Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-04-23
NEVER SAW SUCH LARGE
YIELDS.
Climate is Healthy-The Wins
tiers Are Pleasant In western
Canada.

Writing from Stirling, Alberta, to
one of the agents representing tile
Canadian Government Free Home
stead Lands, Mr.. NJ. Pickrell, for
merly of Beechwood, Kentucky, says
of Western Canada:
"In the first place we will say that
the summer season is just lovely in
deed. AS to the winter, well we never
experienced finer weather than we
are now enjoying. We have just re-
turned from Northern Alberta and
will say that we found the weather
to be very mild, the air dry, fresh
and i~nvigorating. Considering every
thing we can say that the winters
here are most pleasant, healthy and
enjoyable to what they are in the
States. Here it gets cold and con.
tinues SO till Spring-there are no
disagreeable winds. In South Alberta
1t is some warmer-two to four
inches of snow may fall and in a
few hours a Chinook wind come
along. evaporating the entire snow,
leaving terra-frma perfectly dry, in
fact, we did not believe this part
until we anne and saw for ourselves
and we now know what we herein
write to be just as we write it.
There has not been a day this winter
that l could not work out doors.
Farmers here are calculating on
starting the plough the first of
March.
las to farm wages, we would not
advise a 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, and may never be again, such
a grand opportunity for a man to
get a home almost free.
CAS- to the crops. | have been in
the fields before harvest, saw the
grass put up and the grain harvested,
and I saw such large yields.
| saw oats near Edmonton over six
feet tall that yielded 80 bushels per
acre, and I talked to a farmer near
st. Albert who had a field year be-
fore last that averaged 40 bushels
per acre, and weighed 43 pounds to
the bushel. All other crops would
run in proportion-as to potatoes and
vegetables, the turnout was enor-
nous. I have such reports as the
above from all sections that l have
visited, and that has been every com
munity between the Edmonton dis.
trict and Raymond in the Lethbridge
district.
"As to stock raising, I would advise
a man to locate in this place, or any
place, in South Alberta, but for mixed
farming, l would say go up farther
north, say near Lacombe, Wetaskiwir
Or Edmonton, where it is not quite
so dry and where there is some tim
Der to be had. l will say hat no
where have l ever seen a better op
~portunity for a man, whether he has
money Of not, to obtain a home
Nowhere can be found a more pro
ductive soil, better water and a bet
ter governed country than Western
Canada affords. Inducements to thu
homeseeker r unexcelled. I me-
two men near Ponoka on the G. &
E. R. R., who borrowed the none,
to pay for their homestead and il
four years those two men sold theil
farms-one for 2 $500, the other fol
$4,000. I met a mar near Wetaskiwi1
who landed here with rs cents 81,
years ago.. He is now worth $4,000
Tie advantages for ranching are ex
c%ellent, in fact l do not believe thi
section a be beat. Markets arr
good; as to living, a family can liv'
as cheap here as they can in TIL
States. The average yield of oat
in this neighborhood, last year, wa
70 bushels. per acre; wheat averaged
35, barley 40, and the beet crop wa,
good. In consequence of the success
full cultivation of the beet, a larg,
beet sugar factory is being erected
at Raymond, seven miles from here
"In conclusion, I will say that N
w. T. from Manitoba to a long dis
lance north of Edmonton produces
most wonderful crops. Lakes ant
rivers abound with fish, and game i
plentiful. And that this is unques
tionably the country for a man t,
come to if he desires to better hi
condition in life. 7 would advise tn
prospective settler to look over tn
Lethbridge, Lacombe, Wetaskiwil
and Edmonton districts before locat
ing.
81 will locate in the Edmonton dis
trict next Fall and several familie
from the States will locate with me
In the meantime, I will receive IN,
mail here and will be pleased to Civ,
the interested all the information de
sired"
For information as to Railwa,
Rates, etc, apply to any agent o
the Canadian Government who's,
names appear elsewhere in this pa
per.