Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1903 — BACK FROM THE BIG HORN. [ARTICLE]

BACK FROM THE BIG HORN.

Mort Ritchey returned last week from the Big Horn Basin country in Wyoming, where he has been the past‘«easeo. He brought back with him several fine samples of grain grown by former Jasper county people, which are on exhibition in Larsh’s drug store window. . They can raise immense crops there, Mort says, where they have irrigation, but except for the Halsteads, none of our former residents have water as yet, and they are living on rented farms, their own being entirely unproductive. Many have contracted with a company for irrigation and work on the canal is now in progress. It is hardly likely, however, that it will be completed for a year or two, Mort thinks, although they have stated that it would be in by next spring. A perpetual water right costs from $7 to $lO per acre. He says the people from this county state that they are well pleased with the country there. At present they are about 50 miles from a railroad, but a new line through there is now being talked of. Mr. Ritchey says he will not go back until the irrigating canal is completed.