The Afro-American advance., 1900-05-19
TIE LETTER WAS CENT?.
AND CONTAINED FAcTS
A Former Americas Settled :.
ada Flooded with Inont.,--A A'

/ ada Flooded with Inquiri..
A short time since letter am.
in these columns signed BY Mr. W =
Kinkade, OF Alameda, Ass.p.t.ia' A.t. 4
Western Canada. which cause .+g.a' -
gentleman to receive a great -
inquiries, most of them anxff,,,.
know il the letter was genuine .
large number of the inquiries a -.
were sent, but it was imposs .9Is =
reply to all We take pleasure =
submitting to our readers speei,.,'
of replies sent by Mr.. Kinkade:
"Yes, the letter dated Decer,7 bs,.
1899. supposed to have been wrf,'.
by me which you saw in your la.'.
papers was genuine and contsisss
facts. will say of the inforua.i,s
received from the Canadian t;,5vs-s
ment agents prior to coming here
did not find a single untrue sta.,.
ment.Z The Canadian government :.
an honorable one and its agents d..
not misrepresent this country or tsss
would lose their There is ol5it.
a bit of land for homesteading 70.
very little close to market, but man
| ly from six to twenty miles from "a.
tions. The country hereabouts i.
prairie, nearly level, slightly rolling
not a rough country by any mean.
Homestead entries cost ten dollars
on land tnat has been cancelled tbsr.
is a five-dollar cancellation fee ev+.,
and in some cases an inspection T..
| of five dollars, and where the forns.
occupant has made any substantial
| improvements there are small
amounts to pay for improvement,
This is poor place for a poor mar
unless he has brains and muscle ana
''git and grit" but with these reoa,.
sites he can succeed. The populatio,
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 1898. c. P. r. land Todd
sections) joining homestead land Sell,
at three dollars per acre. Improved
quarters within four to five miles Of
town sell at $1,000 this spring. This
Is not a Garden of Eden at all No
man need think he can come here and
get rich in a short time without much
| labor, but IL he will work and be
saving he can soon be an independent
farmer tilling his own soil and pet
| ting good returns for his labor
I'VE burn coal, which costs US sf3
per load at the mines which are 20
miles southwest of us.
"People with stock and machiuerv
should come in May, so as Ia have al,
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 go 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 all figured up and man
has about S71 to pay cash, and il he
breaks at least ten acres first break
ing season his $21 interest for The
first year is thrown off and the sec
ond fall following purchase he has
$50 to pay and then $50 to pay for
eight more falls, which makes a total
of S611 the quarter costs him, includ-
ing all interest. Paying for a quarter
of land that way is like keeping a life
insurance policy paid, only it does not
take so long to do il. By a man home
steading one quarter and buying an
other quarter gives him a chance to
have 320-acre farm all his own and
have it paid for in ten years and after
that he is sure of an easy living if he
is any good at all.
"SIGNED) w. II. KGNKADE."