Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-19
Drill. w. Hubbard
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
WABENO, WIS.
The Opening of the Shoshone
Reservation

The land OF profitable opportunity
still lies open to the homesteader.
The Western frontier is rapidly dis
appearing, but the homesteader and set
tier still finds an occasional opportunity
10 pick up a quarter section OF Govern
ment land. One of the last chances of
this kind win be given by Uncle Sam
when the Wind River or Shoshone In
dian Reservation lands are thrown open
to the homesteaders some time this
summer
This tract of som ething over mill
lion acres is situated in central Wyom-
ing, just east of the jackson Hole coun-
try and the Yellowstone Park forest re-
sery.
In the mon,a aims elk, bear, deer and
other wild game have been most album
dant. 1t has been without railroad fa-
cilities in the past, but The Wyoming
81 North Western Railway is now rap
idly laying rails across Wyoming from
Casper, the present terminus of the
I
North Western Line, to Shoshoni, the
new town which has sprung up since
the reservation opening has been an
nounced and to Lander in the Lander
Valley, one of the richest spots in Wy
oming, where numerous small irrigated
farms produce forty to forty-five bush
els of wheat, two hundred bushels OF
potatoes and sixty bushels oats to the
acre.
This new line of railway opens up
millions of acres of sheep and cattle
range, where the rich buffalo grass and
gramma grass make the best pasturage
on earth, curing like grain, so that
stock will fatten on it in the fall.
The new line passes through Wolton,
one of the biggest original wool ship
ping points in the world, and win be
completed to Shoshom within the next
SIXTY days or less.
Shoshoni is two and one half miles
from the reservation border. and here
and at Lander the Government will
probably establish land offices for reg
istration when the Indian lands are
thrown open.
The Reservation has been inhabited
by doeile, law abiding people, who
are engaged in farming in a small way.
The most of them have taken up laud
by allotment, preparatory to abandon
ing the reservation, and the govern
ment is encouraging the leasing OF these
Indian farms, which are very choice
lands, to white farmers.
The State of Wyoming controls the
waters of Wind River and Little Wind
River, and the State engineers are MAX
ing surveys and preparing for irrigation
projects under State supervision, by
which a large proportion of the reser-
walton will be placed under water and
thereby made very valuable, Agricul-
ture here without irrigation is practic-
ally out of the question. aud such lands
as do not come under the proposed
ditch viii be used for grazing lands, for
which purpose they are without SUI
perior.
II the State builds the irrigating ca
nails now proposed, it viii give an OPP
portunity for newcomers and settlers to
secure work.
a large movement of people West is
I pY.,.d;efsa Nvbar, the rates ca. tha a.,
shone opening are placed in effect
The fortunate settler who secures one
of these quarter sections win get mis-
land at a cost of about Sl.5o per acre.
payable in easy installments, covering
period of several years. This, of
course, does not include cost of water
rights ON such lands as are to be irri-
gated.