, 1907-03-29
COMPANY FORMED TO SETTLE
AND RECLAIM LARGE TRACT
IN THE NEIGHsoRHooD
OF BosLER.
Laramie Valley Irrigation Company,
With Ample Capital and Novel
Method, Expects Five Thousand In.
habitants Within Few Months
Town of BosIer to Be Situated in
the Center of Real Activity.

The Laramie Valley Irrigation and
Colony company, which has undertak.
en- an immense colonization scheme on
the Laramie plains, has opened offices
In Cheyenne, and is now actively en-
gagged in work, says the Cheyenne
Leader. The company is backed by
strong eastern capitalists and will colo
nize a tract Of 10000 acres, lying near
the town Of Laramie and along both
the Big and Little Laramie rivers.
The Union Pacific railroad passes
through the center of the tract, which
was purchased from the Haley Live
Stock and Trading company.
An Original Plan.
The Laramie Valley Irrigation and
Colony company's method Of colonial
ton is an original one. The 60, 700
acres of land is to be divided into
tracts of FIVE, ten, twenty, forty, eighty,
one hundred and one hundred and six
ty acres each. In the exact center of
the tract is to be laid out the town
site Of Bosler, which will contain 1855
lots. Adjacent to the townsite, and
forming a circle around it, will be the
five acre tracts. Adjoining the five
acre tracts, on the circumference Of
the circle, will be the ten acre tracts,
and in similar sequence and by similar
arrangement, will come the larger
tracts. The total number of tracts or
farms will be the same as the number
Of lots in the townsite, 1855.
Colony in Three Months.
The management of the company an
ticipate that not more than three
months will eiapse before all of the
farms have been disposed of. The
land will be sold on an easy payment
plan, the purchase price being collect
ed in monthly installments of $40 on
each farm. Each farm will be sup
piled with water for irrigation purposes
from a central system, which will o n
sist of reservoirs and extensive bitches.
The lane is adaptable for farming,
market gardening, fruit raising and
dairying purposes. The outlying farms
to the south of Bosler will be within
three miles of Laramie.
Town Of 5000.
The company anticipates that Bos-
Ter within a short time, will become a
town of at least 5000 inhabitants, and
lying in the center of a highly cult
waited and productive farming country.
The promoters of the company are
men who have had wide experience in
colonization work, and who are in a
position to proceed on businesslike and
scientific lines. The new town will
have the advantage of ample railroad
facilities, the main line of the Union
Pacific passing through it
Character Of Land.
The tract to be colonized is about
eight miles in width and twenty miles
in length and is traversed the full dis
lance by the Big Laramie river. The
Union Pacific runs through the tract
north and south for twenty miles, and
divides the land into two almost equal
portions. There are four stations on
the tract. The soil of the land is a
dark loan with a clay sub-soil, and is
highly productive. Heretofore the
land has been used for stock raising
purposes principally, a condition re-
sulting from the absence of an irriga-
ton system. However, 10000 acres
are under irrigation, there being more
than one hundred miles of bitches.
Great Laramie Plains.
The Laramie Valley Irrigation and
Colony company's tract is a portion of
the great plateau forming the Laramie
plains, long celebrated for the clear,
ness of the atmosphere and the perfec-
ton Of other climatic conditions. So
clear Is the air that ranges OF noun
tains thirty miles away seem almost at
hand. The finest hshlns ground OF the
continent is easily accessible, lying
both in Wyoming and northern Colo
RADIO. There is an abundance OF small
game.
Farming by irrigation has been car
ried on on the Laramie plains for many
years and has been entirely success
ful. The best crops are potatoes, sug'
ar beets, oats, wheat, native hay, al
falfa. field peas and many varieties
Of vegetables and small fruits.
Settlers Arriving.
The settlers for the new company's
/ lands are to be drawn largely from
eastern states. The first arrivals