The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1907-05-17

4 letter written 90 q Canadian for
sramsnt agent from Upton. Ind, 10
but one OF many slmilnr that are In
the hands Of tine Canadian government
agents whose privilege II Il 10 ofFer one
hundred and sixty acres OF land free,
and low railway fares. But here Is a
copy OF the letter.
"FIpton, Ind, Nov. 2s, 1905.
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 litera.
ture led MS to expect great things of
your country when we should arrive
there, and we were not disappointed.
We went prepared to make a careful
examination of the country and Its re-
sources, and we did so. At early dawn
the second morning out OF Upton we
awoke In new world. As far as the
eye could reach was an apparently lin.
itless 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 con-
trasted In way beautiful to see. An
hour or two later we steamed into
Winnipeg. Here we found number of
surprises. A hundred thousand souls
well housed, with every convenience
that goes to make modern, up-to-date
city-banks, hotels, newspapers, stores,
electric lights, street railways, sewer
age, water works, asphalt payements,
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 Edmon-
ton and returning to Winnipeg over
the Canadian Northern Railway. In
the meantime we made several side
trips and stopped off at a number of
points where we made drives into the
surrounding country. On every hand
were evidences of prosperity. The
growing wheat oats, rye, fax, barley,
not little patches, but great fields,
many of them square mile In extent,
the thtee, five and sometimes seven
horse teams laying over an inky black
ribbon of yellow stubble. generally In
burrows straight as gun barrels and
at right angles from the roads stretch
ing into the distance. contrasted
strangely with our little fields at home.
The towns, both large and small, were
doubly conspicuous, made 50, first by
their newness and second by the tow
ering elevators necessary to hold the
immense crops of wheat grown in the
immediate neighborhood.
1.-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
waiting to be hauled out to the
Claims the occasional steam plow
turning Its twenty or thirty acres
day, the sod house. the implanted house
Of wood, the up-to-date modern resi-
dence with large red barn by, all these
were seen everywhere we went, an ear
nest Of prosperity and wealth to be.
We talked with men and visited their
places that four years ago was unbro-
ken prairie. Their houses. barns, Inn
plements and live stock were the equal
of anything In Upton County and why
not, when they were raising i've, ten
and twenty, yes In one instance forty
thousand bushels OF wheat q year.
The fact that such large YIELDS Of |
wheat are raised 50 easily and 20 sure
~ impressed us very favorably. And |
when we saw men who four or i've
years ago commenced there with two
or three thousand dollars, and are now |
40 well fixed and making money much |
easier and many times faster than lots
Of our acquaintances on Indiana farms
dfty years cleared and valued at four
times as much, we decided to invest.
So we bought In partnership q little
over two thousand acres, some Of Il
Improved and in wheat.
Before leaving Indiana, We agreed
that IL the opportunities we're ~ great
10 they were represented to be, that
We would buy. and own In partnership
4 body of land. and leave one Of our
number to look after aud operate 1t.
This We accordingly did.
Just before time to thresh re-
seived letter from him. What shall
we do said he, I've got to build gran
aries. There's SO much wheat that tho
are just swampcd. We can't
ret ears and the elevators are all full
never saw anything like It. In re-
ply we wrote Good for you. Go ahead
ind build. your story sounds better
han the letters we used to get from
,ur friends In .s,ansas when they be-
vailed the fact that the hard wheat
aad been destroyed by the chinch bugs
ind the corn by hot winds. and that
hey must sell the stock for means 10
I've on Yes. build by all meanA'
Ind lac did, and cur wheat put In By
renter made twenty-seYen bushels
YER acre.
Very truly yours
.tSd) 4. q. BURKHART,
-tsd) ]. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
.tSd) WALTER w. MOUNT"