The new age., 1907-03-02
CENTRAL CANADA THE MECCA
A Country Rich in Material Resources
Invites the Homeseeker.


The average American has little or
no conception of the greatness of Can
ada and her wonderful natural re-
sources. The popular idea is that this
vast domain is a cold, barren wilder
ness, largely given over to trapperS
and persons engaged in the fur trade.
True this was a fact until the advent
of the great railway systems which
now span the northern half of the
North American continent, and in it's
wake came the settler and the home
seeker.
The Canada of today, therefore,
does not materially differ, in all the
essentials of greatness, from the
United States. 1t does differ, how
ever, in a very important particular,
and that is in the superiority of it's
soil and climate for growth of grains.
For 5000 years wheat has been the
chief fOodstuff of mankind. Man has
for all these centuries striven in vain
for some other natural product and
science has endeavored without sue
cess to discover some makeshift, but
today as in the centuries ago. wheat
still remains the "staff of life"
Canada is the great wheat producing
region of the world 1t is no longer
an experiment; it is a country of mag
nificent yields and in right district
is country of sure crops.
The H. E. Barnum Land Co., a pio-
neer concern with offices in Chicago,
Minneapolis, Winnipeg and Portland,
have done a great work in direction by
liberal distribution of some very fine
descriptive matter concerning West
ern Canada
The following is an extract from one
of the booklets:
western Canada where we operate
is no longer a country of the future;
it is a country of the present. Its
agricultural possibilities have been
proven for over twenty years. The
country where we are operating has
been tested by the homesteaders, and
what we say is absolutely true.
Settlers are pouring into the coun-
try as they never have before, not only
from the United States, but from the
Old Countries. One million acres
have already been sold this year.
Every train going in the West is run
ming several sections The homesteads
within forty or fifty miles of an es-
tablished railroad are already taken.
1t is not a question of getting cheap
land but of getting land at all. The
climate is no more severe than that
of Minnesota. 1t is as healthy as any
climate on the Continent. Fuel can
be obtained in abundance where we
are operating There are forests with
in a reasonable distance which supply
wood at very low prices, and we are
near the coal district
AS to crops, in the canvass of twen-
ty settlers in our district, the lowest
yield Of wheat we have found is thirty
bushels to the acre. and the highest.
fifty-one bushels. Oats. barley and
flax yield as good, if not better, than
in the very best soil in any of the
American States One crop has paid
for many poor mans farm.
The school system in Canada is
equal to that of the United States
about the same system is practised-
and there is no difficulty in there be-
ing plenty schools. Taxes are low;
personal property, for a reasonable
amount, is exempt from taxes, and the
ordinary taxes will run from $3.50 to
$500 per quarter section.
People are apt to take a map and
think the country is too far North in
the wilderness. but a trip through the
country will show you farms, houses,
and barns that will compare with the