Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 8, 1910, Page 28

e SUNDAY BEE Digging in the Dirt Man's Response to Nature’s Call in O dig In the soil is to nurture the elementary virtues, say the phi losophers. This exercise is also an antidote for earking care. It may likewise prove a panacea for poverty, if the unfortunate ones of the cities can be interested suf fietently. And children learn to love flow- ers, to know the merits of vegetables, the qualities of trees and the habits and char- acteristics of birds, through school garden- in, rdening is a of men With hundred it 1s a pastime, or a periment with poin paper and theoretical business with and a hundreds Omaha perhaps thousands, fleld wherein to ex ter gleaned from news magazine articles written by gardeners know just and women in other who how the thing ought to ba done, whether th ever try thelr own formulas or not It I8 safe to say there are as many kinds of gardeners as there are gardens. Hoth in the amateur and the professional gar essential, a to a spirit of application sufficient to move mountaifs, Women se cure as good ilts as men, and In soms cases much bet There Is a very sub- stantial sprinkiing of women among the managers of the market wagons that drive into Omaha in the ruck’ season, and they do business as successfully as the men. In fact, many men who run big market gar dens invariably send their wi to dis- pose of the succulent fruit of their labors. Persons who are in the habit of going to tib public market to buy their vegetables, any time between 6 and 11 in the morning, have noticed that thers is a great difference in the methods of men and women who offer garden truck for sale. Occaslonally & man is found who puts his green stuff up in cleanly fashion, and some of the women n to give no care to making their wares attractive; but as a rule the women in charge of wagons give consider able attention to the attractive aside, while men take it for granted the vegetable in the rough is what the buyers are after, with- out regard to how it is handled, wrapped or tied, A goodly proportion of the market gar- deners have regular customers, like the big hotels and restaurants, that buy all the Kreen stuff they bring in, and very seldom do they appear at the public market Others again have customers in the resi- dence sections who look for their coming, in season, as regularly as the mail carrier In the amateur gardener class will be found not only mechanics and their wives, on the back of their home lots, but many a man and his wife, who can afford the luxury of a garden. The word luxury is uscd advisedly, for where a garden is not & necessity and treated as a business, with continuing care, it is something of an expense. An equipment of tools has to be secured in the first place, as well as secds. Then a garden hose is a requisite, with sprinkling pot, woed digger (If knee- ling and stooping is objected to) and divers and sundry etceteras that cost more or less, not the least of which is medicine for the disgracefully heaithy insects that find luxurious living In gardens, espe- clally 1t the latter be at all neglected. Some fat men make a success of garden- ing, If they have clever women or willing children to assist them by doing the work, while the director general supplies the brain power with satisfaction and & mind at rest. But to get down to the real work in the ground the slim, wiry man stands only second to the quiet lady with a sun- bonnet and a knife, who can smile at a garden patch and make It grow and thri The fat man seems to be handicapped by the need for wasting a great deal of his energy In grunting. Grunts do not count for anything around a proper garden Many a man is noted among his fellows for his success with unique flowers, or rose bushes, or some particular kind of vegetables, Before his mates have learned that spring Is here this gifted sort of per- son 18 offering tribute to his friends, and inspiring ambition or causing sorrow for neglected opportunity. Mail carriers and other public servants with regular, stated hours of labor devote a good deal of at- tention to gardening, judging by their talk. .In the court house and city hall boasts about “my garden”’ are not Infre- quent; and in the wholesale houses and raliroad headquarters bulldings, modest as- sertions of cleverness are somewhat com- mon. When a man has a good garden everybody that hs knows is informed of hie hopes and accomplishments, and very often friends receive substantial proof of the truth of his assertions There are special gardens, of course, liks Pa Rourke's thres