The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-10-31
WOMEN As FARMERS.
Success CT Some Who Have Taken
Claims In the Northwest

S1GCEe8 CT 0oUlG WV Fs@NN fANNH
Claims In the Northwest.
In ehe great Canadian Northwest.
where the eTstwhiIe wilderness i
waving VITA golden grain and towns
are sprnging up overnight. not fsS
women have gone TO seek their fort
unes alo1e A homestead grant Of
Is0 acres Is free. and any head OF =
family" nan or woman. may secure Il
upon application TO the Canadian gov
eminent Usually. Of course, the ap-
plicznt IL a man. but occasionally a
woman essays to make her fortune o.
tho prarfes without mascuiIHe aid.
Miss Marie GsIroy. OF Saskatchewan.
Is che OF the most famous woman get
tIers IL the wat She pat her las.
shilling into a prairie farm and Epe1:
seven years in a hand-tof hand tusgle
without fortune. sitting On her owu
binder. cutting her own grain. hand
ling the plough IN the burroughs AM
dosng stable duty. In 1906 her noid-
ing excited the admiration OF a yousg
Eagllshman and Miss Gilroy vas In.
duced 10 hand over lock. s.cck AMI
Earrel 70 him for the round sum Q!
$4,000. To-day Miss GHroy Is touring
Europe on the proceeds OF her oriE nal
$4,000.
Mrs AcGilYray. who came 10 tho
CANADIAN West twenty years ago with
ak small children, is another PR MI
Dent woman farmer of Saskatchewan.
Beginning almost penniIess her leo
acres Of homestead have now grown 10
an eight hundred acre estate and her
children are settled round her In COM
gcTt and affluence.
Salome WeTtman came with her hui
band and little family from Russia and
soon she. too, was q widow. She stiil
kept on trying to earn bread" as she
says, and sixteen years after her abb
solutely penniless start she stands as
OSe Of the successful land owners c.
Saskatchewan.
Mrs. Ferris is known as the woman
farmer" of the Portage Plains. LEFT
with family o. young children, she
has managed her farm most success
fully since the death q her husband.
when she arrived in Western Canada
with her husband thirty-two years ago
sheT had no capital At all. She low
has an estate of 76O acres and her two
Goas settled near at hand. each the
owner Of a section and half of land
about FIVE hundred acres.
Mrs. Grant has beautiful farm on
the banks OF the Canadian Killarney.
in Southern Manitoba. Three years
ago she went there from Scotland,
with her son, young man just ouc
OF college. and her daughter. year
ago. just as they were preparing for
spring seeding, the son was stricken
down with appendicitis and in twenty
four hours was dead. Filled with
hatred for the place, she decided to
leave it, but the morning after her
cons funeral. when she was packing
up. her daughter called to her, Moth
eF, come her. quick!" She locked and
saw that men. teams and pIoughs
quietly and without 4 word Of explain
alton were beginning work on the
Farm. The neighhors had decided to
gut in the seasons crop for the two
6ereayed women. They actually
ploughed. narrowed. seeded and reap
ed the entire crop. After that Mrs.
Grant talked no more of gonr
home" Her farm by the shores CT
the Canadian Killarney was home to
her.
Many women teachers, too. are
found On the Canadian: praries. but
they never remain long in the schools,
though they do not leave the prairies