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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



erect their homes and to wrest prosperity and a future 

 competence from a region long vacant and voiceless. 



To meet the steadily increasing demand for homes on 

 the land, the Government is extending its irrigation works 

 as rapidly as the funds will permit. On a few of the 

 great projects there are farms remaining which are open 

 to homeseekers under the liberal terms of the reclamation 

 act. For the information of a very large class of home- 

 seekers, a brief description of several of these large 

 projects is appended. 



Shoshone Project, Wyoming. 

 The lands in this project were opened to settlement 



an equable and healthful climate, a fertile soil adapted to 

 a wide variety of crops, with coal and oil in the near neigh- 

 borhood, and with excellent transportation facilities. This 

 season's crops warrant the prediction that the Shoshone 

 region will become in a short time one of the most pros- 

 perous farming districts in the Northwest. 



New Settlers Clearing Land and Burning Sage Brush. 



on May 22, 1909, and are rapidly being taken up. About 

 one hundred farms are still available. These farms, as a 

 rule, are level, requiring no expense for clearing. They 

 are near towns and within easy distance of the railroad. 

 In size they range from 40 to 80 acres, depending upon 

 nearness to towns. The farms have been platted in such 



Wheat Crop, Heikes & Skinner Ranch, Sun River Project, Montana. 



a manner that there are eight farm houses along each 

 mile of the main highways, thus contributing to neighbor- 

 liness and eliminating loneliness. In the brief period of 

 four months the country has taken on an appearance 

 of a suburban community. Here is a region possessing 



Shoshone Dam, General View of Dam Looking Up Stream, Shoshone 

 Project, Wyoming. 



Huntley Project, Montana. 



Situated in the southern part of Montana, in a part 

 of the valley of the Yellowstone where irrigation has 

 been practiced successfully for many years, the Huntley 

 project offers many advantages and attractions to the 

 homeseeker and to all classes of professional and busi- 

 ness men and mechanics. More than three hundred fami- 

 lies are now established in homes on this project, several 

 thousand acres have been put in crops, and the growth 

 of the new towns is keeping pace with the agricultural 

 development. With two transcontinental railroads trav- 

 ersing the entire valley, no farm is more than two and 

 one-half miles from a shipping station. 



Agricultural experts predict that apples and other 

 hardy fruits will become important wealth producers in 

 this section. All the crops of the North Temperate zone 

 do well here. Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and Nebraska 

 have contributed some of the best blood and brains to the 

 development of this project with exceedingly gratifying 



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