River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-04-20
PLEASED WITH ALBERTA.
An Excellent Report from Wisconsin
and Minnesota Delegates.

The opinion of five delegates from
Minnesota and Wisconsin, published by
the Edmonton Bulletin, are very com.
plimentary to Northern Alberta. The
report says:
We must say with all sincerity that
driving all over the country for sin
days, we have not found one settler who
was not more than pleased with the
country and it's productions, and will
not return to the land he left. We have
seen people here from all parts of the
states and all doing we'll We met a Da-
kota farmer by the name of Mclean,
who has informed us that he has raised
more grain here in three years than he
did in Is where he came from, on half
as much ground. We have seen num-
Der of others, both men and women, and
all speak in the same strain about Al
berta. They all look well and content
ed; even the children are happy. In our
drives over the country, in passing the
countless schooIhouses, we could only
see happiness in the faces of the little
ones. We noticed them all well dressed,
equal if not better than the same class
of children in the State of Minnesota.
The wheat that is raised here is just
beautiful, the kernel full and plump
and may we'll be termed golden grain,
yielding 30 to So bushels to the acre.
This statement is not from one farmer,
but from hundreds, who tell the same
tale. Oats yield from 70 to 100 bushels
to the acre, barley from 40 10 80 bushels
and potatoes from 300 to 400 bushels to
the acre.
We have taken particular notice of
the climate in regard to the difference
between this country and our own.
When we left Ada, Minnesota, we were
in the midst of real Dakota blizzard.
When we arrived at Edmonton we found
the people on the streets still wearing
summer clothing, no mittens on their
hands and far less use for them. The
country is simply more than we ever
dreamed of. The printed matter sent
out by the Government does not half
tell of the grand country in Alberta,
open for millions of people to make
beautiful homes for themselves. Too
much cannot be said in praise. 1t is all
and more than the greatest eulogist
ever thought of giving to the public.
We saw cattle and horses in herds
grazing on the prairie like in summer
time, all sleek and fat We were in
formed by several farmers that most of
the stock run out all winter. We also
found the market extra good here for
beef and pork. Hogs fetch 41sc live
weight. Three-year-old steers will
bring from $40 TO S45 right from the
prairie. Coal and wood are here in
abundance. Coal is sold in the town of
Edmonton for So per ton and farmers
can secure coal at the mines themselves
for 75c per load.
Before closing we say to you one and
all, come 10 Alberta, where there IRE
homes for millions and a promise for
something to lay by for an old age. We
are we'll satisfied with this country, and
as evidence have each bought half
section of c. p. r. land in township So,
range 81 west of the 4th initial merid-
ian, and will return next spring TO re
side
Hoping this may be of some benefit to
the overburdened farmers Oft the United
States.
Sent by Floyd Dean, son of E. S. Dean.
of Beanville, Mich. who is now in Al.
berta, and has taken up 100 acres there
The century plant is a case of age before
beauty Golden Days