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Her ii perhaps the last sreat op
portunity open to the American farmer,
stock raiser and grower of fruit the
poor man as well as the rich man the
forty-acre man with a big family as
well as the land owner of thousands of
acres to buy the priceless acreage of
the Big Horn valley, Wyoming, at a
bottom' price and on terms of nine
equal Installments.
Never before In the history of west
ern development has any offer to the
American agriculturist and rurallst
been presented by company or Indi
vidual that can compare with this last
great occupancy right in the heart of
the best and richest property of the
Hanover Canal company In a land
that is famous for its tremendous
bumper crops, in a climate that is
ideal, a soil which is the marvel of ex
perts the world over; in a country
where they havfc no cyclones, no torna-'
does, no floods; no drouths.
This will probably be your last
chance to make your trip out into this
, wonderful country and see with your
own eyes the land not of promise, but
the land of reality. Out at Worland,
Wyo., they're going to sell 20,000
acres, right in the heart of the valley
of the Big Horn, where canals are al
ready in and the water is now read
for farmers' use. The canals will be
turned over to the farmers In 1909 to
manage themselves. This Is official.
Now, what does this mean to you?
.What significance does It bear for you,
your family, your children and the
years to comet
It means Teryuung, or u means
nothing, according as you make up
your mind right now, today, to act
upon It or not, to go or to stay, to
win or to lose, to progress or to stag
nate, to make a thoroughly good and
comfortable living along lines of least
resistance, or stay poor, where land is
poor and fight for life with a stubborn,
niggardly soli.
You are invited to come out where
this virgin soil of the American conti
nent has been thrown open for settle
ment and development. You are in-
vlted to coma yourself come with
Sour boys, come with your wife, and
read the story of alfalfa, where grows
the plant Itself and that is revolutioniz
ing the agriculture of the west.
We. want you to come. We give you
the chance to come. The railroads are
co-operating with us and with you so
that you can come. Low rates and
special trains are at your service. Corn-
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Visit this Patch When You Come Out
plete plans for the outings re already
In shape, and If you don't tome, and
if you do come and don't buy a few
acres at least, then, indeed, it 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. Buff urn of the
State University of Wyoming, who Is
called "the Burbank of Wyoming," has
gtven it most emphatically for his opin
ion that "this locality is the one emi
nently fitted for the production of farm
tad garden seed and as a place in
which to breed and Improve plants, and
for the favorable growing aud produc-
Uon of crops in a climate lrca from
storms, from hail and wind, 'luiing the
growing and harvesting seaio.i; a soil
deep and suitable In the mineral plant
- foods, besides that combination of soil
and climate so difficult to explain in
words, which secures productiveness
and the plants themselves wonderfully
quick growing and fruitful, a long sea
son free from frost and the yield anj
quality of farm products unexcelled."
These are the conditions we want
you to know and to see and to prove
ot your own knowledge, and ben you
do know, you'll do what every other
Iol ttEno IhKBaupt' ofi
siirndl nniiinis esiips
prosperous, rich and satisfied western i
developer has done before you-"you'll
buy all you can and get busy, and the
land will do the rest." For lands in
the Big Horn valley spell prosperity,
and there has never been a 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 bus got to
know If he is going to know at all
What about the climate?
What about crops?
What about alfalfa?
What about grain barley, 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 unfailing
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
Low
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 fleree ex
tremes so common In the older-settled
sections of the country. The 20,000
acres we are going to sell are sur-
rounded by mountain ranges. The land
lies in the Basin country and is well
protected. We have, in dd-iitlon 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 Injures your crops.
The practical farmer will know what
It means to be free from the rotting
of seed in the ground and free from
the mildewing of crops or the rpoillng
of hay. With us soil moisture condi
tions are under our own control, so
that we can secure the best in growth,
health and productiveness. We can
govern our moisture, because we water
by Irrigation, and the Big Horn river
carries a never-failing volume ot sup
ply. Inexhaustible, and which with de
veloping vegetation will become even
greater in the jears to come. And no
rain failures In this lower part of the
Basin. No danger from hall. The sea
son free from frost, which saves the
more tender fruits and vegetables. The
fastest growing crops in the world
right here and all with an Irrigation
system scientifically perfected and
under absolute control, so that a crop
failure never could occur except
through gross neglect or Ignorance.
