The Yale expositor., 1906-05-18
THE LAND OF PROMISE.

Moose Jaw, n. w. r., April 20, 1906.
Hello! How are you and all the
folks?
Well, | will tell you about nv trip
out here which is in the neighbOThood
of 2,400 miles from home.
We left Detroit at 1900 o'clock mid
night and reached Toronto at $3.50 i'm
the morning where we remained until
800 p. m. 1t was about daylight the
next morning when we got to North
Bay. From there to Winnipeg we saw
only small strip of farming land.
The rest was mountains, hills, lakes
and valleys. Through the mountains
there were number of small tunnels.
Part of the time one could get off the
train and on again it ran so slow but
within the next five minutes we were
making fifty miles All hour.
The weather was just lovely, cold
nights and warm days.
Our party was made up of over 500
people and it was in three sections, one
train load ahead of us and one behind
There are more people up here than
can find work, lots of wOrkmen lying
idle just now, but at harvest time it
will be the other way.
Farmers in this locality are not any
ahead of those in Michigan. The man
| am working for has seventy more
acres to put in yet.
Wheat averages 80 bushels an acre
and is marketed at 50 cents. Oats 80
bushels ali acre and brings % cents
But very little hay is grown. Straw
and oats are fed in the sheaf.
Here are few prices we pay for
stuff
Sugar 400 pounds), $5.25.
Green tea, per pound, 40 cents.
Black tea, per pound, 30 cents.
Coffee, per pound 30 cents.
Harness from $4,000 up.
Horse collars from $500 up,
Sulky pillow $500 and upwards.
Walking pillow $500 and upwards.
Lumber from 500 per 1000 to $50.
Salt, per barrel, $500 to $500.
Apples, per barrel, 800 to $500.
Now word about the weather On
Monday this week it was SO warm one
could not work; Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday it was real cold; Thurs
day night and Friday morning about
two inches of snow fell and on Satur.
day it rained then in the evening it
froze little and today it is cold.
The mud sticks to your shoes much
closer than in Michigan.
Game is quite plentiful in this local
ity such as wild geese, ducks, gophers,
wolves and antelope.
Lots of good neighbOrs around here.
The nearest is one mile from us;
church five; postoflice seventeen.
Homesteads are all taken up around
here. | woHld advise anyone thinking
of coming out this way TO put off their
trip until fall. You can buy harvest
excursion ticket one way for $40 and
back for $lS providing you remain and
work for such length of time. 1t is
worth that to see the country.
The best money to be made is in
livery and feed stable | paid $3.50 to
drive me out sixteen miles. For days
drive with team $500. Horse to hay
10 cents.
Water is very scarce. 1t is necessary
to dig reservoirs and also to haul water
five or six miles and then it is hardly
fit to drink. You are required to pay
for a drink of water i'm Moose Jaw.
Thirty or forty water tanks are kept
going the year round,
| will write more later on and will be
pleased to answer any questions that
may be asked me about this country.
Hoping to hear from all my old
friends, likewise the Expositor l re-
main, Your friend,
+. Grimes.
u. S.-As it is rather lonesome here
| invite all who feel so disposed to
write me, Expect to go home this fall
as my lungs seem to bother me.
A good complexion is impossible
with the stomach out of order If
pasty sallow people would pay more
attention to their stomachs and less
to the skin on their faces, they would
have better compilations. Kodol for
dyspepsia will digest what you eat and
put your stomach back in right shape
to do its own work. Kodol relieves
palpitation of the heart, flatulence,
sour stomach, heart burn, etc. Sold by
Mathews 4 Wight.