheep, which consume in 

 being fattened for market all the produce that can be 

 raised. 



As an example of the fertility of lands in Wyoming 

 we can take some crops which have been harvested 

 in the State in recent years. The premium presented 



