Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-04-08

industry offers exceptional opportunities
and will bring increasingly satisfactory
results to the settler Of the Shoshone pro-
ject
The open winters and bright days Of early
spring are especially favorable to the poul-
try raiser. Eggs and dressed fowls are al
ways in demand at good prices, and the
home market consumes all that can be pro-
duced.
The Big Horn basin will always be a
livestock country because Of the natural
adoption of the climate and products OF
the soil to the highest development OF
animal life. The foothills and higher alti-
tudes Of the mountain ranges afford cheap
pasture for sheep, horses and cattle during
the summer months and the abundant
forage. crops which can be produced in the
valleys under irrigation will render the
livestock business profitable for all time.
The cultivation of alfalfa has brought the
hog and hog raising has been found to be
very profitable. There is no fear of hog
cholera and the market for years viii be
at home.
There are opportunities in every line of
business. The valley is practically a virgin
field.
The reclamation Of 10000 acres Of land.
with a family on every forty or eighty
acres will necessitate the establishment of
many new towns and will add greatly 10
the population Of the towns now in ex-
stence
All manufacturing industries which de-
pend upon agriculture for their raw ma
terial will find a virgin field in the sho-
shone project There are exceptional open
ings at this time for the establishment of
a creamery, a flour mill, a condensed milk
factory, a packing house, an ice factory
brick yards, a steam laundry and sewer
pipe and tile factories
The valley needs a nursery, good seed
growers, greenhouses and truck farms The
man who wants to farm a small place and
live near town will find profitable sources
of income in small fruits orchards. bees
flowers and in raising chickens for poultry
and eggs.
There Is an excellent opportunity for
profitable employment in raising well-bred
stock for range and dairy, to be sold to
the new settlers. The raising Of good
class Of horses and mules will also prove
remunerative
In the building trades every opportunity
is offered as there is a scarcity OF skilled
artisans OF all classes.
Farming in the Big Horn basin /,
strictly an irrigation proposition.
! The advantages Of irrigation are many:
| The yield from irrigated land In the dr.,
regions Of the west is about double tha
! from lands in the humid zone.
The harvest is absolutely certain. as tn,
water supply Is under control at all times
and the growing crop need never be in
/ jured by receiving too much or too littl,
water There is no waiting for the ground
/ to be mOistened or for the rain to cease
The crop is never lost at harvest time
the farmer harvests when he is read,
without having to wait for favorabl,
weather conditions, for they are Away
| favorable
/ The continual sunshine not only enable
I the farmer to better cultivate the soil
but the products OF that soil are OF bette
quality than are those usually produce,
! where man must depend upon uncertain
rain.
Farming by irrigation is not an experi
ment and any person capable OF farminI
by other methods is certain OF success
providing he will give careful, inteIligen
attention to the work before him; is no
too set in his own way as to how irrigation
should be carried on, but is willing L
learn and be guided by those irrigation
principles and methods which have bee
proven by the experience Of others to brin
the best results.