patches at Vinton park, right, left and center, where the flowers of the base ball fleld are cultivated with assiduity and some profit. “Bugs” are also indigenous to these gardens, just as they are to the other kind. And then there are the school gardens and the vacant lot gardens. The school gardens are encouraged for their educa- tional value mainly, while the vacant lot gardens are based altogether on necessity. In the school garden brigade of Omaha about 750 boys have membership. Last year, at the exhibit In the Young Men's Christian assoclation, 315 individual exhib- itors proudly put up the products of their iabor and sklill for prizes. In every public school in Omaha, pratically, from twenty- five to thirty boys are now buslly en- gaged, during the spare hours, in “making garden.” At the John R. Kellom school the garden adjoins the buflding, but is the Q only instance of its kind this year. Last year and for several years previous, Frank- \ lin school had a vacant tract on which a great deal of graden ‘truck was ralsed, and popcorn was an especlal favorite, but this year some ambitious private gardener acquired the lot. E. T. Denison, boys' secretary of the Young Men's Christian association, has general supervision of the school gardens of Omahi and under him there are as many group captains are there are schools in the scheme. Mr. Denison helps the boys plan their gardens, advises with them, keeps them keyed up to steady work and instills into the group captains the spirit that wins. Back lots at the home of the boya are used for the school gardening experiments, In which all sorts of vege- What Irrigation is UCH as the people of the Mls- sissippl valley are interested in the new eastern domains open- ing for settlement by the over- flow of population from their high-priced farms, few of those for new homes realize that a new and prolific empire is now being built up looking and “industrialized” in northwestern Wyoming, just east of the Yellowstone park, a region greater In area than many of the New England states combined. 1t 1s the Big Horn basin, the locality that furnished Owen Wister material for his famous “Virginlan," and a region in early years, the hunting ground of the Sloux and Crow Indians, and the whites under the leadership of “Buffalo Bill"" But the civ- flization that has successively tamed every game and unsetiled reserve of the west, finally took hold of Colonel Cody, who saw a marvelous development could be at- tained in the basin, so many years ago, he persuaded former President Perkins of the Burlington to visit that singular country, and in escorting his party in that level de- maln, surrounded on the north by the Bear Tooth mountains, on the west by the Absorakas, on the east by the Big Horn and the south by the Owl Creek range, he predicted that men then living would live to see this country | itled up and highly developed. Cody did nut know the rapidity with which railroads and their passenger departments move in settling a new try. There fs in the basin today, a popu- Jation of 20,000, To the west was that great gap in the Abeorakas, known as Shoshone canyon Cowboys and ranchmen saw years ago, the potentiality of water applied to those basin Jands. This was in the days when ranch men, more than farmers and bankers, un- derstood the value of irrigatiqn and water coun- rights, now priceless, that at that time, could be had for the asking. They saw that tall narrow gap, or canyon, and dreamed of a massive dam, supported by the granite walls, that would store the wa ters of an immense lake, coming from the snow capped mountains, but in the early days, before the ratlroads and the western statesmen took up the practi- cal side of irrigation, the Shoshone dam was but a fancy, and could be shaped and made a substance only by some glgantic expenditure of money. This was but one of many unique spots scattered the west that furnished the key matie distribution of water desert where the water annually crea havoe by spring overflows along the lands between the Rockies and the gulf. This great Basin was one of those local Itles that could be turned into a garden by frrigation. Within those four mountain yanges are 8,000,000 acres, with an altitude of from §,000 to 5,000 feet—an ersed by throe of the courses in the west Greybull and Shoshone rivers, recelving thelr waters from eternal snows. In those days, the talk was irrigation and talk turned into governmental action, and but & few weeks ago saw the capping of the great Shoshone dam, the highest piece of similar masonry in the world, with its cap 338 feet above the