Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-10-15

" ,.,t ,eol. by Frank G. carpen'
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~ r0r1s Both Uncle Sam
n .ra lobn Bull are bringing
uorey into Canada said MI
wmam Hutchinson the Ca
N madam commissioner to the 81.
ools exposition, as we sat to-
" eether today In the Canadian
r,4lol Fifty thousand
-,.s1 farmers crossed the border
D. s5or and we now have about l5O-
w ~ American settlers. Many Of these
weu TO DO. on the average /
,sW say they bring about one thous-
dollars each into the country, 80
S,, we are % least one hundred and
,oy million dollars richer from our re-
a,t American Immigrants
THE CANADIAN SOUTHWEST
what is the cause OF the cSodus|
T5e bleh prices Of land IN the Unit
ID states and he free government
tr5s of Canada" said Mr. Hutchln-
.5o our western country Is what
T5rss and Nebraska were forty or NJ
~ ysars ago The land is chiefly
'rnoj by me government and the rail-
..1s The Canadian Pacific which
t,ni Its line from quebec to Vancouver,
tsJ tbe rIght 10 take certain num-
il, m alternate sections, IL picked
tsm out in the richest parts of It's
,1,rIoy. and these lands are now for
ge. The Hudson Bay company also
hd large grants OF land which are
now In the market
uTbe balance OF the uuoccupied soil
belongs 10 the government, and we are
s.ouIng 10 20 actual settlers In 1867
are tracts All that the settler needs
m do is 90 take ont his papers, at a
,1st on SO. and live on and cultivate
hs and for three years when the gov
eminent win give him a utle. If ne
has sons OF eighteen years or over they
Can take up the adjoining quarters, and
n such sons are unmarried they can live
N home with their parents while prov
lrg 10 their land. The son Of Mr.
Duncan. one Of my assistants here, Is
an Indian boy Of twenty. lie was eigh-
Teen when he took up a quarter sec
lion. and next year he win get the title
10 H. He has never had more than
500 ahead, but when title is proved he
w.l be worth $1,000. There are hundreds
Of such instances A family coming |
IN takes up as much as II can and It's |
members often buy the adjoining rail- |
road lands so that they have good |
flad FARMS
What are lands worth?' / asked.
IN the territory where they are being |
taken up from 81 10 $l2 per acre. ac-
c0ri'ug 10 the character Of the soil and |
Ms nearness 10 the railroad specua-
tors have picked up here aud there
some large tracts One company at
s. Paul recently bought iOOO,OOO acres
az g per acre They raised the price
q, once TO So per acre, and the people
who would not touch II a few years
ago. when 10 was a drug on the market
Al s. fairly fell over each other IN their
egsrtess to take II at &c."
lOOo0OO0J ACRES OF WHEAT.
Just where IS the new wheat re-
E1n Nh, Hutchinson
There is some east Of Manitoba, but
DE great wheat country Of today is I'm
Manitoba, and In Assinibola and Sas-
kAlCheWan which he west and north
vest Of IL and also IN Alberta beyond.
These states have vast pralries with
wheat lands OF about 28O. 1000. 900 acres.
That is equal TO ten states the size of
lhIo and Il is estimated that 100 900. 900
lTes Of this are now offered TO home
.leaders
Just north Of that region. continued
W. Hutchinson "lies Athabasca, "A vast
eriory which viii raise wheat, but |