The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-10
INDIANA PEOPLE IN WESTERN
CANADA.
What Shall We Do?-rve Got to Build
GranarieS.

agents whose privilege 1t is 10 offc
II hundred and sixty acres of lan'
Tree, and low railway fares, But herr
is a copy of the letter,
Upton, Ind. Nov. IS, 1905.
at your earnest solicitation a Iilrt,
OF us from Upton left May 10 for
Western Canada. Our interviews viii
You and a careful study of your liter
r.tgre led US 10 exI oct great things o.
gouE country When We sholld ARRIVE
sNere, and we were not disappointed
We went prepared to make q careful
examination OF the country ana iLs re-
sources, and we did SO. Az early dawn
the second morning out of Upton We
aweke in n now world As TAR AS the
eye could reach was an apparently
Ilmitiess eNpanse OF new sown wheat
and prairie grasses. The vivid green
Of the wheat Just beginning 10 stool
out and the inLy b~lackness of the
soli c0ntrasted i'll q way beautiful to
zee An hour or two later We steamed
into Winnipeg. Here we fou1d a num-
Der OF surprises \ hundred thousand
souls Well housed. with every con
veni9oce that goes to make q modern
up-to-date city-bauks, hotels. news
papers. stores. electric light. street
always. sewerage, waterworks. as
phalt ~pGYen3e3tS, everything. With
eyes and cars oren we Travelled for
two thousand miles through Manitoba,
Saskatchewan and Alberta, going out
over the Canadian Pacific railway. via
Calgary TO Edmonton, and returning
10 WINNIPEG Y the Canadian North
ern railway In the meantime we
made several side trips and stopped
of II a number OF points where we
made drives into the surrounding
country. On every hand were evil
deuces Of prosperity The growing
wheat, oats. rye, flax. barley, not lit
tie patches. but great fields. many of
them Q square mile in extent, the
three. FIVE and sometimes seven horse
cams laying over an inky black rib.
ben of yellow stubble. generally in fur
cows straight as ~ barrels and at
right angles from the roads stretching
into he distance. coutrasted strangely
~ ohs f'N1A1 AANAAE AZ Ii 1hC
towns both large and small were dou.
bly, conspicuous. made so, first by
their newness and second by the tow
ering 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
fnnfa hn,iSino nvprnrE. ~ h,;ll;,~, t.
various stages of completion. the piles
OF household effects and agricultural
implements at the railway stations
waiting to be hauled out to the
Claims" the occasional steam pillow
turning its twenty or thirty acres a
day. the sod house. the implanted
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 ears ago was
unbroken prairie. Their houses
barns. implements and live stock were
the equal of anything in Upton C6un-
~. and why o when they were rails
Ing five. ten and twenty, yes. in one
instance. forty thousand bushels OF
wheat a year, The fact that such
large yields Of wheat are raised so
easily and SO surely impressed US
EErv fssprahly. And when We saw
-snea rho four or five years ago COM
san dollars, and were now as well
6Iaa and making money much easier
Eaa lnaay times faster than lots OF
rNz- se,qpaiusaEces on Indiana farms
nf1y years cleared and valued AT four
times rs EDeh, We decided 10 invest.
So We bought in partnership a little
0Tar TWO Thousand acres. some of it
improved aDd in wheat.
Before leaving Indiana We agreed
Gfsst if the opportunities were as great
81 tteF were represented to be, that
We would bay. and own in partner
ssn3s . body OF land, and leave one of
GagT number 10 look after and operate
H. This we accordingly did.
5Ist before time to thresh I re-
eeiFe5 q letter from him. What shall
NE dof said he; I've got to build
gYz1aTses. There's so much wheat
that the railways are just swamped.
We can't get cars and the elevators
are all full. / never saw anything
like 1t" In reply we wrote. Good for
you. Go ahead and build; your story
sounds better than the letters we used
to get from our friends in Kansas
when they bewailed the fact hat the
sdard wheat had been destroyed by the
-chsnch bugs and the corn by hot
Winds, and that they must sell the
stock for means to live on. Yes, build
NY ala means" And he did, and our
whea1 pat IN by a renter made twen-
tyseysn hFssfefs per acre.
Very truly yours,
$50 s., O. FsffEEffAHT.
ksHS IT, TEgT0AE TRgsTDDER.
Csc WAITER 80. MOUNT.
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