Soil The soils of this section vary,
and are therefore
suitable for a
large variety of
crops. We all
know that new
Bolls are gener
ally uneven, so
that changes are
apt to occur, on
small areas. It
takes more time
to tame and to
put into tilth
some soils than it
does others. But
we have no poor
soil. And w e
Big Horn
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give you all the
advice of west
e r n experience
and of the gov
ernment experts;
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Line Canal.
useful to you in devoting par
ticular soils to particular uses; but
there isn't an acre in this whole sec
tion that won't grow alfalfa and more
of it than anywhere else in the world,
and the growing of this plant !n rota
tion solves any soil problem vou'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 'natter in
arid soils is immediately remedied 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 llccts.
Here is an easily-grown and won
derfully profitable crop. Sugar beets
of the Big Horn basin show a phenom
enal percentage of sugar and command
the very highest prices. In fact, the
sugar beets of the Big Horn basin hold
the record of 18 1.4 per cent 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 $4.50 per ton f. o. b. tracks, and
U left with the tops and crowns on your
hands, which have a feeding value of
1 7 per acre. So sugar beUs are a big
matter in this section; in fart, every
purchaser of land in the Big Horn val
ley will be asked to make .1 contract
for from ten to twenty-live acres of
beets. For we have assurance's '. nut as
soon as we succeed in producing ti.000
j?icre8 or. Deeu r0 ",na,,- w.e 11
Have a Idliui t liuiiauu, .u.u nuru
we get the factory you and th other
growers will get 95 a tou for your
beets Instead o f
$4.50. The develop
ment of the sugar
beet bubinei. out
here will double the
value of this land.
We know so be
cause 1'. has been
the history, of land
develop ment in
every sugar beet
district In the Tnlt
ed States. Take the
Billings. Mont, fac
tory, for ln.itance;
you can't buy an
acre of land any
where in the vicin
ity there within 3
miles of a railroad
and 60 ot tha town
for less than $100
an acre. We may be
mistaken, but wc
Sugar Beet
tlino Htgj Moinni . Valley
Jim "wihificelhi to TDsi"y fioip 511
believe that this is the sort of informa
tion 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'je trying to
give 'em to you.
Otlier Bolls.
"The lighter, sandy bench lands are
River, Our Water Supply and High Line Canal.
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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 we1
have none of that "white
alkali" which is destructive
over some limited areas la
parts of the arid region.
There is none of it in tfce
Big Horn basin.
Cropn
You know what
crbiis are.
but you don't know' what
crops can be till .'.yo.11 farm
out here where you "raise
the limit." Think or alfal
fa in buKches nine feet high!
Think of three, four and
nve cmungs a season:
Think ot "alfalfa teed as
bringing the highest
prices on the market today. But we've
got to-rell 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,' fruHs,
dairy products, hogs, etc. And for
every one of these specialties 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 mnr-
ket. you'll find a world of opportunity
and attractive demand for the pro
duce. But perhaps the more important
crops for market now pre 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 .ire so fa
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
ful country. It is the most wonderful
crop that grows. It is the bes and
quickest soil improver known. It Is the
best and most profitable roughage to
feed in the world. Naturally It is the
plant most universally in demund 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 superstructure of irrigation
farming. You grow alfalfa for three
years, plowing it under, and you will
Increase your soil fertility that comes
back to you in other crops by at least
$30 an acre. And what else?
At the
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A wonderful trip to a wonderful country.
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 20,000 acres
we are going to sell He in the heart
center of the best alfalfa country on
the face of the earth; the most won
derful alfalfa samples ever shown came
right out of this
Big Horn basin of
ours. Alfalfa bun
dles 9 feet high!
shown at the St.
Louis and Port
' land expositions;
other bundles 7
feet 4 inches in
height sent down
to the Wyoming
State fair last
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 f
this section.
Properly treated,
B. H. Harrington
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 over twenty-eight
bushels of seed per acre, and the price
wholesale for the cleaned and tested
need has never been below 10 cents
per pound. ' Just stop and figure this
out. It gives you a return of from
$18 to $168 per acre. And Big Horn
basin seed Is the best that grows, su
perior to any, because it Is "alsed far
north, is uniform in size and possesses
plumpness, color and the greatest
germinating power. What wonder,
then, that there is such a constant and
high demand for this seed. Good
farmer whn know how should raise
an average of not less than fifteen
bushels of seed per acre, worth, at 10
cents per pound, $90. Now allow a
total outside cost of $20 per acre for
production and you have a uet return
of $70 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 tB selling on these terms or
as cheap as, It does; simply because
they can't get the people to get on a
train and go out and see it. That's
Just 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 unbuyableat any price. That's the
reason. It has been demonstrated
that Wyoming-grown alfalfa seed gives
much better results when planted In
the east or south than 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 ot some kind Is usually
grown the first year on any uew land.
