Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-03-17
IMPRESSED WITH
WESTERN CANADA.
Says Our Prairies Will Be Filled Up
In Ten Years.


L. A Stockwen of Indianapolis.
United States land man who made an
extensive tour of inspection in the
west, wrote the following article. un-
der date of Jan. 8. for an Indiana pub
LEGATION:
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. E. Beaumunk of Brazil, In
diana, was earning $4,000 per month
with a coal company. At about the
age of 40 he had saved about $3,00G-
Four years ago he landed near Han
ley, Sask. He now owns $50 acres of
land. Last fall (I9O5) he threshed
4.700 bushels of wheat and 100 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 u 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
Lors. they got few acres broken out,
upon which the next year they raised
few hundred bushels of wheat and
oats. They also bought a team and
broke out bout 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 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
| 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 l took
tea and listened to their story Il
| hoped to better my condition" said
one II thought in time | might make
home" said another. Il had high
expectations" said the other. and all
said that Il never dreamed it possible
to succeed as | 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 GO 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 l saw
train load of l 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
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| jammed to the roof with No. l 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 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 rapidfty these lands are being
/ taken, they would certainly catch the
| disease and want some of it too.
| II these lands are beautiful in mid
| winter, with their long stretches of
| yellow stubble standing high above
the snow, what must they be in sum-
4 mer time when covered with growing
or ripening grains? Speaking of win
| ter reminds me that our Hoosier
| friends shrug their shoulders when
| they read in the Chicago and Mime
| apolis dailies of the temperature up
| here. For that very reason | am here
| this winter The Canadian literature,
| with its pictures. half tones and sta
| tistics. gives a good idea of her re-
/ sources, but thirty or forty degrees
below zero sounds dangerous to a
| Hoozier, who nearly freezes in a tenn
| perature of five above, especially
| when accompanied by wind, as 1t
! 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 it is
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