Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-09
AN EDITOR IN CANADA.
w. S. TaYlor in Star Clipper.

IW. >. Taylor IN Star-CHppef.I
The Canadian homestead laws are,
much the same as our own. Any per-.
son over twenty-one may secure 16'l
acres of land by living on the same sly;
months in each year for three years and
doing n limited amount improving. Ev-s
cry othere section was homestead land
II has been taken up in many parts OF.
the newer districts that are good fol
general farming. especially close tt,
markets, but there are thousands of
good claims yet to be had in AssiniboEl
and Alberta, located all the way from
five to 100 miles from railroad towns
Those that are desirable are being en-
tered very rapidly. All records are be-
ing broken. In the Weyburn, Assinibola,
district 225 homesteads We're taken last
month. In May of last year only eight :
cen We're taken. In other districts the
increase is probably as great. The
homesteaders come largely from the
United States, altho eastern Canada is
furnishing many hundreds of them am
bilious to get into a new country AMI
grow up with it. Many are men with
families ambitious to get a home of
their own. Eastern Assinibola, where /
have been the past week, is well dotte 1
with little new houses, and others go
up daily. This fall the number will be-
several times doubled. The scene much
resembles the early days. of Iowa,
when the homesteaders first planted
their feet upon its beautiful prairie.
The settlers in Canada will be better
supplied with railroads than were the
r. j
preceded them.
A claim in eastern Assinibola will be
worth the earning. Homesteads can yet
be had of the most beautiful lands on
the continent with a soil fertile almost
beyond belief that are worth today vt
least s. per acre. In fact saw men the
past week who filled on claims fer
homesteads and also bought 160 acres
of land adjoining of exactly the same
quality, and paid $3.50 to $50 per acre
for the land purchased outright. The
outlook now would justify the conclu
sion that at the end of three years,
when a claim can be fully earned, the
land will be worth SIS per acre. In fact
improved farms, no better land, located
along the main line of the U. p railroad
farther north, in an older settled cour-
try, are worth s25 to $50 per acre to-
day. 1t looks TO me as young men who
want to get start, who are not aver:;e
to leaving home and friends and going
into a new country, and are willing 10
go to the kings dominion for home,
could scarcely do better than to take UP
homesteads in Canada, If they stand
cold weather, which, however, the pep
pie assure us is no worse than the win
tiers of Minnesota and the Dakotas.
/ believe more people from Iowa have
purchased land in Assinibola than all
the people from all the other states
combined. No less than 100000 acres
are owned by Reinbeck people. James
Gardner is the heaviest Reinbeck inves-
tor. He recently bargained for eighty
sections and has opened or office at
Weyburn, to buy and SELL James Port
err bought some twenty sections last
fall, and has already more than doubled
his money. John Stewart has a num-
Der of sections as well as j. D. Morri-
son, G.. p. Geb and others. They are
the most enthusiastic set of men l have
seen.
You notice the length of the days
whom you go to Canada. Just now one
can read a paper at 8 o'clock in the eve
ming. Daylight begins soon after 3. IL
is sale that in the latter part of June,
in the northern portions of the domin-
ion, one can read any time within
twenty hours of a day and a wag says
a fellow with good eyes need not stop
He can read until the sun is down, then
turn around and continue by the rising
sun. The long days are very beneficial
TO the crops. Grain may be late in start
ing, yet natures easily as growth is SO
IA mid.