Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-03-09
IMPRESSED WITH WESTERN
CANADA.
says Our Prairies VIII Be Filled Up
I'm Ten Years.

L. A. Stockwell, OF Indianapolis, a
United States land man, who made an
extensive tour of inspection in the
West, wrote the following article, I'M
der date of Jan. 8, for IN Indiana pub
lication
"States."--In this letter l propose to
show by extracts from my note book
that thousands who nave come up here
from the states have succeeded far
beyond their most ~sapguine expecta-
lions.
Mr.. n. f. Beaumunk, of Brazil, Ind,
was earning 500 per month with II
coal company. At about the age of 40
be had saved about $4,000. Four years
ago he landed near Hanley, Sask. He
now owns 400 acres of land. Last fall
(1905) he threshed 4,700 bushels Of
wheat and 300 bushels of barley c9tS
His wheat alone brought him over
$4,000, which would have paid for the
acres that it grew On. lie is to-day
worth $4,000.
This Is Making Money Fast.
In February, 1902, ]. G. Smith &
Bro. were weavers in a big cotton mill
in Lancashire, England. Coming here,
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 $500
per month, and the first winter they
had to work for their board. The next
year, 1903, they took homesteads, and
by working for neighb0rs they got Il
few acres broken out, upon which the
next year they raised a few hundred
bushels of wheat and oats. They also
bought n 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 a cream
separator, etc. They now have a 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 a mine boss
one a farmer, and one a factory oper~
atOr. With each Of them l took tea
t and listened to their story. Il hoped
to better my condition" said one. II
thought in time ! might make a home"
said another. II had high expecta-
| TONS" said the other, and all said that
II never dreamed it possible to succeed
as | have"
Like Arnbian Nights.
Everywhere. on the trains, at the
hotels and i'm family, | have been tolu
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 80 TO 03
: bushels per acre, and of oats of from
l 90 TO 100 bushels, are numerous in ev-
cry locality and we'll authenticated. At
Moose Jaw, Lethbridgc, Calgary, Ed
monitor. Regina. Brandon, Hanley and
many intermediate places l 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 | saw a train load of 1,400 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
their towering elevators jammed to the
I roof with mo. | hard" and then re-
member that four or five years ago
these plains were tenantless u for
the badger and coyote, they would mar
e vel at the transformation. Then IL they
followed the crowds as they emerged
from the trains and hurried TO the
land offices, standing in line until their
d respective turns to be waited on came,
II and saw with what rapidity these lands
are being taken, they would certainly
catch the disease and want some OF
it too. re these lands are beautiful, In
midwinter with their long stretches OF
5 yellow stubble standing high above the
snow, what IN they be in summer
@ time when covered with growing or
It ripening grain? Speaking Of winter re
20 minds me that our Hoosier friends
IL shrug their shoulders when they read
III in the Chicago and Minneapolis daiiies
D. of the temperature M here. The Ca
madam literature, with It's pictures,
le half-tones and statistics, gives q good
idea of her resources, but thirty or
forty degrees below zero sounds dan
II gerous to n Hoosier, who nearly freezes
,e In a temperature OF five above. espe-
ciaily when accompanied by a wind, as
IT It often is but the fact IS, when ii Is
he very cold here 1t Is still, and the air
20 being dry the cold is not felt as 1t Is
v In our lower attitudes. where there is
more humidity in the atmosphere. /
TO am SO, and l never saw a finer winter
than the one I nm spending up here. I
IN arrived In Winnipeg Nov. o, and have
not had the bottoms of my overshoes
wet since | entered Canada. Under n
70 cloudless sky have ridden in sleighs
nearly n thousand miles, averaging q
re- drive every other day. Stonemasons
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