river bed—along the Greybull and the Big Horn rivers. Ph- ate capital, contemplateously with the government, took hold of the water supply Mong those rivers with the result that there are today, over 130,000 acres of land down through to syste over plain and ed expanse trav- most ample water The Big Horn, the along those water courses, now under irri- gation and the work of the next three years will open up 200,000 or 300,000 addi- tional acres and settlement will continue to follow as fast as laterals are dug and water furnished But another great surprise awaited set- tlers. Lands were not the only source of wealth developed. The last few vears have made it apparent that the valley contained nearly all kinds of minerals, one of the tinest hot springs In the world, and a vast store of natural gas and the highest grade of illuminating oll. To do its great irrigation work, the gov- ernment will spend $7,000,000, and private fortunes have been committed (o the de- velopment of ol and mineral weaith. Thou- sands of acres, even stretches for miles, have been found of pure veins of coal from six to thirty feet thick. There are also large deposits of almost pure sul- phur, gypsum, shale, limestone, silica, as- phait, oil, -gas and mica, with great forest reserves flanking the country on all sides. The whole forms an area of agricultural, mineral and Industrial wealth, and every year Is adding its settlers and newcomers in that land of promise. One great polut of difference between the settlement of an irrigated reglon and the settlement of the rapidity with the prairies, 4 found In which an irrigation lo cality tills with settiers, when the water supply is assured; with modern methods, appliances and railroad transportation, & successtul irrigated locality will take on the appearance of a modern commonwealth at a ratlo of about five times faster than prairie land, and no better {llustration can be found than seen not only in the present large rural population of that region, but the live of little between the northern boundary and the center of Wyo- ming towns Here is Garland on the that re their water dam, just east of Cody. It has 3% people; Powell, in the heart of the first unit of government irrigation project, did not have goverpment flats, elve from the Corbett an inhabitant two years ago. Today it has fourteen business houses and 137 school childern the rolls. Just south of Powell is Byron. with 50 people, In the center of the.oll reglon. To the end of the main original line, at the foot of the mountains, is Cody, containing 6,00 in habitants and the county seat of newly created Park county. Here we find three banks, all classes of business lines, and the finest hotel in Wyoming built by Colonel Cody, for the benefit of the met- ropolitan class of people going in there including Yellowstone Park tourists. It is impossible to forecast the future of this place when the government dam site Is tully completed, as Cody will command an almost unlimited water power, generated aby the fall of this great storage water kept In check by the Shoshone dam, that glves It & fall greater than that of Niagara Cody will also be the market town for a 15,000-acre area of beneh lands, to be irrl gated and settled under the government plan. At Frannle, on the northern boundary of Wyoming, the orlginal branch inte the Basin has been tapped, for the main line that the Burlington is bullding along the Big Horn river to the exact center of Wyoming, where It turns to the southeast and merges into the Burlington system in Nebraska, Along this new main line are tables and flowers are grown. Homes are supplied with vegetables and flowers and some boys even make spending money from their garden patches. Then, in the late spring, the public .exhibit Is put on at the Young Men's Christian assoclation, when the competition is exceedingly keen and the judges have their work cut out for them. The prizes are such that they can be kept in the schools whose garden- ers win, and a good many of the buildings have on their walls trophies taken at the spring exhibit. This outside branch of school study is growing steadily In popularity and im- portance, and the effect on all concerned is reported as distinctly elevating by those in charge. Parents and principals allke take a great interest in it, and the boys who do the work have become so deeply interested that they will not neglect their gardens even for a base ball game. Besides cultivating the school garder the pupils of the Omaha schools are devot- ing attentjon to certain flowers, trees, birds and vegetables. To each grade is