Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-02-20
Letter From Rev M J Conner A Former
Resident Of Audubon
Sunny SOUTHERN, ALBERTA

CANADA. FEBRUARY ), 1903.
Not having forgotten the many kind
friends of former days in Audubon
and surrounding country and with the
consent of the editor we desire To speak
to YOU for few moments through the
local press. After leaving Audubon,
almost four years ago, we located ut
PiersOn, Iowa. ana spent three years
there as pastor. Desiring, on account
of Mrs. Corners health, to make
change of climate and also desiring to
enter new field of church activities,
especially to enter pioneer work. On
/ the fourteenth day of last October we
bid adieu to the grand old State OF
Iowa and sped west and north to the
! international boundary line of the
Land of the free and home of the
brave" at Portal, North Dakota,
where we entered the great and fast
| developing country of western Canada
| and here we are located twenty miles
| from the international boundary line.
! In plain view are Old Sweet Grass
Mountains, out in Montana, and
! eighty miles east of the snow capped
! Rocky Mountains. This is great
country. Canada's last but Canada s
! best. We would like to call attention
! to some of her advantages: a fine eli
mate, away from the sultry summer
heat and in the path of the famous
! Chinook winds in the winter which
| drives away the sting and cold of
winter. We have fine water from a
depth Of from seven to one hundred
seventy-hve feet; plenty Of excellent
! coal at the many mines which sells for
three dollars per ton; soil that will
! produce from forty To sixty bushels of
winter wheat from thirty To forty i've
bushels of spring wheat; sixty to one
hundred and fifteen bushels of oats;
twenty to twenty bushels OF flax
per acre: fine timothy, clover and
alfalfa; and cannot be surpassed a s a
stock country. All root crops and
fruit do exceedingly wells and this
land can be bought from twelve dol
lars and fifty cents to twenty-five per
acre, according to the distance from
town: and our friends from Pierson
and Audubon have purchased about
four thousand acres the past year and
many of them are coming up here this
spring to make il their future home
On arriving here we entered theopen
door OF church work, and, the blessing
I of The Most High has been upon this
! Work. we nave Just CLOSED TOui
! weeks revival service ia which good
~ number have anchored their faith il
the once crucihed but now living Re
deemer. We have organized society
! and have good foundation laid foi
:, future church work. Have about two
y thousand dollars in sight toward th'
II erection Of a three thousand dollal
1, church, with a wide and needy sur
" rounding country open for the gospe
n ministry. our town is only littl,
n over year old but has about twenty
five families and is growing very rap
\ IDLY. Nearly ali who have located her
& are from the states, ana Iowa has fur
\ nished goodly number. An Iowal
knows a good thing when he sees il
Anyone desiring to change their loca
\ ton or seek a good safe inyestmen
we would be glad 10 correspond wit
I them and viii give any further infor
y NATION desired. With best wishes I
NJ the many readers of your paper be
TO remain Yours truly,
mi M. j. CONNER