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den of transportation charges, nor had their prices much 

 reduced hy the glut of cereals in the world's market. 



The earliest irrigation work of great importance was 

 that at Wheatland, sixty-five miles north of Cheyenne. 

 This was undertaken by local capitalists, headed by 

 ex -Senator Carey. After surviving many difficulties, it 

 has at length entered upon a period of real prosperity 

 and created the finest agricultural colony in tlie State. 

 It is interesting to note that many of its people repre- 

 sent the overflow of the famous Greeley Colony in neigh- 

 boring Colorado. Although less than a generation from 

 its founding, Greeley already has surplus people to send 

 forth for the conquest of waste places a little farther 

 off. 



The most notable recent enterprise in Wyoming is that 

 undertaken in the Big Horn Basin by the famous scout 

 William F. Cody, familiarly known as "Buffalo Bill." 

 This energetic and ambitious man, who has twice won 

 fame first as a daring and successful scout, and then 

 as exhibitor to two continents of the life, people, and 

 customs of the Wild West is laying broad and deep the 

 foundations of a stronger claim to remembrance. He 

 conceived the idea of planting civilization in one of the 

 wildest regions which he had first known as hunter and 

 Indian-fighter. The money which the public has poured 

 into the coffers of his Wild West Show, Cody has used in 

 reclaiming and colonizing two hundred thousand acres 

 in the valley of the Shoshone river in northern Wyo- 

 ming, twenty to sixty miles from the Montana line and 

 immediately east of Yellowstone Park. The altitude 

 hero is only about four thousand feet, and the climate 

 suited to the production of diversified crops, including 



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