assigned subjects for study, as follows: First Grade—The tulip, mapl bean. Second Grade—Morningglory and petunia, sweet potatoes and common spuds, cotton- wood, read-headed woodpecker. bluebird, WELL .DIRECTED Third Grade—Swest pea, elm, corn, blue- Jay Fourth Grade—Poppy and zinnia, wren, radigh, beet and turnip. Fifth Grade—Geranium and canne, willow, flicker, lettuce and cabbage. Sixth Grade—Lily and sweet alyssum, box elder, catbird, tomato. Seventh Grade—Carnation, black walnut, red-breasted grosbeak, onion Elghth Grade—Rose and pansy, basswood, quall, equash and melon Every year more and more people are ash, Springtimet devoting attentior ther for profit or pleas more or less susc Yet Omaha s v thousands of dollars w tables and flowers and fruits where. The day 18 appare e future when everybody w spportunity and the availa mise what garden truck W. H. Shaw Is the munas the vacant lot gard § campalg in Omaha. Mr. Shay aw \ tossion, but he finds g studying law he \ charge of t at the Omaha | i and good deal of succ sirecting thel tentlon to the fruit £ the sofl, w it is properly tickied a hoe and then kept clear of weed N grew imo beauty and others before him, M X led to wonder why 't grow am Iy, not but agalnst strenuous desirable sprouts of the « e Kre care and much nourishing. | . On the list of vacar A in hand by the Assoclated ¢ es Omaha there are now a X with a few more ghn 1 ma widows with children hay supply all who might want a Shaw secured peri agents and private owne AImor acres of land. Of thi thirty-five acres hav 4 families evincing o b oga ‘ truck enough fur and § sibly some for sale. I A turned back to the peopl Most of the apres and are in the outlyl west south and nog cultivated by a ncedy fa street, but tha ! »f town Ten families, with dren, have an acie by families have two lots ca e ba are devoting their work It has been proven that one cit erly cultivated and carved for, v a surprisingly large am ¢ \ truck Sced was supplied free by the A 1 Charities bureau, ex potatac were mostly purchased by the | Senator Burkett and Congressman 1 ‘ cock between them forwarded (rom ingten close to 1,00 packages of vexe seeds. Hesides golng (o the vacant gardeners, these seeds upplicd Detention home of D count City mission, the Soclal Settlement in southern part of the city and the Dunka church mission Whore necessary the Assoclated ( had the plowing done willing people and in some caffes tools were furnizhed. M Shaw will give his personal suj laigely to the planting of seed and of the crop when It begins to ¥ I has held back the planting until the ing time was past, and even if they wanted to put in the seed some time ago, the beue ficiaries could not get it. Hence the vaca lot gardeners will not lbse any of their seed or thelr work through planting too early. Just how much will be raised on the thirty-five acres glven over to these peopls who are striving to help themselves by utillzing vacant property Is problematical, but Mr. Shaw and Miss Jontz and the pev ple they represent are confident enough will be produced to tide the workers the season of fresh vegetables, and in most cases furnish enough potatoes and other vegetables to supply thelr needs during most of the winter to follow Doing for several fast growing towns. Here is Cow- ley, a prosperous place of 800 people, in the center of 30,000 acres of irrigated land This also Is a sugar beet area and the knowing ones say that within five years an immense beet sugar plant will be estab- lished not far from this place. Lowell has 1,200 people and Is ten miles southcast of Cowley; here are $0,000 acres of irrigated land, with all Kinds of stores, markets and agencies, Further south is Burling- ton, (an old Mormon locality), with & pop- ulation of 300; on the Greybull flats are the towns, Germania of 200 and Otto, a town of 250 people, both Inland towns; at the mouth of the Greybull river, which flows through the heart of the Basin, Greybull and Basin. rounded by sh heat, are the towns ef The former is sur- flowing wells of gas that furn- light and power to towns along the river. Greybull is the division point, and is recelving a remarkable Influx of capital and residents. Basin is the county seat of Big Horn and has today 1,200 people, an electric light plant, a water works and a sewage system. Be- tween these towns, there has been recently developed, a large supply of high grade ofl, as well as gas. The latter is furnished at ¥ cents per 1,000 cubfc feet for domestic use, and 12 cents per 1,000 cubic feet for menufacturers. Twenty thoysand cuble foet of natural gas at a cost