Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1909-12-23
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Prof. Thomas Shaw Of st. Paul, Min.
with q number OF other well
known editors Of American farm jour.
nails, toured Western Canada recently,
and in an interview ut Winnipeg said
in part
with regard to the settlement Of
the West I should say that 1t Is only
well begun. I have estimated that in
Manitoba one.tenth of the land has
been broken, in Saskatchewan one.
thirtieth and In Alberta, one-hundred
and seventy-ffth. am satisfied that
in all three provinces grain a be
grown successfully up to the sixtieth
parallel and in the years to come your
vacant land will be taken at a rate
Of which you have at present no on.
ception. We have enough people in
the United States alone. who want
homes, to take up this land.
what you must do in Western Can.
ada is to raise more live stock. When
you are doing what you ought to do
in this regard, the land which Is now
selling for $50 per acre will be worth
from $50 to 800 pre- acre. 1t is as
good land as that which is selling for
more than 500 per acre In the corn
belt.
ern Canada than In the corn belt Of
the United States. You can get your
food cheaper and the climate IL bet.
ter for the purpose. We have a bet.
ter market. but your market will i'm.
prove faster than your farmers Will
produce the supplies. Winter wheat
can be grown in one.half of the
try through which l have passed, and
alfalfa and one Of the varieties OF
clover in three.fourths of 1t. The
farmers do not believe this, but 1t Is
true"
Keeping pace with wheat prOduc.
ton, the growth Of railways has been
quite as wonderful, and the whole
country from Winnipeg to the Rocky
Mountains will oon be a network OF
trunk and branch lines. Three great
transcontinental lines are pushing
construction in every direction. and
at each siding the grain elevator Is
to be found. Manitoba being the
first settled province, has now an ele.
vator capacity of upwards Of %. 200 900
bushels. saskatchewan 10000, 90, and
Alberta about 1000, 900, while the C
pacity of elevators at Fort William
and Port Arthur, on the Great Lakes.
Is upwards of 20, 600, 900 more.
Within the provinces Of Manitoba.
Saskatchewan and Alberta there are
-four and oatmeal mills with n com
bined capacity of $4,000 barrels per
day, and situated along some famous
water powers In New Ontario. there
are larger mills than will be found
anywhere In the Prairie Provinces.
Last year the wheat crop tOtaled
over 100, 900 900 bushels. This year
the crop will yield 80, 900 900 mor A
recent summary shows that on the LIST
OF January. 1909. the surveyed lands
! of the three western provinces, tOtaled
l 1874, 900, 900 acres, of which about 80,
600, 900 have been given as subsidies tC
railways, II ,O0O, 900 disposed OF IN 9th
er ways and 3S, 900, 90 given by the
Canadian Government rs free home
steads, being $4,000 homesteads OF
Q 100 acres each. or this enormous ter
a ritory, there is probably under croI
ut the present time less than 1000.
v 900 acres; what the results will bt
d when wide awake settlers have takeI
s advantage OF Canada's offer and art
g %cultivating the fertile prairie lands
@ one can scarcely imagine.
h Perhaps So.