Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-03-15
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L. A. Stockwell, Of Indianapolis, q
United States land man, who made an
extensive tour Of inspection In tho
West, wrote the following article, un-
der date of Jan. s, for an Indiana pub
lication:
"States."-In this letter l propose to
show by extracts from my note pool
that thousands who have come up here
from the States" have succeeded far
beyond their most %sanguine eXpecta.
tons.
Mr.. y. r. Reaumunk, OF Brazil. Ind,
was earning 500 per month with a
coal company. At about the age of 40
he had saved about $4,000. Four years
ago he landed near lIanley, Sask. He
now owns 40 acres of land. Last fall
$1,000 he threshed 400 bushels OF
wheat and 800 bushels of barley cats.
His wheat alone brought him over
$4,000, which would nave paid for the
acres that it grew on. He is today
worth $l5,CC0.
This Is Making Money Fast.
In February, 1902, j. G.. Smith &
Bro. were wcavcrs in Il big cotton mill
in Lancashire, England. Coming hero.
they arrived in Wapella. Sask.. with
only $3.50 between them. They were so
green and Inexperienced that all they
could earn the first summer was 5000
per month. and the first winter they
had TO work for their board. The next
year, 1909. they took homcsteads. and
by working for ueighbors they got n
few acres broken out, upon which the
next year they raised Il few hundred
bushels Of wheat and oats. They also
bought n team and broke out about
sixty acres more. In 1905 they thrcshed
Loo bushels of wheat from it, and
LOO bushels of oats. Their success
being then assured, they borrowed some
money. built a good house, barn and
implement shed. and bought Il cream
separator, etc. They now have a dozen
cows, some full-bloodcd pigs and chick
ems. good teams and implements to
match. and are on the high road to
prosperity. Here are three cases Sc
lected from my note hook from among
a score of others. One n mine boss,
one a farmer, and one a factory oper-
ator. With each of them l took tea
and listened TO their story. II hoped
to better my condition." said one. IT
thought in time l might make a home"
said another. II had high cypecta-
tons said the other, and all said that
Il never dreamed it possible to succeed
as | have"
Like Arabian lights.
Everywhere. on the trains. at the
hotels and in family. ! have been told
of successes that reminded me more
of the stories in the Arabian Nights
than of this matterof- fact, workaday
world. Yields of wheat from 80 to 53
bushels per acre. and OF oats of from
GO to 100 bushels. are numerous In ev-
cry locality and we'll authenticated At
Moose JAW. Lcthbridge. Calgary, Ed
monitor. Regina. Brandon, Hanley and
many intermediate places saw cattle
and young horses fat as your g~rain-fcd
animals of the States that had never
tasted grain. and whose cost to their
owners was almost nothing. At Moose
min | saw Il train load of 400 steers
en- route to England. that were shaky
fat. raised as above stated. If the older
generation of farmers in Indiana, who
have spent their lives in a contest with
lags and stumps, as did their fathers
before them. could see these broad
prairies dotted with comfortable homes,
large red barns. II straw piles ipnu-
merable, and the thriving towns. with
their towering elevators jammed to tho
roof with NO. ! hard" and then re-
member that four or five years ago
these plains We're tenantless but for
the badger and coyote. they would mar
vel at the transformation. Then if they
followed the crowds as they emerged
from the trains and hurried to the
land offices. standing in line until their
respective turns to be waited on came.
and saw with what rapldity these lands
are being taken. they would certainly
catch the disease and want some Of
1t too. If these and are beautiful, in
midwinter with their long stretches Of
yellow stubble standing high above the
o what must they be in summer
time when covered with growing or
ripening grain? Speaking Of winter re-
minds me that II Hoosier friends
shrug their shoulders when they read
in the Chicago and Minneapolis dailies
Of the temperature up here. The Ca
madam literature. with it's pictures,
half tones and statistics. gives n good
idea of her resources. but thirty or
forty degrees below zero sounds dam
gerous to a Hoosicr, who nearly freezes
i'll a temperature OF Ave above. espe-
cially when accompanied by a wind. az
it often is but the fact IS, when 1t is
very cold here 1t Is still, md the air
being dry the cold is not felt as it is
in our lower ATTITUDES. where there is
more humidity in the atmosphere. 1
am SO. and l never saw a finer winter
than the n I am spending up here.
arrived In Winnipeg Nov. Q. and have
not had the bottoms OF my overshoes
wet since l entered Canada. Under a
cloudless sky | have ridden in sleighs
nearly a thousand miles, averaging n
drive every other day. Stonemasons
have NOT lost n wocl,'s time On for MI.