The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1906-06-30
MORE LAND FOR HoMEsEEKERS.
Opening Of the Shoshone or Wind River Reser.
vation In Wyoming.

The presidents proclamation oper
ing the Shoshone reservation land
for settlement has been published an,
prescribes the plan of drawing 70
these lands, which has proved so sue
cessful with other agencies. Appli
cants are to register at Worland
Thermopolis, Shoshonl or Lander, in
Wyoming, between July 10th and
31st. The subsequent drawing fol
these lands will be held at Lander
commencing August 4th, the drawing
to be supervised by a committee OF
three persons of undonbted integrity.
Parties can return home after regis
tering, and the successful ones are no.
titled by card when and where to ap-
pear to make filings for the land
drawn.
The Shoshone area comprises about
100000 acres of agricultural lands to
be drawn for, and the government
made a remarkably cheap settlement
with the Indians: so that the cost is
not going to exceed $1.5O an acre for
the agricultural lands, except, of
course, the additional cost on the pro
rata plan for the irrigation works to
be built.
Sixty days after August 18th, those
seeking timber and mineral claims
can cross the border and take up these
claims under the timber and mineral
act, and all persons are especially ad-
monished by the government not to
attempt to jump mineral or timber
claims, or to enter the reservation for
that purpose prior to the appointed
time.
1t has been close race between the
building of the Burlington's Worland
extension up to the Big Horn River
and the opening date for this registra-
ton, and the most remarkable energy
has been put into the work by the
railroad to get this line finished to
Worland by the Fourth of July. Two
or three daily shifts of laborers are
laying rail day and night, and right
behind the steel gang come the ballast
trains loaded from an immense gravel
bed on the right-of-way. 1t is GER
tain that the Burlington's line will be
finished to Worland probably two
weeks before July 10Th, which is the J
first day of registration. !
One of the problems of settling up
irrigated lands in the West is to show !
buyers and settlers from the East the
and the wealth of irrigated
crops from year to year. All seekers
or irrigated lands from the whole
country east of the Missouri Riyer
appear to be from Missouri and have u
to be shown" and this was one of n
he chief reasons why the Burlington a
lauled out 5000 laborers thousand is
niles to the basin to hurry up this L
inc through the irrigated land of the u
Big Horn Valley, SO that the army of a
'ersons going to register for Shoshone d.
ands could see and appreciate the o.
'alue Of irrigated lands en- route. The r'
ew Worland line goes right through IL
zone Of irrigated lands extending all
ne way from Frannie along the Big in
iorn River, traversing single tracts G.
10000 acres under cultivation. be
The railroads have also shown their pc
lterest in the enterprise of settling up in
lie new West by undertaking to bring th
Ut the largest possible number of en- th
les for this drawing with unusually to
W excursion rates, the main motive pa
ing to get the people out and scat hs
r them over the new lands of the tel
Test. ne
Wanted. wi
Gentleman or lady with good refer WI