, 1908-04-23

The largest land deal ever recorded
in the state of Wyoming is about com
Melted and the papers are now receiv'
inc the inspection of eastern parties
who are at the head of n Of the
greatest colonization schemes ever un-
dor taken in the west. The terms have
been agreed upon, earnest money paid,
the papers are being prepared and the
land is ready to be transferred. h
cago and eastern parties with literally
unlimited means are at the back of the
enterprise and the local representa-
tives, Messrs, Adams and Bunten, are
making daily trips to the country to
inspect the land and complete some
minor details. They were taken to the
Oasis ranch and lower Laramie river
acres today, the purchase including
several thousand acres in that section.
The company is backed by n of the
biz trust companies at Chicago, one OF
the largest in the country, and no
money will be lacking to carry on the
tremendousmovement in%agurated here.
Chieapoans In City.
Among the parties interested in the
deal and who arrived this morning are
the following: e. r. Tallmadge, E.
Yonts, L. H. Mckee, ]. l.. Bland, Mr..
Burke and MI. Waase. They are stay
Ing at the Union Pacific hotel and were
included in the party making the trip
to the country in three local automo-
biles this morning.
-Four Immense Bodies.
1t is stated that the purchase will
include the Haley ranches along the
Big and Little Laramie rivers, the
Hoge ranch, the Riverside ranch and
all the holdings of the Wyoming Cen
trail Land and improvement company.
The deal itself is the largest ever con-
summated in the state, to say nothing
of the gigantic plans of the company
10 reclaim the land by irrigation and
sub-divide it so that the population OF
this county will be added to several
thousand within the next few years.
Canal To Be Enlarged.
Among the properties secured In the
deal is the Pioneer canal owned by the
Wyoming Central company, and the
largest irrigation system in Albany
county. This canal takes its waters
from the Laramie river and already
supplies a large acreage between the
headgates and its junction with the
laramie river far below this city. The
canal will be enlarged and improved,
~itscapacity more than doubled, and lat
erals constructed to reclaim every acre
possible in the large holdings OF the
new concern. The work will start, it Is
stated, later in the summer, So as not
TO interfere with the irrigation season
now beginning. The lands to be re-
claimed will be divided up into con-
venient farms, on the same plans as
those inaugurated on the Millbrook
holdings in the Little Laramie valley.
Thousand Families to Be Added.
1t is the intention Of the company to
pace not less than one thousand fami-
lies on this reclaimed tract, or, rather,
ue different tracts, as the purchase
includes land both above and below
lnls city accessible and capable of re-
c'amation, besides, the thousands OF
acres Of the finest grazing and hay
lands, The colony will be made as
nearly self-sustaining as possible
through the soil, the diversity of farm
iag covering all the known yields for
we laramie plain and experiments
alohg other lines from time to time.
~ Is the intention of the company to
encourage, among other things, the
srowing of potatoes and other root
.iops for home consumption and mar
net Tests have demonstrated that no
Were in the west are better potatoes
s'o"n and in greater quantities, while
%e yield Of oats, as is we'll known
eie' is enormous, some Of the grain
having been found to outrank in quail.
~ and yield that of any other section
mtne world. Mr.. Stickney's expert
A'e IN Iowa, related in some detail in
me report Of the proceedings of the
~, meeting Of the Laramie CONNER
Na' c'nb, bears out sis statement.
Better Class Of coionlsts.
.ae thousand colonists will be Of the
er class Of citizens, an effort being
-~oe TO get men Of meaus. so that the