The log cabin Democrat., 1907-05-09
INDIANA PEOPLE IN WESTERN
 CANADA.
What Shall We Do?-i'vc Got to Build
 Granaries.

A letter written to Q Canadian Gov eynment agent from Tipton, Indiana, 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 here is a copy of the letter:
 "Tipton, Ind, Nov. 2S, 1906.
 "At your earnest solicitation a party of us from Tipton left May 15 for Western Canada. Our interviews with you and a careful study of your liter ature led us 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 it's re- sources, and we did so. At early dawn the second morning out of Tipton we awoke in a new world. As far as the eye could reach was an apparently limitless 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 contrasted in a way beautiful to see. An hour or two later we steamed into Winnipeg. Here we found num- Der of surprises. A hundred thousand souls well housed, with every con- venience that goes to make a 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 ern 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 evi- dences of prosperity. The growing wheat, oats, rye, flax, barley, not lit tie patches, but great fields, many of them a square mile in extent, the three, five and sometimes seven-hOrse teams laying over an inky 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 with our little fields at home. The towns both large and small were dou- bly, conspicuous. made so, first by their newness and second by the tow ering elevators necessary to hold the <NP rrhn not in, 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 and agricultural implements at the railway stations waiting to be hauled out to the Claims" the occasional steam blow turning it's twenty or thirty acres day, the sod house, the unpainted house of wood, the up-to-date modern residence with large red barn by, all these were 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 Tipton Coun- ty, and why not, when they were rais- ing five, ten and twenty, yes, in one instance, forty thousand bushels of wheat a year. The fact that such 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 menced there with two or three thou sand dollars, and were now as well fixed and making money much easier and many times faster than lots Of our acquaintances on Indiana farms fifty years cleared and valued at four times as much, we decided to invest. So we bought in partnership a little over two thousand acres, some Of 1t improved and in wheat.
 Before leaving Indiana we agreed that if the opportunities were as great as they were represented to be, that We would buy, and own in partner ship body of land, and leave one Of our number to look after and operate it. This we accordingly did.
 Just before time to thresh l re- ceived a letter from him. What shall We do?" said he; I've got to build granaries. There's so much wheat that the railways are just swamped. We cant get cars and the elevators are all full. 1 never saw anything like it." In reply we wrote, Good for you. Go ahead and build; your story sounds better than the letters we used to get from our friends in Kansas when they bewailed the fact that the hard wheat had been destroyed by the chinch bugs and the corn by hot winds, and that they must sell the stock for means to live on. Yes, build by all means" And he did, and our wheat put in by renter made twen-