Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-04-25
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The Climate Is Healthy-The Winters
Are Pleaannt-in Western Canada.

The Climate Is Healthy-The Winters
Are Pleasant-in Western Canada.
Writing from Stirling, Alberta, to
one of the agents representing the Ca
madam Government Free Homestead
Lands, Mr.. NJ. Pickrell, formerly OF
BeechwOod, Ky, says of Western
Canada:
I'm the first place we will say that
the summer season is just lovely in
deed. As 10 the winter, well, we nevei
experienced finer weather than we are
now enjoying. We have just returned
from Northern Alberta and will say
that we found the weather to be very
mild, the air dry. fresh and invigOra
ting. Considering everything we can
say that the winters here are most
pleasant. healthy and enjoyable to
what they are in the States. Here 1t
gets cold and continues SO till spring
there are no diSa greeable winds In
South Alberta it is some warmer-two
to four inches OF snow may fall and
in few hours a Chinook wind come
along, evap0r2ting the entire snow.
leaving terra ffrma perfectly dry, in
fact, we did not believe this part until
we came and saw for ourselves and we
now know what we herein write to BE
bean day this winter that | could not
work outdoors Farmers here are cal
cuatinc On starting the plough the
ii IS. of March.
AS TO farm wages, we would not
5df!se 4 man to come here with The
expectation OF living by his days
work. but all who do want a home
advise to have nerve enough to get up
and come, FOR there never has been,
end may never be again, such 4 grand
opportunity for q man to get home
7Im0st free
AS to the crops. / have been in The
fields before harvest, saw the grass put
up ana the grain harvested, and nev-
az saw such large yields. ! saw oats
near Edmonton over six feet tall that
yielded 50 bushels per acre, and |
talked 10 q farmer near St Albert who
had a field year before last that aver
aged 10 bushels per acre, and weighed
~ pounds to the bushel. All other
crops would ran in prop0rtion--aS t.
potatoes ana vegetables, the turnout
was enormous. | have such reports rs
the above from all sections that | have
81 tied ana that has been every com
munjty between the Edmonton dirtric.
and Raymond in the Lrthbidge dis
tl.ct
AS 70 stock raising, | would advise
man 10 locate in this place, or any
place IA South Alberta, but for mixed
farming, | would say 90 up farther
north. say near LacOmbe, WctaskiWinor
Edmonton, where it Is not quite SO dlT
and where there Is some timber to be
had. ! will say that nowhere have !
ever seen better opportunity for q
man. whether he has money or rot
To "htain a home. Nowhere can Ia
found Il more productive soil better
wafer and n better governed country
than Western Canada affords Induce
meutS to the hOmcSceker are uneX
celled. | met two men near PonokG
on the c. d +. K. r., who borrowed
the money 20 pay for their homestead
aud III four years those two men SOLD
their farms--one for 81 500. the other
for $1,000, | met n man near Wutls
klWln who landed here with - cents
six years ago. lie is now worth SIS
0D. The advantages for ranching are
excellent, in fact, | do not believe this
section can be beat Markets arc
good; as to living. a family can live
MS cheap here as they can in the
States. The average yield OF oats in
this neighborh0od. last year was ~
bushels per acre; wheat averaged -
barley 40, ana the beet crop was good
In consequence Of the successful cugi-
walton of the beet, a large beet sugar
factory is being erected at Raymond
seven miles from here.
In conclusion | will say that n w
r., from Manitoba to a long distance
north of Edmonton, produces most
wonderful crops. Lakes and rivers
abound with fish, and game is plcuti-
full. And that this is unquestionamy
the country for a man 20 come 10 If
he desires to better his condition In
life. | would advise the prospective
settler TO look over the Lcthbrid-a La
combc, Wetasliwin and Edmonton
districts before locating.
Il will locate in the Edmonton dis
trict next fall anu several famiH,,
from the States viii locate with mr
In the meantime, | will receive my
mail here and will be pleased to give
the Interested all the information d..
sired"
For information as to railway rates
ETC. apply to any agent Of the Cana
dian Government, whose names app.ar
elsewhere in this paper.
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