Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 21, 1920, Page 6

> it ou iti Str bet STATE TO TAKE To be in Ca I i cial suc state had the largest production of woo |\that Ci the elopment oe our “With the exception of the sovern-\than any state in the Union. my oil ehtra eee ey isnt ners ment reclamation projects re has could give you statistics indefi'| impress upon has happened in this state,! peen little irrigation developmeni|nitely, not only to prove the progress| tied to become and our oil industry today is in its In-' in the e within recent ye and —— — — fancy to be expected that fortaccount of lack of funds the Federal S year ind pe rie aero ter Re on Service has been able to f overed, although! yng only a small portion of the > {t 1s doubtful it « eld will be found| work contemplated;®The tee. iad now All-Star Bill Today in the state which will produce greater! come when, if we expect to save the| wealth than that at Salt Cre There) waters of our streams for use on ian.ds . Is no question but that develop- within the state, we must take steps to ment of C n due to the dis: develop at an early date such lands in | covery « Creek more than] the state as are susceptible to irriga-| I ie o any ¢ and perhaps that tion, At the present time we have un-| . which will contribute more than any) der irrigation something over two mil: Continuous 1 P. M. to 11 P. M. | other thing to its future growth fs the) jion acres of land, and nearly a half | oll business. However, it is not always) million acrees under completed canals! 4 Et & wise to have all our eggs in one basket with an adequate water supply await- ODAY i) is only by the development of) ing settlement. In addition, the-e ore each and every one of our natural re-| two and one-half million acres that can| \) sourc that we can Wyoming) be irrigated and which, if developed, | e th it state that she is destined to) will mean more than five million scres| |e While we can expect in the) of irrigated land within the state.| oro y a on ! new industries all of! Along the North Platte river between | id to our population and| the Pathfinder Dam and Glendo there IN. ly nothing will br more wealth are 85,000 acres which the Reclama- i& to the state than the development of} tion Service has reported upon favor- r4 9 b) our sultural In using) ably, and probably $0,000 acres of this ; & the word agric I use it in its/land is tributary to Casper. If we wait i ad roadest sense, including horticulture.) for the Reclamation Service to develop! i farming, stock-raising, :fid dairying, | this tract the probabilities are it will| all at produces from the s be years before anything is done, and & vides land if properly handled nev PACE SIX UP IRRIGATION (Continued from Page 1) per lin seems 1e Ty trip in a wa 1 don’t remember very the trip or Casper for the I wa y about two ye ng home. The fir 1 certain that T would hi of per had it been here at seen Casper when it was a} I have known it when town, then as a sheep r all as an oil city. It w ood town. There} bee and large in t the people he best In the ‘ rrivals have » to tandards set by The but one criticism be made of Wyoming ana] hat ¢ ‘one has insisted on isiness at the same eryone was engaged industry: next came the for ep. Now is oil cee oe have need the secretary} MOVING M IS A SIZEABLE 16 Casper Chamber of Commerce] viceroy while traveling on a flat car. 2k on the subje of agriculture must say, that I e to do Chicago, on their way to their new Grand Park home. JOB—It looks like the king of the jungle mourr _€he Casper Dail ning over the head In reality they are two of the larger stuffed specimens of the old Field Museum in Moving the whole collection is expected to take a year. boy - pv ted In some | state and I hope that many of those| become financially inter nt today vill not only be willing|of our irrigation projects co-operate in the development of ultural resources but may also A girl will dance ten mij Sat and say she isn’t a bit tirea, but , ferent if she has to walk a hat to match a spool of thread fo. ' ag ab : If you're always wishing you'll a‘ ways be wanting. Iris Theater LAST TIMES SATURDAY A wonderful star, a great picture, a massive spectacle, a wonderful romance, a vivid drama, and a giant among big pictures, with Geraldine Farrar —IN— - ‘lame of the Desert’ The massive scenes of this great picture were laid in Sahara and Cairo. SUNDAY Other THE HOUSE OF QUALITY PICTURES BEST VENTILAT- ED THEATER IN THE STATE Tomorrrow and Sunday CONTINUOUS 2:30 TO 11:00 his slain ¢! i ae ia b muchim ies the state so that today what might not, ee tout some ne’ have been a good business proposition been brought in ina few go can be made a fi e is no food for the world the time has tome for the people in and about to interest themsel exhausted and continues to p *}even to the extent of investing their food and wealth. It differs from 1 *|money, in the