of $2.40, con- tains the heat units generated by nearly a ton and a half of coal. It Is this cheap county the Valleys of Northwestern power that will bring flouring mills, factories, sugar oatmeal and alfalfa meal estab lishments, woolen mills, etc., into this new country. Coming on south along the main line, are the towns of Worland, in the midst of 50,- 000 acres of land; Kirby in the heart of the soft coal reglon, and finally Thermopolis, the most interesting and beautiful city in the basin. It is a place of 1,200 people, of modern features, Including a $35,000 hotel, and the locality of the great hot springs, of a hot river, which is supposed to have its underground source in the Yellowstone reglon; there flows from this spring, ap- proximately 18,000,000 gallons of water dally, with a natural heat of 130 degrees; these were the famous springs of the Shoshone Indlan reservation, and were ceded by Chief Washakl to the government. When the Burlington line is finished through central Wyoming, Thermopolis will be made one of the few great sanitariums actually located upon a maln trunk line;, many of these wonderful spots having been found in inaccessible places, impossible to with any main line of road. Omaha mercantile and manutacturing Interests should keep & close eve upon the gradual settling up of this new line through the west. A study of the agricultural map of Wyoming shcws that most of its ir rigable areas w'll be traversed by Burling- ton lines. This means rural population and reach intense thriving farming, cities. Just to west of south to the Owl Creek mountains, is the Shoshone Indian reservation, part of which was opened for settlers three or four years ago. A private. corporation has the con- tract for furnishing the water for this lo- cality, where the lands can be taken up under the popular Carey act. A study of the map ought to show mercantile interests the of a new the hermopolis and importance close canvass of the tleld about to be brought into touch with Denver, Omaha and Kansas City; from the Big Horn river to the eastern boundary of Wyoming, s a stretch of semi-arld land that sustains vast flocks of sheep. 1t is one of the permanent wool fons of the west. rcm Frannle north, projected to Billings, a cut-off line 1s where connections are made into Northern Pacific and Great Northern northwest territory From rnsey to Bridgeport, along the North Platte, the Burlington now has a line nizety-eight miles in length, and while that stretch has been known as a branch with no direct castern outlet, it was originally built on main standards, as part of a long cherished, but deliberate plan to make t part of this central Wyoming main trunk line. This 100-mile stretch of valley east of Guernsey is destined to become one of the most productive zones in Ame: T'here are, adjacent to this line, over 200,000 acres of government and private irrigated land. From Guernsey trainloads of dally to Pueblo. iron oe are sent At Scott's Gossip and Stories About Noted People Real Som of the Revolut R. JOHN D. LEWIS Is the cnly living son of the revolutionary war in the I'nited sStates Printed on a the arrival card announcing dowrstairs of a salesman of teas and coffecs, this information is likely to startle the housewife in her daily rounds of dutles he My, Lewls referred to, who lives in Miladelphia, and who is as chipper richet on the hearth at in Virginia, the of a man who had sorved valiantly during two ycars of the big struggle for independence Mr. Lewis admitted that there might bo some inaceuracy in the statement printid on his business card making him the living son of the revolution as a vears, was born only From Utlca, N. Y., there have lately come stories of a gonuine son of the famous war, who the other day celebrated his 100th birthday I had not heard of Mr. Woodworth of Utica, until I read about him in the North American,”” said Mr Lewls, quoted by the Philadelphia North American, “and I have thought for some time that I was the only son of a veteran of the Revolution now living b Mr. Lewis was born In Accomac county Virginia, when father d when his mother was 80 years old was 33 years of ag His father died whin he wis 10 years old and consequert® he knows very little of his parent's recond durlng the Revolution beyond the mere outlines which are pre served in the records of the Department of the Interior at Washington There the ord s clearly and Indubitably and Mr. Lewis is not of those who have to scratch hard to find their connection with some one who did battle (n the revo- rec set forth, lution. H is not & member of any of the