Mexico Missouri message., 1909-12-23
COUNTRY WHOSE SOIL SPELLS
WHEAT AND OUT OF WHOSE
FARMS THOUSANDS ARE
GROWING RICH.
WHAT PRESIDENT TAFT AND
OTHERS THINK OF CANADA.
Another Fat Year for the Canadian
West.

sources go 10 snow LnaJ the total yield
OF 1909 will be far above that of any
other year.
T. is estimated that S100,000,000
will this year go into the pockets of
the Western farmers from wheat
alone, another S60,000000 from oats
and barley, while returns from other
crops and from stock will add $40,-
100000 more. Is it any wonder then
that the farmers of the Canadian
West are happy?
Thousands of American farmers
have settled in the above mentioned
provinces during the past year; men
who know the West and its possibili-
ties, and who also know perhaps bet
ter than any other people, the best
methods for profitable farming.
President Taft said recently in
speaking of Canada:
I'VE have been going ahead so rap
Idly in our own country that our heads
have been somewhat swelled with the
Idea that we are carrying on our Shout
ders all the progress there is in the
world. We have not been conscious
that there is on the north a young
country and young nation that is
looking forward, as it well may, to
great national future. They have
100000 people, but the country is
still hardly scratched"
Jas. j. Hill speaking before the
Canadian Club of Winnipeg a few days
ago said:
81 go back for SO years, when
came West from Canada. At that time
Canada had no Northwest. A young
boy or man who desired to carve his
own way had to cross the line, and
to-day it may surprise you-one out
of every five children born in Canada
lives in the United States. Now you
are playing the return match, and the
Northwest is getting people from the
United States very rapidly. We
brought 100 land-seekers, mainly from
Iowa and Southern Minnesota, last
night out of st. Paul, going to the
Northwest. Now, these people have
, all the way from five, ten to twenty
thousand dollars each, and they will
make as much progress on the land in
one year as any one man coming from
the Continent of Europe can make, do
ing the best he can, in ten, fifteen, or
twenty years"
1t is evident from the welcome
given American settlers in Canada
that the Canadian people appreciate
them. Writing from Southern Alberta
recently an American farmer says:-
ri,
ideas about being good farmers, and
they are giving us some new ideas
about being good citizens. They have
law against taking liquor into the
Indian Reservation. One of our fell
lows was caught on a reservation with
a bottle on him, and it cost him $50.
One of the Canadian Mounted Police
found him, and let me tell you, they
find everyone who tries to go up
against the laws of the country.
"On Saturday night, every bar-room
is closed, at exactly o'clock. Why?
Because it is the law, and it's the
same with every other law. There
isn't bad man in the whole district,
and woman can come home from
town to the farm at midnight If she
wants to, alone. That's Canada's idea
how to run a frontier; they have GER
tainly taught us a lot
ION the other hand, we are running
their farms for them better than any
other class of farmers. l guess
can say this without Boosting, and the
Canadians appreciate us. We turn
out to celebrate Dominion Day; they
are glad to have us help to farm the
country; they know how to govern;
we know how to work"
Another farmer, from Minnesota
who settled in Central Saskatchewan
some years ago, has the following to
say about the country
my wife and have done well enough
since we came from the States; we can
live anyway. We came in the spring Of
1901 with the first carload of settlers
effects unloaded in these parts and
built the first shanty between Sas
katoon and Lumsden. We brought
with our car Of settlers effects the
sum of $500 in cash. to-day we are
worth $4,000. We proved up one
of the finest farms in Western Canads
and bought 800 acres at SO per acre
We took good crops on the land fol
four years, at the end Of which we
had $4,000 worth of Improvements II
the way of buildings, ETC., and haC
planted three acres of trees. Tive
years ago we got such good ofrel
that we sold ouE land at s45 per acre
From the above you will see that VIZ
have not done badly since our ar
rival"
Prof. Thomas Shaw Of st. Paul, Min
nesota, with a number Of other wei
known editors of American farm Jour
mails, toured Western Canada recently
and in an interview at Winnipeg SAIL
in part:--
With regard to the settlement o
the West / should say that it is onl,
we'll begun. have estimated that ii
Manitoba one-tenth Of the land ha
been broken, in Saskatchewan one