Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-05-19
TIE LETTER WAS GENUINE
AND CONTAINED FACTS.
A Former American settled An OaA-
-. RI~.aaa Nth Iunuirfen.

A Former American settled An CaA~
ada Flooded with Inquiries.
A short time since letter appeared
In these columns signed by Mr.. W. II.
Kinkade, of Alameda, Assiniboia,
Western Canada, which caused that
gentleman to receive great many
Inquiries, most Of them anxious to
know II the letter was genuine. To .
large number of the inquiries answers
were sent, but It was impossible to
reply to all. We take pleasure In
submitting to our readers q specimen
Of replies sent by Mr.. Kinkade:
"Yes, the letter dated December ~
1890, supposed to have been written
by me which you saw In your local
papers was genuine and contained
facts. / will say Of the information
received from the Canadian Govern
ment agents prior to coming here, 1
did not find q single untrue state
ment. The Canadian government In
an honorable one and its agents dare
not misrepresent this country or they
would lose their job. There is quite
q bit of land for demonstrating yet,
very little close to market, but main
" from six to twenty miles from sta
tons. The country hereabouts u Q
prairie, nearly level, slightly rolling,
not q rough country by any means.
Homestead entries cost ten dollars;
on land tnat has been cancelled there
IL O five.dollar cancellation fee extra
and in some cases an inspection Zee
Of five dollars, and where the former
occupant has made any substantial
improvements there are small
amounts to pay for improvements.
This Is O poor place for q poor man
unless he has brains and muscle and
"git and grit" but with these requi-
sites he can succeed. The population
Of this part Of Assiniboia has doubled
during the past two years. There has
been as much prairie broken the past
two years as was already broken
previous to 1893. C. p. r. land Todd
sections) joining homestead land sells
Ut three dollars per acre. Improved
quarters within four to five miles OF
town sell at $1,000 this spring. This
Is not q Garden Of Eden at all. No
man need think he can come here and
get rich in short time without much
labor. but II he will work and be
saving he can soon be IN independent
farmer tilling his own soil and get
ting good returns for his labor.
ave burn coal, which costs us $1.s5
per load at the mines which are 20
miles southwest OF us.
"People with stock and machinery
should come in May, so as to have all
June to break in. Those who expect
to work for wages for the first year
or two should come by the end OF
July to work through harvest and
threshing and then 60 to the coal
fields and work all winter, and by
spring he could be ready to improve
homestead.
"a quarter.section Of railway land
sells at three dollars per acre. The
interest is oil figured up and man
has about ST. to pay cash, and II he
breaks at least ten acres first break
ing season his S21 interest for the
first year Is thrown of and the sec.
ond fall following purchase he has
$50 to pay and then $50 to pay foI
eight more falls, which makes total
Of SOIL the quarter costs him, includ'
ing all interest. Paying for quartz,
Of land that way is like keeping life
Insurance policy paid, only 1t does NOT
take so long to do It. BY a man home
steading one quarter and buying an
other quarter gives him q chance tc
have n 32o-acre farm all his own and
have It paid for in ten years and aftei
that he Is sure of an easy living II ht
IL any good at all.
"sIGNED) W. II. KINkADE."