Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-03-05
THE GREAT NORTHWEST
Some Advantages Derived From Lands
Purchased la Western Canada

Allow me, as a reader Of your valu.
able paper TO place before you some OF
the facts concerning the fertile lands
of the North West:
FIRST. There is no place in Ameri
ca where the tide of immigration is so
great as in the provinces of SaSkatche-
" an and Alberta. With its numerous
railroads passing through the differ
ent sections of the country, where the
towns are springing up like magic and
lands are constantly ON the increase
in value, enabling not.onlythe farmer
but the spectators to realize good
profits on his Investments. Western
Canada is n vast region of excellent
farming lands. 1t is great empire of
natural wealth, of progressive institu
tions, of religious and political liber-
ty, of robust and political thought,
and of people and ideas akin to our
own. Canada is acountry of full stom-
achs, of secure homes, of free schools
and of liberty. True, it is a country
of wheat and oats and grass and cat.
tie, but we think most of it as land
of homes. Homes for the enterprising
and strong hearted people from the
states who otherwise might not be able
to get homes.
Wheat Land Attracts Thousands
Agricultural chemists who speak with
authority declare that even the black
earth of Central Russia, hitherto con
Sidered the richest soil in the world,
must yield the palm To the rich, deep,
black soils of Western Canada. The
very qualities and chemical ingredi-
ents needful for the production of the
finest wheat are possessed in their
highest state by these soils; and the
climate is not only
fiealthful But Bracing
The summers are cool at night, MAX
ing il an ideal place for good nights
rest. The winters are not nearly so
severe here as in the Dakotas, as they
have bluffs and groves for protection,
and its mistaken idea that people
suffer more in Canada than ia Iowa
with colds, it being a dry atmosphere
with but little wind and not so change
able as in Iowa; they do not feel the
cold so much there as we do here. We
do not seem to realize that new ma
ton is being born before our very face
and eyes. Things are shaping faster
in Canada than most of us here in the
states realize. Canada is rapidly fill
ing up with farmers from Iowa, Kan
sas, Nebraska and the Dakotas. Some
are selling their valuable farms and
are moving, together with their fami-
lies, where fertile lands can be bought
at low figures and on easy terms. We
know of no better place in America
for people with moderate means to
procure homes of their own, or for the
man of money who. wants to make a
profitable and safe investment; where
good fertile lands can be bought in
tracts or blocks on easy terms from
Seven to Twelve Dollars per acre and
in smaller tracts from Ten to Fifteen
Dollars per acre.
The past winter in Western Canada
has equalled if not excelled the winter
in Iowa; farming was continued up to
January first. The snow fall has not
been heavy, Is now gone and the out
look Is for an early spring and pros
porous summer which will make u
bumper crop, with advance in prices
of lands. We are expecting TO conduct
a party up there before farming com
mences here and if you want u slice Of