The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1907-08-02
JOHN RYDERWR|TES
ABOUT HIS TRIP
Is Pleased With Outlook. Will go
$50 Miles by Wagon. Three
Months for Round Trip.
Editor True Northerner:

Editor True NOrtherner:
| said | would write To you and give
you little detail of my trip to Edmon-
ton, Alberta, Canada. ] left Chicago
on the Great Northern railroad for Grand
Forks on the 9th of July and arrived at
said place on July 10th at $40 a. M.
Went over to the Kent Realty & Invest
ment Co.'S main Office AID found them
waiting for me. | spent about two hours
with the general manager aud then he
sent me to Minot n D., and there | met
q. w. Kent rounding up a bunch of
about ID men. It isn't as hard to get
men here for the Peace River country
ss in Paw Paw. 1t is all Peace River
means for them in year or two. Crops
are looking good all along but a little
late on account OF the late spring. There
are thousands Of acres of wheat about
knee high just beginning to head, and |
tell you the crops look thrifty and fine.
We leave here on the morning of the
l1lh, at 2 a. IN. for Edmonton. We have
men from all parts of the country TO &C
company the expedition across the
plains from Edmonton to the Peace Con
cession. 1t will take US about three
months to make the trip there and back
We have doctors and lawyers and few
railroad men. Laboring men all want a
chunk of the Peace River country, and
they will get it as it is all Peace River
here. We also have two cooks and
pilot to add to our comforts We will
90 about 200 miles by wagon and all an
ticipate delightful trip. There is
plenty of game, such as antelopes, moose,
Elk, prairie chicken and ducks galore. ]
have a very fine Winchester rifle l3S. ~
but | didn't have time to get the neces-
sary ammunition while IN Chicago and
SO far have been unable to secure the
right cartridge here, but have been told
that 1 can get them at Edmonton, any
thing from a 22 to cannon ball
July 10. Hello! boys Here | am at
Edmonton A fine city Of 5000 popula-
ton, and in time it will no doubt be the
largest city in the North west. Although
the city is in its infancy great stone
structures, cement walls and an electric
line are now under construction. Crops
are the best | have seen anywhere
through the country. Everything is in
its glory and | never saw such garden
OF wild flowers as from Calgary to Ed
monitor. Large patches of timber, saw
mills, planning mills and every thing to
add to the prosperity of the country
The country is being populated very
rapidly but there are not as many mer-
leans here as in Calgary. | should
Judge about one fourth of the popula-
ton of Edmonton was Yanks. Never
theless it is the country for the man
who wants to get to the front as there
are so many opportunities.
We start for the Peace River in the
morning, leaving here for Athabask
landing, which is about 80 miles from
Edmonton, then we take the steamer
from there and go down the Athabask
river to Lesser Slave lake and down the
whole length of the lake, a distance of
l6O miles, and there we strike the Hud-
son Bay trail to the Peace river landing.
We cross the river and go west to Dun
vegan, distance of 10 miles, the con-
cession granted to the Kent Realty & In
vestment company. There we will take
homesteads and make preparations to
live and grow up with the country. If it
grows as rapidly as Edmonton we will
have as good as there is in land before
long. This country is being developed
very fast and in less than two years
there will be a railroad to the coast,
when we will be at the door of the
worlds market, One cannot say enough
for this great country
Yours truly,
JOHN RYDER.