The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1907-05-09
INDIANA PEOPLE ~ WESTERN
CANADA
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% but . OF many UNNa4af lNaL are -
tho hands ~ me Cana6lsn gssernnent
agents whose pflrlleas e d 10 OTsf
n hundred and SIXTY acres - lad
free. and log railway fares But here
ia . copy o. the letter:
~TiptCn, lad. Nov. -. 1898
at your earnest EoliclfatiD1 a party
o. uE from Tipt0n left Nay y Tor
Western Canada Our Interviews with
you and a careful gtndy q your liter
ature led us 70 expect great thinss -
your country when " should arrive
there. and We we're not d-iEaplDinted
We went prepared % make q careful
examination q the country ard is re-
sources. and we Gid %. At carry dsw1
the second morning q u Upton re
awoke in a new world As far as The
ere could reach was an sppare1Ly
Mmitiess eKpanse Of rev sogn wheat
and prairie grasses. The vivid green
OF the wheat Just beginning 10 stool
out. and the iuky blacknesz % the
soil eontrssted fl a way bezBtifui 70
see An hour or two later We steamed
into Winnipeg Here re found g MN
Der Of surprises. A hundred thousand
souls well housed, with every COZ
veuience that g0es to make a modern
up-todate city-banks. hotels. news
papers. stores. electric light. street
railways, sewerage, wsterEcrks. as
phait pavements. everything VITA
eyes and ears open we Travelled Tor
two thousand miles through Manitoba
Saskatchewan and Alberta. going out
- - E---nem- nm-Hna mnHnar -Hn
Calgary 70 Edmonton, and returning
10 Winnipeg over the Canadian North
ern railway. In the meantime ~
made sew tai side trips and stopped
OF at a number OF points Where we
made drives into the surrounding
country. On every hand were evil
dences Of prosperity. The growing
wheat. oats. rye. fax. barley, not III
tie patches, but great fields. many q
them a square mile in extent The
three. five and sometimes s~eBen-h0rse
teams laying over an fnkT black rlo-
bon Of yellow stubble. generally n fur
rows straight as gun barrels and AZ
right angles from the roads stretching
into the distance. c~ontrasted strangely
with cur little fields at home. The
towns both large and small were dou-
bly, conspicuous. made 50. first By
, their newness and second b. the tow
ering elevators necessary to hold the
Z 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
Of household effects and agricultural
implements at The railway stations
waiting 10 be hauled out q thl
Claims the occasional steam ploV
turning its twenty or thirty acres
( day. the sod house. the implanted
E house OF wood. the up-to-date modern
residence with large red barn By. al
these were seen everywhere We went
an earnest % prosperity and wealth q
be. We talked with men and visited
their places that four years ago was
unbroken prairie Their houses
barns. implements and live stock wer'
the equal OF anything IN Upton Coul
s t.. and Why not. when they were rails
ing Eve. ten and twenty. yes In on
; instance. forty thousand bushels O
p wheat a year. The fact that sucl
. large Yields Of wheat are raised 81
easily and 50 surely impressed a
'f very favurabiy. And when NE say
n men who four or Eve years ago CON
% menced there with two or three thoU
sand dollars. and were o as wel
as fixed and making money much easie
and many times faster than l0ts @
20 our a-cQuzintances on Indiana farm
fifty years cleared and valued az iou
times as much. we decided 10 inves
SO we bought IN partnership q lith
% over two Thousand acres. some o.
Improved and ia wheat
Before leaving Indiana we aEree
Y. that II the opportunities were as Erea
as they were represented to b.. IA
a We would bay. and IVA in partae.
ne ship q body of land. and leave oac 6
rs cur number 90 hook after and opegat
az a. This We accou1snsly did
Just before time 10 thresh I q
~ ceivei a louer from him. What aha
20 We do said he. ~IVe Eot % bal!
az EFauaries There's 80 much wbf.
that che railways are Just ssamPe.
.'e We can't set cars and The olevato'
H. aro an fun I neyer saw auythir
Ike a. IN reply We Wrote 06oot q
~ you. Co ahead and baildi your sto'
ne sounds better than TIE ieItgu We uss
Ct 90 ret frcm eur friends IN kanS
aot when they beNaled the faci thar e
hard wheat had beoa destroyed ~ q
M chlnch huss ana the corn ~ n
.ns Winds and that they must sell q
stock Cor mcans O. 1--we On Yes eai
ng by an means Ana De ala apd q
wheat put m BY a renter made twc
p-saycn bushels per acre
sAt VERY truly years
or feaa u nrrwEUhnH