Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-04-16

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The District OF Alberta has total
length from north TO south of $50 miles
and AN average width of ESQ miles,
and contains an area of i06,iGO square
miles.
1t is more particularly of southern
Alberta l purpose writing with view
TO answering the questions ] so often
have to answer as l get weary in using
my pen.
The southern part is an open rolling
country devoid of timber, except u
limited quantity along the streams ard
in the foothills OF the Rocky Noun
tains' In sufficient quantities, however,
to improve our homestcads and aid
the home-seekers to make q start In
life.
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ereu with luAuT'aht CROWN OF Hu-
tritious grasseG, chief among which 10
the "far famed bunch grass" on which
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Ing the whole year
The soil of the district is mostly Il
good rich dark cInv ioou SLIGHTLY
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i"'eii"'"s'eu w" s"iu' anu i'u''
to eighteen inches deep underlaid Win
a heavy strata of clay, adapted WEI.
for farming md stoels-raisine
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oui experience assures US 'ha' hi'N'u
Farming pays the best. our Mormon
colonies that had their beginning her.
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"a Wv Sp'"'e Va
can raise very good crops without
lt.t-t IA
assurance fund and nre irving to
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sam '''s heo"iu' ""f""."se "s i"''
as our strength VIII ailo" without
contracting with that cruel muster
doh,
m .
Our ciiHiate VIII RAM hurry wei
with that of Cache Valley. Utah. but
not 80 dry in summer. and but little
snow in the winter In fact. we use
wagons at lenst eleven months in the
wear. we oan never depend upon the
sleighing emily few days at time.
every few days during the winter.
Our summers are not unusually warm,
for we are often visited by the breezes
from the great Pacific ocean. which
not only modify the heat in summer.
hut temper the elements in winter to
that extent that our cold spells are of
brief duration,
Fuel What do Won do for fuel? I
am often asked. our country abounds
In coal that crops out of the ground
in many places.
We raise excellent crops of wheat.
oats. barley. rye. potatoes. and ali OF
the hardy vegetables.
As to fruit, our country Is not SO
well adapted, In consequence OF our
open winters and the often thawlnr
and freezing. The smaller fruits, such
as Strawberries. gooseberries, currants
md raspberries can be successfully
raised, but IL we make a success OF
the larger fruits we must protect by
wind brakes composed of hedges OF
trees. etc.
Cardston is the center of our settle
men,s, OF which we have four, namely;
Aetna. covering enough territory for a
small kingdom. We have about / 200
people in these settlements and room
for thousands more.
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LANDS.
Our lands NAV be acuuired either
by purchase of the railway companies
for about SO per acre, on the Install
ment principle of ten payments with
interest at six per cent or may be
homesteaded to the extent of 100 acres
each by paying fee of $40 down.
ana you are required to reside Mt
least six months in each wear for three
years accompanied by n Reasonable
amount of cultivation" Only the one
fee required, the government always
favoring the honest homesteader. You
can make your entry the same day you
enter the Dominion, IL desired. but he
fore receiving the fun benefit of the
homestead law. you are required to
take the oath of allegiance to the
government That protects you The
time required to become a citizen is
three years and the fee only 81
"All even numbered sections except
and &c may he homesteaded by any
person who is the sole head Of n FAM
ny ny or any maze over ID years OF age,
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Item No. 7GG of the Canadian Gus
toms Tariff, making settlers effects
free of duty. reads as follows;
wearing apparel, household furni-
ture, professional books. Implements
and tools of trade. occupation or em-
ployment. which the settler has had
in actual use for at least six months
before removal to Canada, musical IN
struments. domestic sewing machines.
live stock. carts and other vehicles
and agricultural implements in use by
the settler for at least one year he