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Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-30
The richest Alfalfa and Farm Lands
in the heart OF the Big Horn Valley
and nine years in which to pay for it
A wonderful trip to a wonderful country.

per acre, and even more than that for
carefully cultured crops. The Burling-
ton railroad is now giving a rate of
40 cents on potatoes to the river mar
kets, thus enabling you and every
potato grower of this region to COM
pete with northern Colorado growers
on an even basis.
The Town and Its Facilities.
Worland is a little town, looking up
about 1000 Notwithstanding
like 700 now, but a good town; two
hardware stores, a furniture store,
bakery and confectionery, meat mar
ket, clothing store, harness store, one
hotel and three restaurants, livery sta
BILE, barber shops, laundries, farm i'm
plement stores, feed store, brickyard
and one newspaper, the Worland Grit.
We've got a good graded school and a
Methodist and a Baptist church, and
right close to Worland Prof. Buffum
late of the Wyoming State university,
has established his seed breeding farm,
where they're doing wonderful things
in the evolution and development of
seed culture.
Every acre of the 10000 acres to
be sold is within three miles Of q rail-
road-not an acre in the 20, 900 that
is owe five miles from the shipping
point. In fact, we have four shipping
stations right on the land itself.
Now, we've told you and the intelli-
gent, progressive readers of The
Omaha Bee what these lands are. We
have described them in detail, frankly
and fairly and honestly. Some of
them-12, 900 acros-we Iwn under
deed and offer to sell under deed;
5000 acres are CAREY act" land.
Every title guaranteed solid as the land
itself; every deed and ever. title reg
istered, recorded and protected. NOW,
how can you buy these lands? What
are they going TO cost? How much
down, etc? Here's the proposition:
The price per acre range from $40
to $50, according to location and
preference. When O get out there
and look the ground over, make your
selection and come to terms Of pur-
chase, they will be as follows: Eight
dollars per acre down in cash and the
balance in nine equal installments,
bearing 6 per cent interest. Payments
may be anticipated at any time and
paid up in full If the purchaser sees
fit.
We have said that this is perhaps
the last great offer upon easy terms
of the alfalfa lands of the Big Horn
valley. And it is. When, again, in
this world will you be able to buy on
anything like these terms such price
less acreage as you have here? We
venture the day will never come again
on this continent. Think of buying
this kind of land for IS down and
nine years to pay'the rest in! We ask
you to write us at once. Make your
arrangements to come along; you'll
have a grand trip at a very, very low
cost, and you'll see the richest, rarest
country in America. 1t is lone more
opportunity you can't afford 10 let go
by" So make up our mind now to
do it now, and then come with us out
to the Big Horn basin.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-30

plete plans for the outings are already
in shape, and IL you don't ZONE, and
II you do come and don't buy a few
acres at least, then, indeed, 1t will
prove your own fault and not because
opportunity failed to invite YOU. And
right here let us tell you before we go
any further that Prof. Bunum of the
State University of Wyoming, who is
called the Burbank of Wyoming" has
given IL most emphatically for his opin-
ion that this locality is the one emf
neatly fitted for the production of farm
and garden seed and as a place in
which to breed and improve plants. and
for the favorable growing ana produc-
ton of crops In a climate Tres from
storms, from hail and wind during the
growing and harvesting season; a soil
deep and suitable In the mineral plant
foods, besides that combination of soil
and climate so dihieult to explain in
words. which secures prodactiveness
and the plants themselves wonderfully
quick growing and fruitful. a long sea
son free from frost and the yield and
quality of farm products unexcelled.
These are the conditions We want
you 10 know and to see and to prove
OF your own knowledge. and when you
do know, you'll do what every Other
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-30

