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Show 106 from the Superintendent of the Beaervatian to tho Comiidasioner of Inaian affairs dated Dobraary 1, 1915, an exoerpt from which follows: We offer a prospective lessee 40 or niore acres of raw, rough sage-brush land, devoid of fences, ditches and bull'lings; land that requires lam-ens a toil and months of delay be- fora -any return whatever maybe expected. 'ihe first year of the lease thore are no returns. The second year their returns are next to nothing. Tho soil Is wholly lacking in humus and thi3 mast be supplied before crops con be successfully grown. . Tha longdistance from market, which practically prohibits shipment, limits tho orops to forage .'2nd grain that can be fed to steak, or to such orops as oan be consumed locally. A fair average yield of the verious exo-os follows: * • Alfalfa, 2 and sometimes 3 cuttinos, 3 tons, ^30.CO Sweet Cljyer, 3 cuttings, 3 tons, 27.CO Sweet Clover seed, £00 lbs. per aore, • 100.00 .Vheat, 15 bu. per acre, 30.00 Cats, 25 bu- per acre, 31.25 Bar lay,. 20 "_____• per acre........ 30,00 Corn, 35 bu. per acre 53.00 Beans, 1000 lbs. to 15CG lbs. per acre, 70.00 In addition t o the above, a variety of wild hay grown along the creek bottoms that produces with irrigation aa high aa two tons per sore. Vegetables of all sorts do well,, hut as there i s no outside market, tha production i 3 limited to local ocsa- . sumption. The Basin is al3oadauted to the growing of ap-oles . 106 |