Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-05-16
INDIANA PEOPLE IN WESTERN
CANADA.

"Whnt Shall We DO. I'vc Got to
Build Grnnuries."
letter written to Il Canadian GOV
eminent AGENT from Upton. Ind is
but one OF many similar that are in
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 hero is a
copy of the letter
Tipton. Ind. Nov. IS. l90G.
AT your earnest solicitation Il party
of us from Upton left May IL for
Western Canada. Our interviews with
YOU and Il careful study OF your iitcra
ture led US to expect great things OF
Your country when WE should arrive
there, and we were not disappointed
We went prepared to make Il cnrnfu
examination of the country and its re-
sources. and we did SO NJ CARLY dawn
the second moriling out of 'ripton we
aWoke in Il new world AS far as the
eye could reach was am apparently linn
ltlsas eNpanse of new sown wheat ANA
prairie grasses. The vivid green of
the wheat just beginning to stool out,
aud the inky blackncss of the soil CON
trasted in a way beautiful to sec. An
hour or two later we steamed into
Winnipeg. Here we found a number of
surprises n hundred thousand souls
we'll housed, with every convenience
fp lni.Jl -ttN- A, ia
city--banks, hotels, newspapers, stores,
electric lights, street railways, sewer
age, water works, asphalt pavencnts,
everything. With eyes and ears open,
we Travelled for two thousand miles
through Manitoba, Saskatchewan and
Pacific Railway, via Calgary 10 Edmon-
ton and returning 10 Winnipeg over
the Canadian Northern Railway In
the meantime we made several side
trips and stopped off at number of
points where we made drives into the
surrounding country On every hand
were evidences of prosperity. The
growing wheat. oats rye, flax, barlcy,
not little patches, but great fields,
many of them u square milo in extent,
the three. five and sometimes seven
horse teams laying over AN i.lky black
ribbon of yellow stubbe. generally in
burrows straight as gun ban 'ea
IT., right. Dn"les fran, the rno ntrasteG
strangely with our little fields ut home.
The towns, both large and small. were
doubly conspicuous, made so. first by
their newness and second by the tow
ering elevators necessary TO hold the
Immense crops OF wheat grown I'm the
immediate ncghborhood.
The newncss, the thrift, the hustle,
the sound of SAW aud hammer, the
tents housing owners Of buildings in
various stages Of co,npction, the piles
of household effects and agricultural
implements nj the railway stations
waiting to br hauled ont TO the
Claims the occasional steam pillow
turning its twenty OF thirty acres Il
/ day the sod house. the unpaintrd house
/ of wood the up-to=date modern resi-
4 tlencc With large rcd barn by all these
Il
4 nest OF prosperity and wealth Ia be-.
/ We talked with men and visited their
| places that follr Gears lso WAS unbro-
4 ken prairie. Their l,onsos, barns. inn
PIGMENTS aad liVr stock rspre tine equal
vi anything III Upton CtaGflY and Why
not Wien thes We're raising iiye, ten
Eamh twenty, yes in one instance forty
thousand bushels of wheat a year.
I'hc laei THAT such large yields oi
wheat are raised 80 easily and 50 sure
4 Il Impressed us very faNorabiy AMI
when we SAW men who four or ike
/ years ago commenced there "iih two
VI three thousand dollars. and are now
is well fixed and inallins money much
rasier ANA many times faster than lots
If OAR acqlIlimtanrs Oh Indiana farms
times MS much, we decided 10 invest
SO we bought in partnership a littif
oyer two thousand acres, some Of il
improved and in wheat.
Before leaving Indiana. we agreed
that if the opportunities We're rs gre.i,
rs IllpN were represented To be, tll:i'
we would buy, and own in i,artncrshi!
81 body of land and leave one Of oul
unInber to look after and operate it
This we accordingly did
lust before time TO thrrsli rc
ceiycd II letter from him. What shall
we do, said lie, I've got 10 build gran
aries There's so much wheat that th,
railways are Just swanpcd. We can
get cans and tnc elevators are all full
! never saw anything like H. In re
ply we wrote Good for yoil I;o aheat
and build, your story sounds bette
than the letters we used u get from
:, our FRIENDS in Kansas when they he
walled The fact that the hard Whca
had been destroyed by the chinc, bug
: and the corn by hot winds. and thu
), .hcy must sell the stoch for means [,
ike on lcs, build by III means.
And he did, and Our wheat put in b,
renter made twenty-seyen buslle
: per acre.
Very truly yours,
"(Sd) 4. G. HJRKIlAIsT,
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