GOVERNMENT LAND IN WYOMING OPENED TO SETTLEMENT

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Posted By: David (email)
Date: 3/7/2005 at 12:15:34

The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa
Thursday, March 12, 1908

The Shoshone irrigation enterprise in the Big Horn Basin of Wyoming on which
the United States Government is spending $4,000,000 is being rapidly
completed.

What is known as the Corbett Tunnel, 17,000 feet long, has just been
completed and through it, what is known as the Garland Government canal will
supply water this spring to 14,000 acres of public land. This land is open
to homestead entry under the usual rules modified by the provisions of the
Reclamation Act. Continuous residence is required and practically nothing is
charged for the land, the government merely charging the settler his pro
rata share of the irrigation works.

In this particular project this amounts to $45.00 an acre, and the settler
is expected to pay $4.50 an acre per year and has ten years in which to pay
the full amount. These terms are very favorable especially when it is
remembered that no interest is charged by the government on the deferred
payments.

The government has prepared plats showing the location and size of each of
the farm units, any one of which the settler may select.

This land is located along the Shoshone River in the heart of the Big Horn
Basin, which lies between the Big Horn Mountains on the east and the main
range of the Rockies on the west, with connecting mountain ranges north and
south. The situation is well sheltered, the climate is fine and the soil as
rich as any in America, and produces abundant crops of oats, barley, wheat,
potatoes, sugar beets, alfalfa and garden truck. Water is plentiful and
pure and there is plenty of timber and coal.

Anyone who is thinking of settling in a new region will do well to
investigate this splendid opportunity.
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