Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-03-15
IMPRESSED WITH
WESTERN CANADA.
says Our Pralrles VIII Be Filled Up
In Ten Years.

HCatiOn:
States" In this letter l propose
to 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
guiDe expectations.
MIR. N. B. Beaumunk Of Brazil, In"
diana, was earning 10000 per month
with a coal company. At about the
age of 40 he had saved about $4,000
Four years ago he landed near Han
ley, Sask. He now owns $50 acres OF
land Last fall 1905) he threshed
400 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 1t grew on.
He is to-day worth $4,000.
This Is Making Money Fast.
In Feb. 1902, ]. G. Smith G. 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, 1903, they took
homesteads, and by working for neigh
tors, they got a few acres 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 good house. barn and nipple
ment shed, and bought cream sepa-
rator, etc. They now have a 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
among a score of others. One mine
boss, one farmer, and one a factory
operator. With each Of them l took
tea and listened to their story. 81
hoped to better my condition" said
one, II thought in time l might make
a home" said another. IL had high
expectations" said the other, and all
said that 81 never dreamed it possible
to succeed as have"
Like Arabian Nights.
Everywhere, on the trains, at the
hotels and in the family have been
told successes that reminded me more
Of the stories in the Arabian Nights
than of this matter-of-fact workaday
world. Yields of wheat from 80 to
SO bushels per acre, and of oats of
from go to 100 bushels, are numerous
in every locality and we'll authenti-
Gated. At Moose Jaw, Lethbridge,
Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Brandon,
Hanley and many intermediate places
| saw cattle and young horses fat as
our granted animals Of the States"
that had never tasted grain, and
whose cost to their owners was
almost nothing. At Moosomln saw
train load Of 1,400 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
homes, large red barns, and straw
piles innumerable, and the thriving
towns with their towering elevators
damned 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 If 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 1t too.
If 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 HoosieT
| lrlenuS SnruB lnelr shoulders Wnen
they read in the Chicago and Mime
apolis dailies of the temperature VI
here. For that very reason am here
this winter. The Canadian literature
with its pictures, half tones and sta
tistlcs, gives a 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 II
often is. but the fact is, when it is
very cold here it is still and the all
being dry the cold is not felt as it Is
In our lower ATTITUDES, where there 1:
more humidity in the atmosphere.
am sc and l never saw finer winter
than the one am spending up here
arrived in Winnipeg Nov. 8, and have
not had the bottoms Of my overshoe!
wet since l entered Canada. Under
cloudless sky | have ridden In sleigh!
nearly thousand miles, averaging ,
drive every other day. Stone mason.
u. T..