Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-05-17
THE LETTER WAS GENUINE AND
CONTAINED FACTS.

A Former American Settled in West
ern Canada Flooded with Inquiries.
| n short time since a letter appeared
in these columns signed by Mr.. w. III.
klnkade, of Alameda, Assiniboa, West.
ern Canada, which caused that gentle.
man 10 receive great many inquiries
most of them anxious to know If the
letter was genuine. To a large number
of the inquiries answers were sent, but
it was impossible to reply to all. We
take pleasure in submitting to our read
ers "A specimen of replies sent by Mr.
Kinkade:
Yes, the letter dated Dec. -, 1899
supposed to have been written by me
| which you saw in your local papers
was genuine and contained facte ! will
| say of the information received from
the Canadian Government agents prior
to coming here | did not find single
uNtr, stat ment The Canadian Gov.
Crlment is honorable, and its agents
care not m.srepresent this country, or
they would lose their Jobs. There is
quite Il lit of land for demonstrating
yet, Il very little close to market. but
mainly from six 20 twenty miles from
stations. The country hereabouts is Il
y. a RE, nearly level, slightly rolling;
rot Tough country by any means
Homestead entries cost SO; on land
tiat has Leen cancelled there IL a So
ejaculation fee extra, and In some
ASS an Inspection Zee of So and
Were the former occupant has made
any substantial improvements there
q snail amounts TO pay for improve
r1cnts. This is a poor place for poor
man, unless he has brains and muscle
asd git and grit but with these
requisites lie can succeed. The popula-
ton of this part of Assiniboia has dou-
bed during the past two years. There
has been as much prairie broken the
past two years as was already broken
previous TO 1898. G. y. X. land Todd
sectionsJ joining homestead land sells
at SO per acre. Improved quarters
within four to five miles of town sell
at $1,000 this spring. This Is not gar
den of Eden at all. No man need think
he can come here and get rich in
short time without much labor; but II
he viii work and be saving lac can soon
be an Independent farmer filling his
own soil and getting good returns for
his labor.
I'VE burn coal, which costs US S1.S5
per load at the mines, which are TWEEN
~ miles southwest of us.
People with stock and machinery
should come in May, so as to have all
June 10 break In. Those who expect
10 work for wages for the first year or
two should come by the end of July to
work through harvest and threshIng,
and then go to the coal fields aud work
all winter, and by the spring he could
be ready to improve homestead.
"A quarter section of railway land
sells at SO per acre. The interest is all
figured up, and a man has about S71 TO
pay cash. and II he breaks at least ten
acres first breaking season his S21 inter
est for the first year is thrown Off. and
the second fall following purchase ne
has. $50 TO pay, and then $50 to pay for
eight more falls, which makes a total
Of S6ll the quarter costs him, Includ-
Ing all Interest. Paying for a quarter
Of land that way Is like keeping life
insurance policy paid. only il does not
take SO long to do il. by man home
stead ng one quarter AMI buying an
other quarter gives him a chance to
have 320-acre farm all his own and
haze i paid for IN ten years. and after
that De is sure Of an easy living IL he is
any good at ALL
C'S.gneD w III. KINKApE"