Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-18
GREAT NORTHWEST.
COL. G. CLAY PORTER, OF CAL
GARY, N. w. n, ApMIREs
THAT COUNTRY.

THAT COUNTRY.
Is Editor Of the Calgary Herald, One
of the Best Newspapers in the Ca
madam Northwest Territory Says
Many Iowans are Going to Canada.
From Fridays Daily.
Col. G. Clay Porter, editor OF the
Daily Herald, of Calgary, N w. T., is
in the city today, the guest of A. W.
Lee, and is incidentally looking over
the Courier Office with view Of in
stalling a perfecting press and other
new machinery in the Office of his
splendid. newspaper in the Canadian
Northwest.
Iowa has contributed large num-
Der of substantial citizens to north
west Canada" observed Col Porter.
Abiding to the enormous development
of that section of British Amer
lea, Col. Porter said: "The Central
states last year sent into Canada 300,-
900 settlers and most Of them are To-
Gated in Manitoba, Assiniboia Saskat-
crewan and Alberta. This year the
immigration threatens to, exceed that
number. Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Mis-
souri, and the Dakotas are the heaviest
contributors Most Of these settlers
become. British subjects and imme-
diately homestead land or buy the
cheap property to be had on every
SIDE
1T is my experience that the Iowa
people are very much pleased with
western Canada. They are very pros
porous and know former Iowan
from near Ottumwa, l.. T. Shaeffer,
who homesteaded quarter section on
the Prince Albert branch Of the G. P.
R. three years ago and sold 1t this
winter for $18 per acre. This Is, of
course, an exceptional case, but home
stead claims are readily sold for 81
and SIS per acre as soon as title can be
transferred, which Is three years.
ut is curious how soon an Ameri-
can IS assimilated In western Canada.
You know there was fear expressed
a few years ago by the conservative
element in Canada that the swarm of
Americans overrunning that country
would constitute a menace to the Do
minion, but the opposite has been de-
monstrated as true Instead of Amer
icanizing Canada these Americans are
Canadianized before they are aware of
it. Naturally, this follows because
after all there is little difference in the
people, their ideals. institutions and
vocations.
Just at present Assiniboia and AL
berta are undergoing change from
territory to full autonomy or provin-
cial rights. This, with the construc.
ton Of the second great transconti.
mental railroad, the Grand Trunk
Pacific, has attracted thousands into
that part Of the Dominion this spring
Then, too. the weather has been es.
pecially favorable to immigration.
Spring opened in Alberta about
February Is and spring seeding began
at once. Today the unusual spectacle
of spring seeding commencing In the
far north almoas before 1t has com
menced thousand miles south Is wit
messed. have experienced since l
struck Illinois more winter than have
seen in the extreme northwest for the
past two months.
"The Iowa farmers who have immi.
grated to Alberta are largely engaged
in winter or fall wheat raising. This
is an industry that threatens to even
oyershadow the stock business as a
revenue producer in Alberta. Winter
wheat natures five to seven weeks
earlier than the spring variety in that
part of the far north and easily avoids
the late frosts which sometimes cause
serious losses in that part of the coun.
try The farmers of the central states
combine stock raising and grain farm
ing very much as thew do here and &C.
cumulate money very rapidly. G. g.
Roche, an Iowan from near Des
Moines, has winter wheat farm near
High River that cost him SO an acre
on which he produced $4,000 bushels
of winter wheat last year, netting him
81 dollar per bushel. The original cost
of this land was scarcely half this
amount. Forty bushels of winter
wheat is not unusual, through that por.
ton of the territories. OF course
the greatest wheat producing section
of western Canada is Manitoba. There
thousands of former Americans have
become enormously wealthy produc.
ing wheat. For instance, Indian Head
a whistling station on the Canadian
Pacific Railroad, five hundred miles
west of Winnipeg, is the largest mi.
tial grain shipping station in the world
This don't except any town or city
in Kansas, Nebraska OF Iowa
There are fifteen great elevators there
and it is not an unusual spectacle to
see line of wagons mile long wait
ing for their loads to be emptied.
AT Regina, Assininboia. last week
/ saw an excursion consisting of 500
wealthy Iowa farmers who had gone
there to buy land for speculative pur.
poses and hold it for future buyers
This has been found to be very lu.
crative source of investment"
COLORADO TO IOWA.
Divorced Wife Follows Man Hundreds
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