Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-03-10
IMPRESSED WITH WESTERN
CANADA.
says Our PraIrIes VIII BE Filled Up
in Ten Years.

says Our PraIrIes VIII BE Filled Up
in Ten Years.
L. A. Stockwell, of indianapolis,
1 United States land man, who made an
extensive tour of inspection in the
| West, wrote the following article, I'M
/ der date of Jan. s, for an Indiana pub
/ ication:
States. In this letter propose to
show by extracts from my note book
1 that thousands who have come up here
from the States have succeeded far
| beyond their most sanguine expecta
/ tons.
/ Mr.. n. Il. Beaumunk, 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 Hanley, Sask. He
now owns $50 acres OF land. Last fall
! (1905) he threshed 4,T00 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 1t grew on. He is to-day
worth $4,000
| This Is Making Money Fast.
! In February, 1902, ]. G. Smith &
! Bro. were weavers in 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 neighbors they got a
| few acres broken out, upon which the
/ next year they raised q few hundred
i 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 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
Il score of others. One a mine boss,
one a farmer, and one Il factory oper-
/ ator. With each of them / took tea
aad listened to their story. Il hoped
| to better my condition" said one. Il
! thought in time might make a home"
said another II had high expecta-
I tions," said the other, and all said that
Il never dreamed 1t possible to succeed
As have"
Like Arabian Nights.
/ Everywhere, on the trains, at the
I hotels and in family. ! have been told
/ IF successes that reminded me more
/ Of the stories in the Arabian Nights
/ than of this matter-ot fact, workaday
world Yields of wheat from 81 to 90
+ bushels per acre, and of oats of from
80 10 100 bushels, are numerous in ev-
i cry locality and we'll authenticated. At
i Moose Jaw. Lethbridge, Calgary, Ed
/ monitor. Regina. Brandon. Hanley and
| many intermediate places | saw cattle
/ and Young horses fat as your grain fed
animal, If the States" that had never
! tasted sraiu. and whose cost to their
| owners was almost nothing. At Moose
/ min | saw train load of 400 steers
/ en- route to England. that were shaky
/ fat. raised rs above stated. If the older
! generation of farmers in Indiana. who
i have spent their lives in contest with
/ lagS and stumps. as did their fathers
/ before them. could see these broad
4 prairies dotted with comfortable homes,
| large red barns. and straw piles innu-
| iaerable. and the thriving towns with
their towering elevators jammed to the
/ roof with NO. l 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 ut 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
| respective turns to be waited on came,
and saw with what rapidity these lands
| are being taken. they would certainly
| catch the disease" and want some OF
L too. II these lands are beautiful, in
1sidwinter with their long stretches of
| yelow stubble standing high above the
| Snow. what must they be in summer
line when covered with growing or
. rlpening grain? Speaking Of winter re
minds me that our IIoosier friends
shrug their shoulders when they read
in the Chicago aud Minneapolis dailies
Of the temperature up here The Ca
4 madam literature. with its pictures,
/ half-tones and statistics gives 4 good
idea Of her resources, but thirty or
/ forty degrees below zero sounds dan
scraUs 70 a HooSier, who nearly freezes
In a temperature of five above, eSpe-
c;ally when accompanied by wind, rs
Il often is; but the fact IS. when II Is