The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-03-09
IMPRESSED WITH
WESTERN CANADA.
Says Our Prairies viii Be Filled Up
In Ten Years.

west, wrote the following article. III
der date of Jan. 8, for an Indiana pub
LEGATION:
States" In this letter | propose
to show by extracts from my not
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 10000 per month
with 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 $50 acres OF
land. Last fall Q905) he threshed
400 bushels of wheat and 300 bush
els 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.
This Is Making Money Fast.
In Feb. 1902, ]. G. Smith & Bro.
were weavers in big cotton mill in
Lancashire, England. Coming here
they arrived in Wapella, Sask., with
only $4,000 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 year, 1903, they took
homesteads, and by working for neigh
tors, they got few acres broken out,
upon which the next year they raised
few hundred bushels of wheat and
oats. They also bought team and
broke out about sixty acres more In
1905 they threshed 100 bushels of
wheat from it, and 1900 bushels of
oats Their success being then as
sured they borrowed some money,
built 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
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
.ea and listened to their story. Il
!oped to better my condition. said
1ne. Il thought in time | might make
/ home" said another 81 had high !
said the other, and all |
iaid that Il never dreamed it possible |
n crpoond bovo
Like Arabian Nights.
Everywhere, on the trains, at the
Iotels and in the family l have been
old successes that reminded me more
f the stories in the Arabian Nights
han of this matter-of-fact workaday
World, Yields of wheat from 80 to
8 bushels per acre, and Of oats of
rom 60 to 100 bushels, are numerous
4 every locality and well authenti
ated At Moose Jaw, Lethbridge
'algary, Edmonton, Regina, Brandon,
Ianley and many intermediate places
saw cattle and young horses fat as
UT granted animals of the States"
nat had never tasted grain, and
hose cost to their owners was
lmost nothing At Moosomin / saw a
rain load of 1,400 steers en- route to
ngland, that were shaky fat, raised
s above stated. If the older genera
on of farmers in Indiana, who have
pent their lives in a contest with
,gs and stumps as did their fathers
efore them, could see these broad
rairies dotted with comfortable
ONES, large red barns, and straw
lies innumerable and the thriving
)wns with their towering elevators
tmmed to the roof with mo. hard"
nd then remember that four or five
ears ago these plains were tenantless
ut for the badger and coyote, they
ould marvel at the transformation
hen If they followed the crowds as
ley emerged from the trains and
urried to the land offices, standing
| line until their respective turns to
Q waited on came, and saw With
hat rapidly these lands are being
lken, they would certainly catch the
disease" and want some of it too
these lands are beautiful in mid
inter, with their long stretches Of
elbow stubble standing high above
lie snow, what must they be in sum-
Ter time when covered with growing
: ripening grains? Speaking of win.
n reminds me that our Hoosier
lends shrug their shoulders when
ley read in the Chicago and Mime
polls dailies of the temperature up
ere. For that very reason | am here
lis winter. The Canadian literature,
it'll it's pictures, half tones and sta
sites, gives a good idea of her re-
,urces, but thirty or forty degrees
Glow zero sounds dangerous to
oozier, who nearly freezes in a tenn
srature of five above, especially
hen accompanied by a wind, as il
ten is, but the fact is, when it is
cry cold here it is still and the air
cling dry the cold is not felt as it is
our lower ATTITUDES, where there is
ore humidity in the atmosphere. /
N Sc and never saw a finer winter
ian the one l am spending up here. !
rived in Winnipeg Nov. 8, and have