Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1901-10-10

"A0t MT. FRANK Flsner, . FfOme
inent Dunknrd, Has to Say After
Trip Through Canada.
The Department of the Interior at
Ottawa ha. Just received from Mr..
E. T. Holmes, the Agent of the Gov
eminent stationed at Indianapolis,
Indiana. the following letter, which
requires no comment. It is only nee
essary to state that Mr.. F. Fisher,
the writer of the letter, is one of the
most prominent Of the Dunkards and
man upon whose word the utmost
reliance can be placed. His home is
at Mexico, Indiana, and he will be
pleased to substantiate verbally OF
in any other way all that he says in
his letter.
Anyone desiring information apply
to nearest Canadian Agent, whose
addresses are here given:
Detroit. Mich.
j. s. Crawford, III West Ninth street
Kansas City, Mo.
Benjamin Davies. 1541a East Third
block, aOs Grand avenue, Milwaukee. Wis.
cS 6: J; Brq9'%ghton, 81 Monadnock building
v: =: Bennett, SOL New York Life build
". H. Rogers, WATERFOWL, s. D.
N: Bartholomew, sos Fifth street. Oes
J. II. NJ. Parker, $50 Chamber Of Com
merce. Duluth. MINI. .,,
Joseph Young, 51la State street. Colum-
bus. o.
To my many friends:
am pleased to make q report to
you of the pleasant visit m. wife and
I had in Western Canada.
We visited the territories OF Al
berta, Assiniboia. and Saskatchewan,
and found them far SURPRISING our
imagination, but little did expect
to find such rich, loamy soil, SO much
of it, and so uniform in it's level
prairie lay. I do think the soil Of
Canada as rule equals if not ex-
GELS the finest prairie farm lands OF
Indiana. These lands are immense in
their richness, and when once the
sod is rotted and pulverized, it is as
pliable and as easily cultivated as In
diana sandy soil.
Western Canada, from my point Of
view, offers as fno 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
scarcely any attempt to raise corn,
except early varieties for table use.
The season is too short to depend
upon maturing field corn. From the
standpoint of getting this land ready
for the plow, 1 must say that I never
saw such vast extent, practically
all ready, so all that one has to do
is to hitch up the pillow and 60 to
work. This is not the case with all
the Canadian land, however; some of
it has quite a bit of timber, much
of it may be called brush land, and
some of it has lovely forest groves,
dotted here and there, thereby GOV.
ering a hundred and sixty acres.
I have no doubt but that this coun-
try excels as grazing Or ranching
country, because they have such rich
grass, having an abundance of rain
to keep it fresh. They also have
plenty of water streams. and as
rule water may be reached at a depth
of from 20 to 40 feet. From this you
see there can be plenty of hay mown
for winter feeding, and I have had
reliable farmers to tell me that their
stock will feed on hay alone, and be
ready for market in the spring. Upon
inquiring about the expense Of rails
ing a steer, farmer replied that
he did not consider It would cost
any more than $500 or 5000 to de.
velop a three-year-old steer.
I truly think Canada offers . fine
opening for a 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 at
the time you enter it, snnd by blowing
and cultivating five Acres each year
for three years, gives you one hun
dred and sixty AGES of good land for
$1,000. This land can be bought from
the RAILROAD Companies, private cor.
fporatefns or the Government for
$500 to $500 per acre.
From financial standpoint, I be.
iieve that for series of years (five),
q young man can make $1,000 In
Canada, whereas he would only make
S1.OO here, and I feel sure that I
spent more money to get my eighty
acre farm in White County, Indiana,
cultivated, than it would cost me to
cultivate eight hundred acres in Can.
ada. This may seem, strong view
to take of the matter, but when you
take into consideration the clearing.
ditching, fencing and the expensive
/ breaking in of the stumps, and then
kcompare the expense to that of land
eding only the breaking, you will
pclude that it is not such a wild
exaggerated statement as you
light at first think.
II enjoyed the balmy, breezy atmes-
Sphere, which was bracing and refresh.
ing, and the cool nights which made
it so pleasant for sleep.
On making inquiries regarding the
winters in this country I learned
that the people never suffer from
the cold, as the weather is dry and
invigorating, and in ii great many
places, farmers 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,