The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-05-15
INDIANA PEOPLE N WEsfERh
CANADA.
What Shall We po4-rvs Get 10 Build
Granaries.

Is but one Of many similar that are ia
the hands Of the Canadian government
agents whose privilege 1t is to offer
one hundred and sixty acres OF land
free, and low railway fares. But here
Is a copy Of the letter.
eTipton. Ind. Nov. 2e, 1906.
eat your earnest solicitation a party
OF US from Upton left May is for
Western Canada. Our interviews with
you and careful study Of your liter
ature led US to expect great things Of
your country when we should arrive
there, and we were not disappointed.
We went prepared to make careful
examination Of the country and its re-
sources. and we did SO. At early dawn
the second morning out Of Upton we
awole in a new world. AS far as the
eye could reach was an apparently
limitless expanse Of new sown wheat
and prairie grasses. The vivid green
Of the wheat just beginning to stool
out, and the inky blackness OF the
soil contrasted in way beautiful to
see. An hour or two later we steamed
into Winnipeg. Here we found a num-
Der Of surprises. A hundred thousand
souls well housed. with every con-
venience that goes to make a modern
up-to-date city-banks, hotels, news
papers, stores, electric light street
railways. sewerage, waterworks. as
phalt pavements. everything. With
eyes and ears open we travelled for
two thousand miles through Manitoba,
Saskatchewan and Alberta, going out
over the Canadian Pacific railway, via
Calgary to Edmonton, and returning
to Winnipeg over the Canadian North
ern railway. In the meantime we
made several side trips and stopped
on at q number OF points where we
made drives into the surrounding
country. On every hand we're evi-
dences of prosperity. The growing
wheat, oats, rye, fax, barley, not lit
tie patches, but great fields. many Of
them q square mile In extent, the
three, five and sometimes seven-hors0
teams laying over an inky black rib
bon Of yellow stubble, generally in fur
J rows straight as gun barrels and at
right angles from the roads stretching
J into the distance, contrasted strangely
! with our little fields at home. The
} towns both large and small we're dou-
bly, conspicuous. made so, first BY
their newness and second by the tow
erlng elevators necessary TO hold the
/ immense crops OF wheat grown in the
: immediate neighborhood.
} The newness, the thrift, the hustle,
> the sound Of saw and hammer, the
! tents housing owners Of buildings In
. various stages Of completion. the piles
3 Of household effects and agricultural
. implements at the railway stations
waiting to be hauled out to the
1 Claims" the occasional steam plow
turning its twenty or thirty acres q
|. day, the sod house, the unpainted
house OF wood, the up-to-date modern
residence with large red barn by, all
. these were seen everywhere we went
an earnest of prosperity and wealth to
be. We talked with men and visited
: their places that four years ago wal
y unbroken prairie. Their houses
barns, implements and live stock were
the equal Of anything in Upton Coun
4 ty, and why not, when they were rails
ing FIVE, ten and twenty, yes, in one
instance. forty thousand bushels o.
wheat year. The fact that sucl
l. large yields Of wheat are raised 81
g easily and so surely impressed u
r very favorably. And when we sav
'r men who four or five years ago com
menced there with two or three thou
of sand dollars, and were now as wei
fixed and making money much easie
" and many times faster than lots 0
our acquaintances on Indiana farm
ID fifty years cleared and valued at fou
Of times as much, we decided to invesi
It. SO we bought in partnership a littl
over two thousand acres. some Of
I'd improved and in wheat.
* Before leaving Indiana we agree
Is that Il the opportunities were as grea
70 as they were represented to be, tha
"C "ou4A bu4t duu OWu III ptAItuS
a ship body Of land, and leave one {
our number to look after and operat
IN it. This we accordingly did.
n Just before time to thresh I r
ceived letter from him. What sha
TO we do?" said he; I've got to bull
granaries. There's SO much whes
ia that the railways are just swampet
We can't get cars and the elevator
al are all full never saw anythin
like it." In reply we wrote, "Good *
you. Go ahead and build; your stoi
re sounds better than the letters we use
OF to get from our friends in Kansi
ile when they bewailed the fact that Il
90 hard wheat had been destroyed by Il
ue chinch bugs and the corn by hl
oa winds, and that they must sell Il
ca stock for means to live on. Yes, bui
he by all means" And he did, and d
ny wheat put in by a renter made tive
IN ty-seyen bushels per acre.
'ut Very truly yours,
~ (Sd) A. G. BURKHART.
70 (sd) J. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
'm (Sd) WALTER W. MOUNT.
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