Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-09-23

The Department of the In eFior at
Ottawa has just received from Mr.. II.
I. Holmes, the agent of the govern
ment stationed at indianapolis, ina,
the following letter, which requires no
comment 1t is only necessary to state
that Mr.. f. Fisher, the writer OF Tie
letter. is one OF the most prominent OF
the Dunkards and a man upon whose
word the utmost reliance can be plac-
eI. His home is at Mexico, Ind., and
he will be pleased to substantiate verb
ally or in any other way ali that he
says in his letter.
Anyone desiring information apply to
nearest Canadian agent, whose adj
dresses are here given:
NJ V. McInnes, : Avenue 1heater
block, Detroit, Mich
James Grieve Sault ste. Marie, Mich.
j s. Crawford, pa w. Ninth street.
Kansas City. Mo.
Benjamin Davies, 1919 East Ihlrd
street, st. Paul, Mimi.
T. o. Currie, room u, B. Callahans
block, 203 Grand avenue Milwaukee,
Wis.
c. ]. Broughton, 927 Monadnock
building, Chicago, Ill.
W. Y. Bennett, 801 New York Life
building, Omaha, Neb.
w. H. Rogers, Watertown, S. D.
N. Bartholomew, 306 Fifth street,
Des Moines, Iowa.
J. H. NJ. Parker, $50 Chamber OF
Commerce, Duluth, Mimi.
E. T. Holmes, room 6, Big Four build
ing, Indianapolis, Ind.
Joseph Young, 511a State street, Co
lumbus, Ohio.
To My Many Friends: | am pleased
to make a report to you of the pleasant
visit my wife and 1 had in Western
Canada.
We visited the territories of Alberta,
AssinibOia and Saskatchewan, ana
found them far surprising our magma
tion, but little did expect to find sucn
rich, loamy soil, so much of 1t, and so
uniform in its level prairie lay. l do
think the soil of Canada as a rule
equals if not eXcels the finest prairie
farm lands of Indiana. These lands
are immense in their richness, and
when once the sod is rotted and pull
verified, it is as pliable and as easily
cultivated as Indiana sandy soil.
Western Canada, from my point of
mixed farming as any place in my
knowledge. The long, sunshiny days,
together with the rich SOIL produce
very fine wheat oats, barley, flax and
other cereal products There is scarce
ly any attempt to raise corn. except
early varieties for table use. The sea-
son is too short to depend upon matur-
ing field corn. From the standpoint or
Ia Ia Fo, hn MI 4
must say that | never saw such vast
extent, practically all ready, so all that
one has to do is to hitch up the plow
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 covering
q. hundred and sixty acres.
i have no doubt but that this country
eXcels as grazing or ranching coun-
try. because they have such rich grass,
having an abundance of rain to keep it
fresh. They also have plenty Of water
streams, and as a rule water may be
reached at depth of from twenty to
forty feet. From this you see there
can be plenty Of hay mOwn for winter
GeCQIng, ana L nave ndQ rellaDle Iafm-
ers 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 raising steer a farmer
replied that he did not consider it
would cost any more than 81 or Sc to
develop a 3-year-old steer
I truly think Canada offers a 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 $40 at the time
you enter it, and by blowing and cul-
tivating five acres each year for three
years, gives you one hundred and sixty