Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-02-17

I ~ city OF 1000 souls, and the liveliest
| part Of II Is the railroad depot. Just
| outside the station buildings pyramid
| has been erected OF sheaves OF oats.
wheat and barley. with Canadian flag
| floating over It. The pyramid Is made
up OF samples OF the grain grown In
the vicinity. and they are so displayed
| thai they can be seen from the cars.
We had a wait of 20 minutes at Moose
| Jaw, and | stepped of and walked
| about As l stood before this pyramid
| q fine looking American woman Of 40,
| with buxom rosy checked girl OF Is,
| drove UP In buggy. Both ladies were
| clad in furs and the cheeks OF the girl
shone like Jacqueminot roses. The lady
| accosted me- asking II We're about 10
settle IN Canada, and II so did / not
want some choice lands. ] replied that
had not fully decided, whereupon she
| continued:
We'll, / can tell you. sir, that there
| IL no better soil than right about Moose
| Jaw, and that l have the best of all
left in the neighborhood. have a few
| choice pieces that ! want 10 sell, ana
| IL you care to look will drive you sui
| into the country. That Is my sign
And she thereupon pointed TO a bill
! board tackled up beside the straw stack
saying that Mary Jane------bought and
sold lands.
asked her where her lands were and
she told me, saying that they were
worth from sls to 800 and that they
would produce 40 bushels Of wheat, 80
bushels of barley. or 100 bushels Of oats
Ia the acre
But" said l. Il am afraid 1t will be
too cold. | understand you people
freeze to death In the winter"
a he. l.ts I'M
an American woman who came here
for my health from Colorado a good
many years ago. Suppose you take
a look at my daughter, who sits here
beside me. she is 10 years old and l
have never paid cent for doctor bills
on her account. DO either OF us look
like freezing to death? No, sir, we
| have a few COLI days In the winter, but
as rule our climate is better than
| that of the northern parts of the United
| States
then told the madam that | was a
| newspaper correspondent and not u
| land purchaser, whereupon she handed
me her card, saying: well, | wouli
| like to interest you In our lands, and, II
| you see any one who wants to buy, SEM
| him to mel mean any man with good
hard cash. Send your card along with
| him, and II he buys you viii get your
commission" With that she drove
| quickly away 10 accost another stran6-
| er who had come out Of the station.
I AMERICAN SETTLEMENTS IN CAM
ADA.
During my travels here l have visited
| many of the localities where Americans
| have settled. They have come to Cana
I da in all sorts of ways. Some We're
brought by the trainload, by the real
estate agents and the government. al
most depopulating the little farm COM
| nunities of our country from whence
| they came. Iowa, for instance, has fall
len off 10000 or more through this and
other emigration. Some of the settlers
had crossed the boundary In canvas
| covered wagons. and others had driven
into Canada in all sorts of vehicles. I
have photographs of men who came IN
using oxen and horses to pull their ef-
fects. and of some who plodded along
for days with OK teams on the way.
The first Americans to arrive squat
ted down close to our boundary, getting
| homesteads and buying farms along