development of the or oil we that eventually lands surrounding this city. Consider ves and the mineral pred-| ing the prices of agricultu products taken out can never be putiin this part of the state, together with| back in the land. In mining it i the demand for feed for livestéck,| of expending the capital, wh there is no question that these lands the interest on the iny om i spi at <¢ if put under: water will be worth from $100 to $200 an acre. To have them ir-| cultural development of ated would not only add to the as of other western states,| tractiveness of the country surround- een retarded by? unwise federal) ing here but it would al laws which w designed Increase in population middle west and were never|for the city. I hope ¢hat some of you for this section of the country.| who have made such laree fortunes in te of these laws we have made oil will consider taking a “flye*" in frri- levelopment and it is to be hoped, gation, and I believe it is tulcy as sate that by more liberal legislation in the/a business proposition as some of the! future our progress be accele-| chances that you have taken in the 9il rated. In the 7 we .have game. This project here at Casper t made more pre s agriculturally| I mentioned is but e of the many on than any other time in our history, but the state, but I believe that there is po unfortunately most of this develop-| section where lands if put under irri-| ment has been in dry farming and the fration will command a higher figure) development of irr tion projects he ;than these lands. The time has come been more or, 1 elected when we must do something to bring “In dry farming, we have seen the|our lands under irrigations I have eastern part of the state transformed) never favored the state engaging in ir-| from a range country into cultivated) rigation enterprises but unless we can} fiel and where a few years ago there|interest private capital, the state must! w few 1 we may now |take a hand. I haye given the matter| tire tions settled up, town :|much thought as I realize that the and prosperous communiti estab-| state cannot afford to lose money in lished It has been demonstrated that)irrigation enterprises any more than dry farming is a success in certain} the individual. I hope to have some parts of the state, and this is particu-| definite plan ‘to propose to the next larly true where those who k et-| legislature whereby we will be in a po-| tled on dry ms have been able tojsition to not on ave for Wyoming accumulate a few head of livestock, es-|the waters of its streams but also to pecially dairy cows. There is no doubt jhasten the irrigation of our arid lands but that dry farming will be success-|‘To devise a law that will safeguard the fully carried on in many other parts of| finances of the state is a very diffi-| the state, but Tam equally certain that cult matter, but I believe it is possible in some sections dry farming in itself) “Very few realize the agricultural] will not be successful. Hov it is}development that has taken place in hossible.that many who are taking up|the state, The value of farm crops, not| lands will be successful in establish-|including livestock, produced in the i homes. {year 1918 amounted to $47.964,000, “It unfortunate that irrigation | equal to one-sixth of the asgessed val- projects in Wyoming have not been|uation of the state for that year. I successful from the standpoint of the;have not the figures showing the num-| promoter, and in some instances of the ber of sheep and cattle or the wool sold settler, T have been large amounts during that period, but considering the of money lost in irrigation, not from| fact that we had over a million head of) the fact that the projects were not) cattle and three million sheep there is feasible but for the son that the'no question put that our agriculture owners of these projects were unable produced more wealth than. any other to settle their lands quickly and in con-| industry. Many have contended that} sequence the interest paid on the the development of farming and the money invested wiped out th profits| cutting up of the open range would re-| #nd in some instances nital in-|duce the livestock in the state: yet in| vested. In other cases, knowing the year 1890, the year in which Wyo- stand not have ther bout irrigation to| ming was ‘admitted, the total number jects that from ul of cattle, horses, mules, goats, sheep point for physical reasons wi and swine is shown by the records of practicable. Since that time we|the state to have been but 1,146,000 learned many lessons, and, fur-| with a total value of $8,759,000, while lands have increased in value in! with the cutting up of the range, in Dancing Every Evening Excepting Sunday Iris Pavilion 1918 the total number of iivestock hadwe have increased to 5,300,000 with a total value; duction fof $72,600,000. Further, in 1918 per ‘THEN. 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