rounded by mountain ranges The land
lies in the Basin country and is we'll
protected. We have, in addition to
the common characteristics of aridity,
an abundance of continuous and in
tense sunshine, warm days, but cool
nights, and absolutely a country that
is storm proof, and the steady, even
aridity or dryness is one Of the most
important blessings you could ask.
And there isn't such a thing as too
much moisture from rain, because that
never Injuries your crops.
The practical farmer will know what
It e to be free from the rotting
of seed in the ground and free from
the %mildewing of crops or the spelling
OF hay. With us soil moisture condi-
tions are under our own control, so
that we can secure the best in growth,
health and pro~ductiveness. We can
govern our moisture. because we water
by irrigation, and the Big Horn river
carries a never-failing volume of sup
ply. inexhaustible, and which with de-
veloping vegetation will become even
greater in the years TO come. And no
rain failures in this lower part OF the
Basin. No danger from hail. The sea
SON free from frost. which saves the
more tender fruits and vegetables. The
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of the Big Horn basin country. And
what wheat! On our new lands Wor-
land winter wheat has made tremend-
Gus yields. Although the winters are
open and dry, wheat has not winter
killed, but produces thirty TO forty
five bushels per acre. with only n or
two irrigations, and your returns above
expenses on this crop alone range from
$12 to $24 per acre and a big demand
for seed wheat.
Rye
is going TO become y standard crop be.
very long. 1t is easily fniSed with
a minimum of water, and a hog feel
of great value. This seasons crop,
grown right IN this section, stood straw
six feet tall and grown on new land,
never irrigated before and following
a dry winter, with n light watering
about two weeks before harvest.
Potatoes.
This is the best potato country that
lies out o'doors, tor here you grow
crops OF over 500 bushels per acre.
and properly grown crops OF from 200
bushels to 400 bushels per acre are
an average production. The cost Of
raising and marketing Is exceedingly
low, about $50 per acre, ami this gives
you net returns of from $50 TO SIS
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more grown when more farmers un-
derstand how much more money they
can make by growing more than they
do. Barley is a money-maker in this
section. 1t is superior in color, in
weight per bushel, in yield and malt
ing and feeding quality. North-grown
barley is famous throughout the
world, and ~north-grown barley from
the Big Horn valley is now largely used
by the leading masters of the east,
who value it on account of its peculiar
qualities, adapting it perfectly for ex-
port purposes. The big barley mer-
chants of Liverpool who came to the
great International exposition of this
country could hardly express their en-
thusiastic commentator of the barley
from the Big Horn. For the produc-
ton of pale ale it commands a high
premium, requiring no artificial bleach
And this barley crop of yours,
Mr.. Farmer, right here on this land
will net you more than $40 per acre
above the expense of raising--just bar
ley alone.
Oats.
There's a great local demand for
oats, and large yields, often more than
100 bushels per acre, and the crop
price from $1.25 to 2 per hundred
pounds. Oats grown around Worland,
right in our section where these 2O,-
900 acres lie, in this same section of
the Big Horn valley, average more than
forty pounds per bushel, and the east
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-30

prosperous, rich and satisfied western
developer has done before you4"you1l
buy all you can and get busy, and the
land will do the rest" For lands in
the Rig Horn valley spell prosperity,
and there has never been u hint of
crop failure or a breath of suspicion
that there might be. Now. we're go
ing to tell you what you want to know
in detail-what the intelligent farmer
and planter and grower has got to
know if he is going to know at all
What about the climate?
What about crops?
What about alfalfa?
What about grain-barlay, oats,
wheat, rye?
What about vegetables?
And then what about your market
and your prices, and how much does
the land itself cost? Maybe you'll want
to know that first. And how can you
buy it, and on what terms and under
what title?
And about water and the lnfailing
supply? These are the things you want
to know. Read them, for they're
worth it. Every letter in this public
statement can be made to grow dollars
into your bank account if you're only
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-30
B. H. Harrington Spreading Water.

