The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-04
QUIT ILLINOIS TO
FARM IN CANADA
HUNDREDS or FARMERS ARE
CROSSING THE BORDER.
From the Smaller. High Priced Tracts to
the Southwark, They Are Moving on
the Larger Dominion Fields to Make
New Homes.


states passed thru Minneapolis today
bound for new fields in the Dakotas and
the Canadian northwest. Possibly half
of the number had already been to the
new country and were returning with
their families to begin farm life in the
kings dominion. Others were making
their first reconnoiter. With few. ex-
ceptions. the men were middle-aged, from
40 to 50 years old
Altho a few Of the homeseekers are
moved with something Of the spirit that
America, with most of them the trans
fer of their investment and belongings
to the new country is purely matter
Of business. They have disposed Of
their acres in Iowa and Illinois at a
high price, and will invest the proceeds
in acreage in the northwest at low
values. At the same time they expect
to find that the new land will raise larg-
er and better crops, with much less
labor and expense.
Others Take Their Places.
Notwithstanding the heavy emigfa.
ton from the older settled states the
homeseekers says little difference rs no.
ticed and the filling Of the soil on the
old farms goes on Just the same. Land
prices have become so high. that most
of the emigrants feel that they cannot
bafford to carry the property any longer,
at the crop returns received.
Edward Kennedy, A. J. Baker and G.
L. McMastersF Of Tuscola, ILL.,, were in
one party at the 500 station today,
sold IT'S acres Of corn and broom corn
land last fall at $3.50 an acre. A. J.
Baker had disposed Of 24O acres at $3.50
an acre, and expected to buy at least
4S0 acres at from $40 to SIS an acre.
Mr.. McMasters had been in the grain
business and said he was going up to
see if the land in Canada is what it is
represented to be. He expects to find
better t 3stnrns said ian are so nigh
the party, 1'that it hardly pays the in
cheaper property and get better re-
turns 81 -.
In another group were E. R. Sisson,
J. A. Schmitz, L. G.. Harrison and J.
w. Eye Of Storm Lake, Iowa; A. W
Palmer Of Charlton, Lloyd Beswick, G.
E. Hull and Lincoln Lyon of Stock,
port, and J. G.. Hamilton of Mon
mouth, Ill.
" r" Taking Big Farms.
Said MI. Sisson: eve can buy more
land and operate with better results
than with our former investments in
Iowa and Illinois. We sold at from
$3.50 to $40 an acre and will buy land
in the northwest at from $3.50 and tc
500. We shall 20 to Lacombe, in AL
berta. Some of the farmers will take
all the way from a quarter section tc
5000 acres. -.>
"A man can take care Of 800 acres
of wheat at least up to harvest time
when he will need man to help hin
shock the grain, as easily as he car
Iowa land, eighty acres, at $50 an acre
or $4,000, and invest the money in SIC
land in Canada, and you get $50 acres
One-third Of the crops for the last
eleven years has yielded an average OF
little less than SIS an acre. - 4s--..
Said another Of the party: ''The
wheat properties have left our soil il
Iowa permanently, while a single wheat
crop will pay for the land up there
or the rent will pay for it in two years
while in Iowa and Illinois, if the in
come pays off the cost of quarter sec
ton in his natural lifetime, the farmer
feels he is doing we'll. - III.
j.. A. Cruise Of Fowler, Ind, repre-
senting the Calgary Land company, ha6
with him a quaint character, Davit
Welsh of Fowler. He owns 1000 acres
of land eleven miles from Calgary
which cost him $13 an acre. He has {
son living on the property, and he was
going up to watch him work this sum
mer. 81 still hold my. property, 7o(
acres, in Indiana said Mr.. Welsh
cit is worth $3.50 an acre and raise.
corn, oats, wheat and big potatoes
Twenty families are up in Calgary from
our county. We never miss them il
Indiana. We miss them as neighbors
but do not see a loss in the number o.
people, 49, ,..~ :