Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-22
Omaha HOmesteaders
Prosper in Canada
Four Young Men from This City Woo
ing Soil in Westsrn Alberta
Minister Visits Northland.

Four Young men OF Omaha are living on
homestends In southern Alberta. Rev T.
T. Rouse pastor OF the First Congrega-
tional church recently returned from
visit 20 western Canada, where he spent
some time with his son, one OF the home
steaders. and met Chester and Hart jerks
ami Ralph Werlich. The Omaha settlers
are 100 miles east Of Calgary and forty
miles from the railroad
Any boy OF Is years can file Tor 80 acres
and by the time be is q he will have a
farm worth from ZOO to 5000. He need
only spend three Summers on the place and
can 90 TO school winters at home. The
Canadian homestead laws require a rest
dence OF six months each year for three
years
7 found one American boy who had
been helper in a machine shop at $50 a
day who took up a claim five years ago
and now he has Gao acres in Alberta has a
fruit farm in British Columbia and In
worth $4,000 today said Mr.. Rouse.
Calgary has grown IN ten years from
1000 to $1,000 Prices have gone up there
70 heights that make Omaha lots look
cheap. The streets are beautifully paved
and many tine buildings have been erected.
"Alf southern Alberta suffered with the
widespread drouth last summer. n. o.
AEA1ukNa wei AM0FFn III NAAAaAlds - aeElH-
tary OF the Calgary Grain exchange. He is
a most enthusiastic Amertcan-Canadian. He
said that though the wheat crop was cut
down tow-thirds this year, no one was dis
couraged. Land prices around Leithbridge
Macleod and Calgary hold at from SO to
$50 an acre Some lands farther away can
be picked up at from s15 to SIS per acre.
Il found a few good pieces near Medicine
Hat that can be bought now at from 81. %
TO s15 These are near the railroad and the
river close 90 coal and IN the wonderful
natural gas region.
"Of all the places. Medicine Hat inn
pressed me most Tor it's immediate pros
poets. They are ON the great saskatohe-
wan river. They have abundant coal. and.
best OF ALL an apparently unlimited supply
Of wonderful natural gas Think OF living
where gas Is 50 cheap IL does not paw 20
turn IL out. The city streets are brilliantly
lighted and the gas burns all day because
h would cost more to hire man to turn
Il out than the gas costs The city has
several great wells. 1000 or more feet deep,
and producing the Finest gas at a GOo-pound
pressure. People heat. light and cook at
lJla cents per 1000 feet one family was
taxing care OF their whole fuel and uEht
btl az s. per month In the winter. and
less than 80 cents in the summer
Il went through an immense new brick
ana pottery plant put up ny some Ameri-
can boys. who were baking great quanti-
ties OF brick and tile and running their
great engine without an ounce OF wood or
coal az an expense less than IL would cost
20 hire men 70 shovel absolutely free coal
INTO the furnaces The city dug and gavo
them a well. 80 their fuel bill for all time
is paid This, with the best clay close by
Tor the digEng, ought to prove bonanza
in a trseiass country Rolling mills are
now going in on the same basis. The Can
adian Pacific has several wells along its
lines. Iights lbs stations. Ellis its car tanks
and lights It's cars with free gas"