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Shoshone Irrigation Company,

OWNERS OF THE CODY CANAL.

Has Water Ready for Thousands of Acres of Good State Lands.

UNLIMITED WATER WAITS THE CULTIVATOR,

FINE LAND WAITS THE PLOW.

LETTER FROM STATE ENGINEER.

STATE OF WYOMING,

ELWOOD MEAD, STATE ENGINEER,

CHEYENNE, WYO., DEC. 22, 1896.

SHOSHONE IRRIGATION CO., CODY, WYOMING:

GENTLEMEN. - I regard the Cody Canal as one of the most important and valuable projects ever influence on our growth in wealth and population.

It will open to settlers a region having vast and varied resources. I know of no place in this country which offers to prudent and industrious farmers greater assurances of material prosperity and physical comfort than the Big Horn Basin.

This valley has a local climate, with less snow-fall in the winter than any part of the surrounding country, and with a mean temperature in summer which permits of a wider diversity of crops than is possible in much of the country five hundred miles south of it. It is, therefore, equally well adapted to the purposes of the stock raiser, grain grower, fruit raiser, or market gardener.

The Cody Canal takes its water supply from one of the largest rivers in the West, and reclaims some of the best land in this State. The completed portion is well and substantially built with an ample capacity to water all the land below it.

The price of shares therein is as low as the cost of the work will permit; the conditions of purchase absolutly fair to water users. The ultimate ownership of both Canal and land by settlers, with the abundant water supply, gives the cultivators of these lands a security and independence not always enjoyed by irrigators.

I can, therefore, unreservedly and heartily commend your project to investors and the lands it waters to homeseekers.

Respectfully, ELWOOD MEAD, State Engineer.

TITLES TO HOMES PERFECT.

TITLES TO THE LAND FROM THE UNITED STATES TO THE STATE OF WYOMING.

FROM THE STATE OF WYOMING FOR BOTH LAND AND WATER TO THE PURCHASER.

Comparaive Cost of Land. - The price of irrigated land varies in the different localities. Taking the arid region as a whole, the average price varies from $50 to $100 per acre. In California it ranges from $50 to $400; in Arizona from $25 to $100; in Washington from $55 to $100, and in Western Colorado from $50 to $100. In all States there are lands suited only to the cultivation of grasses and cereals which may be had from $25 upwards. But for lands under the Cody Canal which can produce such a variety of crops the price asked is remarkably low, for it must be remembered that you secure not only the land but a perpetual water right.

The State charges only 50 cents per acre for the land (and $2 fee for completing title), but requires of the settler that he shall show evidence of contract with the Irrigation Company for the water right requisite to make his land of any use, and the Company's price is $10 per acre. This need not all be paid at once, however. It can be paid in five annual installments, with simply the addition of 6 per cent. interest.

PRICES REASONABLE AND IN SMALL PAYMENTS.

COL. W. F. CODY, President.

Full information can be obtained concerning procurement of this land by prospective settlers from

GEO. T. BECK, Manager and Secretary,

BIG HORN COUNTY. CODY, WYOMING.

FROM:

THE MERCALDO ARCHIVE 104-42 104th SREET OZONE PARK 16, N.Y.