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THE 1ERIGATION AGE. 



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WYOMING 



The Richest State in the West 



RICH in high grade coal veins from six to thirty 

 feet thick, now being developed in all parts of the 

 State. RICH in high grade oil and natural gas 

 now being developed at Byron and Greybull. 

 Natural gas piped to Greybull and Basin City ; 

 new oil refinery at Cowley. RICH in high grade 

 iron ore, so accessible that trains are loaded with 

 steam shovel, direct from the mines. RICH in 

 copper, gold, silver, lead, mica, sulphur, and 

 asphalt that is now attracting capital from all 

 parts of the world. RICH in timber, stone and 

 cement material, for building purposes; in water 

 power for factories; in hunting and fishing for 

 the sportsman ; in beautiful scenery, unsurpassed 

 in any country. 



Rich in Opportunity for 

 the Farmer 



In the midst of these great natural resources, you 

 can take a homestead irrigated by the Govern- 

 ment, paying actital cost of water in ten yearly 

 payments without interest, or buy irrigated land 

 from the State under the Carey Act on long time 

 payments, only 30 days' residence required ; or 

 buy deeded irrigated farms at reasonable prices ; 

 or you can take a 320-acre free homestead under 

 the Mondell Act, where Dry Fanning js already 

 successful. 



GET CLOSE TO A NEW TOWN 

 AND THE NEW RAILROAD 



You can do this here, for the Burlington Route is building 



a new main line right through the Big Horn Basin, the 



heart of this richest undeveloped country in the West, 



with new towns springing up like magic every few miles. 



This means splendid transportation facilities, fine busi- 



. ness openings in the towns and big future values to 



N. these farms. History is sura to repeat itself and 



X. thesj farms that may now be had for a mere 



X. trifle of their actual value will soon make 



X. their future owners rich. No one farmer, mer- 



j\ X^ chant or investor looking for home or in- 



X^ vestment, can afford to overlook the grand 



Cjleni X^ opportunities of this new country. 



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The Robert Strahorn Irrigation & Power Company has 

 purchased the shore lands on the Columbia river near 

 Priest Rapids for a consideration of $10,000. The price 

 agreed upon is $15,000 less than the value fixed upon the 

 property by the state land board some time ago. The 

 company protested the original appraisement of $25,000 

 and at a recent meeting in Seattle of tax commissioners 

 and the state forester it was agreed that the protest was 

 well taken and that the state should not ask more than 

 $10,000. 



The Upper Columbia Company has undertaken one of 

 the most gigantic irrigation projects ever attempted in the 

 state of Washington, just north of Bossburg on the Colum- 

 bia. The parties who are backing this company are un- 

 known. Water will be taken from the Columbia river, also 

 from the Kettle river and its tributaries. Work Has com- 

 menced on the fifteen-mile creek dam and flume and the 

 contract calls for the completion of the work by June 1, 

 1911. 



The Wapato Irrigation Company has awarded con- 

 tracts for ditch work on its irrigation project to water 1,000 

 acres of land in Lake Chelan valley in central Washing- 

 ton. The two contracts represent an expenditure of 

 $10,000 and work will begin at once. The ditch to be con- 

 structed under these contracts will be completed. 



Directors of the Tieton Water Users' Association, 

 headed by A. J. Splawn, former state senator, which will 

 eventually control the irrigation canal under construction 

 by the United States reclamation service in the Yakima 

 valley, have voted to increase the capital stock of that cor- 

 poration from $1.000,000 to $1,440,000. This step was nec- 

 essary owing to the increase of acreage under the canal 

 and the additional cost of construction. 



Klickitat Irrigation and Power Company have filed 

 maps and descriptions with the Yakima land office for t 

 big irrigation canal to be run from the head waters of the 

 Big Klickitat river to the Horse Heaven country in south 

 central Washington. Details for construction have been 

 completed for forty-two miles of the canal, which will be 

 1 10 miles in length. The drainage area is 175,000 acres, of 

 which 93,000 acres is in the Yakima reservation and 82,90 

 in the Mount Rainier forest reserve. The intake of 

 canal will be north of the mouth of Pearl creek, on t 

 main Klickitat river, where the storage dam will be con- 

 structed. It is proposed to maintain a flow of 1.250 cubn 

 feet of water per second the year round. 



WYOMING. 



The Saratoga Valley Land & Irrigation Company recently 

 incorporated under the laws of Wyoming, has taken posses- 

 sion of the ranch property known as the W. B. Hugus ranch 

 near Saratoga. These holdings comprise nearly 1,500 acre 

 of land with one of the oldest water rights out of the Nortt 

 Platte river. The company intends to cut the tract up into 

 small holdings of from 20 to 40 acres, bringing in settlers 

 either purchase or lease the ground. The mam office of I 

 Saratoga Valley Land & Irrigation Company is located at 

 6.13 Seventeenth street, Denver, Colorado. 



It is stated that an immense irrigation project is to be 

 undertaken in Carbon county. The proposition i: 

 struct an irrigation canal starting just below Baggott rocks 

 taking water from the North Platte and Encampment riv 

 and extending some f.O miles north to Rawlins. This woulc 

 irrigate and make productive 125,000 acres of sage brush land. 

 \ preliminary survey has been made by Engineer R. Z. 

 Coy of Encampment, who states that the proposition is entire!; 

 feasible. 



Officials of the North Laramie Land and Irrigation Com- 

 pany have turned water into the large irrigating plant that 

 they have been constructing for the past two years, 

 main canal which is 14 miles long has been completed. The 

 project has several thousand acres that will be colonized. 

 The land is in the northern part of Laramie county. 



The Shoshone dam. which forms the most important fea- 

 ture of the largest irrigation project in Wyoming, has been 

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