The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-30
Minneapolis
ESTERHAz THE
MECCA OF HUNS
Minneapolis Hungarian Con.
.tingent Will Leave Soon
for Assiniboia.

I.F
There is little colony of Hunga-
rlans In Northeast Minneapolis, con-
sistlng of three families, which will
leave next week for Assiniboia over
the Minneapolis, st. Paul & Sault Ste
Marie, bag and baggage
The Huns will go to Esterhaz. a
thriving Hungarian settlement on the
porderland Of Manitoba. The nearest
railway station is Whitehead, twenty
fve miles to the south on the Canadian
Pacific. The plateau on. which the set
tlement has been made rises out of the
valley Of QuAppelle river There are
about 1000 Hungarians in the colony.
Edward Jozsefs, the leader in the
minneapolis movement, who is making
all transportation arrangements. etc,
visited the Assiniboia colony last year
and discovered that the most advanta-
geous terms were being made to set
tiers by the Canadian government.
Land is to be had at triffing cost and
the opportunities for success by indus
trlous people are said to be plentiful.
Jozsefs brought back with him a
great amount of literature issued by
the Dominion land office and printed I'm
divers languages. The Hungarians of
Jozselfs' encourage have assimilated all
TINS and it decided them in accepting
without further question, the advance
agents descriptions of a land flowing
with milk and honey, where homes
were to be had for the, asking and a
paternal government stood ready to
assist needy immigrants in the pur-
chase of horses and stock. q
For all the differences there is in
manners or customs" said Jozsefs to-
day, the people of that colony might
be in their own country 1 Nobody in
terferes with them. They have their
own schools. their own churches, their
own social life. Up in Canada they
can these people the Canadian May
gars.
'Esterhaz was epenedgu in 1885, by
two families of Hungarian explorers
who found the fertile plateau after ex
ploring the Qu'Appelle valley. They
visited Lord Landsdowne and secured
from him the reservation of $4,000
acres of land for Hungarian colonial
tlon The following year. $50 persons
comprising 35 families, made their Wav
to the new colony, and from what I
can understand, they had hard time
or 1t for the first year or two. After
that the place began to thrive and
now 1000 of the 125,000 acres are un-
der cultivation. Each family gets a
farm of 100 acres.
% There are about 200 homesteads in
the colony Most of the houses are
made OF logs or plaster, one-story in
height and all very neat and comfort
able. There is q Roman Catholic
church and a stone parochial house
the latter being the finest structure in
the settlement. There is also a post
ONCE and two good school houses have
been built 'i'aF -
There are no stores in the place
Everything needed is freighted from
Whitehead by the colonists themselves,
but they raise nearly everything they
need on the farms. The country is
full of wild game, which is made good
use of and all sorts of vegetables are
raised"
Mr. Jozsefs says that! the Canadian
Pacific is preparing to build a branch
line which will go very close to Ester
haz, and that the value of the land
will be thus greatly enhanced, as also
will the convenience of the colonists.
He believes that there will be a gen.
eral exodus Of Hungarians from the
Northwestern states as soon as the ad-
vantages of Esterhaz become gener-
ally known.
The. Minneapolis emigrants will
leave here on April 5. They expect
to get settled on their land in the new
colony before the end of April The
party will consist of five women, four
teen children and four men.