The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1906-03-09
IMPRESSED WITH
WESTERN CANADA.
says Our Prairies Will BE Filled UT
in Ten Years.

l. A. Stockwel, OF Indianapolis. q
United states land man who made an
extensive tour of inspection in the
west wrote the following article, I'm
der date OF Jan. 5, for an Indiana pub
licatlon:
states" In this letter / propose
10 show by extracts from my note book
that thousands who have come up here
from the States" have succeeded far
beyond their most sanguine expecta-
tons.
Mr. n. E. Beaumunk. of Brazil, In
diana, was earning $4,000 per month
with coal company. At about the
age OF 40 he had saved about $1,000.
Four years ago he landed near Hanley.
Sask. He now owns $50 acres OF land.
Last fall (l905) he threshed 4 200 bush.
els OF wheat and 3,leO bushels Of 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 $4,000.
rms Is making money fast.
In Feb, 1902, ]. c. Smith & Bro.
were weavers in big cotton mill in
Lancashire, England. Coming here,
they arrived in Wapella, Saskp with
only $3.50 90 between them. They were
50 green" aud inexperienced that all
they could sara the first summer was
$500 per month, and the first winter
they had 70 work for their board. The
next year. 1903, they took hOmesteads,
and BY working for neighbors they got
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 broke out about
sixty acres more. In 1905, they
threshed 1900 bushels OF wheat from
It, and 1000 bushels of oats. Their
success being then assured, they Dor
rowed some money, built good house,
barn and implement shed. and bought
cream separator, etc. They now have
a dozen cows, some full blooded pigs
and chickens, good teams and imple-
ments 10 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 and listened to their story Il
hoped 10 better my condition" said
one. Il thought in time might make
a home, said another. Il had high
expectations" said the other, and all
said that Il never dreamed il possible
20 succeed as have"
Like Arabian Nights.
Everywhere, on the trains. at the
hotels and in family l have been told
successes that reminded me more OF
the stories in the Arabian Nights than
of this matter-of-act wOrkaday world.
Yields Of wheat from 35 to So bushels
per acre, and Of oats Of from 60 to 100
bushels, are numerous in every local
ity and well authenticated. At Moose
Jaw. Lethridge. Calgary, Edmonton,
Regina, Brandon, Hanley and many in
termediate places | saw cattle and
young horses fat as our granted ami.
mails Of the States" that had never
tasted grain. and whose cost 10 their
owners was almost nothing. At Moos-
omin I saw a trainload Of 1,400 steers
On route TO England, that We're shaky
fat. raised as above stated II the
older generation OF farmers in Indiana.
who have spent their lives in a con-
test with loss and stumps as did their
fathers before them, could see these
broad prairies dotted with comfort.
able homes, large red barns, and straw
piles innumerable, and the thriving
towns with their towering elevator
TANNED 70 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 hur-
RED ID the land offices, standing in line
until their respective turns TO be watt
Cd on came, and saw with what rapin
ity these lands are being taken, they
would certainly catch the disease
and want some OF it, too. III 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 ripening
grains? Speaking Of winter. reminds
me that our Hoosier friends shrug
their shoulders when they read In the
Chicago and Minneapolis dailies Of the
temperature up here. For that very
reason am here this winter The
Canadian 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 Hoosie-, who nearly
freezes in a temperature Of five above,
especially when accompanied by a
wind. as 1t often is, but the fact is,
when it is very cold here II Is still and
the air being dry, the cold is not felt
as 1t is in our lower ATTITUDES, where
there is more humidity in tho atrnoa-