A little corn and wheat stubble only. You can find good homesteads inside of twelve miles from Battleford, with some little groves of timber and the rest clean prairie. And the best of all, you will find plenty of friends to welcome and help you - they want you to come. It is of course best to have a little money to keep you until you can raise a crop. So far, however, there has been work for all who wanted it.
Prices here are high - all the better for the farmer.
Our little party of four have all got homesteads, and all seem to be satisfied with their lot. I would say to my American friends that if they are coming here to get a home they had better get a hump on or you will be late. I will bring my letter to a close by wishing you all a Happy New Year. Charles Draper Battleford, Sask., Jan. 8, 1903.