Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1906-03-08
IMPRESSED WITH WESTERN
CANADA.

Says Cur Pralries VIII Bs Filled UD
In Ten Years.
l.. A. Stockwell, Of Indianapolis. q
United States land man, who made an
extensive tour of inspection in tho
! West, wrote the following article, I'M
der date OF Jan. 8, for an Indiana pub
iication:
States. In this letter propose to-
| show by extracts from my note book
/ that thousands who have come up here
I from the States" have succeeded far
beyond their most sanguine e2pecta-
TONS
Mr.. y. f. Bcaumunk, 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. Hei
now owns $50 acres of land Last fall
| G9O5) he threshef. 400 bushels OF
wheat and BOO 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 $4,000.
MA3 MNEA1nE Money FAST.
In February, 1902, ]. G. Smith e.
Bro We're viewers in big cotton mill
in Lancashire, England Coming here,
they arrived in Wapella. Sask with
only 500 between 1hMn They were so
green and inexperienced that all they
could earn the first summer was $500
| per month. and the first winter they
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year, 1908. they took homestcads. and
/ by working for ncighbors they got
1 few acres broken out, upon which tho
next year they raised a few hundred
/ bushels of wheat and oats. They also
bought Il team and broke out about
4 sixty acres more. In 1905 they threshed
| Loco bushels of wheat from it, and
1 l,3OO bushels of oats. Their success
being then assured. they borrowed some
money. built Il good house. barn and
! implement shed. and bought Il cream
separator, etc. They now have dozen
cows some tull-blooteu pigs and chick
ems, good teams and implements to
match, and are on the high road to
] prosperity. Here are three cases Sc.
| lcctcd from my note book from among
score OF Others. One Y mine boss,
one a farmer and one factory opers
Ator. With each Of them / took tea
and listened to their story. u hoped,
1 to better my condition. said one. III
thought IN time / might make a home,
! said another II had high expecta.
| lions,.' said the other, and all said that
Fl neyef dreamed it possible TO succeed
| as / have
LMo 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 30 to SO
/ bushels per acre, and of oats OF from
60 to 100 bushels, are numerous in ev-.
| cry locality and we'll authenticated. At
Moose Jaw, Lcthbridgc, Calgary, Ed
monitor. Regina, Brandon, 1Ilnley and
many intermediate places l saw cattle
and young horses fat as your granted
animals of the States" that had never
I tasted grain, and whose cost to their
owners was almost nothing. At Moose
| min saw Il train load of ] 400 steers
en- route TO England that We're 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
| prairics dotted with comfortable homes,
large rcd barns. and straw piles innu
mcrablc, and the thriving towns. with
| their towering elevators jammed to the
roof with mo. ! hard" and then re-
member that -four or five years ago
| these plains We're 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 rapidity these lands
are being taken. they would certainly
catch the "diScasc" and want some of
it too. If these lands are beautiful, in
midwinter With their long stretches OF
| yellow Subble standing high above the
SNOW, what must they be in summer
| time when covered With growing or
ripening grain: Speaking of winter re-
minds me that our Uoosier friends
shlug their shoulders when they read
in the Chicago and Minneapolis daiiies
of the temperature up here. The Ca
| madam literature, with its pictures,
half tones and statistics. gives good
idea of her resources, but thirty or
forty degrees below zero sounds dam
gerous to a lloosier 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 1T is
in our lower attitudes, where there is
more humidity in the atmosphere. I
am 56. and | never saw Il finer winter
than the one am spending UP here.
arrived in Winnipeg Nov 0, and have
not had the bottoms Of my overshoes
wet since l entered Canada Under a
cloudless Sky ] have ridden in sleighs
nearly thousand miles, averaging a
drive every other day. Stonemasons
have not lost a weeks time so far this
winter. Building of all kinds goes right
ahead in every city and hamlet. as
though winter We're never heard Of
Information concerning homestead
lands in Western Canada can lie had
from any authorized Canadian Govern