The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-16
UNCLE SAM
 IN CANADA
How His Pioneers Are Settling the
 Great Northwest.
Copyright. 1904. by Frank c. csrpen-

Copyright. 1904. by Frank G. carpen-
 St. Louis, Oct. 14.
 ''Both Uncle Sam and John Bull are bringing money into Canada" said Mrs William Hutchinson, the Canadian Commissioner to the St. Louis Exposi- tion. as we sat together today in the Canadian pavilion. Fifty thousand American farmers have crossed the border last year, and we now have about 150,000 American settlers. Many of these are we'll to do. On the aver age I should say they bring apout $1,000 each into the country, so that we are at least s15o,oo0 richer from our recent American immigrants
 The Canadian Southwest.
 What Is the cause of the exodusr asked.
 "The high price of land in the United States and the free government lands of Canada" said MT. Hutchinson. our western country is what Kansas and Nebraska, were forty or fifty years ago, The land Is chiefly owned by the GOV ernment and the railroads. The Cana dian Pacific. which built its line from Quebec to Vancouver. had the rignt 10 take a certain number of alternate sections. It picked them out in the richest parts of its territory, and these lands are now for sale. The Hudson Bay Company also had large grants ot land which are now in the market
 ''The balance of the unoccupied soil belongs to the Government. and we are allotting 1t to actual settlers in l60- acre tracts. All that the settler needs do is to take out his papers. at cost of 3l0, and live on and cultivate tho land for three years, when the Govern. ment will give him e title. If he has sons of IS years or over they can take up the adjoining quarters, and if such sons are unmarried they can live at home with their parents while proving up their land. The son of MT. Duncan, one of my assistants here, is an Indian boy of 20. He was IS when he took up a quarter section, and next year he will get the title to it. He has never had more than $100 ahead; but when that title Is proved he will be worth $2,000. There are hundreds of such instances A family coming In takes up as much as 1t can, and its members often buy the the adjoining railroad lands, so that they have good-sized farms
 What are lands worth?" I asked.
 Tn the territory where they are be- ing taken up from $7 to SIP per acre, according to the character of the soil and It's nearness to the railroad. Spec ulators have picked up here and there some large tracts. One company at St. Paul recently bought 100000 acres at s3 per acre. They raised the price at once to $6 per acre, and the people who would not touch it a few years ago, when 1t was a drug on the market at $3, fairly fell over each other in their eagerness to take 1t at $6."
 1O0,0OO,0OO Acres of Wheat.
 Just where Is the new wheat region, MT. HutchinsonT
 There is some east of Manitoba, but the great wheat country of today Is iu Manitoba. and in Assiniboia, and Sas- katchewan, which lie west, and north west of it, and also in Alberta beyond. These States have vast prairies with wheat lands of about 280,000.000 acres. That is equal to ten States the size of Ohio, and 1t is estimated that 100, ,000.- 900 acres of this are now offered to homesteaders.
 "Just north of that region" continued Mir. Hutchinson, Ties Athabasca, a vast territory which will raise wheat, but which has not yet been opened up to settlement. Athabasca contains