, 1886-10-02
GRAINS AND GRASSES.
One Half Million Dollars Invested in
Wyoming Lands.
Extensive and Successful Agricult-
ural Experiments.

The Wyoming Development; company
have made a complete success of their ag-
ricultural experiments OH their lands in
the regions of the Sabille and the Lara
mic rivers. Fifty thousand acres of arabic
lands lie here in one body, and under one
magnificent ditch system. Five hundred
acres We're planted this season in oats.
wheat and alfalfa, and the results are
most gratifying. The oats brought thirty
bushels to the acre, and over forty pounds
to the bushel. The wheat yielded twenty
hive bushels per acre, and weighed over
sixty pounds to the blshel. The alfalfa
grew rank, and affords a splendid Weld.
Vegetables of all kinds gave prolific re-
turns, and certain observations convince
the farmer that corn will mature fully.
Over 5000 bushels Of oats were harvested
this season.
Next year between 1000 and 1900
acres will be put in grains, while n large
area will be devoted to alfalfa, red clover
and timothy. The company is now IN
negotiation with an eastern firm for a
steam plow. This will cost So. 700. and
will be in use next year, and will turn
over the sod Of fifteen or twenty
acres daily. 1t should be re-
marked right here, that the crops
raised this year have all been
on green, or sod land. Next year will see
the yield of the same land largely in
creased.
The agricultural interests of the COM
pany are under the management of Mr..
j. A. johnson, a gentleman who has had
an experience of eighteen years in Colo
RADIO, and who is thoroughly vorsed in the
science of irrigation and Western farming.
MIR. johnson will in the spring inaugurate
extensive experiments in small fruits. On
the Sabille wild grapes are growing in
proiusion, while the canyons of the adj
joining mountains are lined with the wild
plum. In this natural fruit soil Mr..
johnson will plant strawberries, raspber-
ries, ~blackberries, gooseberries, currants
and grapes, and has no doubt of their
being thoroughly at home by the close Of
the first season.
Experiments will also he made in
apples. This fruit will be intro
duced from Colorado. and Mr..
Johnson's experience in that state
leaves him no room 10 doubt
that r!a.e experiment will be a success. The
varieties introduced, the Ben Davis and
red astrakan, are hardy, early and prolific.
The main ditch system trayersing these
lands, is sixty miles in length. To this is
added a widely radiating and constantly
extending system Of %laterals. These Tat
erals can he added to indefinitely, as the
water supply is incxhaustible and ever on
hand.
The head gates, fumes, wasteways,
fumes. ETC., are constructed in the most
convenient and durable manner their
having been used in their construction
400, 600 feet of lumber.
The line OF the Cheyenne Il Northern
runs through the lands for a distance of
nine miles, and one ofthe stations of the
road is located thereon. This station,
called Wheatland, occupies a central posi-
ton, and the Development company have
already on the ground materialss for the
construction ola building 22x4O for offices,
and the headquarters of their agricul
ural interests. The town of Wheatland
will be laid out in the near future.
The soil of this region is rich and deep
and is very productive. 1t is offered to
actual settlers in small farms, at low fig
ures. Abundance of pine timber afford
ing both fire wood and lumber can be
reached in fifteen or twenty miles from
any portion of the $4,000 acres in the
tract. The water is pure and plentiful,
coming in small and numerous streams
from the adjacent Laramie mountain
range. In the streams are cat and white
fish in abundance, while game of many
kinds can be found.
Coal indications abound along the Chug-
water between here and the Sabille, and
on the Laramie river, just TO the north,
while immense Goa! fields are still further
to the north, along the line of the Chey-
enne 4 Northern. In tho Laramie noun
tains minerals of various kinds have been
traced, and only await development.
The margins of the streams are thick
with cottonwood, while near their sources
can be seen groves of the aspen. The
grazing capabilities of the region cannot
be surpassed, and cattle go into the win
tiers fat, to come out in good flesh in the
spring. This fall the ranges are thick
with TAT becves.
On these lands the Wyoming Develop
ment company has expended nearly one
half million of dollars, and have succeeded
in retaining from the desert a tract Of
land which will furnish prosperous homes
for hundreds of Wyoming farmers