The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-08
IMPRESSED WITH
WESTERN CANADA,
Says Our Prairies Will BE Filled Up
In Ten Years.

SSNA ~ sA>
west, wrote the following article, IN
der date of Jan. 8. for an Indiana pub
location:
States" In this letter I propose
to shew by extracts from my note
book that thousands who have come
up. here from the States" have sue,
ceeded far beyond their most san
guine expectations.
Mr.. N. E Beaumunk OF Brazil, In.
diana, was earning $4,000 per month
with a coal company. At about the
age OF 40 he had saved about $4,000.
Four years ago he landed near Han,
ley. Sask. He now owns 4S0 acres OF
land. Last fall (1905) he threshed
400 bushels of wheat and 800 bush,
els Of oats. His wheat alone brought
him oyer $4,000. which would have
paid for the acres that it grew on.
He is to-day worth SIS,
This Is Making Money Fast.
In Feb. 1902, j. G. Smith & Bro.
were weaver in a big cotton mill in
Lancashire. England. Coming here
they arrived in Wapella, Sask., with
only $76s.09 between them. They
were SO green" and inexperienced
that all they could earn the first sum.
mer was $500 per month. and the first
winter they had to work for their
board. The next years19O3, they took
h~omesteads, and by working for neigh
tors, they got a few acres broken out,
upon which the next year they raised
a few hundred bushels of wheat and
oats. They also bought a team and
6roke out about sixty acres more. In
1905 they threshed 100 bushels Of
wheat from 1t, and 1900 bushels Of
oats. Their success being then Is
sured they borrowed some money,
built a good house, barn and imple-
ment shed. and bought a cream sepa.
rator, etc. They now have a dozen
cows. some full-blooded pigs and
chickens, good teams and implements
to match, and are on the high road to
prosperity. Here are three cases
selected from my note book from
among a score of others. One a mine
boss, one a farmer, and one a factory
operator. With each Of them | took
tea anG listened to their story. 81
hoped 10 better my condition" said
one. Il thought in time might make
a home said another. 81 had high
expectations" said the other, and all
said that Il never dreamed it possible
TO succeed as | have
Like Arabian Nights.
Everywhere. on the trains, at the
and in the family | have been
&old successes that reminded me more
Of the stsries in the Arabian Nights
than OF this matter-of-fact workaday
world. Yields Of wheat from 80 to
So bushels per acre, and of oats of
from 60 to 100 bushels, are numerous
in every locality and we'll authenti-
Gated, At Moose Jaw, Lethbridge.
Hanley and many intermediate places
I saw cattle and young horses fat as
our granted animals Of the States
that had never tasted grain, and
whose cost to their owner was
almost nothing. At Moosomin saw a
train lead Of 1,400 steers en route to
England, that were shaky fat, raised
as above stated. II the older genera
ton Of farmers in Indiana, who have
spent their lives in a contest with
dogs and stumps as did their fathers
before them, could see these broad
prairies dotted with comfortable
homes, sarge red barns, and straw
piles innumerable. and the thriving
towns with their towering elevators
TANNED to the roof with mo. / hard"
and then remember that four or FIVE
years ago these plains were tenantless
but for the badger and coyote, they
would marvel at the transformation.
Then II they followed the crowds as
they emerged from the trains and
hurried 20 the land Offices, standing
In line until their respective turns to
be waited On came, and saw with
What r~apidity these glands are being
taken, they would certainly catch the
disease" and want some of It too.
II these lands are beautiful in mid
winter. with their long stretches Of
yellow stubble standing high above
the snow, what must they be In sum-
mer time when covered with growing
or ripening grains? Speaking of win.
ter reminds me that our Hoosier
friends shrug their shoulders when
they read In the Chicago and Mime
apolis daAies of the temperature up
here. For that very reason ! am here
this winter. The Canadian literature,
with its pictures. half tones and sta
t~istics, gives q good idea Of her re-
sources, but thirty or forty degrees
below zero sounds dangerous to a
Hoozier, who nearly freezes In a tenn.
perature of five above, especially
when accompanied by a wind, as 1t
often is. but the fact is, when 1t is
very cold here 1t is still and the air
being dry the cold is not felt IS 1t is
in our lower latitudes. where there is
more humidity In the atmosphere.
ON &c and | never saw a finer winter
than tho npa I am cpapdip0 mn bara 7