Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-03-09
IMPRESSED WITH WESTERN
CANADA.

United States land man, who made an
extensive tour of inspection IN the
West, wrote the following article, IN
der date Of Jan. 8, for an Indiana pub
| Mcation:
estates. I'm this letter I propose TO
show by extracts from my note book
that thousands who have come up mere
from the States have succeeded far
| beyond their most sanguine expecta-
tions.
Mr.. N. E. Beaumunlz, of Brazil, Ind,
was earning $500 per month with
coal company. At about the age OF 4O
he had saved about $4,000 Four years
ago he landed near Hanley, Sask. lie
now owns 40 acres of land. Last fall
(19O5) he threshed 4,7Oo bushels OF
wheat and 300 bushels of barley oats
His wheat alone brought him over
$4,000, which would have paid for the
acres that it grew on. He is to-day
worth SIS, 900.
This Is Making Money Fast.
In February, 1902, J. G. Smith 4
Bro. were weavers in big cotton mill
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 sou
per month, and the first winter they
had to work for their board. The next
year, 1908, they took homesteads, and
by working for neighbors they got a
few acres broken out upon which the
next year they raised few hundred
bushels of wheat and oats. They also
bought a team and broke out about
sixty acres more In 1905 they threshed
LOO bushels Of wheat from it, and
1900 bushels of oats. Their success
being then assured, they borrowed some
money, built a good house, barn and
implement shed, and bought cream
separator, etc. They now have dozen
COWS, some full-blooded 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 book from among
a score of others. One mine boss,
one a farmer, and one a factory oper-
ator. With each of them took tea
and listened to their story. Il hoped
to better my condition. said one. Il
thought in time 1 might make home"
said another II had high eXpecta-
tions," said the other, and all said that
II never dreamed it possible to succeed
as have"
Like Arabian Nights.
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 matter-of fact, workaday
world Yields of wheat from 50 to 50
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, Lethbridge, Calgary, Ed
monitor, Regina, Brandon, Hanley and
many intermediate places [ saw cattle
and young horses fat as your granted
animals Of the States that had never
tasted grain, and whose cost to their
owners was almost nothing. At Moose
min I saw a 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, and straw piles innu-
merable, and the thriving towns, with
II tow iov1 nod to no
roof with mo. 1 hard" and then re-
member that four or five years ago
these plains were 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 raptdity these lands
are being taken, they would certainly
catch the disease and want some Of
it too. If these lands are beautiful, in
midwinter with their long stretches Of
yellow stubble standing high above the
snow, what must they be in summer
time when covered with growing or
rpening grain? Speaking Of winter re-
minds me that our Hoosier friends
shrug their shoulders when they read
in the Chicago and Minneapolis dailies
Of the temperature up here. The Ca
madam literature, with its pictures,
half tones and statistics, gives a good
idea of her resources, but thirty or
forty degrees below zero sounds dan
gerous to a Hoosier, who nearly freezes
in a temperature of five above, espe-
cially when accompanied by wind, as
it often is; but the fact is, when it is
very cold here it is still, and the air
being dry the cold is not felt as it is
in our lower ATTITUDES, where there is