alfalfa will yield you heavy crops of
seed, and these will be found among
the most profitable crops for the basin
farmer to produce. Alfalfa yields from
three bushels to owe twenty-eight
bushel of seed per acre, and the price
wholesale for the cleaned and tested
seed has never been below 10 cents
per pound. Just stop and figure this
out. 1t gives you a return of from
SIS to $168 per acre. And Big Horn
basin seed is the best that grows, su-
perior to any, because 1t is "aised far
north, is uniform in size and possesses
plumpness, color and the greatest
terminating power. What wonder,
then, that there is such a constant and
high demand for this seed. Good
farmers who know how should raise
an average of not less han fifteen
bushels of seed per acre, worth, at 10
cents per pound, $40. Now allow a
total outside cost of $40 per acre for
production and you have a net return
of $40 per acre and this on only an
average showing. Better yet, for the
possibilities have been proven all
through the valley to be double this
estimate. And yet they wonder why
the land is selling on these terms or
as cheap as it does; simply because
they cant get the people W get on d
train and go out and see II. That's
lust the reason we're telling you the
story in this full page of The Omaha
Bee-because we do want you to come,
Twenty years from now this land will
be unbuyableia any price. That's the
reason. 1t has been demonstrated
that Wyoming-grown alfalfa seed gives
much better results when planted in
the east or south h does either the
imported seed or that which comes
from states further south. This in
turn accounts for the unlimited de-
mand for it and for the fact that it is
bound to bring a premium always over
any other seed grown.
Now, Grain.
Small grain of some kind is usually
grown the first ear on n new land.
Secondary crops of value for sod are
corn, potatoes or millet, and very often
-
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useful to o in devoting par
ticular soils to particular uses; but
there isn't an acre in this whole sec
ton that won't grow alfalfa and more
of 1t than anywhere else in the world,
and the growing of this plant IN rota-
ton solves any soil problem You'll face
from now to doom's day. These soils
are rich and deep; an abundance of
the mineral plant foods, so that you
need no fertilizer. The comparative
lack of nitrogen and organic matter in
arid soils is Immediately Temedied by
rotation with such crops as alfalfa,
and this is the land of alfalfa. Some of
our heavier soils are well suited to the
production of sugar beets.
Sugar Beets.
Here is an e~asily-grown and won
derfully profitable crop. Sugar beets
of the Big Horn basin show a phenom-
email percentage of sugar and command
the very highest prices. In fact, the
sugar beets of the Big Horn basin hold
the record of lSh per cen sugar.
These lands are ideal for beet growing.
You are close to market and within
touch of the highest price paid and
the beets you grow commanding the
highest price.
Your average crop of sugar beets,
even on raw lands around Worland,
will show up as high as seventeen tons
to the acre, and you, the grower, re-
ceive $3.50 per ton I. O.. b. tracks, and
is left with the tops and crowns on your
hands, which have a feeding value of
81 per acre. So sugar beets are a big
matter IN this section; in fact, every
purchaser of land in the Big Horn val
ley will be asked to make 4 contract
for from ten to twenty-five acres OF
beets. For we have assurances that az
soon as we succeed in producing 5000
acres of beets around Worland, Wen
have a factory at Worland, and when
we get the factory you and the other
growers will get IS a ton for your
beets instead of
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-30

prices on the market today. But we've
got to tell you something about these
crops, so we'll condense it as best we
can. Crops here range from Canada
peas to Spanish peanuts and from Arc
tic plums to Chinese peaches. You can
raise anything and they all grow like
the beanstalk of Jack the Giant Killer.
There is good opportunity to develop
a generous number of special kinds of
farming, such as the raising of seeds,
bees, poultry, pedigreed stock, fruits,
dairy products, hogs, etc. And for
every one of these s~pecialties there is
a demand right now far in excess of
the supply. If you're going in for
mixed farming, you can market a large
variety of crops through your stock.
In what we call pure farming or the
raising of crops directly for the mar
ket. you'll find a world of opportunity
and attractive demand for the pro-
duce. But perhaps the more important
crops for market now are grains and
forage for home use and consumption.
seeds also which can be shipped and
potatoes for both home and outside
market. Climate and soil are so ia
vorable for the production Of sugar
beets that a home market has de-
veloped for this important crop.
Alfalfa.
This is the great sure crop, the key
stone and the backbone Of this wonder
full country. 1t is the most wonderful
crop that grows. 1t is the best and
quickest soil improver known. II is the
best and most profitable Toughage to
feed in the world. Naturally 1t is the
plant most universally in demand at
the present time, and as its value be-
comes better known the demand for
it will cOrrespondingly increase. For
arid soils alfalfa is the Gibraltar on
which and around which is builded the
whole superstTucture of irrigation
farming. You grow alfalfa for three
years, blowing it under, and you will
increase your soil fertility that comes
back to you in other crops by at least
$40 an acre. And what else? At the
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and are therefore
suitable for a
large variety of
crops. We all
know that new
soils are gener-
ally uneven, so
that changes are
apt to occur on
small areas. 1t
takes o time
to tame and to
put into filth
some soils than 1T
does others. But
we have no o
S soil And e
give you all the
advice of west
e + experience
and of the gov
eminent experts;
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-30

