Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-02-27
PROSPERITY IN CANADA.
The Farmer in Western Canada Achieves
Wonderful Success.

The Farmer in Western Canada Achieves
Wonderful Success.
One of the first things that the man
who wishes to change his residence
endeavors to find out is where he can
go and succeed. 1t need be matter
of little doubt or indecision now. Dur
ing the past four or five years the de-
velopment of Western Canada has
been so rapid, and the conditions OF
life there so widely known, that up
wards of 100000 Americans have taken
up their homes there. and the expert
ence of these people is that they are
thoroughly satisfied with their choice
of home.
The methods of farming there are
similar to those adopted in the United
States. but the operations are simpler,
the yield of grain greater and the
profits more satisfactory. Ranching
is carried on with lots of success.
Mixed farming is always profitable,
while the results in grain-raising are
as certain as splendid soil, excellent
climate and lots of sunlight can give.
The yields O. but nothing is as
satisfactory as the experience of the
farmer himself, and extracts are Sc
lected from one.
A good intelligent farmer named
Mears, John Mears to be exact, left
Cavalier county, North Dakota, two
years ago and followed the thousands
who had already gone to Canada. He
had twenty-five years experience in
Minnesota, in buying grain, including
fax, but in all his experience he never
saw a district so well suited to the
growth of fax as Western Canada.
The financial results of Mr.. Mears'
operations in a single season are as
follows: Wheat, 5000 bushels, hard,
at 571ac, S1,7S5; $3.50 bushels North
ern, at SAC, s1457.2O; Oats, 1850 BUSH
els, at 35c, s612.50; Speltz, 154 bush
els, at 75c, s115.50; Flax. S24 bushels,
at 50, $685. Total, s4,59S.20, return
of more than $4,000 from little over
250 acres, an average of s18 per acre,
is surely testimony sufficiently strong
to satisfy the most incredulous as to
the money to be made out of the soil
of the Canadian West. 1t is to facts
like these-arguments expressible and
demonstrable in dollars and cents
that the steady northward movement
of American farmers is due. Mr..
Mears is settled near Arcola, ASA.
A number of Americans who have
chosen Western Canada as a home
had the idea that a man enjoyed less
freedom in Canada, but they soon
found their mistake, and say the laws
of Canada are the most liberal in the
world, and such as prevent the litiga-
ton which breeds so much bad feel
ing between people in the United
States and costs them so dear in law
yers' fees.
The government has established
agencies at St. Paul. Mimi; Omaha.
Neb.; Kansas City, Mo-; Chicago, Ill.s
Indianapolis, Ind; Milwaukee, Wis.,
Wausau, Wis; Detroit. Sault Ste.
Marie and Marquette, Mich; Toledo,
Ohio; Waterfowl, S. Dakota; Grand
Forks, N. Dakota, and Great Falls,
Mont, and the suggestion is made
that by addressing any OF these, who
are authorized agents of the govern
ment it will be to the advantage of
the reader, who will be given the
fullest and most authentic informa-
ton regarding the results of mixed
farming, dairying, ranching and grain
raising, and also supply information
as to freight and passenger rates, etc