The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-01-14
Another Fat Year for the Canadian
West.


Thousands Of American farmers
have settled in the above mentioned
provinces during the past year; men
who know the West and it's 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 a young nation that is
looking forward, as it we'll may. to a
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:
Il go back for SO years, when I
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
today 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 landseekers, 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
Ole year as any one man coming from
the Continent of Europe can make, do
ing the best eacan, in ten, fifteen, or
twenty years. t
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
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 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 1t is the law, and it's the
same with every other law. Theirs
isn't bad man in the whole district,
and a woman can come home from
town to the farm at midnightaif She
wants to, alone. That's Canada's idea
how tofrun a. frontier they have Ger.
gtainly taught JUS q lot.
Son the other hand, we are running
their farms for them better than any
other class of farmers. I guess I
can say this without boasting. 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 ssunloaded In these parts and
built the first I 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 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 in
the way Of buildings, etc.. and had
planted three acres of, trees. Two
years ago we got such a good offei
that we sold our land at. $45 per acre
c1oA l1iS dOOtS you WALL see lQaL we
have not done. badly since our ar:
rival" M
Prof. Thomas Shaw of st. Paul. Min
nesota, with q number of other well
known editors Of American farm jour.
mails, toured Western Canada recently,
and in an interview at Winnipeg said
in part: 4. 3.
with regard to the settlement Of
the West, 4 should say that 1t Is only
well begun. have estimated that In
Manitoba one-tenths sof the land has
been broken. I'M Saskatche one.
sthirtieth and In, Alberta, one-hundred
and seventy-ffth am satisfied that
IN all three provinces grain, can be
grown successfully up to the sixtieth
parallel and In the; yearssto come yodr
vacant land will be taken at q rate
scf swhicAs 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 IA Western Can,
ada Is to raise more live stock, When
you are doing what you ought to do
inst this regard the. land which Is nov
selling for 500 per acre. vim be worth
from $50 TO 800 pre- acre. It Is as
good land as that which Is selling for
m g 2 than Y. ioosRer scrs IL thes corn