The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-29
WYOMING.


Cheyenne, Wyo-, July 27.-Professor
Elwood, state engineer, has just re-
turned from a trip to the Big Horn
basin where he made surveys and
estimates of cost of the largest irrigation
enterprise yet contemplated in Wyom-
ing. A canal upwards Of so miles in
length Will be built, which will tap the
Shoshone river near the Montana line,
under which will be some 205. 100 acres
of land, Of which 1853, $40 acres is first
Class irrigable land. The surveys were
made under the direction CT Colonel
w. F. Cody lBuffalo Bid and his part
ner Colonel Nate Salisbury, the wealthy
Enghshfnan, who propose to carry the
enterprise TO successful completion I'M
der the Carey land act. Professor Mead
is satisfied the enterprise is feasible
and practicable and that the canal can
be built, at an outlay not greatly in
excess of $1,000000. The elevation of
the land to be irrigated is 1850 feet.
which experience has shown to be the
most favorable altitude for successful
farming in the west The soil is very
fertile and will grow almost any kind
of a crop. The supply of water is
ample. The Shoshone river, from which
the water will be taken, is one of the
largest streams in Wyoming. Its flow
at the point where the canal would be
taken out varies from 1900 to 10000
cubic feet of water per second, and no
storage dam would be required, as the
water supply of the river is sufficient
to irrigate the entire tract from the
natural flow of the river. The proposed
canal is about 40 miles from the Red
Lodge, Mont, terminus of a branch OF
the Northern Pacific railway, and is on
the line of a survey of a proposed
branch of the Burlington railway
system. Commencement of work on
the irrigation proposition would mean
the immediate building Of one or both
of these lines into the Big Horn basin
There is no doubt but that the project
will be pushed through to completion
at an early day, and when finished viii
be a gigantic affair and one Of the larg-
est in the arid west.
The Cheyenne Marble Works and
Monument manufacturers have failed.
Mckinley prosperity.
James 4. Boynton, prisoner in the
county jail at Glenwood springs, Colo,
has confessed that for eight years he
was a member of the notorious Hole
in-the- Wall band Of outlaws, and has
given the names of a large number of
rustlers who are memebers of the gang
at this time. Boynton is wanted IN
Johnson county for the murder of
Deputy Sheriff Billy Owens, which oc-
CURED last March.
A man named Wilcox drove his team
of horses into deep hole in one of
Cheyenne's principal streets Monday
morning and was seriously hurt The
hole was caused by a leaky water main
Judge Gibson Clark of the United
States district court for Wyoming has
returned to Cheyenne from visit to
the Yellowstone National park He
reports that upwards of 1900 people
have visited the park since July IL and
about 500 tourists arrive in the govern
ment reserve daily. Never before in the
history of the park have so many people
visited it during one season.
Senator Clark has engaged man to
visit the Klondyke gold fields and in
vest in some claims for him. He be-
leves that KIondyke is all that it has
been reported, and will endeavor TO
secure a portion of the golden harvest.
A fine carriage drive around Lake
Minnehaha at Cheyenne has just been
which cost the generous
$500.
The Grand Encampment Town COM
pany filed articles of incorporation with
the secretary of state Monday with
capital stock of 100000. The objects of
the company are to project city in
the new and rich Grand Encampment
mining district in Carbon county. build
car lines, electric light plants, etc, |
therein.