New-York tribune., 1910-09-19
RUSH FOR HOMESTEADS
Rich Lands in Alberta To Be
Opened by End of Year.
rRv Telegraph to The Tribune. ]

r1-,-,ipeg. Man. Sept. 1s.-What VIII he
- -be greatest land rushes in the an
sfs Of colonization is scheduled to start
@-,-, Edison. Alb. when the new ffteen-foot
D.ron road 10 Sturgeon Lake. the gateway
,e the Peace River country. will be opened
- traffic. Already forty families, compris-
.,s over one hundred men. women and chill
a-ar the vanguard Of the crowd which
,,-,l1 rrohablv reach several thousand souls
before the trek begins. are camped on the
outskirts Of Edison awaiting the word TO
start
Z heterogeneous mass Of household and
farming utensils. as var-ed in their make
.r5 mark as the nationality Of their own
s-s s--evys the roadside. The presence of
nan, nakotans Minnesotans and repre-
sanrstives from other states refUtes the re-
cert reports that Americans are returning
70 their former homes south OF the interna-
tional boundary.
Whole households are being moved. and
--o-nen and children form no small part Of
-be colonists Eight infants in arms are
among the NUMBER Horses. oxen and dogs
s-e being taken along and the majority Of
the settlers viii he ready TO start work on
their lands within 2 fortnight from the
tine they make entry for the homesteads.
Twenty four hundred square miles in the
fyrsnde Prai11e country. twelve hundred
SQUARE miles in Beaver Lodge and sixteen
hundred square miles in the Pouce Coupe
prairie. all open TO homesteade7s, await
only the touch Of the husbandman to turn
them into fertile farms.
From EGson 10 Sturgeon Lake IS lS5
miles. and it IS estimated that this dis
ts1ce viii be covered by the average fam
fly. with effects. in ten Gays. BY the present
-orte from Edmonton 10 Athabasca Land
ing. thence 10 Lesser Slave Lake, across
he lake 10 Peace River Crossing. thence
70 Dunvegan and from there TO Sturgeon
Lake. the distance is over FIVE hundred
miles and the trip can he made only dur
ing the winter months, when the rivers
and lakes are frozen solid
u Kimpe. an engineer from Edmonton
IS n charge Of the new wagon road, and ne
is authority for the statement that It will
he COMPLETED before the end Of the year
Ia predicts land rush 10 that part Of
canada the like Of which has never before
been seen on this continent He says that
The spring opens fully two weeks earlier
than II does in Southern and Central Al
ber-s. and tells Of seeing miles Of wild
NUNS. acres Of berries and the finest wheat
ire world has ever produced.
Tire settlers camped around Edison are
n7- no means idle. for every team, and prac-
-irz17y every man. is hired out 20 the Grand
Trunk Pacific construction department, and
-hev viii start for the norTf in the spring
will more money than they arrived with.
Tn the Peace River country there are
over ten thousand honestesds awaiting an
7licants. This land is some 81 the most
fertile in the whole Dominion, and the
sous-rers there are now rea ping wheat
feds which show sixty bushels Of No.
hard 70 the acre. with oats. barley. fax
and garden truck producing equally pro-
life crops
Al present the country is without rail
-osd facilities hut the Grand Trunk Pa
cI7c. Canadian Northern. Canadian Pa
ci6c. Cardston. Pincher Creek & Montana
-afr7-svs have surveys for lines TO run
through the Peace River country. Work
on several Of these lines vii be started
early in the spring, and the last mentioned
line. the -Cardston. Pincher Creek & Mon
tana Railroad. w-ill supply direct commnni-
cation between the country and the Amer
lean boundsry