Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-05-09
m ne opIE !..ss s WESTERN
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What Shall We Do We Got TO Build
Granaries.

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a COPY Of the letter:
II Upton, Ind, Nov %, 1906.
At your earnest solicitation a party
of us from Upton left May Is for
Western Canada. Our interviews with
you and a careful study Of your liter
s c.ture led us to expect great things OF
your country when we should arrive
4 there. and we were not disappointed.
We went prepared to make careful
i examination Of the country and It's re-
sources. and we did SO. At early dawn
the second morning out of Upton we
awoke in q new world. AS far as the
eye could reach was an apparently
4 iimitless expanse of new sown wheat
and prairie grasses. The vivid green
OF the wheat Just beginning to stool
out. and the inlSy blackness of the
SOIL contrasted In a way beautiful to
see. An hour or two later we steamed
into Winnipeg. Here we found mum.
Der of surprises. A hundred thousand
souls well housed, with every con-
venience that goes to make 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
srns railway. In the meantime we
made several side trips and stopped
on at a number of points where we
4 made drives into the surrounding
f country. On every hand were evil
/ dences OF prosperity. The growing
wheat, oats. rye. fax, barley, not lit
& tie patches. but great fields, many Of
them square mile in extent, the
three. five and sometimes seven horse
teams laying over an inty 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
4 With our little fields at home The
towns both large and small were dou-
bly, conspicuous. made So first by
iSANvAA uOW uOoo 0hA SSsSOuu NY LAS WV
ering elevators necessary to hold the
s 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 Nand agricultural
{vpkv, Al 49, nf he f,to
I 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
shpuae Of swoGt,dy the up-to.date modern
residence with large red barn by, all
these we're seen everywhere we went,
an earnest OF prosperity and wealth to
be. We talked with men and visited
their places that four years ago was
unbroken prairie. Their houses,
barns. implements and live stock were
the equal of anything In Upton Coun-
1 ty. and why not, when they were rails
Ing 1--WE. ten and twenty. yes, in one
4 Instance, forty thousand bushels Of
4 wheat q year. The fact that such
I large Yields Of wheat are raised SO
easily and SO surely impressed US
very favorably. And when we saw
men who four or five years ago com
sllnone there with two or three thou
sand dollars, and We're now as well
fixed and making money much easier
aud many times faster than lots Of
eur acqnaintances on Indiana farms
fifty years cleared and valued at four
times az much, we decided to invest
4 So we bought in partnership little
over two thousand acres, some Of II
y Improved and In wheat,
Before leaving Indiana we agreed
that if the opportunities were as great
% they were represented to be, thai
We would buy. and own In partner
ship q body Of land, and leave one o.
our number to look after and operate
y Il. This NE accordingly did.
Just before time to ttihFesh re
ceiyed d letter from him, what shall
We do?' said he; .I've got to bulk
granaries. There's SO much whea'
y that the railways are Just swamped
We can get cars and the elevators
NJ are all full. never saw anything
& Ike IT, iii reply we wrote. Good To-
yotl. Go ahead and build your stor!
sounds better than the letters we usei
Il 70 get from our friends In Kansai
when they bewai1ed the fact that TIN
& hard wheat had been destroyed by th,
cilinch bugs and the corn by no
winds, ana that they must sell tn,