Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-10-18
4 GLOWING REPORT.

Has to Say hfter Trip Through
Canada.
The Department Of the Interior at
Ottawa has just received frem Mr.. E.
Il. Holmes, the Agent of the Govern
ment stationed at Indianapolis, In
diana, the following letter which re-
quires no comment. 1t is only neces-
sary to state that Mr.. f. Fisher, the
writer of the letter, S one of the most
prominent of the Dunkards and
man upon whose word the utmost re-
lance can be placed. His home Is at
Mexico, Indiana, and he will be
pleased to substnntiate verbally or
in any other way all that he says In
his letter.
Anyone desiring information should
apply to nearest Canadian Agent,
whose addresses are given: NJ. V. Nc
Innes, 2 Avenue Theatre Block, De-
troit, Michigan; James Grieve, Sault
Ste Marie, Michigan; J. 8. Crawford,
214 w. Ninth street. Kansas City.
Mo-; Benjamin Davies, 1914 East
Third street, st. Paul. Mimi; T. o.
Currie, Room IL, B. Callahan's Block,
2O3 Grand avenue, Milwaukee, Wis;
G. ]. Broughton, 927 Monadnock
nett, 9O1 New York Life Building,
Omaha, Neb.; N. Bartholomew, 800
Fifth street, Des Moines, Iowa; ].
II. NJ. Parker, $50 Chamber Of Com
merce, Duluth. Mimi; e. T. Holmes,
Room 6, Big Four Building, Indian
apolis, Ind; Joseph Young, 611a State
street, Columbus, Ohio.
To My Many Friends:
/ am pleased to make q report to
you OF the pleasant visit my wife and
l had in Western Canada.
We visited the territories Of Alberta,
Assinibola and Saskatchewan, and
found them far surprising our imag-
ination, but little did 1 expect to find
such rich, loamy soil, so much Of it,
and so uniform in It's level prairie lay.
1 do think the soil of Canada as q
rule equals, If not excells, the finest
prairie farm lands of Indiana. These
lands are immense in their richness,
and when once the sod Ia rotted and
pulverized, it Is as pliable and as
easily cultivated as Indiana sandy
soil.
Western Canada, from my point of
view, offers as fine opportunities for
mixed farming as any place in my
knowledge. The long sunshiny days,
together with the rich soil produce
very fine wheat, oats, barley, fax and
other cereal products. There is scarce
ly any attempt to raise corn, except
early varieties for table use. The
season Is too short to depend upon
maturing field corn. From the stand
point of getting this land ready for
the plow, must say that never saw
such a vast extent, practically all
ready. SO all that one has to do is to
hitch up the plow and go to work.
This Is not the case with all the Cana
dian land, however; some Of 1t has
quite bit of timber, much Of 1t may
be called brush land and some of it
has lovely forest groves, dotted here
and there, thereby covering hundred
and sixty acres.
! have no doubt but that this coun-
try excels as grazing or ranchir.;
country, because they have such rich
grass, having and abundance Of rain
to keep 1t fresh. They also have
plenty of water streams, and as rule
water may be reached at depth Of
from twenty to forty feet. From
this you see there can be plenty OF
lay mown for winter feeding and
have had reliable farmers to tell
that their stock will feed on hay
ulone, and be ready for market in the
spring. Upon inquiring about the
expense of raising a steer, farmer
replied that he did not consider 1t
would cost any more than S4.00 or
$500 to develop a three -year-old steer.
l truly think Canada offers a fine
opening for young man or a man
who Is renting land in Indiana. One
hundred and sixty acres Of good black
land will cost you only $1,000 $4,000
at the time you enter it, and by plow-'
Ing and cultivating five acres each
year for. three years, gives you one
hundred and sixty acres Of good land
for $1,000. This land can be bought
from the railroad companies, private
corporations or the Government fo-
$500 to $4.00 per acre.
From a financial standpoint, I be-
lieye that for series of years (five)
young man can make $1,000 in Canada,
whereas he would only make $1.OO
here, and feel sure that / spent more
money to get my eighty-acre farm in
White County, Indiana, cultivated,
than 1t would cost me to cultivate
eight hundred acres In Canada. This
may seem a strong view to take of
the matter, but when you take into
consideration the clearing, ditchirg,
fencing and the expensive breaking in
Of the stumps, and then compare the
expense to that OF land needing only
the breaking, you will conclude that
it is not such wild or exaggerated
statement as you might at first think.
l enjoyed the balmy, breezy atmos-
phere, which was bracing and refresh
ing, and the cool nights which made
1t SO pleasant for sleep.
On making inquiries regarding the
winters in this country, learned that
the people never suffer from the cold,
Us the weather is dry and inyigorat-
Ing, and in great many places farm
ers and herders allow their stock to
run outside the year round.
One great advantage to the settlers
in Western Canada is the free cream
cries established by the Government,
and run exclusively in the interest of
the farmer.
visited Thomas Daley, a farmer
near Edmonton, Alberta, who showed
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