Secondary crops of value for sod are
'corn, potatoes or millet, and very often
good stanas 01 ai-
falfa are obtained
here even the first
year. our srnan
grains, however, are
unexcelled In qual -
lty and big returns
are securea even
from new soil. An
other thing, small
grain is useful In
rotation to follow
potatoes or,V other
cultivated crop to
use as a nurse crop
for seeding back to
alfalfa.
Barley.
One of the most
of Loading .
profitable s ui a 1 1
grains you can grow
and there ll be
it
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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. It is superior In color, in
weight per bushel, in yield und 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 malsters 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 ot this
country could hardly express their en
thusiastic commendation of the barley
from the Big Horn. For the produc
tion of pale ale It commands a high
premium, requiring no artificial bleach
ing. And this barley crop of yours,
Mr. Farmer, right here on .t.hls land,
will net you more than $20 per acre
above the expense of ralstng--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 20,
000 acres lie, in this same section of
the Big Horn valley, average more than
forty pounds per bushel, and the east-
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Spreading Water.
ern farmer Is glad to buy the seed.
One man last season 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
gation made to ripen In September.
Wheat.
The wheat crop is still the standard
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This Factory is Located at Billings, Mont. It buys All Sugar
Beets Raised at Worland, Wyo. One like it Will Be Built
at Worland When an Acreage of 6,000 Acres of Beets
Has Been Secured.
of the Big Horn basin country. And
what wheat! On our new lands Wor
land winter wheat has -made tremend
ous yields. Although tho winters are
open and dry, wheat has not winter
killed, but produces thirty to forty
five bushels per acre, with only one or
two Irrigations, and your returns above
expenses on this crop alone range from
$12 to $2 4 per acre and a big demand
for seed wheat.
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iiore very long, n is cam; iinr wuu
'a minimum of water, and a hog food
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grown rignt in mis secnon, Biooa straw
six feet tall and grown on new land,
never irrigated before snd following
a dry winter, with one light watering
about two weeks before harvest.
Potatoes.
This Is the best potato couatry that
lies out o'doors. jr here you grow
crops of over 800 bushels per acre,
and properly grown crops of from 200
bushels to 400 bushels per acre are
sn averatce Drodurtlon. The cost of
, raising sod marketing is exceedingly
'low, about $30 per acre, an1 ;his gives
'you net returns of from $50 to $7&
per acre, and even more than that for
carefully cultured crops. The Burling
ton railroad U now giving a rate ot
40 cents on potatoes to the river mar
kets, thus enabling you and every
potato grower of this regl.in to com
pete with northern Colorado grower3
on an even luiais.
The Town and Its KuciUticH.
Worland Is a little town, looking up
about 1,000 Inhabitants something
like 700 now, but a good trvn; two
hardware stores, a furniture store,
bakery and confectionery, nivat mar
ket, clothing store, harness store, one
hotel and three restaurants, livery sta
ble, barber shops, laundries, farm Im
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 wonderl'il things
in the evolution and development of
seed ' culture.
Every acre of the 20,000 acres to
be sold is within three miles of a rail
road not an acre in the 2'), 000 that
M over 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 theui In detail, frankly
and fairly and honestly. Sonv ot
them 12,000 acres we ivn under
deed and offer to sell undor deed;
8,000 acres are "Curey act" land.
Every title guaranteed solid hs the land
itself; every deed and evert- title reg
istered, recorded and protected. Now,
now, can you buy these lands? What
are they going to cost? How much
down; etc? Here's the proposition:
The' price per acre ranges from $45
to $60,. according to location and
preference. When you 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
at.
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 uuch 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 $8 lown 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 rlch.Mt, rarest
country in America. It is "one more
opportunity you can't afford to let go
by." So make up your mind now to
do it now, and then come with us out
to the Big Horn basin.
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And now you want to know when to
come to Worland, what the fare is,
what railroads and what lime the
trains start.
Here's the schedule: Trains leave
each of these cities over tho Burling
ton railroad. Tickets are purchase
able at any Burlington office or at the
depot.
Trains leave Tuesday, September
15, as follows:
Round
Trip Kan-.
Leave. Time.
Omaha 11 :59 p. in.
Chicago 9:15 a. ni.
St. Louis 9:0a. in.
Kansas City... 8:05 p. m.
Denver 7 : 1 5 p. m.
$31.25
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34.00
32.25
Any questions you want to ask or
sny special details you want more in
formation will be furnished you by Mr.
J. L. Lewis, whose address appears be
low. We will furnish you a book and
maps, free, on application, both raiU
irosd 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,
801 Liggett Building, M. Louis, Mo.,
U. 8. A,