es which are based on descent from the fighters for independence In ‘a simple dence which claims of Mr. of his modest 18 & document ment of the wooden frame is the proves beyond a doubt Lewis. In the front little home it hangs, made out by the Interior telling of record of Thomas Lewls and coffea mother parior and It Depart the war father of the tea merchant of -this city. Mr was for many years a pen on the strength of her husband's revolutionary record. Lewls sione mmany's Orator to Quit. Interest Vague Grady's would was aroused by Senator uncement that he o state senate at recent retire expiration of ann from t his p the the Cincinnati bell sting to his refuse to it term, say New York correspondent of the {an't that th 18 no longer his friends Star. It orator ammany public that inte mourn but because Grady has the retiring habit Every now and then something turns up to pout him, and he forthwith anngunces that he'll never run again. But he always doy Grady Is the best ora of Tammany There waw & day when Bourke Cockran Was & bit better, but Cockran wabbled so i his politie orbit that Tammany lost faith in hiw More people Wil go today to hear Cockran than to hear Grady—but fewer Tam many m. ockran glves the better show, but Grady stays put. Perhaps Grady isn't eloquent as Cockran, but he can call more names. When he rises in the senate alsle and begins to walk slowly toward L rostrum, shakicg his finge his enemy of the moment, the loafers hurry in from the lobt }He may not be right but he had few equals In the matter of flay ing an opponent. His convival ha byword its have oddl he made his first mark as & public Demon Rum in his years round-headed g been a igh, here, but abusing the That was fat social elub. ago, when he was a red-headed boy. It is related of him that on one oc- casion he won a silyér medal for utterly upsetting the argumernit of a speaker who favored moderate drinking, in the weekly debate. That night a clergyman found Grady singing too-ro-ore-lay at the head of @ bunch of obviously soused young de baters Ah, Tomfny, Tommy," sald the clergy man, “‘what has become of the principlo you advocated in the club this night? Father,” said Grady, shutting one eye to locate his interlocutor, “I'm a falr mar and afther thinking ut over, I'm bound to say that opponent's argymen's con vinced me I was wrong Mam Is the Word, The lady of the house hesitatcd Are my answers all right?' she asked Yes, madam,” replied the census man “Didn't bother you & bit, did 17 madam.’ under some obligations to me, don't . madan fhien, perhaps, you won't mind telling me how old the woman next door claiing to b Good day, madam,” sald the cousus man ~Clevelasd Plain Dealer, BIuff a $1,000,000 beet sugar factory s now in course of erection and between Cheyenne and this line is the famous Goshen Hole and Wheatland irrigated area. Omaha jobbers have in the past carefully and intelligently followed up the trade of the growing west and no doubt that same alertness will govern them, that has given them the hold on the localities already settled, With such a land of industrial and agri- cultural possibilities as central and north- ern Wyoming, It was necessary to bring that land directly In touch with the Mis- sourl valley, not by a side door entrance through Toluca, Mont., but by an independ- ent main line from the southeast To permit an early development of the basin and to assist the government In carrying out Its scheme of damming up the Shoshone river and creating a storage reservolr, the Burlington tapped Its north- west line at Toluca and bullt to Cody, just to the east of the Yellowstone Park reserve, near the site of the great Shoshone dam In 1906 the new main line was started south from Frannle, following up the Big Horn river to secure & water grade, line, and the extension was followed to Kirby in order to open up the great soft coal field in that locality. Under the plans that have been recently Qetermined on, the present main line exten- sion is now belng bullt into Thermopolis, thence south through the Wind River can- yon to Bad Water creek, where it turns east and somewhat parallels the North westernl road to the eastern boundary The construction of the néw line between Kirby Bonneville, Wyo., means the building of a link, connecting the north and south line with the east and west line. It & line of two-tenths of 1 per as the mouth of the where & maximum per cent and cent grade Wind River canyc grade of six tenths of 1 is provided for. The raiiroad should be completed to Thermopo. lis before June 1. This town Is situated in a basin, with hills