The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1906-03-09
IMPRESSED WTn
WESTERN CANADA,
says Our Prairiss viii 90 Filled Up
In Ton Years.

In Ten Years.
L. A. Stockwell of Indianapolis. q
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
location:
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.
eeeded far beyond their most san
suine expectations
Mr.. N. r. Beaumunk Of Brazil, In.
diana. was earning $4,000 per month
with q coal company. At about the
age Of 20 he had saved about $4,000
-Four years ago no landed near Han,
10y. Sask. He now owns $50 acres OF
land. Last fall (1905) he threshed
l.700 bushels Of wheat and 800 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 >xo1ths&l5 900.
This 10 Maklos Money Fast.
In Feb. 1902, ]. 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
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, 1908, they took
homesteads. and by working for neigh
tors. they got few acreA broken out,
upon which the next year they raised
few hundred bushels Of wheat and
oats. They also bought a 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-
sator. etc. They now have 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
emong score Of others One mine
boss. one a farmer, and one factory
operator. With each of them took
tea and listened to their story. II
hoped to better my condition" said
one. II thought in time might make
q home" said another. Il had high
expectations" said the other, and all
said that II never dreamed 1t possible
to succeed az I have"
Like Arabian Nights.
Everywhere, on the trains, at the
hotels and in the family have been
told successes that reminded me moro
Of the stories in the Arabian Nights
than of this .matter-of-fact workaday
world. Yields of wheat from IS to
s. bushels per acre. and Of oats of
from 60 to 100 bushels. are numerous
In every locality and we'll authenti-
Gated. At Moose Jaw. Lethbridee,
Calgary. Edmonton, Regina, Brandon.
Hanley and many intermediate places
saw cattle and young horses fat as
our granted animals of the Estates"
that had never tasted grain, and
whose cost to their owners was
almost nothing. At Moosomin l saw a
train load Of 400 steers en- route to
England, that were shaky fat. raised
AS above stated. II the older genera
ton Of farmers in Indiana, who have
spent their lives in a contest with
logs and stumps as did their fathers
before them, could see these broad
prairies dotted with comfortable
TONES, large red barns, and straw
piles innumerable, and the thriving
towns with their towering elevators
TANNED to the roof with mo 1 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
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 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.
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 I am here
this winter The Canadian literature,
with its pictures, half tones and sta.
tistics. gives 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 it
often is. but the fact is, when it is
very cold here 1t is still and the air
being dry the cold is not felt as it is
In our lower ATTITUDES, where there Is