The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1906-03-08
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CANADA.

Cnlteo btateS ian0 man, VINO maue an
extensive tour of inspection in the
West wrote the following article, un-
der date Of Jan. 8, for an Indiana pub
iication:
"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 far
beyond their most sanguine expecta-
tons.
Mr.. n. e. Beaumunk, Of Brazil, Ind,
was earning s1e0 per menth with a
coal company. At about the age Of 40
he had saved about $1,000. Four years
ago he landed near Hanley, Sask. He
now owns 450 acres OF land. Last fall
(13o5) he threshed 400 bushels Of
wheat and 3,1O0 bushels Of barley oats.
His wheat alone brought him over
$4,000. which would have paid for the
ncres that 1t grew on. He is to-day
worth $4,000.
This Ii Making Money Fast.
In February, 1902, J. G. Smith &
Bro. were weavers in a big cotton mill
In Lancashire, England. Coming here,
they arrived in Wapella, Sask., with
only $50 between than. They were so
green" and inexperienced that all they
could earn the first summer 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 neighbors they got
few acres broken out, upon which the
next year they raised n few hundred
bushels Of wheat and oats. They also
bought a team and broke out about
sixty acres more. In 1905 they threshed
1.7oo bushels of wheat from II, and
1,SoO bushels Of oats. Their success
being then assured. they borrowed some
Dsaey. built n good house, barn and
Implement shed, and bought n cream
separator, etc. They now have dozen
csws, some full-blooded pigs and chick
ems, good teams and implements to
match. and are on the high road to
prosperity. Here are three cases Sc
:ected from my note book from among
a score Of others. One a mine boss,
one a farmer, and one a factory oper-
ator. With each of them I tsok tea
md listened to their story. "I hoped
to better my condition" said one IL
thought in time might make a home,"
said another. IL had high expecta-
tions." said the other, and all said that
Il never dreamed it possible to succeed
as have
Like Arabian Nights.
Everywhere, on the trains, ut the
hotels and in family, 1 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 35 to SO
bushels per acre, and of oats of from
GO to 100 bushels, are numerous in ev-
cry locality and well authenticated. At
Moose Jaw, Lethbridge. Calgary, Ed
monton. Regina, Brandon, Hanley and
many intermediate places saw cattle
and young horses fat as your granted
animals of the States that had never
tasted grain. and whose cost to their
owners was almost nothing. At Moose
min / saw a train load of 400 steers
Sn route to England, that We're shaky
fat, raised as above stated. II the older
generation of farmers in Indiana, who
have spent their lives in a contest with
lass and stumps. as did their fathers
before them, could see these broad
prairies dotted with comfortable homes,
large red barns, and straw piles innu-
merable. 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 were tenantless but for
the badger and coyote, they would mar
vel at the transformation. Teen IL 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 disease" and want some of
II 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 grain? Speaking Of winter re-
minds me that our Hoosier friends
shrug their shoulders when they read
In the Chicago and Minneapolis dailies
Of the temperature rp here. The ca
madam literature, with Its pictures,
halftones and statistics, gives n good
idea OF her resources, but thirty or
forty degrees below zero sounds dan
gerous to a Hoosier, who nearly freezes
In a temperature OF five above espe-
ciaily when accompanied by a wind. us
II often is; but the fact Is, when 1t is
very cold here it is still, and the air
being dry the cold is not felt rs 1t is
In our lower ATTITUDES, where there is
more humidity in the atmosphere.
an Sc, and never saw n finer winter
than the one an spending up here. l
arrived In Winnipeg Nov. 0, and have
not had the bottoms Of my overshoes
wet since I entered Canada. Under a
cioudless sky I have ridden in sleighs
nearly a thousand miles, averaging a
Arsro ovorv af1,ar