DeelS luSltdu Ol
$3.50. The develop
ment of the sugar
beet business out
here will double the
value OF this land.
We know so be-
u L. has been
the history. of land
d e o p ment I'm
every & b e e [
district in the Unit
ed States. Take the
Billings, Mont, fac
tory, for instance;
you can't buy an
acre of land any
where In the vicin-
ity there within 3
miles of a railroad
and so of the town
for less than 500
an acre. We may be
mistaken, but we
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-30

willing to let it.
Climate-The climate of the Big
Horn valley is open to so little criticism
by those who know that its climate
conditions are described as delightful
and without any of those fierce ex-
tremes so common in the old~er-settled
sections of the country. The 10000
acres we are going to sell are sur
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-30

right out of this
Big Horn basin of
ours. Alfalfa bum
dies 8 feet high!
shown at the st.
Louis and Port
land expositions;
other bundles z
feet 4 inches in
height sent down
to the Wyoming
State fair a S t
fall! and all right
from this same
land. Cut your
fields for hay and
you get common
ly a yield of from
five to six tons of
cured forage per
acre. Far larger
yields than this
are officially on
the records o I
this S e C t | o n.
Properly treated,
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ern farmer is glad to buy The seed.
One la last eason showed samples
at the county and state fairs of two
crops of oats the same season from the
same land, sown early and the first
crop cut when green for hay in July,
and the second crop by thorough irri-
cation made to ripen in September.
Wheat.
The wheat crop is still the standard
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-30

fastest growing crops in the world
right here-and all with an irrigation
system scientifically perfected and
failure never could occur except
through gross neglect or ignorance.
SOil-The soils of this section vary,
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-30

And now you want to know when TO
come to Worland, what the fare is,
what railroads and what time the
trains start.
Here's the schedule: Trains leave
each of these cities over the Burling-
ton railroad. Tickets are purchase
able at any Burlington Office or at the
depot.
Trains leave Tuesday, September
is, as follows:
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-30

deep, fertile and kindly to
work. And the heavy sage
brush bottom lands are
wonderfully productive, even
in the raw state. ready for
onion growing, trucking or
general farming. And we
have none of that white
alkali" which is destructive
over some limited areas in
parts of the arid region.
There is none of it in TIE
Big Horn basin.
Crops.
You know what efAps are,
but you don't know what
crops can be till Won farm
out here where you raise
the limit Think of alfal-
ia in buHches nine feet high!
Think of three, four and
five cuttings a season!
Think of alfalfa seed as
l. , =, ia L
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same time you are receiving profitable
returns in feed or seed. Alfalfa grow
ing in rotation solves all the weed
problems you ever heard of and with
out extra labor. These 10000 acres
we are going to sell lie in the heart
center of the best alfalfa country on
the face of the earth; the most won
derful alfalfa samples ever shown came
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-30

believe that this is the sort of informa-
ton you want before you put a dollar
into land anywhere-facts and figures,
crops and prices, instead of frills and
%fancies. That's why we're trying to
give 'em to you.
Other Soils.
The lighter, sandy bench lands are
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-30

good a or al
falfa are obtained
here even the first
year. our small
grains, however, are
~unexcelled in quail
ity and big returns
are secured even
from new soil An
other thing, small
grain is useful in
rotation to follow
potatoes OF other
cultivated crop TO
use as a nurse crop
for seeding back 10
alfalfa.
Barley.
One of the most
profitable s IN a /
grains you can grow
a n d therell be
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-30

