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GET
AN
IRRIGATED FARM
IN
THE FAMOUS
VALLEY
Goshen County, Wyoming, is a good place to live plenty of
water, air and sunshine an ideal climate among congenial
people. Buy a farm while the land is cheap.
The Climate
it delightful. There is plenty of
sunshine and the prevailing winds are
from the west. In this respect, as
also in temperature, the climate is
very similar to that of Colorado.
There is a period of blustery and
disagreeable spring weather in evi
dence during the months of March
and April, extending sometimes in
to May, during which period most of
the wind movement occurs. From
June 1st to the end of the year, the
winds are moderate and pleasant,
tempering the heat of the warmest
days in summer.
The Altitude
ranges about 4,200 feet. The win
ter is mild and the nights are cool
in si'mmer.
Trees and Shrubs
Throughout the North Platte Val
ley experiments by the government
am by individuals have demonstrat
ed tnat several kinds of shade trees
grow well on these lands. For
quick growth cottonwood and poplar,
preferably the latter, are planted for
shace. These are followed by ash,
elm, locust, and box elder, which
trees are of longer life. All of these
trees thrive in this country under ir
rigation as do the different varieties
of shrubs of the temperate zone.
The Soil
The soil is a sandy loam of ex
cellent quality, free from alkali and
other injurious substances. It is
easily worked and particularly a
daptcd to the raising of first-class
potatoes and sugar beets. The na
tive vegetation consists of buffalo
gras, grama grass, what is locally
knovn as wheat grass, otherwise
bluestem, and black-root.
The Town of Lingle
is situated just sixteen and one-half
miles from the eastern edge of
Goshen county and the state of Wy
oming, on the Guernsey line of the
Burlington railroad. Lingle is in
the exact center of Goshen county,
and will make one of the best towns
in the North Platte valley.
Lingle is a new tov.'n, only a few
months old, and is steadiy grow
ing. Opportunities are here for
new lines of business and it will pay
those wanting locations to investi
gate this thriving little town.
The townsite is located on what
is known as the old upper P. F.
ranch, which has been planted in al
falfa for fifteen years, the soil be
ing the richest in the valley.
Located ten miles from the near
est town on the east, Torrington,
and twenty-three miles from Guern
sey on the west, Lingle is bound to
make a good sized town. Lingle
has 178,000 acres of irrigable land
tributary to it, nearly two times as
much as any other town in the val
ley. Goshen County
is destined to be the most thickly
populated and one of the most im
portant counties in the state of Wy
oming. With approximately 300,
000 acres of irrigable land within its
boundaries it has greater opportun
ities than any other county in the
state.
Hundreds and hundreds of acres
cf sugar beets are planted in the
county this year, and it will not be
many years until a sugar factory
will be located in the county.
Thousands of acres of irrigated al
falfa greet the traveler throughout
the county, and it will not be long
until all of the land under the ca
nals will have been taken up and
farmed.
NOW is the time to get a low
priced irrigated farm in this county.
The land can be secured on easy
payments.
EVERY CITIZEN I n Goshen
county is a booster. Knockers are
not found here. The spirit of pro
gress which is found everywhere is
fast bringing this country to the
front.
This Company
originally started the canal under
whicn the lands for which it has the
water rights lie. Forty-two miles
had been started and was under
construction when the governmen
proposed to the company that it be
.allowed to take over and complete
the canal and have the use of the
same for carrying water to the gov-ern-rient
lands in Nebraska.
In return for the use of the canal
the government agreed to carry the
watei for the lands of the North
Platvc Canal & Colonization Com
pany, to maintain and keep the ca
nal now known as the Inter-State
canai. at a maintenance charge of
only forty cents per acre per year
for the lands of this company.
This is the only case of its kind
in the United States. Private lands
are watered from the government
canal at a very low maintenance
charge and the lands can be taken
up under the liberal provisions of
the Carey act.
THERE IS PLENTY OF WATER
and there is still some land left
whicli can be purchased under the
Carey act, the purchaser paying the
company its price of $30 per acre
for the water right and paying the
state fifty cents per acre for the
land. The payments are divided
into easy installments.
Dairy Products
Nc other region offers better op
portunities for success in the dairy
business than does the North Platte
Valley. Native grasses are abund
ant and of excellent feeding value and
with the increased production under
irrigation of alfalfa and cereals for
feeding, the future of this industry
is assured. Omaha has become the
largest market in the world for dairy
products, and there is an instant de
mand at a good price for every pound
of butterfat that can be produced.
Since the introduction of hand separ
ators, large central creameries and
rapiu railroad transportation, the lot
of the dairy farmer of the west is
pleasant and profitable.
Markets
Tne principal markets for all the
products which may be raised in
the North Platte valley are Denver,
Wyoming, Nebraska and Missouri
river points. Dairy products, eggs,
poultry and garden truck all bring
high prices and there is a constant
and growing demand for these farm
products. The great markets of the
Middle West Omaha, Kansas City,
Chicago and other large cities take
all surplus products, sending in re
turn machinery, household supplies
and other manufactured articles not
yet produced in the valley.
Homeseekers are wanted. Lands are cheap and the terms easy
North Platte Canal and
Col
on
EUGENE DAVIS, PRESIDENT
izatio
Co
n
LLOYD C. THOMAS, GEN'L MGR.
Lingle
Goshen County
Wyoming
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