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primitive condition Julian Ralph, the prominent American journalist, in an able article contributed to Harper's Magazine in June, 1893, says :--

"I have dwelt thus at length upon this brand new bit of America, so desolate now, so inviting to speculation, because it is plain that its future must be grand. How strange thing it is to be able, after reading the signs of development everywhere in the Far West, to point to a vast bottle, unpeopled except by half-wild cattle, and to say, with more confidence than one may prophecy of his own life to-morrow :'Here Will come thousands upon thousands of men and women ; here will soon be seeing vast areas of land fenced in, set with tidy farms and out-buildings, gay with green and yellow grain, dotted with orchards, lively with teams upon a tangle of wagon roads. Railroads will thread the scene, and somewhere - Ah! That would be prophesying to say just where – in the same basin there is certain to raise a city of wealth, size and importance; with factories and wholesale and retail shops, high schools, stone churches, parks and mansions.' Yet it must be so, and the days that are near at hand will see this basin so peopled that the force of this prediction will even then be lost, for its force lies in the fact that there is nothing of all this in the region to-day"

While its mountain guardians' snow-capped peaks and forest reserves furnished illimitable supplies of water to its numerous rivers, they, in their vigorous rush to the sea during the ages, carved their courses through the silty bottom to bed-rock, which neccessitates artifical methods of distribution to render the vast valley available for the husbandman.

"Buffalo Bill," in the old Indian campaigns, often traversed this region when the mysterious valley was the retreat of the red man, General Mile's famous battle with the Bannocks being one of the many sanguinary episodes in its history.

With government troops years ago Colonel Cody, guided the late distinguished scientiest of Yale college, Professor Marsh, on some of his most successful "bone-hunting" expeditions. Always impressed with its scenic splendor's, which are of unequaled granduer (its pezuliar climatic conditions differing from any on earth), it's possibilities, through irrigation, of becoming the ideal home of the farmer, the rancher, as well as the miner and eventually the manufacturer ; in fact, as an enthusiastic visitor remarked on his first glimpse of the entrancing view, "This surely must be Paradise Valley!"

In 1896, Colonel Cody organize the Cody Cattle and Irrigation Co., and to-day Mr Ralph's prophecy is rapidly being fulfilled. The illustrations to better than words how the spirit of progress moves when the energetic sons of toil rally in her wake, to wrest from Nature, the riches she has stored in abundance for those who seek the comforts that ocme from welldirected industry.

In 1890, Indian Tepee; 1892, The Ranchers' Dugout; 1893, Cody Prospectors' Camp ; 1896, Town of Cody incorporated -- the Cabin Hotel; 1897, Cody's "Mountain Home" Ranch; 1901, chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad built a branch over the Big Horn Mountains from Tulucca to the City of Cody, a distance of 125 miles, entering that city in November of the same year. On November 18th, 1902, opening of Irma Hotel (Cody City) with complete modern improvements, telephoned rooms, etc. In three weeks an addition of 100 rooms was required in order to meet the demands of its patrons.

The town of Cody is within one day's stage ride from the "Wonderland of the World" -- the Yellowstone Park. The valley is alive with various enterprises and "propositions" in minteral as well as other industries. As this last vacuum in nature's prodigal gifts to the Great Republic is so plethoric in attractive conditions, Col. Cody intends to make his "Home" at "Mountain Crest Ranch" where the old Plainsman will be transformed into the Mountaineers, and where one can have a birdseye view for a hundred miles over the prosperous Valley of the Shoshome.

primitive condition Julian Ralph, the prominent American journalist, in an able article contributed to Harper's Magazine in June, 1893, says :--

"I have dwelt thus at length upon this brand new bit of America, so desolate now, so inviting to speculation, because it is plain that its future must be grand. How strange thing it is to be able, after reading the signs of development everywhere in the Far West, to point to a vast bottle, unpeopled except by half-wild cattle, and to say, with more confidence than one may prophecy of his own life to-morrow :'Here Will come thousands upon thousands of men and women ; here will soon be seeing vast areas of land fenced in, set with tidy farms and out-buildings, gay with green and yellow grain, dotted with orchards, lively with teams upon a tangle of wagon roads. Railroads will thread the scene, and somewhere - Ah! That would be prophesying to say just where – in the same basin there is certain to raise a city of wealth, size and importance; with factories and wholesale and retail shops, high schools, stone churches, parks and mansions.' Yet it must be so, and the days that are near at hand will see this basin so peopled that the force of this prediction will even then be lost, for its force lies in the fact that there is nothing of all this in the region to-day"

While its mountain guardians' snow-capped peaks and forest reserves furnished illimitable supplies of water to its numerous rivers, they, in their vigorous rush to the sea during the ages, carved their courses through the silty bottom to bed-rock, which neccessitates artifical methods of distribution to render the vast valley available for the husbandman.

"Buffalo Bill," in the old Indian campaigns, often traversed this region when the mysterious valley was the retreat of the red man, General Mile's famous battle with the Bannocks being one of the many sanguinary episodes in its history.

With government troops years ago Colonel Cody, guided the late distinguished scientiest of Yale college, Professor Marsh, on some of his most successful "bone-hunting" expeditions. Always impressed with its scenic splendor's, which are of unequaled granduer (its pezuliar climatic conditions differing from any on earth), it's possibilities, through irrigation, of becoming the ideal home of the farmer, the rancher, as well as the miner and eventually the manufacturer ; in fact, as an enthusiastic visitor remarked on his first glimpse of the entrancing view, "This surely must be Paradise Valley!"

In 1896, Colonel Cody organize the Cody Cattle and Irrigation Co., and to-day Mr Ralph's prophecy is rapidly being fulfilled. The illustrations to better than words how the spirit of progress moves when the energetic sons of toil rally in her wake, to wrest from Nature, the riches she has stored in abundance for those who seek the comforts that ocme from welldirected industry.

In 1890, Indian Tepee; 1892, The Ranchers' Dugout; 1893, Cody Prospectors' Camp ; 1896, Town of Cody incorporated -- the Cabin Hotel; 1897, Cody's "Mountain Home" Ranch; 1901, chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad built a branch over the Big Horn Mountains from Tulucca to the City of Cody, a distance of 125 miles, entering that city in November of the same year. On November 18th, 1902, opening of Irma Hotel (Cody City) with complete modern improvements, telephoned rooms, etc. In three weeks an addition of 100 rooms was required in order to meet the demands of its patrons.

The town of Cody is within one day's stage ride from the "Wonderland of the World" -- the Yellowstone Park. The valley is alive with various enterprises and "propositions" in minteral as well as other industries. As this last vacuum in nature's prodigal gifts to the Great Republic is so plethoric in attractive conditions, Col. Cody intends to make his "Home" at "Mountain Crest Ranch" where the old Plainsman will be transformed into the Mountaineers, and where one can have a birdseye view for a hundred miles over the prosperous Valley of the Shoshome.