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Wyoming farms open vast arid lands to cultivation by dry farming
Wyoming experts report that as much as 8 000 square miles, or one tenth of the state, could be farmed without irrigation using dry farming. Areas in Laramie Converse Sheridan Johnson Crook Weston Uint a Natrona Carbon Albany and other counties show success with potatoes grains and hardy vegetables. government and railroad lands offered at modest prices to settlers with 320 acre and other homestead opportunities and guidance from state dry farming programs.
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Wyoming
Dry Farming Congress
West
Railroad Landa
Congress
Laramie
Converse
Sheridan
Johnson, Crook
Weston
Uinta
Sweetwater
Natrona
Carbon
Albany
Salem
Nebraska Line
Cheyenne
Chugwater
Converse County
Douglas
Chicago and Northwestern
Nebraska
Hat Creek
Weston County
Johnson Counties
Buffalo
Crook County
Sundance
Gillette
W. T. Cook
Lyman
Uinta County
Powder River
Casper
Newcastle
Union Pacific
Denver
Burlington and Cheyenne and Northern
Cheyenne & Northern
Chicago & Northewestern
Douglas, Lusk
Manville
Weston, Crook
Sheridan County
Burlington Railroad
Johnson County
Clearmont
Natrona County
Chicago& Northwestern