New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-14
FL0CK|NG TO WESTWARD
They Come from East and South
to Fertile Saskatchewan.

| Saskatoon, Sask., May 13--For the first
time in the history of Western settlement
/ the "habitant'' is going West Last week
| a priest from Wanda, Sask-, returned
from the East with eleven carloads OF
French Canadians, most OF them return
ing, Canadians from the weaving towns OF
Maine. The priest who piloted the pill
grims over the Canadian Northern to the
| Promised Land says thousands VIII fol
low these as soon as the news of their first
harvest goes back to New England.
| This one train, which ran special all the
way from Montreal by way OF Chicago to
Saskatoon. brought $50 men, women and
| children. The habitGnt is naturally a
| farmer. He entered the mills Of New Eng
| land mainly because the hills OF Quebec
were all occupied. He will make good In
the West, where the open fields await him.
| And though it may embarrass the mill
managers Of New England, the transplant
| ing of these habitant men adds just so
much to the worlds output of wheat and
| postpones Just so far the predicted time
when we shall go supperless to bed Only
s per cent of the wheat lands Of the West
have yet been broken in Canada.
And while these Fasteners are plough
ing into Northern Saskatchewan an aver
coming In from the South. breaking up at
Saskatoon and scattering to the open lands
north, east and west. The price of wheat
lands in this immediate vicinity has gone
up at the rate of 81 an acre a month for
the last six months.
There is a vast difference in the class of
settlers coming in this year and those VINO
came five or six years ago. Those were
good settlers, TO be sure. but majority Of
them came in search of free land. of home
steads To-day so per cent of the Ameri-
cans coming into the Canadian West come
| to buy land.
One special train for Scott. Sask.. car
| ried $50 landseekers. OF these III bought
land. Last week two special trains arrived
| here with go settlers. who had with them
personal property to the amount of an
| average of $4,000 each This is coming TO
| be called the ''Mil1ionaire's Province" No
new country was ever peOpled with so pros
| porous a class of settlers. During The
month of March Americans came through
the gateway of Portal, Sask-, at the
rate of go a day. On a single Sunday
there came, in addition TO the regular
trains four settlers specials of sixty cars
each This party brought eleven hundred
head of horses
During the month of March. according to
| official reports, immigration into the COM
paratfvely old province OF Manitoba Was
| 12S per cent heavier than last year. In
March, 1909, only AS school children came
into the province from the south, while
the number entering for the same period
this year totals on
No comparative statement is available for
Saskatchewan, but the volume OF immigra-
ton into this new province is certainly 30
per cent greater than last year Entire
districts are settling up solidly with Auerf-
cans. Ninety per cent of these settlers, for
| the first few years, at least, will buy their
machinery in the states. They will even
| pay the duty in order TO secure a machine
| they understand.
| Within the last twelve months 100000
Americans have come into Canada bring
| ing with them much property. Only few
years ago the statement was published
| broadcast that the average daily earnings
| of the American farmer were II Genus
| The average annual income of the Sas-
| katchewan farmer is given officially as
| 81, $50 20. saskatchewan produces forty
seven bushels of oats to the acre although
farming in this province IS most wastefuIIy
/