The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1909-12-31

have not done badly since our ar
rival"
Prof. Thomas Shaw of st. Paul, Min
nesota, with a number of other well
known editors of American farm Jour-
mails, toured Western Canada recently,
and in an interview at Winnipeg said
in part
with regard to the settlement of
the West I should say that it is only
we'll 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-1fth. I am satisfied that
in all three provinces grain can 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 con-
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 $40 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.
81 would rather raise cattle in West.
ern Canada than in the corr belt Of
the United States. You can get your
food cheaper and the climate is 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 coun.
try through which l have passed, and
alfalfa and one of the varieties Of
clover in three-fourths Of it. The
farmers do not believe this, but it 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 soon be a network of
trunk and branch lines. Three great
tra~nscontinental 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 %, OOO, 900
bushels, Saskatchewan 10000, 90, and
Alberta about 1000, 900, while the ca.
pacity of elevators at Fort William
and Port Arthur, on the Great Lakes,
is upwards of 20, 0 o 900 more.
Within the provinces of Manitoba.
Saskatchewan and Alberta there are
flour and oatmeal mills with a 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 100000, 900 bushels. This year
the crop will yield 10000, 900 more. A
recent summary shows that on the LIST
OF January, 1909, the surveyed lands
of the three western provinces, totaled
$4,000, GOO acres, of which about 49,.
100000 have been given as subsidies to
l t4i t' -, L ,'pp ,boo dlSDtStu u III Oll1-
er ways and 100000 given by the
Canadian Government as free home
steads, being $4,000 homesteads of
1G0 acres each. Of this enormous ter
ritory, there is probably under crop
st the present time less than l. ,OOO,-
600 acres; what the results will be
when wide awake settlers have taken
advantage of C%anada's offer and are
c%ultivating the fertile prairie lands,
one can scarcely imagine.
Just Like Him.
HOWell-DO you think that DR.. Row.
ell will make much of a record in the
legislature?
Powell-Sure; the first thing he
will try to do will be to perform an
operation on the foot of the calendar.
The Way 1t Happened.
Maude-Bigsby literally fell at my
feet.
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