Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-11-11
new DISTRICTS AND
new RAIL WAYS
WESTERN CANADA AFFORDS BET.
TER CONDITIONS THAN EVER
FOR SETTLEMENT.

To the Editor Sir:-.Doubtless
many OF your readers will be pleased
TO have some word from the grain
fields Of Western Canada, where such
a large number of Americans have
made their home during the past few
years. 1t is pleasing to be able to re-
port that generally the wheat yield
mas been good; it will average about
20 bushels to the acre. There will
De many cases where the yield will &C
80 bushels to the acre, and others
where 80 bushels to the acre has
been recorded. The oat and barley
crop has been splendid. The prices
OF all grains will bring to the farmers
magnificent return for their labors.
An instance has been brought to nv
notice or a farmer in the Pincher
Greek (Southern Alberta) district
where winter wheat is grown-who
made a net profit of $19.55 per acre. or
little less than the selling price of his
land. 30. 40, and SO bushel Yields ara
recorded there. The beauty about the
lands in Western Canada is that they
are so well adapted to grain-raising.
while the luxuriant grasses that grow
everywhere in abundance make the
best possible feed for fattening cattle
or for those used for dairying pur
poses.
The new homestead regulations
which went into force September, 1908,
attracted thousands of new settlers. It
Is now possible to secure 100 acres in
addition to the $50 acres as a free
grant, by paying $500 an acre for it.
Particulars as to how to do this and
as to the railway rates can be Sc
cured from the Canadian Government
Agents.
= The development throughout West.
ern Canada during the next ten wears
Will probably exceed that of any other
country in the worlds history" is not
the statement of an optimistic Cana.
dian from the banks of the Saskatche-
wan, but Of Mr.. Leslie M Shaw of
New York, ex-Secretary of the United
States Treasury under the late Presi-
dent Mckinley and President Roose-
welt, and considered one of the ablest
hnanciers of the United States. Our
railway companies sold a good deal
OF their land at from three to five dol
lars an acre, and now the owners are
selling the same land at from fifty to
seVenty-five dollars, and buying more
up In Canada at from ten to fifteen"
The editor of the Monticello Qowa)
Express made trip through Western
Canada last August, and was preotlv
impressed. He says: "One cannot
cross Western Canada to the noun.
tains without being impressed with its
immensely of territory and it's future
prospects. Where 1 expected to find
frontier villages there were substan.
TALLY built cities and towns with every
modern convenience. 1t was former.
ly supposed that the climate was too
severe for it to be thought of as an
agricultural country, but it's wheat
raising possibilities have been amply
tested. We drew from Ontario many
of our best farmers and most progress
slve citizens. Now the Americans are
emigrating in greater numbers to
Western Canada. Seventy-five per
cent. of the settlers in that good coun-
try located southeast of Moose Jaw
and Regina are Americans. Canada
is well pleased with them and is ready
to welcome thousands more"