Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-02
AElHHERITasCE IN WESTERN CANADA
Indian Reservations and Other
New Districts to Be Opened
Up This Year.
In the Great Saskatchewan Valley, and the
Fertile Pains of Assnibcia.

To the Editor:
Dear Sir-The past three or four
years have demonstrated to q large
number of Americans the value of the
grain-growing and ranching lands of
Western Canada. Tens of thousands
have taken advantage of the offer made
by the Canadian Government as well
as of the exceedingly low prices asked
for lands by the railway, colonization
and other companies. The experience
of those who have been settled there
for some little time is of a highly graft
flying character. So much so that the
Canadian Government, who has con-
troll of the immigration into Western
Canada, has decided to open up some
new districts this year in the we'll
known Saskatchewan Valley and also
IN the fertile plains of Assiniboia.
These districts are probably the most
productive in the entire West, and in
close touch to largely settled communi-
ties as well as being situated on some
of the most important lines of railway.
They are within easy reach of~mar-
'kets, schools, churches and other social
advantages. In some of these districts
lands may be homesteaded as well as
purchased outright at very low prices.
Now as to what can be done on these
lands. The evidence of the settlers in
the neighborhood of the lands now
about to be opened for settlement (some
of them being located in one of the best
Indian reservations goes to show that
the very best results have followed
even most Indifferent methods. Cases
are given where farmers having gone
there with most limited means, barely
enough to erect a small house and
break up little land, have in three or
four years time become prosperous,
all debts paid and money in the bank.
The soil in the districts mentioned, AS
siniboia and. SaSkatchew is q rich
black foarn, fifteen fs,ches to Three feet
deep. AS a settler says, st appears
like the accumulation of decayed vege-
tation and ashes fOT centuries (the sub
soil is q stiff, putty clay" On this
soil it is possible to raise from forty
to fifty bushels OF wheat to the acre,
oats sevenFy-five to one hundred bush
els, all of which bring good prices at
the local market. For mixed farming
these new districts are probably among
the best in Western canada. Stock
tat5en easily OF the wild grasses. Hay
is plentiful, and prices splenGld. An
other settler, writing to a friend in
iowa, says: "The climate is all that
could be desired, plenty Of rainfall in
summer, with no hot dry winds. On
the 2Sth of September i sEw prairie
flowers in fill bloom, sweet corn, po-
tato and tomato vines thar had not
been touched a particle With frost, and
the winters are mNder than those in
the State from which I came. After
the holidays the winter sets in clear
and cold, with plen5y of Show for good
esieighing; mo high winds sor billiards
are known. Horses live 'OEtTall winter
;an6 pick 'gneir OWE living, while cattle
livc ali winter in open sheds and
around the hay lricks. Wheat, oats
;8na barley'a-e thefprincip4i grain crops.
Potatoes and all aother roots and vege-
tables do well, the yield being enor-
lm3us as compared to those in the
States. Wild fruits, sueh as strawber-
lfies, !raaDberrieS, craniserrieS, goose
berries end all varieties oOf currants
,ERald in abundance" Ms reader OF
'ygur WahIable Paper for ia number of
years, I feel THAI shooafdi Inform you
Of the progress and Advancement being
made in Canada within the past few
years ard the ijnducesaents and ad-
vsntages that VIII follow settlement in
Western Canada. These ywho desire
Information. candyio as L did, and apply
to any agent OF gt1Te Canadian Govern
lnsent, whose name Irseelappears in sd-
yertisements appearing elsewhere in
the columns of your paper, and when
writing: ask particularly about the Sas-
katehewan Valley or Mssiniboia Dis
tricts. Yours truly,
OLD READER.