Any questions you want TO ask or
any special details YOU want more in
formation will be furnished you by Mr..
]. L. Lewis, whose address appears be-
low. We will furnish you a book and
maps, free, OF application. both rail-
road map and detail map of the land.
Send your name and address for these
and address all communications in
reference to this TWENTY THOU
SAND ACRE OFFER to
.. l.. LEWIS,
2O4 Liggett Building. st. Louis, Mo-,
u. s. A
Bisbee daily review., 1908-06-11
LOGAN 6 BRYAN.
Especial Wire to L. J. overlosK.J ,

Special Wire to L. J. overlocK.D
 NEW YORK, June 10-Extreme duilness again prevailed in the stock market today. but prices were firm. particularly Amalgamated, Shelters and the Steels Reduction in the price of finished steel products. with the exception of rails was regarded as a favorable factor, as it is generally thought that business will be thereby stimulated. 4 slight improvement in the inquiry for copper metal and the irmer London metal market induced a better feeling among holders of copper stocks.
 There was little news to affect sen timent. but political quarters are be ing closely watched for news in re- gard to the outcome of tae eonven- tions. The Wheeling and lake Erie receiyership or the declaration of a fifty cent dividend on Western Union had little effect on the Gould issues. The indications are tbat trading will be confined 10 q few speciaIties and that fluctuations win be comparative Iy narrow until after the convention.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-06-11
Mining, SneIterS and StOCR Quotations

the vorld. the present volume of ma terial handled daily being about H.. Oe0 tons, for which seven steam shov. els are utilized. Some of the great Iron mines oS the Mesaba range, in Minnesota. have considerably exceed ed this tonnage in the comparatively short working eeason for several years past by extracting upwards ot 20.000 tons of ore. with steam shov. els. in a single day, but at present. mining matters are very dull on all the Lake Superior iron ranges, and the best that can be predicted is
 output of 55 to 50 per cent that ci last year.
 Nevada, which has been a small copper producer for several years. Is just about to enter the field of pro duction on a large scale from the cupriferous monzonite of the Ely camp, and the prospects of both heavy production and large earnings are bright, though the large earnings must be set forward a year or two, to time when copper sells at better prices than now rule.
 California is copper producer from nearly twenty counties, but on ly Shasta, ia the northern part of the state. furnishes an output of more than local Importance. Shasta coun- tvs production. until two years ago. has been mainly from the Iron Noun tain mine. but of late the Mammoth mine of the United States Smelling & Refining company has become a producer of importance. The Bully Hill mine of the General Electric company also is about to make cop per on a considerable scale. Balak- lava failed ingloriousiy through poor financing. and Lawson's Trinity re- mains an iridescent dream so liar as making copper is concerned, though it has proven q good money-maker for those who discounted the promises q the management and sold their shares at high prices during the boom.
 In the Lake Superior distrIcr there has been a slight contraction of out put, amounting to something like 5 per cent, but at present copper is be ing made on as large a scale as ever before fn. the history of the district The only companies to quit because of financial depression were the Cop per Crown, a little St Louis com pany, conducting an exploration in Ontonagon county, and the Adven- ture, which latter would have been forced to take the step. in all likeli- hood, regardless of market conditions. Some, of the leaner mines among the producers have been rather hard pressed to make ends meet, but all nave managed to do so somehow, and are working full forces; while the strong mines such as the Calumet & Hecia. Copper Range, Quincy. WHs- verine and 0sceola, are making not earnings, seven with copper selling at B cents or less, that run. in the az gregate, well into the millions yearly.
 HORACE J. STEVENS.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-06-11

the board nor is there any opposition to Col Greene. but We are desirous of finding out why certain promises made by him at various times have not been fulfilled. If we succeed in raising sufficient money we will send a high class mining engineer to ex- anime the different properties in Mexico, an expert accountant to go over the books there and Mexican lawyer to examine into the titles of the various properties and thus ascer- tain what we own and how we own it. The miners in the employ of the company have not been paid, am in- formed, for Ave months.
 Options on properties have been extended but as to whether actual opr ertions are now being carried on cannot say The only communicar tions which have been received from Col. Greene, who has been away since last fall, have been requests
 for money"