Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16
NEARLY 100000 NEW ARRIVALS
IN CANADA IN 1907.
About Sixty Thousand from the
United States.

United States.
Now that it is known that in the
year just closed nearly sixty thousand
from the United States declared their
intention of making their homes in
Canada. it 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 tifty-tive
or sixty thousand who did the same
thing the year previous and an almost
equal number who the year before thai
but followed the example of the thou
sands of the year preceding. An ex-
celent climate, certain and positive
crops of grain of ali kinds. good mar
kets for their produce, iand-and good
land. tOo-at low prices, easy terms of
payment (not forgetting the 100 acres
of land given free by the government,
particulars of which the Canadian Gov
eminent Agent. whose name appears
elsewhere, will tell you about, and
then the splendid social conditions. The
situation is pretty we'll sized up by a
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; a
little money is a mighty good thing on
coming into a 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 go 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 a 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 it is cold, real
cold. it is free from the moisture ex-
perienced in the East. Schools are
good as encouraged by the government;
the enterprising American promoter
and Yankee drummer see TO it 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
great region for grazing we hear the
Calgary citizen continuing, land then
with building elevators of wheat at 81
a bushel. many of us find time to go
over TO the live stock exhibition in Chi
cago or visit old friends during the
course of the winter Every man is
taken for what he is worth, or for what
he can raise; and in this good air and
on this fertile soil we intend to show
our old friends that we are made OF the
right stuff-tilat we are chips of the
old block who built up the American
West"