Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-01-02
A FINE COUNTRY.
ada L. an Ideal Land for Farms
ers and Ranchers.

A delegate from Ohio to Western
Canada says: 'sThe whole of West
I'm Canada seemed to me to be
yery fine country, but / spent most
IF my time about thirty miles east
popularity known as the coal banks.
on the Red Deer River, and i am
sery pleased to report that the coun-
try appears to be everything that the
Agents of the Canadian Government
have claimed for it. Good water can
be obtained almost anywhere from
II to 40 feet, and fed generally by
springs. The natural hay and grass
we're magnificent in their growth and
wild pea vines very heavy. I met
some of my friends who moved there
seven years ago and two brothers
who had absolutely nothing on their
arrival seven years before row own
two and a half sections of land and
IFS head of cattle. They told me that
they did not feed their stock all win
ter, in fact, never saw them again
until the spring, when they came
home fat and without loss. I gath
cred oats 6 #. high and running
from rs to 100 bushels per acre. 1t
appeared to me that all grasses, wild
md cultivated, grow to perfection
n any part of Alberta that I saw,
and the farmers were cutting from
two to three tons of wild hay to the
lcre. I found the climate very de-
sirable in every respect, and am told
that the winter is the finest part of
he year. There is plenty of coal and
h. y IL
lauling, and such is my satisfaction
With the country that I /. acquired
some land and have put a bunch of
cattle thereon. I can confidently rec
.mmend Western Canada as a suit
,ble place for farmers to immigrate
o, and can assure them the kindest
reatment by the people there, so
much so that one does not distin-
,uish the fact that we have left the
boundaries of the United States"
Hugh Spender, of the Westminster
iazette, one of the British Journal
.sts who visited Canada this summer
1902, says: eve fell in with a
soung farmer from Somersetshire,
england, driving binder round a
hundred acre field of wheat in West
ern Canada. In conversation found
hat he came from within fifteen
niles of my old home in Somerset
hire. Here was the very man we
wanted. He had come to Manitoba
zen years ago, with a capital of $12
IN landing. In England he had been
employed on dairy farm, and earned
eighteen shillings week. He now
81 r,
buildings and cattle, and expects to
have 1000 bushels of wheat this sea-
son. We had heard of such things
in the old land, but they did not seem
credible, until we came to this ix-
ing example of the strides that it is
possible to make in Manitoba. Had
this man remained in England, it is
pretty safe to say he would still be
earning no more than eighteen
shillings a week, while in the same
period in Manitoba he has become a
substantial and prosperous farmer"
81 know a man who commenced in
Assiniboia, Is years ago, with no
means; no capital. To-day this man
owns 1000 acres of land, some Sc
horses, 80 or 40 bullocks, cows, etc
He has built good stone house with
his owno hands. and has now married
and is doing well, with every prospect
of increasing his means in the future
Western Canada has the most exhil-
arating, bracing climate I ever knew
All that is required in che settler
is perseverance, grit, patience and
hard0 work. I will guarantee the
country, if you will guarantee the
man. From letter from a retired
officer in the British army.