Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-11-11
NEW DISTRICTS AND. NEW RAIL-
WAYS.
western Canada. Anord.- Better Com

Western Canada. Affords. Better CON-
dftions than Ever for. settlement
| To the EditOr-Sir: Doubtless many
lof your readers Will be pleased to have
some word from the grain fields of
| Western Canada. where suclii d large
number of Americans have made their
home during the past few Years. 1t 49,
Ipleasing to be able to- lel,ort that gen
orally the wheat yieItIi has, been good:
Hit will average about twenty bushels
to- the acre. There will be many cases
where the yield will go. thirty five
bushels to the acre and others where
| fifty bushels to the acre has been. re-
corded The oat and barley CROP has
been splendid. The prices of all grains
will bring to the farmers IL niagnifi-
| cent return for their iaboES. Ala inr
stance has been brought to nM notice
of a farmer in the Pincher Greek
| (Southern AlbeEtl) district, where
winter wheat is grown. who made u
net profit of Sl9.55 an acre, or little
less, than the, selling; price of his land.
| Thirty forty and fifty bushels Yields
are. recorded there. The. beauty fbout
the laalds in Western Canada is That
they are so well adapted to grsrfn-rats-
/ ing, while. the luxuriant grasses that
grow everywhere. in abundance nFfkes
| tie best possible feed for fattenfng
cattle OF for. those used for efairyiag
| purposes
| The new homestead regulations
which went into force September.
| 1908 attracted thousands ~of new set
tiers 1t is now possible to secure 1G0
acres in addition to the f60 acres as
| free grant, by paying So 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 years
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 NJ. 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
| financiers of the United States. Our
railway companies sold good deal Of
| their land ut from three to five dollars
an acre. and now the owners are sell
/ ing 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 (IOwa)
! Express made trip through Western
Canada last August. and was greatly
impressed. He says: Zone cannot
cross Western Canada to the noun
tains without being impressed with it's
immensely of territory and its future
prospects. Where | expected tos find
frontier villages there were substan-
TALLY built cities and towns with ev-
cry modern convenience 1t was for
merly supposed that the climate was
too severe for it to be thought of as
an agricultural country. but its wheat
| raising possibilities have been amply
tested. We drew from Ontario many
] of our best farmers and most progress
sive citizens Now the Americans are
emigrating in greater numbers lowest
ern Canada Seyenty-five per cent OF
the settlers in that good country 10
] Gated southeast of Moose Jaw and Re
/ gina are Americans. Canada is well
pleased with them and is ready te
welcome thousands more