The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-03-22
WYOMING GRAZING LANDS.

Commencing It the sCutheasteIB
corner of Wyoming, on both sides of
the Union Pacific Railroad, to Chey-
enne, the grazing i excellent and the
stCtms ARE uumerOus. From Chey-
cline To the north and northwest,
clear to the Montana boundary line,
are innumerable valleys, the most
beautiful the eye e beheld thess
valleys are generally wateTed by ODe
or q streams of the purest water
Fr"m Cheyenne west, the Union
Pacific Railroad ascends uBtil at
Sherman il Is at M altitude of S342
iectr and even to this summit there
II gOUu grazing, e.. ecially for sheep,
the fu0t-hiils seeming a very paradise
for Them.
Not Tar west Of Sherman the Lara
mic Plains commence, II bread. fer
tile valley lying between the Black
Hills and the Rocky Noun aims
proper. Here we find the finest
gazing country in the world a val
ley about my miles broad and over
ii hundred miles long, watcred by
wu rivers. The stock grower has
taken POSSESSION of this immense eX-
pan,e of country, and his many herds
are visible ON every hillside. Horses
sheep and cattle are being counted by
The thousands OF these plains; alI
who arc engaged in stock growing
there are prospecting and their hOcks
and herds are increasing. Laramie
City, tae centre of attraction of the
Laramie Plains. Il beautiful town,
located on the banks of the river
bearing the same name, is the head
quarters of the stockmen OF this
section. Here most of the stock
kings reside and eXpend in per-
manent improvements the honest but
ample earnings of their calling.
II going farther west, we find next
in Carbon County, Hear Rawlins and
Fort Steele, excellent grazing lands.
In the vicinity of the latter place,
along the North Platte, the facilities
for raising cattle, horses and sheep
cannot be cXcelled. From forty TO
fifty miles south OF Rawlins the val
leys of the Snake River form the
most desirable grazing Erounds- This
country lies between the Wahsstch
and Snowy Range of mountains, at
an altitude of about $500 feet, and 10
watered by the Snake River, SavioT'B
Fork and the Big Muddy and its
several branches. We find there
valleys from two to seven miles wide,
with water and wood in abundance.
! In travelling through this region we
have encamped in magnificent groves
of pine, oak and ash.
Leaving the Platte, the grazing Is
found only in patches up to Green
River, 1888 miles west of Cheyenne,
where at no great distance from the
railroad, and in a safe country, tho
grazing lands reappeaT and continue
westward through the Territory to
I Utah, interrupted occasionally by
large, barren districts. The valleys
of the Green River and its tributa-
ries, Blacks and Hams Forks, form
fine grazing lands. All through this
region, westward beyond the thriv-
ing town of Evanston, the great coal
and timber region of Wyoming.
many large and small streams mean
dering through the valleys, increase
the fertility of the soil. In the Wind
River valley. in IL n0rtherlv direction
from Green River, Il large extent Of
grazing and arabic lands has, by u
recent treaty with the Sh0shOne In
diaus, become available to the white
settler.
We trust that all persons in
tending to engage in stock raising,
will visit Our Territory and thorough
ly investigate its advantages and dis
Advantages, in person Or by agent,
before they determine their location.