Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-02-16
THE sHosHONE RESERVATION.
It is Expected that Over $4,000
Persons VIII Register for
Lands in June.

AeAAoS AAA toA~s
1900, 600 acres to be throw open.
75o, 900 acres of agricultural land.
Great chain of virgin mountain
country rich in minerals.
100000 acres of fine grazing land.
These are the opportunities offered |
to the people of the United States in
the opening of the great Wind RIyer
Indian reservation in Wyoming on
June Is next, says one of our ex-
changes.
Without doubt the opening of the
ceded portion of the reserve will
cause mighty influx of homAseek-
ers from all parts of the United
States and during the next five years
it is conservatively estimated by
those familiar with conditions here
that between $4,000 and 100000
settlers will take up homes In this
state as the result of the opening of
the reservation and the construction
of gigantic irrigation systems now
under way.
The opening of the great reserva-
: ton will occur on June Is of this
year and all preparations tor the
event are now being completed.
The surveys have been finished and
+ the.plats fled and within few days
announcement will be made of the
towns which will be designated as
' registration points. And it Is COR
f fidently expected that Rock Springs
q will be one of them.
The vast tracts of land which the
| government set apart for the lndian'
f and the greater portion of which II
f now to be thrown open again to set
f Element are not all good level lant
20 nor can all be used for farming
It purposes, but any one who ha
travelled over the reserve has fount
q. that it contains great tracts of tn
Ia very best agricultural land and
,e sufficient supply of water from III
II mountain streams to reclaim all Q
or the land which can be reached b
ia CANALS This is self-evldent. Th
N Indians could not be kept in bal
Of rem, worthless country. They haH
always been given land, conside
able of which was level and ferti
and about an equal amount I
mountain country, which hay
furnished them hunting and fishing
While there are hundreds of acr
90 which are practically WORTHLESS
there are many thousands of acr
-. which will be converted into &
: finest farms to be found IN the we
10 It is estimated by engineers W
80, have been employ ed on surveys
~ the reservation that fully one-ha
ha, or 7aO, 900 acres, of the ceded res
o1o vation can pc farmed. Sufficle
water is available to irrigate t
- whole, and while it will cost ci
"a siderable for the construction
;no canals, the cost per acre WI ! not
as great as those projects which
now in course of construction
&c Wyoming and other western stat
The Shoshone reservation has
~ high mountain ranges and is drail
ooL by one big river system. With
Io exception of a few low ranges
II. altitude will average from 5000
6, 900 feet, the altitude of Lane
nod where apples and all kinds of f
- and farm products are ralse', be
,h;, $500. Thousands of people
,ha come to Wyoming with the c
o,e. pletlon of the railroads irrespec
,nc, of the opening of the reservat
but this presents to people an
e,h- portunity of securing, at nom
- = cost, valuable farms which in
,rof, wears will be worth many time
man prlce paid 20 the government
Il n them.-Rock Springs Miner.
ou,d An Explanation.