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And behold the "Dry Farmer" is abroad in the land and places that 

 were barren now blossom as the rose. 



Wyoming invites you to study her resources and her 

 great possibilities for development. For many years the 

 state has been celebrated as a stock country. With a total 

 area of over 63,000,000 acres, with poor transportation fa- 

 cilities until within recent years, it has been a difficult mat- 

 ter to understand fully what the state has to offer the 

 home-seeker and investor. Fully 8,000,000 acres will be 

 ultimately irrigated. Plans are now in progress for the 

 reclamation of over 2,000,000 acres. This land will all be 

 worth from $80 to $200 per acre within the next ten years. 

 When irrigated land can now be bought for from $25 to 

 $50 per acre the investor has every encouragement. Those 

 who are planning to go West should not only understand 

 climatic conditions, quality of soils, proximity of market, 

 the possibility of developing other industries within or 

 adjacent to the agricultural area, the water supply, etc., 

 but all should understand the state laws that apply in 

 any particular line of business. In Wyoming it is impos- 

 sible to speculate in water. It is the first essential for the 

 protection of the investor in irrigated lands, and the 

 farmer who establishes his home thereon. Water belongs 

 to the land, and the limit of the use is fixed by the extent 

 of beneficial use that is necessary. It is impossible to sell 

 the water right separate from the lands irrigated. This 

 maintains all lands of a community of equal worth, and 

 every tract increases uniformly in value. Opportunities for 

 individual effort in the construction of irrigation works are 

 numerous. Many companies have completed irrigation 

 works and the home-seeker is now invited to come to 

 Wyoming and select his land, for which the state guaran- 

 tees a permanent water right. The state board of immi- 

 gration, Cheyenne, Wyo., will furnish many details upon 

 application. 



Every county in Wyoming contains undeveloped re- 

 sources. All have possibilities for agricultural develop- 

 ment. It has been found recently that a large area of 

 land not susceptible of irrigation can be farmed by meth- 

 ods unknown a few years ago. By proper cultivation of the 

 soil moisture that falls in the form of rain and snow can be 

 retained in the ground for the use of plant life. This 

 branch of arid agriculture has been so successful that many 

 hundreds of families have located on lands that were for- 

 merly thought to be fit only for grazing herds of cattle 

 and horses and flocks of sheep. The "dry farmer" has 

 been so successful that Congress has recognized him as 

 an important factor in the development of the West, and 

 a law was enacted last winter which enables homesteads 

 to be taken up in tracts of 320 acres. The state board of 

 immigration can furnish information regarding this law 

 and direct intending settlers to localities where such lands 

 are open to entry. Probably 25,000,000 acres will be ulti- 

 mately farmed in Wyoming in this manner. 



Wyoming stands first in the number of sheep raised 

 within the borders of the state. It is still one of the 

 important horse and cattle regions of the nation. All 

 stock business has been modified by the growth of agricul- 

 ture. This transition has made the livestock business 

 more safe and the man who attains the greatest success 

 in this calling is today combining the growing of sheep, 

 cattle and horses with enough farming to insure winter feed, 

 to themselves. While coal is found in nearly every county 



e Creator must have provided the natural scenery of Wyoming to 

 inspire mankind and to lead him to appreciate the beautiful. 

 A camp amid the scenic wonders of the state 

 develops man physically and spiritually. 



Water taken from its natural channel and conducted through artificial 



canals to dry lands leads to wealth and prosperity and 



insures the highest type of agriculture. 



and while oil and gas wells are being developed in many 

 sections of the state the mountains, many chains of which 

 have scarcely been explored, are to add greatly to the 

 wealth of the commonwealth. There timber is found in 

 considerable quanaity. The streams have great fall and 

 afford many opportunities for water power development. 

 Immense bodies of copper, iron and other ores are now 

 being opened up and within the next few years Wyoming 

 will possess some of the greatest mining camps in the 

 will possess some of the greatest mining camps in the world, 

 growth in wealth and population. Opportunity beckons 

 those who desire to invest in a virgin country, where every 

 path leads to success and wealth. With scenery that can- 

 not be surpassed in grandure, with innumerable oppor- 

 tunities for establishing resorts that for health and recrea- 

 tion can not be equaled, with a climate, soil and other 

 agricultural conditions that should appeal to the highest 

 type of the rural population of the land, Wyoming will be 

 the home of the most progressive and most prosperous 

 people that the earth has yet produced. Wyoming is today 

 progressive as a state and as a people. No region offers 

 so many inducements to those who wish to establish them- 

 selves in an independent pursuit. The state conducts an 

 immigration commission for the purpose of assisting all 

 who desire to study the resources of the state, and the 

 opportunities it affords for all kinds of investments. 

 Prompt replies will be made to all inquiries that are re- 

 ceived by the state board of immigration, Cheyenne, Wyo. 



