Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-12-23

metnouS LOT pFOuLaDle farming.
President Taft said recently in
speaking of Canada:
we have been going ahead so rap
idly in our own country that our heads
have been somewhat swelled with the
idea that W. 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 a young nation that is
looking forward, as it we'll may, to a
great national future. They have
1000, 900 people, but the country is
still hardly scratched"
Jas. ]. Hill speaking before the
Canadian Club of Winnipeg a few days
ago said:
Il go back for SO years, when I
came West from Canada. At that time
Canada had no Northwest. Ayoung
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 l~and-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
n 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:-
1--WE are giving them some new
ideas about being good farmers, and
they are giving us some new ideas
about being good citizens. They have
a 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.
ION Saturday night, every bar-room
is closed, at exactly Z o'clock. Why?
Because it is the law, and it's the
same with every other law. There
isn't a bad man in the whole district,
and a woman car 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. / 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 tc
say about the country
"My wife and I have done well enough
since we came from the States; we car
live anyway. We came in the spring Of
1901 with the first carload OF settlers
effects unloaded In these parts anG
built the first shanty between Sas
katoon and Lumsden. We brought
with our car of settlers effects the
sum Of $1,000 in cash, to-day we are
worth $4,000. We proved up one
of the finest farms in Western Canada
and bought 800 acres at SO per acre
We took good crops off the land fol
four years, at the end Of which We
had $4,000 worth Of Improvements II
the way of buildings, etc., and hat
planted three acres of trees. Tive
years ago we got such a good offel
that we sold our land at $45 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
n~esota, with a number Of other vel
known editors of American farm jour
mails, toured Western Canada recently
and in an interview at Winnipeg sale
in part
With regard to the settlement o
the West | should say that it is onl,
well begun. I have estimated that IL
Manitoba one-tenth' of the land hal
been broken, in Saskatchewan one
thirtieth and in Alberta, one-hundret
and seventy-ifth. | am satisfied tina
In all three provinces grain can b
grown successfully UP to the sixtietl
parallel and in the years to come you
vacant land will be taken at a rat'
Of which you have at present no con
ception. We have enough people II
the United States alone, who wan
homes, to take up this land.
What you must do in Western Can
ada is to raise more live stock. Whel
you are doing what You ought to d,
In this regard, the land which is nov
selling for $40 per acre will be wortl
from $50 to 500 pre- acre. II is d,
good land as that which Is selling 70
more than 500 per acre IN the corr
belt