Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1908-11-06
lEv DISTRICTS and
| new Rail WAYS
WESTERN CANADA AFFORDS BET
TER CONDITIONS THAN EVEN
FOR SETTLEMENT.

70 the Editor - Sir:---Doubtles
nAny of your readers will be pleased
10 have some word from the grain
|elds Of Western Canada. where such
large number OF Americans have
made their home during the past few
vears. 1t ~ pleasing to be able 20 re
bort that generally the wheat yield
has been good; 1t will average about
20 bushels to the acre. There will
Be many cases where the yield will go
b5 bushels to the acre, and others
where so bushels to the acre has
been recorded. The oat and barley
crop has been splendid. The prices
BIZ ali grains will bring to the farmers
magnificent return for their labors
IAN instance has been brought to my
notice Of q farmer in the Pincher
Greek (Southern Alberta) district
where winter wheat Is grown-who
made net profit of $1955 per acre. or
little less than the selling price OF his
hand. 30, 40. and so bushel yields are
recorded there. The beauty about the
bands in Western Canada is that they
Iare 50 we'll adapted to grain.raising,
while the luxuriant grasses that grow
Everywhere in abundance make the
ibest possible feed for fattening cattle
Tor for those used for dairying pur.
poses.
The new homestead regulations
which went into force September, 1908,
attracted thousands Of new settlers. II
/ Is now possible to secure 100 acres in
addition to the 160 acres as 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. #n.
The development throughout West
ern Canada during the next ten years
will probably exceed that of any other
country in the worlds history" is no,
the statement of an optimistic Cana
dian from the banks of the Saskatche
wan, but bf 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
f1nanciers of the United States. "Our
railway companies sold 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
twenty-five dollars, and buying more
up In Canada at from ten to fifteen"
The editor of the Monticello Oowa)
Express made trip through Western
Canada last August, and was greatly
impressed. He says: "One cannot
cross Western Canada to the noun
tains without being impressed with its
immensely Of territory and its future
prospects. Where | expected to find
frontier villages there were substan.
TALLY built cities and towns with every
modern convenience. It was former
ly supposed that the climate was too
severe for 1t to be thought of as an
agricultural country. but It's wheat.
raising possibilities have been amply
tested. We drew from Ontario many
!pf oxr best farmers and most progress.
sfve 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
70 welcome thousands more"