Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-07-20
WOMEN AS FARMERS
Success of Some Who Have Taken Up
 Claims in the Northwest


 In the great Canadian Northwest where the erstwhile wilderness is way. ing with golden grain and towns are springing up over night, not few women have gone to seek their fortunes alone. A homestead grant of l6O acres is free, and any "head of family, 'i man or woman, may secure it upon ap. plication to the Canadian government Usually, of course, the applicant is a man, but occasionally woman essays to make her fortune on the prairies without masculine aid.
 Miss Marie Gilroy of Saskatchewan is one of the most famous woman set tiers of the west, She put her las, shilling into a prairie farm and. spent seven years in hand-to-h hand tusse with fortune, sitting on her own binder cutting her own grain, handling the blow in the furrow and doing stable duty. In 1906 her holding excited the admiration of a young Englishman, and Miss Gilroy was induced to hand over lock, stock and barrel to him for the round sum of $l5,OO0. Today Miss Gil roy is touring Europe on the proceeds of her original $2,000.
 Mrs. McGilvray, who came to the Ca nadian west twenty years ago with six small children, is another prominent wo man farmer of Saskatchewan. Begin ming almost penniless, her 160 acres of homestead have now grown to an 800 acre estate, aud her children are set tied around her in comfort and afflu ence.
 Salome Wertman came with her hus band and little family from Russia, an, soon she, too, was widow. She stil kept on trying to earn bread" as sh, says, and sixteen years after her abso lutely penniless start she stands as on, of the successful land owners of Sas katchewan.
 Mrs. Ferris is known as the "womaI farmer" of the Portage Plains. Lief with a family of young children, sh, has managed her farm most success fully since the death of her husband She comes from Belfast, Ireland, an, when she arrived in Western Canad; with her husband thirty-two years az, they had no capital at all. She nov has an estate of 760 acres, and her tw, sons are settled near at hand, each tn, owner of half section of land-abou 800 acres.
 Mrs. Grant has beautiful farm oi the banks of the Canadian Killarney in Southern Manitoba. Three years az, she went there from Scotland with he son, young man just out of college and her daughter. A year ago, jus as they were preparing for spring seed ing, the son was stricken down witt appendicitis and in twenty-four hour was dead. Filled with hatred for tn place, she decided to leave it, but tn morning after her son s funeral, whei she was packing up, her daughter ealle' to her, Mother, come here, quick! She looked and saw that men, teams an' blows, quietly and without a word O explanation. were beginning work oi the farm. The neighbors had decides to put in the seasons crop for the tw' bereaved women. They actually plowed narrowed. seeded and reaped the entir crop After that Mrs. Grant talked n more of going ''home." Her farm b, the shores of the Canadian Killarne. was home to her.
 Many women teachers, too, are foun' on the Canadian prairies, but they neve remain long in the schools, though the. do not leave the prairies.-New Yorl Tribune