Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1903-04-22
NEVER saw SUCH LARGE YIELDS.
The Climate rs Healthy-The Winters
Are Pleasant In Western Canada

NV Y iIaSaFN w WSSAoiti CpNi"AF.
Writing from Stirling, Alberta. 20
one Of the agents representing the
Canadian Government free homestead
lands, Mr. M. Pickrell formerly Of
Beechwood, KY, says Of Western Cam
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 just returned
from Northern Alberta and will say
that we found the weather to be very
mild, the air dry, fresh and iIvigorat
ing. Considering everything 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 continues so till spring
there are no disagreeable winds. In
South Alberta it is some warmer-.twb
to four inches of snow may TALL and
in few hours a Chinook wind comes
along, evaporating the entire snow
leaving terra hrma perfectly dry; in
fact, we did not believe this part until
we came and saw for ourselves and
we now know what we herein write
to be just as we write it. There has
not been day this winter that could
not work out doors. Farmers here are
calculating on starting the pillow the
first OF March.
AS to farm wages. we would not
sdvlse a man to come here with the
expectation OF living by his days
b,.k al v.tt,r, A. a
advise to have nerve enough to get up
and come, for there never has been,
and may never be again, such grand
opportunity for man to get 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
! oats near Edmonton over six feet tall
that yielded 80 bushels per acre, and I
talked to farmer near St Albert who
{ had field year before last that aver
aged ITO bushels per acre and weighed
43 pounds to the bushel All other
| crops would run in proporuon--as to
potatoes and vegetables, the turnout
, was enormous. | have such reports
as the above from all sections that
have visited, and that has been every
community between the Edmonton dis
trict and Raymond, in the Lethbriage
district
las to stock raising ] would adj
wise a man to locate in this place, or
any place, in South Alberta. but for
mixed farming would say 90 up
farther north, say near Lacombe, We
I taskiwin or Edmonton, where ID Is NOT
quite SO dry and whore there is Rome
timber to be had win say hat mo-
Where nave eyeqsseen a pHt,ss n
tunity for man, whether M nay
money or not, to obtain a home Mo-
! where can be found a more productive
soil better water and better gov
erned country than Western Canada
affords. Inducements to the home
seeker are unexcelled met two men
near Ponoka on the G. & p. u. r.
who borrowed the money to pay for
their homestead, and in four years
those two men sold their farms one
for 81, 500, the other for $4,000 I met
man near Wetashwin who landed
here with 20 cents six years ago He
is now worth $4,000 The advantages
for ranching are excellent In fact, l
do not believe this section can he
beat Markets are good; as to living,
q family can live as cheap here as
they can in the States The average
yield of oats in this neighboriood last
year was 10 bushels per acre; wheat
averaged 80, barley 40, and the beet
crop was good. In consequence OF
the successful cultivation of the beet
large beet sugar factory is being
, erected at Raymond, seven miles from
I here.
In conclusion | will say that N. W.
r. from Manitoba to long distance
north of Edmonton produces most won
derful crops Lakes and rivers abound
with fish, and game is plentiful And
that this is unquestionably the conn
try for man to come to II he desires
to better his condition in life twould
advise the prospective settler to look
L over the Lethbridge, Lacombe, Wetas-
< kiwin and Edmonton districts before
+ locating
81 will locate in the Edmonton dis
a trict next fall and several families
from the States will locate with me
! In the meantime l win receive ms
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
r dian Government, whose name appears
o elsewhere in this paper
The number of irrigating dltche
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