Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-05-23
rrIANA PEOPLE IN WESTERN
CANADA.
'W hat Shall We 20: I've Got to
Build Gr~annrics."

agents whose privilege ii is to OFFER one
hundred and sixty acres OF lane free.
and low railway fares. Bat here Is Il
copy of the letter:
"l'ipton. Ind. Nov. rs. l906.
AT our earnest solicitation a party
of MS from Upton left May 10 for
Western Canada. Our interviews with
you and a careful study OF Your litera-
ture led us t. expect great things o!
your country when we should arrive
there. and we were not disappointed.
We went prepared 10 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 a new world. AS far as the
eve could reach was an apparently lint
itless expanse of new sown wheat and
prairie grasses. 'Ihc vivid green of
the wheat just beginning to Stool out.
and the inky %blackness of the soil con-
trasted in a way beautiful TO see. An
hour or two later we steamed into
Winnipeg. Here we found Il number OF
surprises. A hundred thousand souls
WCiI IlOUStu, Will every CONVENIENCE
that goes to make 4 modern. up-to-date
city-banks. hotels. newspapers, stores.
electric lights. street railways. sewer
age. water works, asphalt 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 Edmon-
ton and returning to Winnipeg over
the Canadian Northern Railway. In
the meantime we made several side
trips and stopped Oft 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 nelds,
many of them Il square mile in extent,
the three. five and sometimes seven
horse teams laying over an inly black
ribbon of yellow stublle. generally i'll
burrows straight as gun barrels ana
at right angles from the roads stretch
ing into the distance. cont:asted
strangely with our little fields ut home.
Tho towns. both large " 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.
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 pillow
turning its twenty or thirty acres d
day, the sod house. the Imprinted 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 vas unbro-
ken prairie. Their houses, barns, i'm
plements and live stock were the equal
of anything i'll Upton County and why
not. when they were raising five. ten
anu twenty. NtS III one lllSIstIlte jOIlN
thousand bushels OF wheat a year.
The fact that such large yields of
wheat are raised so easily and SO sure
ly impressed us very favorably. And
when we saw men who four or five
years ago commenced there with two
or three thousand dollars, and are now
as we'll fixed and making money much
easier and many times faster Than lots
of our acquaintance 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 it
improved and in wheat.
"Hefore leaving Indiana, we agreed
that If the opportunities were is great
as they were represented to be. that
we would buy. aud OWL in partnership
a body of land. and leave one OF our
number TO look after and operate II.
This we accordingly did.
Just before time to thresh re
ceived a letter from him. What Shall
we do said he. I've 20: to build gran
aries. There's so much wheat that the
railways are Just swampcd. We can't
get cars and the elevators are all full.
never saw anything ike It. In re
ply wc wrot 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 be.
walled the fact that the hard wheat
had been destroyed by the chincll bugs
and the corn by hot winds. and tina,
they must sell the stock for means to