, 1907-06-18
CITIZENS.

DESIRABLE
Laramie county Is receiving a large
influx of men and women from the
state of Iowa. These people are com
ing from both city and farm. They
believe that the lands lying to The
east Of Cheyenne can be successfully
farmed without irrigation and point to
the success achieved by the people
of eastern Colorado II western Kan
sas as proof of their contention. In
fact, they have proof right at hand. In
the little colony of Salem, north of
Pine Bluffs, there are many farmers
who have o n on year after year rails
ing fine crops with an average rainfall
of approximately fifteen inches. Some
two years ago a Scandinavian farmer
in southeastern Laramie county fleo
on eighty acres OF land under the
homestead act, saying that he had a
certainty. A year later he filed on an
additional eighty acres as an adjoining
farm. This year he is applying for
the sale Of a quarter section under the
act relating to the sale Of isolated
tracts. showing that he is entirely
asked as to the crops he is raising, he
said that last year he had a large acre.
age Of oats which yielded fifty bushels
to the acre and four acres Of potatoes
that brought him a return OF two huii
dred dollars. His oats were sold at
$1.10 per hundred. His fifty bushels
per acre weighed more than 1000
pounds.
But it was not the purpose Of this
article to show what can be done. but
simply to show the kind o! people Wy
oming is getting through this move
ment. The companies at the head Of
the operations are Iowa capitalists.
They purchase tracts of land from
ranchmen, the railroad company and
others and divide them up into 160'
acre farms and sell them OF. Those
making settlement are quite generally
taking homestead entries of 100 acres
In addition to their cash purchases,
thus giving them 800 acres each. The
lands purchased for cash run from
five to fifteen dollars per acre., thus
giving the people from Iowa, where
land is held at one hundred dollars per
acre, what they consider very cheap
land. To show their faith in the move
ment, a large number Of those who are
At the head of the companies have
made homestead entries themselves.
Some ladies have made entries and In
at least one ase two women have
homesteaded adjoining farms n will
construct a double house upon the line.
While they will live in the same house.
one will live on one side Of the divid-
side, making actual compliance with
the homestead law.
One prominent doctor Of Des Moines,
Ia, has made a homestead entry, has
built his house and will make Wyoming
his home. On Memorial day the gen.
tleman mentioned was the orator OF
the day and the Des Moines Register.
in the course Of a two-column account
OF the proceedings, stated that the
talented and eloquent speaker frequent.
ly moved his audience to tears. The
Republican quotes two sample para.
graphs:
ITO be patriotic, however, does not
require war, sieges or battles. Bravery
does not alone belong to those who
faced the lannon's mouth. stood in
front of the fierce bayonet charge or
the rushing cavalry, or resisted cold
steel with living. pulsating hearts.
Glory and honor to those brave souls,
but to me the bravest of the brave in
those days of the sixties were the wo,
men h stayed at home. Those who
suffered the blind; dunno pain that
came and did not go away. Those
mothers who gave all they had-one,
two, four, yes, as many as eight sons
to fight and to die If need be for their
country. That mother who Rugged her
only boy to her bosom, gave him his
little Bible, kissed him and babe him
go out for his flag and his country.
Those mothers who prayed to the God
of battles SO often so tenderly to save
her boy at the front. Those mothers
who waited, watched. prayed and wait
ed, watched n prayed again for the
sound of the football that was never
to be heard crossing the threshold Of
home.
"Ah, those weary hearts, most o.
them now waiting by the river for hel
boy in blue Of the long ago. That wifi,