Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-04-18
NEARLY 100000 NEW ARRIVALS
IN CANADA IN 1907.
About sixty Thousand from the
United States.

About Sixty Thousand from the
United States.
Now that ii is known that in the
year just closed nearly sixty thousand
from the United States declared their
intention Of making their homes in
Canada, 1t might not be out Of place
to search for some reasons that would
bring this about. These people are but
following the example of the fifty-tive
or sixty thousand who did the same
thing the year previous and an almost
equal number who the year before that
but followed the example Of the thou
sands of the year preceding. An ex-
cellent climate, certain and positive
crops Of grain Of ali kinds, good mar
kets for their produce, land-and good
land, too-at low prices, easy terms Of
payment (not forgetting the $50 acres
of land given free by the government,
particulars of which the Canadian Gov
ernment Agent, whose name appears
elsewhere, will tell you about, and
then the splendid social conditions. The
situation Is pretty well sized up by
writer in one of the magazines. Quot
ing from this article we find this:
"Those of us who made good In the
States" interjected another settler as
If to continue the story of his neighbor,
have had it easy from the start;
little money is mighty good thing on
coming into new country. But those
who make an entry, or even buy lands
at low rates, are able to square things
in two or three seasons crops. There
are hardships in building shanties and
then, with increasing prosperity, get
ting things into shape for better homes.
But affairs 60 much as in the States.
We have the largest liberty in the
world; there Is more home rule in the
provinces than in the several States
Of the republic. Taxes are light and
with only q few million people west Of
Winnipeg we don't get in each others
way. Ones friends over the line prob
ably thought we would not live through
the winter; and while II is cold, real
cold, it Is free from the moisture ex-
perenced in the East. Schools are
good as encouraged by the government |;
the enterprlsing American promoter
and Yankee drummer see to 1t that we
take notice of the latest improvements
and best agricultural machinery. Al
together we are as near to affairs as
we would be on our own farms in the
States. Winnipeg bears the same rela-
ton to us as Chicago did at home; and
Edmonton with the surrounding region
advances as Omaha did in the days
when we were as young as the boys
yonder. We get together much as they
did in the oranges over the border; the
| government has established experiment
tai schools of agriculture, and progress
in every line is stimulated. This is q
great region for grazing" we hear the
Calgary citizen continuing, land ther
with building elevators Of wheat at 81
a bushel, many Of us find time to &c
over to the live stock exhibition in Chi
cago or visit old friends during thu
course Of the winter. Every man l.
taken for what he is worth, or for wha
he can raise; and in this good air anC
on this fertile soil we intend to show
our old friends that we are made Of tn,
right stuff-that we are chips Of tn,
old block who built up the American
West"