The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1906-03-08
IMPRESSED WITH
WESTERN CANADA.
Says Our Prairies viii Be Filled Up
In Ten Years.


extensive tour of inspection in the |
west, wrote the following article, un-
der date Of jar. s, for an Indiana pub
lication:
States" In this letter I propose
to show by extracts from my note
book that thousands who have come
up here from the States" have sue
ceeded far beyond their most san
guine expectations.
Mr.. n. u. Beaumunk Of Brazil, In
diana, was earning $4,000 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 4S0 acres OF
land Last fall Q905) he threshed
4,700 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 G Bro.
were weavers in a 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
bors, they got few acres broken out,
upon which the next year they raised
a 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 a good house, barn and imple-
ment shed, and bought 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
prosperity. Here are three cases
selected from my note book from
among score Of others. One a mine
boss, one farmer, and one factory
operator. With each Of them l took
tea and listened to their story. 81
hoped to better my condition." said
one 81 thought in time might make
home" said another. 81 had high
expectations" said the other, and all
said that 81 never dreamed it possible
to succeed as l have"
Like Arabian Nights.
Everywhere, on the trains, at the
hotels and in the family | have been
told successes that reminded me more
of the stories in the Arabian Nights
than of this matter-of-fact 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 locality and well authenti-
Gated At Moose Jaw, Lethbridge,
Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Brandon,
Hanley and many intermediate places
| saw cattle and young horses fat as
our granted animals Of the States"
that had never tasted grain, and
whose cost to their owners was
almost nothing. At Moosomin | saw a
train load of / 400 steers en- route to
England, that were shaky fat, raised
as above stated. If the older genera
ton Of farmers in Indiana, who have
spent their lives in contest with
logs and stumps as did their fathers
before them, could see these broad
prairies dotted with comfortable
homes, large red barns, and straw
piles innumerable, and the thriving
towns with their towering elevators
iammed to the roof with mo. l hard,
and then remember that four or five
-. Al a,,o p1o Warp tpnan less