Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1901-06-17
THE NEW ONTARIO LAND
Canada Directs Settlers to Go
North For Homesteads.
MOST OF 1T is WELL WATERED.

| forthcoming Region Attracting "A
| Considerable Population Soil Is
LeveI-Better Adapted To Men With
Small CapitaI-WeII Timbered.
A great land rush TO New Ontario
| has commenced. The advantages of
| this territory as a field for colonization
| are just beginning to be appreciated by
| the increasing number of young Cana
dams in the older districts of the coun-
try who are in search OF homesteads,
says the New York journal. Hitherto
the exodus from the rural districts of
those in quest of good and cheap agri-
cultural land has been directed either
toward the western states or the Cana
dian northwest.
The former movement, however. is
practically at an end owing to the e1-
haustion of the areas of fertile land to
be had free or at a low price, while the
undoubted advantages possessed by 2
prairie country for wheat farming or
cattle ranching are offset by the scare
ity of fuel and water and the liability
TO summer frosts.
The wooded country of New Ontario
is free from these disabilities, and,
while it does not offer the same faclli-
ties for wheat growing as are present
ed by Manitoba and the northwest. ii
is better adapted in many respects to
men of small means. owing TO the prox
unity of diversified industries, which
give opportunities for temporary EN-
ployment and afford good local markets
both for the timbers removed in clear
ing the land and the produce of the
farm.
The phrase New Ontario" is some
what vague. and the area covered by it
IS not closely defined, but, generally
speaking, ii is applied TO the portion of
the province northwest of Lake Nipis-
sing and French river. This immense
area contains but few small settle
ments, as 1t Is only recently that it's
capabilities have been realized or the
land thrown open for settlement. The
wrong conception that has widely pre-
vailed as TO its fertility is largely due
10 the fact that the Canadian Pacific
railway runs through a desolate and
barren wilderness. The impressions of
many whose opinions of New Ontario
have mainly been formed by hasty OBJ
servations of the country in the imme
diate vicinity of the railway could not
we'll be more erroneous.
The publication of the report of the
government exploration parties which
We're sent out last summer. some de-
bax do 10
will do much to spread abroad more
correct ideas as TO the vast resources
of the region and more especially as TO
the fertility and fitness for settlement
of very extensive tracts of land. The
area of good clay land around Lake
Temscaming. where several thriving
townships are being established, is at
tracing considerable population
This tract has been found to extend In
a northwesterly direction right across
the district Of Algoma, comprising in
all about $4,000. 900 acres. 70 per cent
of which can be cultivated. while a
large portion of the remainder can be
made fertile by drainage. The timber.
pulp wood and mineral resources OF
New Ontario greatly contribute to the
progress of the settlement. as they
nave leo 10 the ESTABLISHMENT OF I'M
portant industrial enterprises, which in
many sections precede the occupation
of the land instead of following it, as
has usually been the experience of new
settlements.
To settlers the Temiscaming regioL
is recommended on account of its proA
unity and the highly productive char
acter of the soil, which Is a strong clay,
rich in phosphoric acid and potash,
and so fertile that it will yield repeated
harvests without manuring, and the
surface of the land is generally level
The timber comprises pine, spruce. bal
sam. tamarack. cedar and poplar. and
in some places the land has been burn
ed over greatly facilitating the labor of
clearing.
Telegraph poles bring 1919 cents a
foot and pulp wood $3.50 a cord. and
there is good market for railroad ties
The timber is ioated down TO Ottawa
and the price is paid on its delivery a:
the nearest stream. The country, like
most of the New Ontario territory, is
well watered.