Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-08-31
Stick Says
G. G. Covell
Advises rlichigan People
to Stay at HOme.

section:
District Attorney George G.. Coyell
after three weeks trip in the west
and northwest has returned with re.
newed confidence in his home state
and tho conviction that, in spite OF
all the boom stories from the sucalle1
| glorious west few places are SO good
and none better than Michigan. Es-
pecially has the observation Of the
keen sighted district attorney discred
tied the wonderful stories from Al
berta and Saskatchewan.
Mr. Covel's advice to all is: "stay
In Michigan" The boom from the
Canadian provinces he characterizes
as boom for the Canadian Pacific
railway. Those who can sell and
haYe money enough to take them out
of the country, are hurrying back to
the United States. Those who can't
are full of Wonderful stories of sue
cess, he says that are merely calcu-
lated to find them buyer for
their own holdlngs in order that they
too, may turn their backs upon the
golden northwest and scurry away.
Edmonton, which has been prophe-
sled the Chicago of the northwest, has
temperatures of tifty-two degrees be-
low zero. Pc ople die In their beds
during the Edmonton winters. Two
young hardware merchants ON their
way out said to Mr.. Covell: 1--WE
wouldn't spend another winter there
for the whole city"
Cold Kills Live Stock.
One of the biggest ranch owners in
the district admitted to Mr.. Covell
that from 30 to 80 per cent of his live
stock perished during the winter, and
in the matter of wheat raising, while
some of the Canadian companies with
plenty of money to spend In machin-
cry, appliances and help with their
pick of choice land get a yield of
thirty to forty bushels to the acre in
favorable years, the average is not
more than twenty bushels and this
only ia good years.
Michigan farmers can average
twenty bushels and don't have to
freeze to death either. Up in Alberta
Mr.. Covell learned, the farmers have
line stretched from house to barn.
The wind and snow has straight
sweep of four hundred miles and many
day it would be impossible for a
man to find his way from his house to
his barn without this rope. He can
not feed the stock because Of the cold,
wind and snow, and it showed ia Cal
gerry, July 13. Even the big wheat
yields do not amount to SO much by
the time they are transported to mar
ket.
Farming, too, is done on larger
scale and by different methods than
in Michigan. 1t takes fortune in
machinery to equip fair sized farm
and the average immigrant from
Michigan does not come prepared to
buy the necessary tools and machn
cry to put him on par with the sue
cessful growers OF that country.
Liquor Curse of the Coast.
Liquor is the curse of the coast" ;"
says the district attorney. He found
the wages high, but the living, too,
was high, and saloons are every
whsre, His observation was that the
saloons are responsible for more an
archy and dissatisfaction than all else
combined. He planned visit to one
town, but learned it represented, 10
section, eleven saloons, one genera
store and several boarding houses.
Not even a hotel. And the district
attorney decided not to go. Every
where the same prepOnderance OF
saloons existed, Saloons follow every
railway construction gang and every
mi ming camp has about ten saloons to
every otner place Of business. From
the standpoint of The west and north
west The saloon and the drink evil are
serious problems, according to Mr..
Covell, problems that Will soon have
| to be taken into consideration If the
| great west Is To prosper.
To the man who feels he must leave
Michigan, District Attorney Covell re-
commends Washington and Oregon.
| These states offer advantages for
stock raising. timber and mining, and
are not so cold that white man may
not live comfortably. Half or third
of his stock will not be frozen each
winter AID thev will demand less al
tention. Except in event Of an oc-
casional blizzard he will always be
able To lind his way to the barn with
out guiding rope.
There are opportunities Ia Wash :
ington and Oregon, but Mr.. Covells
advice is still, "stay in Michigan"
Washington and Oregon are all right,
he says, but Michigan Is just as good,
and even better. Above all keep
/ awav fram that much inflated boom