The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1907-05-10
INDIANA PEOPLE IN WESTERN
CANADA.
What Shall We Do7-l've Got to Build
Granaries.


the hands Of the Canadian government
agents whose privilege it is to offer
one hundred and sixty acres OF land
free, and low railway fares. But here |
Is copy Of the letter:
"Tipton, Ind, Nov. %, 1906.
"At 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 a careful
exam 70 alton OF the country and Its re-
yources, and we did so. At early dawn
the second morning out OF Upton we
awoke 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 a way beautiful to
see. An hour or two later we steamed
into Winnipeg. Here we found num-
Der of surprises. A hundred thousand
I 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
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 flax, barley, not lit
tie patches, but great fields, many OF
them a square mile in extent. the
three, five and sometimes seven-horss
teams laying over an inky black rib.
bon of yellow stubble, generally In fur.
rows straight as gun barrels and at
right angles from the roads stretching
, into the distance, contrasted strangely
, with our little fields at home. The
towns both large and small were dou-
bly, conspicuous, made SO, f1rst BY
their newness and second by the tow.
ering elevators necessary to hold the
immense cro-s Of wheat grown In the
immediate neighborhood.
,, The newness, the thrift, the hustle
4 the sound Of saw and hammer, the
: tents housing owners OF buildings IN
:. various stages of completion, the piles
a of household effects and agriculture
9 implements at the railway stations
waiting to be hauled out to thu
Claims" the occasional steam plov
i, turning its twenty or thirty acres
. day, the sod house, the unpaintet
house Of wood, the up-to date moderI
{ residence with large red barn by, al
n these were seen everywhere we went
g. an earnest of prosperity and wealth Il
IS be. We talked with men and Vsite'
t. their places that four years ago wa
,3 unbroken prairie. Their houses
20 barns, implements and live stock wer
,s the equal OF anything in Upton Cour
. ty, and why not, when they were rail-
ing five, ten and twenty, yes, In on
~ instance, forty thousand bushels G
n wheat a year. The fact that sue
A. large yields Of wheat are raised s
Id easily and SO surely impressed u
a very favorably. And when We sa'
men who four or five years ago con
menced there with two or three tho'
e. sand dollars, and were now as we
ed fixed and making money much easie
Id and many times faster than lots