The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1906-03-10
IMPRESSED WITH
WESTERN CANADA.
Says Our Prairiss Will Be Filled Up
In Ten Years.

| L A. Stockweil. OF Indianapolis. .
United states land man who made an
| extensive tour Of inspection In the
west, wrote the following article, UNI
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 succeeded Tar
beyond their most sanguine expecta-
lions.
Mr.. N. e. Beaumunk, of Brazil, In
diana, was earning $4,000 per month
with coal company. At about the
age OF 40 he had saved about 5000.
Four years ago he landed near Hanley,
Sask. He now owns 4SO acres of lanI.
Last fall (l905) he threshed 400 bush
els of wheat and 3.100 bushels OF outs.
His wheat alone brought him over
$4,000. which would have paid for the
acres that 1t grew on. He is to-day
worth $4,000. 4
This Il Making Money Fast.
In Feb. 1902, J. 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 wers
SO green" and inexperienced that all
they could earn the first summer was
$500 per month, and the first winter
thav had m xuorL for THAR hoord TIL,
next year. 1908, they took homesteadj.
and by working for neighbors they got
few acres broken out, upon which tie
next year they raised a few hundred
bushels Of wheat and oats. They alsy
bought team and broke out. about
sixty acres more. In 1905, they
threshed 1900 bushels of wheat from
1t, and 1900 bushels OF oats. Their
success being then assured, they Dor
rowed some money, built good Louss.
barn and implement shed, and bought
a cream separator. etc. They now hav,
a dozen cows, some full blooded pigs
and chickens, good teams and inple-
ments to match. and are on the high
road to prosperity. Here are threa
cases selected from my note book from
among a score of others. Cne, a mile
boss. one a farmer, and one factory
operator. With each of them I took
tea and listened to their story. II
hoped to better my condition." said
one. Il thought In time might make
home" said another. Il had high
expectations" said the other. and al
said that Il never dreamed it possible
to succeed as l have"
Like Arabian Nights.
Everywhere. on the trains. at tie
hotels and in family have beel TIL
successes that reminded me more OF
the stories in the Arabian Nights than
CT this matter-of-act workaday world.
Yields Of wheat from IS to SO bushels
per acre. and OF oats Of from co to 100
bushels, are numerous In every local
ity and well authenticated. At Mos,
Jaw, Lethridge, Calgary. Edmonton.
Regina. Brandon, Hanley and many in
termediate places / saw catt.e AMI
young horses fat as our granted ami
mails of the States" that had never
tasted grain, and whose cost to their
owners was almost nothing. At Mcos-
omin saw trainload of 400 steers
en- route to England. that were shaky
fat, raised us above stated. II the
older generation of farmers in Indiana,
who have spent their lives in a con-
test with iogs and stumps as did their
fathers before them, could see these
broad praities dotted with comfort
able homes, large red barns. and straw
piles innumerable, and the thriving
towns with their towering elevator
jammed to the roof with mo. 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 II they followed the crowds as
they emerged from the trains and hur-
ried to the land ofices. standing in limo
until their respective turns to be wait
ed on came. and saw with what rapid
ity these lands are being taken. they
would certainly catch the disease"
and want some Of 1t, too. II these
lands are beautiful In midwinter, with
their long stretches OF yellow stubble
standing high above the snow. what
must they be. In summer time. when
covered with growing or ripening
grains? Speaking OF winter. reminds
me that our Hoosier friends shrug
their shoulders when they read In the
Chicago and Minneapolis dailies Of the
temperature up here. For that very
reason I am here this winter. The
Canadian literature with Its pictures.
half-tones and statistics, gives a good
Idea OF her resources. but thirty or
forty degrees below zero sounds dan
gerous to q Hoosier, who nearly
freezes In temperature OF i've above.
especially when accompanied by q
wind. az It often is, but the fact 10.
when It Is very. cold here It Is still and
the air being dry, the cold IL not felt
as 1t IL in our lower ATTITUDES, whero
there N more humidity In the atmoe-
pierre. am So. and never saw
6nor winter than the one am spend
Ing up here. arrived In Winnipeg
Nov. 8. and have not had the bottoms
~ NV ovorohoos vat afuca I outaro6