The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-09
AMERICAN INVASION.
Thousands of Yankee Farmers Have
Settled In Canada.
Golfers Weekly.

Golfers Weekly.
In the vast wheat-growing area of Mani
toba. where the red. hump-backed elevators
dot the lines of railroads that are being
built in all directions, 1900 American citi-
zens have settled this year. They mostly
belong to the class of younger sons who.
moving westward. generation by genera
ton. until they reached Minnesota, the
Dakotas or Montana, are now crossing the
border into fresh fields. Their character
and their experience make their influence
predominant. Their ways are becoming
the ways of the newcomers from CONT
mental Europe, who equal them in numbers
From the northern part of Montana
around Great Falls, new overland route
has been created. The individuals follow
crossed the plains. Journeying by prairie
schooners, their practiced eyes can judge
the quality of the soil until they ind a
prospect that pleaSeS. With all the gooo
wheat land nearly taken up In our North
west and becoming more and more valu-
able, the virgin soil Of Manitoba is still
cheap. Many who have sold out to men
from farther east look forward to building
up another property and selling ii TO adj
vantage. and then returning to the States.
tiers bought over 100000 acres. There are
four new Mormon towns. Cardston was
founded by Mrs. Card, one of the daughters
of Brigham Young, and known as Aunt
Zina," who is the ruling spirit of a COM
munity of 5000 people Two years ago the
site of Raymond, which is also Mormon,
was covered with tawny range grass. To-
day it has 1000 people, with schools and
churches and lawyers, doctors and mer-
chants, not to mention a beet sugar fac
tory.
The Mormon and Doukhobor are about
| the only colonies that have remained intact.
The Doukhobors are not as unreasonable
as painted. Those who start on fanatical
migrations i'm a condition of nudity form
| a minority not approved of by the average
| Doukhobor at all. Anglo-Saxon surround
| ings are already having their usual effect
Instead of holding their property in COM
mon, many of the young men are now
securing deeds to the farms they occupy
| One Peter Verigen has become the leader
| Of the progressives. He has convinced his
| so a schoolhouse is to be built in each OF
| the sixty villages. They are also conclud
ing that it is not vital to their religion tina
| they draw their plows themselves and are
| beginning to use horses instead.
1t is the Euglishmen. especially the cit,
| jewellers, whose righteousness furn1she:
| the hard-headed emigrants from Ontario
| and Minnesota with great deal of amuse
| ment. The Barr colony OF some 5000 Brit
| ons proposed to be very exclusive. They
| were going to have a community of thei
| own and allow no Americans or other for
| eigners in it, Only 800 of them are now lief
/ in their settlement OF Brittania, though
| not a .ozen in all have returned to england
| The rest have followed the natural law
| which distributes the members of society
| to places where they find the best opportu
mites. The newcomer who is least welcom,
4 in Manitoba is the remittance man." II,
is frequently the son of good family VIII,
| occupation is waiting for his monthly allow
ance.