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Although one of the comparatively new counties of the state Washakie is far from being one of the least important viewed from any angle. In agriculture this county particularly excells, being in the center of the famous Big Morn Bastin, which has gained a reputation Ue past few years In agricultural lines wotel ex tend a far beyond the boundaries of the state. The 1014 tax Iiet for the county slows a tote valuation of $2,918, 71.67. Among the more important items in this valuation are: lands (04,449 eres) and improvement on Intide, $1,561,892; town rota and im provements, F342,045.00; cattle (21,506 head), £ 405,243; sheep, (90,071), $961,502.00; horses and other livestock over two -hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Employ ed to merchandise and manufactur ing we find nearly one hundred thousand dollars while the railroads, telephones and telegraph companies are aseéaned at nearly three-quar ters of a million. The town of Worland, county seat of Washakie, is in the “Heart of the Big Horn Basin,” has a population of nearly one thousand, and is a mod ern, up-to-date, thriving communi ty, with every prospect of becoming one of the important cities of the state. Ita school and church advant ages are fully up to the standard of any town of its size. There are two banks with a combined deposit of al most five hundred thousand dollars, a splendid water system, sewers, electric plant, alfalfa meal mill, main elevator, nitroglycerine factory and Professor Huffums Emmer Breakfast Food factory. The eleva tion at Worland is 4,020 feet above sea level; climatic and soil condi tions for agriculture and horticul ture are ideal, and no attempt is made to grow crops without irriga tion, as the annual precipitation of moisture averages about five inch es. Tributary to the town is about sixty-five thousand acres of splendid irrigated land under good canals, controlled and operated by the farm ers. When fully developed this irri gated area justifies the expectation of Worland becoming a city of §,000 to 10,000 population. The valley of the Big Horn river is the home of alfalfa, wheat, Emmer, oats and bar ley and all kinds of vegetables grow to perfection and corn is raised with fairly good success. Sugar beet grow ing is becoming one of the chief ag ricultural pursuits; 1,500 acres hav ing been planted this year in the Worland territory and all signs point to the building of a beet sugar fac tory at Worland within the next two years. The Black and Yellow Trail, from Milwaukee through the Black Hills to the National Park and the new National Highway from Savan ah, Georgia through Omaha to the Northwest coast, and the George Washington National Highway, all intersect the Yellowstone Highway at Worland. “The Alfalfa Club,” the Industrial hub of Worland and Washakle coun ty, will be pleased to furnish anyone interested with that hand informa tion on anything pertaining to the county. Mr. J. Ashley Towell is president of the club, at Worland land. LEROY FE, LARD For State Representative Leroy BE, Laird, a delegate to the state Senate on the democratic ticket this year, was born In Conwy, Iown, January 14, 1874, and in the son of David and Caroline (Mattleld) Laird. Here at present engaged on of farmer and dairyman at Worland, Wyoming. Mr. Laird was educated in the grammar schools at Davenport, Iowa, and was employed In various capaci ties until 1894, when he entered the employ of the Adams Express Co., at Red Oak, Iowa, where he remain ed four years. He has been engaged in farming, irrigation and dairying for the past several years under the Hanover canal system. Mr. Laird has been secretary and general manager of the Upper Han over Water association since Octo ber, 1910. He is a member of the Masons, I 0. C. F. and the Alfalfa clap of Wor land, and an unusually popular man in his organizations. His friends and in fact all who know him pre dict he will be sent to the legislature by a comfortable majority. gree in 190%, then entering the School of Law, Drake University, from which he graduated in 1905. Mr. Jones came to Worland direct ly from college, and took an import ant part in state and local politics. he was city attorney from 1906 to 1919, is now postmaster, president of the Abptract company, and == the present democratic state committer. man,
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Cheyenne State Leader
Cheyenne, Wyoming, US
Tue, Oct 31, 1916
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