and mountains all around as it. Just south of Thermopolls the Big Horn river is crossed, and four miles south the new road enters the Wind River can- yon, one of the grandest scenic stretches in the western country and rivaling the Gorge of Colorado. This canyon miles long and up to the time the started work In there, it was impossible Lo get through the canyon, owing to the sheer walls and the rapid current except in when the river was frozen when was started there last July the first engineering party had to pack In on burros building the toyal Is twelve ngineers winter, work trail as ft went. The con tractors wore then compelled to bulld & trall for mule packtraing to get to thel camp. It consumed two months to plete the pack trall through the canyon and where walls of the eanyon arose per waters, t in order pendicularly from the rushing tops of the cliffs were blown away to bulld & trall to the river. In the center of. the canyon a euspension bridge was bullt with wire cables, using cedar logs for the floor of the bridge. Practically all the way through the canyon the Burlington dbed lays right along the edge of the river and s0 some stretches, where the walls were oo straight, preventing the right-of way from being blasted out, the clitfs were blasted off, making a roadbed of solid along the edge of the river. One blast sent down 4,000 yards of rock along the edge of the rushing water, and the rocks had to be large enough so that the river would not wash them away, Some of them measured sek Wyoming as high as 1,000 cubic yards in entire roadbed for the twelve miles through the canyon will be made of solid rock At present, all work in the by hand, as it is impossible to get any kind of machinery into that rugked cc try. Supplies are carried in or pack e rock in the lower end of the canyon In a lNmestone. In the upper end of south, it is granite and a black dyri The south two miles of the what is known as Box canyon going straight down to the river. 7There are four tunnels on the upper mile of the the canyon mul the wa canyon; opposite Boysen dam, at t upper end, there is & 750 foot tunnel. He the dyrite is so lLard that it is alm ifmpossible to drill by hand. Air dr are used. Wark Is going on day and nig The rock Is so hard that it takes thi hours to drill a “round,” and only ¢ feet of tunnel is broken in one shot y 100 feet a month, is the progress Two miles south of the dam, and afier leaving the canyon, the railroad crosss the Wind river, upon a bridge of concre piers, that are already completed Th is one span 176 feet and two short =p All together, the stretch of railroad .,\ tween Thermopolis and the south end this famous canyon, Is about as exper and difficult, as any twelve mile I of railroad track In the United States, ! this canyon has long been know fur ish the location of & low wator Era railroud, that will open ug plend resources of central Wyoming & mne that locality with the M alley, and the map shows how well v radlroad fits into the ge gructure of the Burlington system f other ra road would have dared to 1 the mone to get through that rugged canyon On coming out to t ot the canyon the line leaves the Big Horn river mear Bonneville, and fown & branch of the Fowder rive will be extended toward the southeast as fust as labor and 1 although to naterial can 1 Jarge volume of coal, it 18 expected a tem porary trackake arrangement will be en tered into \ the Burlington and the Northwestern road. All the land adjacent to the Had Water has been taken up, on £ the water for sheep; that region range. At present here 1s no permanent habitation betweer mouth of Alkall creek and Powde ' + distance of forty miles, but th valloard will bring in its wake & oertal S oeh 1 development to meet the nece fles of that live stock region. It is ex-4) pected that on the sixty-one mile stre cast of Bonneville there will be, Mag ) teams, 1,000 men and four steam shdlbie the grade. Alkall sum the divide between the Bik Powder river sections, there at work mit, which s H upon is a tunnel and cast of this divide the line will follow the water grade of the North Platte river Into Nebraska. West of tha divide, it follows the water grade of th Big Horn river. It is known that the B lington has a line surveyed and located alo the Platte river between Bridgeport @ yrth Platte and following east as fa the Kearney branch near Lowell, in central Nebraska. It is also planned to connect up Colorado with the new Wyoming me ) ine, by a line from Denver Greele und Guernsney, thus forming mucl dreamed of low grade line between the Fule and the northwest. P} { \ ~