The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-30

and few potatoes The homesteador
must buy coal with which TO fight tenn
degrees below. He must In some way
obtain food. lie must dig or drive a
well The water problem in most sec
tions is terrible one Wells fire.
quently cost $1,000 or $500. and even
then the water is liable tn be tainted
with the horrid alkali,
The government recognizes some OF
these things. but does not sufficiently
emphasize them. 1t advises q man with
$500 or less 10 work for wages until hc
Is able to buy quarter section by nials-
Ing small cash payment. II advises a
man with $500 TO homestead at once.
fulhll the residence requirements, and
else. 1t advises man with $1,000 TO
homestead OF buy at once and start
right III.
This advice win do for singc men, but
children. IT Is my deliberate judg-
ment that such n man who goes to the
northwest with less than $4,000 or so5Oe
courts for himself and those dear to
him hardships and piivations that will
outweigh the finest quarter section IN all
the prairie provinces.
No Country for the Poor Man.
In word. this is no country for the
really poor man. Such man, unless he
ls single and willing to endure three
years of tho hardest kind Of work, will
find II as difficult. or moro difficult, to
get ahead than. in the states. II IL no
country for anybody except experienced
farmers with money. real estate spccuIa-
tors, and servant girls. The servant girl
VIII find employment at good wages, and.
If she has an eye to the main chance,
will quickly marry hopesteader.
The man who has failed in the statea
need not expect to go to Canada and
succeed. In few Instances he may do
so but II will be rarely 1t Is a country
only for strong. courageous mon. who
who gets on in Canada is the man who
would have done we'll had he remained
In the states. Most emphatically OF all,
It is no country for frail women. Dones-
doubly 30 In new country. And as for
help. often II cannot be secured for love
or money.
MY Canadian friends tell mo that thts
Is tine finest place in the world TO live
In. but I remain unconv1nced- have
seen the psychological workings OF the
BOOM spirit before. have seen a
turaI districts on the 2ard Of August
and In the early days of September I
have travelled for days through mixed
some some have the efrronfery to say vf1i do
for agricultural purposes. A country In
which the summer winds are fun OF dust,
where half the water is alkali. whore the
/ tic. where the prairie Landscape 10 mo-
notonous beyond all imagining. 10 one
that must stand aside for the Mississippi
valley and other favored regions.
| Still. the Dominion will be the hoIna
of millions. Greenland Is bleak and
dreary, but il IL inhabited. Even tho
Sahara is peopled. AS the population OF
the world Increases, men cannot always
select the most favored lands for their
abodes. Where the means Of sustaining
life can be secured, there men VIII be-
| found.
| And. where conditions OF life are hard.
there hardy race will develop. 1t Ia
SO In the Canadian northwest. The peo-
pie who have yentured thither have usu-
ally been strong. vigorous. ambitious.
They and their children are performing
great work, In the main admirably.
| will be heard from IN the worlds af-
fairs. Let US not quarrel with them IL
sometimes they appear over confident,
! over sanguine. 1t is a trait that we share
with them.