The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1903-05-21
NEVER saw SUCH LARGE YIELDS.
The Climate 10 HeaIthy-The Winters
Are Pleasant In Western Canada.

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Writing from Stirling. Alberta. t.
one Of the agents representing the
Canadian Government free homestead
lands, Mr.. n. Pickrell. formerly or
Becchwood. KY, says OF Western Can.
ada:
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 jus. returned
from Northern Alberta. and will say
that we found the weather to be very
mild. the mir dry, fresh and invigorat
ing. Conslde. ing everything we car
say that the winters here are most
pleasant. healthy and enjoyable 10
what they are In the States. Here II
gets cold and continues so till spring
there are no disagreeable winds. In
South Alberta IL Is some warm sr-two
to four inches of snow may fall and
In few hours a Chinook wind comes
along. evaporatins the entire snow
leaving terra irma perfectly dry, IN
fact. we did not believe this part until
We came and saw for ourselves and
we now snow what we herein write
to he just as We write II. There has
not been day this winter that could
not work out doors. Farmers here are
| calculating on starting the plow the
first of March.
AS to farm wages. VIC would not
advise a man to come here with the
expectation Of living by his days
work, but all who DO want 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 got q home
almost free.
AS to the crops. have been in the
fields before harvest, saw the grass
put up and the grain harvested. and !
never saw such large yields. ! saw
cats near Edmonton over six feet tall
tnat yielded so bushels per acre. and I
talked to a farmer LCar st. Albert who
had a field year before last that aver.
aged 10 bushels per acre and weighed
i3 pounds to the bushel. All other
crops would run in proportion-as 10
potatoes and vegetables. the tnrnou,
as the above from all sections that ]
have visited. and that has been every
community between the Edmonton dis
trict and Raymond. In the Lethbridgs
district.
"As to stock raising. would ad.
wise a man To locate In this place. or
any place. In South Alberta, but for
mixed farming ! would say 20 up
farther north. say near Laccmbe. We
taskiwin or Edmonton. where 1, is not
quite so dry and yhcrc there II some
timber to be had. ! will say that no
! where have ever seen better oppor-
tunity for n man, whethor he has
mUrcy or not. 10 obtain home. No.
where can be found more productive
sCil better water and a better gov.
erned country than Western Canada
affords. Inducements to the home
seeker are uncScellcd. ! met two men
near PCnUka on the c. & u. r. n
! who borrowed the money to pay for
their homestea cad. and in -four year
| those two men gold their farms-one
fer s2.5OO. the other for $4,000. ! met
man near Wetaskiwin who landed
! here with 25 cents six years ago. lie
| Is now worth $4,000. The advantages
| for ranchirg are excellent. In fact. !
| 90 not believe this section can be
! beat. Markets are good. as to living.
n family can live as cheap here as
| they can In the States. The average
| yield of oats in this neighborhood last
year was 10 bushels per acre: wheat
| h,
crop was coed I'm consequence OF
the successful cultivation Of the beet
q large beet sugar factory IL being
erected at Raymond, seven miles from
here.
"In conclusion VIII Say that N. W.
T. from Manitoba to n long distance
rorth Of Edmonton produces most won.
derful crops. Lakes and rivers abound
with fish. and game Is plentiful. And
that this is unquestiorably the coun
try for man to come to II he desires
TO better his condition In life. would
advise the prospective settler tn look
over the Lethbrldge, Lacombe. Wetas
kiwin and Edmonton districts before
locating.
Il will locate In the Edmonton dis
trict next fall and several families
from the states will locate with me
In the meantime ! will receive my
mail here and will be pleased to give
the interested all the information de
sired"
For information as TO railway rates
etc. apply to any agent OF the Cana
dian Government, whose name appears
elsewhere In this paper.