Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-08-12

OUR NEICHBORS.
BURLINGTON, WYOMING.
Facilities In the niE Horn Basin Tor Home
niahing-A Prosperous settlement
hplcIll C0Trcsn0ndence.

Facilities In the Zig Horn basin Tor Home
making-A Prosperous settlement
Special Correspondence.
Basin. wyo., Aus. 5.--Perhaps some
OF the readers of the "Ncws" viii be In
tcrcstcd TO know that there Is a settle
mcnt Of the Laltcr-day Saints located
IN Big Horn Basin. Tho Basin ls one
hundred aud my miles long by one
hundred miles wide. w. have Just had
the pleasure Of a visit from Apostle
Abraham -, Woodruff and Elder
Joseph W. McMurrin OF the First Coun.
cil uf Seventies, who held meetings In
the burlington meeting house saturday
ana sunday, july -sth and aOth, They
completed the organizations ut the
BURLINGTON WARD.
report uf which viii BE- sent you By
the ward clerk, Is. l. Prpator.
burlington Dr. situated three or four
miles north OF the ORGY Bun river. UNI
der canal taken out by our people.
This was the nrHt canal In the Basin
90 be- taken any distance from the main
streams, uud the nvr years that our
people have been building homes on
what Il called the Burlington HAT, has
No transformed the appearance OF tho
country, that II has caused the older
settlers along the streams 60 marvel at
our progress,
While the water ~ the Grey bun rIv-
or IN about all appropriated. there are
two largo streams, the lilg Horn and
Sinking Water rivers, either VI them
about the size Of Green river la Utah
which have lying along their banks
thousands OF acres " as fine land us
can De found in the west, just waiting
60 be cultivated, Corn. tomatoes, water
melons, etc., can hv raised ON either uf
these streams. in fact, they are raised
#.H HH#|U j. .Na H.. H.H
walton than either Of the two rivers
mentioned. There are cat-hsh and pike
In the lilg Horn, trout ana other species
VI ush In the sinking Water We also
have two OF the brst mineral springs IN
the United States, namely, the BIG
Horn Hot springs nc Thurmopolis ON
the 1915 Horn rivers near the mouth "
owl creek. ana the Cuchy Hot Springs
uu Sinking water near the mountain.
There IL also plenty on timber also saw
mills, ON the huudwuters OF SunNng
water, also In the liig Horn mountains
from % Co go miles from hIg Horn river
This lH destined 60 Dc the banner
county OF wyoming 30 far ns nFricul-
tului products are concerned, the ultl-
tude h lower ana there IL more water
Tor irrigauuE purposes than IN any oth-
or part NJ the State Tho altitude ranges
from $500 feet Go 1000 feet above the
sea. Cattle and horses do well here ON
the range the year round. / have "a
ranch ON Wood river. a tributary OF the
Grey Bull. whore the elevation " be-
tween siN and seven thousand feet, and
Il IL Within four miles 90 the Pine time
Der Cattle have wlntercd up there sy-
cry winter since I have boon hero. fix
years We very seldom have snow
enough here for slelghlng I'm winter.
Last winter was the exception, 30 ala
not come then until February.
This has been n peculiar season. eve
erythlng IA very backward, although
they are cutting grain upon the Ilg
Horn river. ana some have started to
cut the second crop OF luccrn.
Basin iH the county seat, and Is silt
untcd ON the wost bank OF the Big Horn.
about nyc miles south OF where the
Grey Bull cmpues into the Big Horn.
II Is twenty-five miles, "a little north OF
west. from Basin TO Burlington; the
town OF otto Hes about half way hes
tween. and II ON the Grey Bun river.
Bridgcr, Mont, is our nearest railroad
point at present, which ls about 30
miles north ~ Burlington ana 40 north
uf Shrinking Water.
The News h welcome visitor.
Any Information the readers Of the
News" desif,. IN regard 60 this country
will be cherrfully given by u. T.. Wood
run Of this place,