Title: Conservation
Identifier: conservation141908amer (find matches)
Year: 1908-1909 (1900s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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LOWER YELLOWSTONE PROJECT, MONTANA Finished Portion of the Main Canal, Sixty Miles in Length -cost of building the irrigation works. This cost is divided pro rata among the lands benefited, and is payable in ten annual instalments without interest. That homeseekers are not overlook- ing this opportvmity is evident. Hun- dreds of inquiries are being received daily at the office of the Reclamation Servite, and trainloads of settlers are hastening to the new fields. Compact farming communities are being estab- lished along the canal lines, and villages and towns are appearing as if by magic. These projects possess many condi- tions in common. Excellent transporta- tion facilities are afforded by the C, B. & O.. Northern Pacific, and Great Northern Railroads, which con- nect them with the Denver. Twin Cities, and Pacific coast markets. The irrigable lands are surrounded by a fine free- range country, and alfalfa, the great forage crop of the West, is especially adapted to the soil and climate. The lands lie at an elevation of from three thousand to four thousand feet above sea level, the climate is healthful and delightful, and the soil is of excep- tional fertility. Sugar beets promise to be a profitable crop. A beet-sugar fac- tory is already established at Billings, near the Huntley project, and factories on the other projects are assured as soon as areas large enough to warrant their establishment are cultivated. Ce- reals, apples, small fruits, and garden vegetables do well, and it is probable that these valleys will develop into ex- cellent dairy countries. Many thriving towns have sprung up along the rail- road lines, so that all the farms will be within short distances of shipping points. Cheap fuel is found in the lig- nite mines of North Dakota and the coal mines and forests of Northern Wyoming. The lands now open to settlement un- der the Shoshone project consist of fifteen thousand acres lying about sev- enty-five miles east of the Yellowstone National Park. The farm units are eightv acres, and the building charge, 407

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