The Rich Hill tribune., 1906-03-08
IMPRESSED WITH
WESTERN CANADA,
says our Praires viii Be Filled Up
In Ten Years.

i. r. elochMtll OF lMQlhhapNlhs
United States land man who made an
extensive tour Of inspection in the
west, wrote the following article. IN.
der date OF Jan. 3. for an Indiana pub
ucation:
States" 10 this letter I propose
10 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. F. Beaumurk OF Brazil. In
diana, was earning $4,000 per month
with a coal company At about the
age OF 40 he had saved about $1,000.
-Four years ago he landed near Han
ley. Sask. He now owns $50 acres Of
land Last fan us05) be threshed
400 bushels Of wheat and 3.100 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 today worth $4,000
This Is Making Money Fast.
In Feb. 1909. }. G. Smith & Bro.
we're weavers In big cotton mill In
Lancashire. England Coming here
they arrived in wapella Sask.. with
/ only $4,000 between them They
we're so green" and inexperienced
| that all they could earn the first sum.
mer vas $500 per month. and The FIRST
winter they had 10 work for their
board The next year. 1903. they took
| homesteads aud by working for neigh
tors. they got few acres broken out
upon which the next year they raised
a few hundred bushels OF wheat and
/ oats. They also bought a team and
] broke out about sixty acres more. ln
/ 1905 they threshed 1900 bushels OF
I vbeat from it. and 1900 bushels Of
oats Their success being then as
\ sured they borrowed some money.
( built q good house barn and imple-
meug shed. aud bought a cream sepa-
Z ratOr. etc They now have a dozen
Z COWS some full.biooded PIGS and
Z chickens. good teams and implements
20 match, and are on the high road 10
/ prosperity. Here are three cases
selected from my note book from
3 among a score of others. One a mine
boss. one a farmer, and one factory
operator with each OF them took
tea and listened to their story II
hoped 10 better my condition said
one 4 thought In time l might make
home" said another Il had high
expectations" said the other. and all
said that q never dreamed Il possible
TO succeed as have "
Like Arabian Nights.
Everywhere. on the trains. az the
hotels aud IN the family { have been
told successes that reminded me more
of the stories In the Arabian Nights
than o. ihis matter offact sorkaday
world Yields uf wheat from 35 to
So bushels per acre. and of oats Of
from so TO 700 bushels. are numerous
lu every locality and well aulhenu-
Gated Al Moose Jaw LethbridKe.
Calgary. Edmonton. Regina. Brandon.
Hauley and many intermediate places
I saw cattle and young horses fat as
our rrain-fcd animals oi The States
ithat had never tasted grain. and
whose cost 20 their owners vas
almost nothing AZ Moosomin saw a
ltan load % 400 steers en- route 20
Enrland. that were shaky lat. raised
as above stated 70 the Older genera
ton az farmers lu Indiana who have
spent their lives iu q contest with
logs and sfumps as dld tbciF fathers
before them could see these hrnad
uraiIes dotted with comfortable
homts. large red bains. and straw
..as
towns with their towering elevators
. TANNED 20 the roof with 40 hard
and then remember that four uF dy,
. years ago these plains were tcuautles'
I but for che badger snj coyote they
would marvel AZ lbc transformation
Then n they followed the crowds a.
they emerred from the trains aut
hurried go the land offices standin.
tn line until their respective turns 3,
be waited on came. and saw viii
Nhat rapidity these lands are hgin'
taken. they Rouid certainly catch th'
disease and want some OF % too
, n these lands are beautiful ia mid
. I winter. with their long stretches O.
yellow sWbble standing higb aboy,
, thc snow. what must they be in sum
=. mer time when covered with groWiuf
: or rlpcuiug eraiusf Speaking of uiu
= ter reminds nae that our Hoosic
friends shrug their shoulders whci
p they read in the Chioago and Minnt
apolis dalles OF the temperature ri
, here. F6r that very reason ! am her
! this winter The Canadian ltoratur,
with ils pictures. half tones and stl
. ustlcs. gives a good idea Of her r
t, sources. but thirty or forty degree
\ below zero sounds dangerous 60
i HooEler. who nearly ireezes 30 a ten
o pcrature % ave above, especiall
when accompanied by a wind as
p often IS. but the fact Is, when q
very cold here 81 Is slIll and the al
being dry the cold Is not felt as it
in our lower latitudes, where there
more humidity ia the atmosphere.
am 66 aud / never saw a inner Wintt