Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-10

fresh from Gods mine old mother earth,
will be falling into and filling the vaults
! of the savings banks-and savings banks
that are safe
these farmers who bring big punches OF
money out of the earth. The northwest is
literally alive with men who went west
poor church mouse but who have in
a single decade made themselves and
their families comfortable. AT Gladstone,
on the Portage plains there dwells a
ia rmer who used to carry his carpenters
tools across from Windsor to Detroit and
vice versa as he could get employment.
Twelve years ago he came west, home-
stealing on the great wheat plains. He
broke his raw land with oxen and got a
good crop the second year The second
harvest, his third year in the west grew
and grew beautifully Alas, the hail came
one night, and the next day dawned on
utter desolation. His fine wheat was
threshed out. the very straw was beaten
into shreds, and the unhappy homesteadet
was left with farm, nude save for the
$1.To0 mortgage that covered it,
Did he despair? Oh, no! Pioneers never
quit.
Stories of the Northwest
At the end of another three years he had
paid off his mortgage and bought another
quarter and three years later he added
another half. When | met him and pumped
this story from him he was feeling about
in the wild grass west of his farm. He
was, l learned later feeling for the
stakes that had lately been set by the en-.
gineers who are pathfinding for the Grand
Trunk Pacific, which is to plough through
the center of Portage plains and up the
middle of the great mesa Immediately north
of fertile Qu'Appelle valley, where the
wheat this year will average not less than
twenty-five bushels to the acre ard on to
the South Saskatchewan, through half
thousand miles of almost endless wheat
lana. Here the farmer who had been
carpenter, and who, by his own statement,
went west a pauper, was buying another
half section.
l know another man who paid 81 an acre
for his land and 81 to have il pIoughed
twice. He took possession in the spring of
1901 and in the summer of 1902 his wheat
paid for the land and the pIoughing.
South of Yorkton an Englishman cleaned
up $1,000 in fifteen years, sold out for that
amount and returned to England whence
he had come a poor emigrant.
| saw his old schooImaster the other day.
lie had letter from the man in England.
I'm not satisfied he wrote odd Eng.
L can't breath easy here. Besides, all the
people knew have died or gone to Ameri-
ca. I'm coming back to Canada
ana these simple tales make up the story
of the Northwest, and keep the tide Of
immigration flowing.
Machinery in Demand.
Yesterday travelling man edged into the
seat with me. ''Can"yCu pay the duty and
compete with Canadian machinery T.
asked, innocently. That mans face would
have banished the blues Can We? Well
l guess l sold more stuff at that flag sta
ton where l got on in six hours than +
have sold in the states N six months"
''Stringing me- said ].
Not at all he went on. II broke it
easy to you. To he accurate l sold just one
separator and one engine in Indiana this
year. and this morning l wrote up $4,000
worth Of orders in my little book And he
produced the book
Half a million people. in the Canadian
Notwithstanding plumbers, policemen,
icemen, Indians and the Salvation Army,
will export about G0,O00,,sD bushels of wheat
this year, not to mention other farm prod
uctS. or l40 bushels OF wheat for every man,
woman and child in this great northwest
1t will take the two railways now in
operation four months, running a train an