The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-15
COUNTRY WHOSE SOIL SPELLS
WHEAT AND OUT OF WHOSE
FARMS THOUSANDS ARE
GROWING RICH.
WHAT PRESIDENT TAFT AND
OTHERS THINK OF CANADA.
Another Fat Year for the Canadian
West.

are again I6gOiCluS Otci Oh ocuAuoAs
harvest, and reports from reliable
sources go to show that the total yield
of 1909 will be far above that OF any
other year.
II is estimated that $100.000,000 |
will this year go into the pockets OF
the Western farmers from wheat
alone, another $60.000.000 from oats
and barley, while returns from other
crops and from stock will add $40,-
100000 more. Is 1t any wonder then
that the farmers of the Canadian
West are happy?
Thousands of American farmers
have settled In the above mentioned
provinces during the past year; men
who know the West and its 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 countrT 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 young nation that Is
looking forward, as it well may. to a
great national future. They have
100000 people, but the country Is
still hardly scratched"
Jas. ]. Hill speaking before the
Canadian Club of Winnipeg 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 mar who desired to carve his
own way had to cross the line, and
to-day 1t may surprise you-one out
of every 1--WE 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 land-seekers. mainly from
Iowa and Southern Minnesota, last
night GU. of st. Paul, going to the
Northwest. Now, these people have
all the way from I'VE, ten to twenty
thousand dollars each, and they will
make as much progress on the land In
one year as any one man coming from
the Continent of Europe can make. do
ing the best he can, in ten. fifteen, OF
twenty years"
It Is evident from the welcome
given American settlers in Canads
that the Canadian people appreciate
them. Writing from Southern Alberta
recently an American farmer says
I'VE 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 thu
Indian Reservation. One of our fel
lows was caught on reservation will
q bottle on him, and It cost him $50
One of the Canadian Mounted Police
found him, and let me tell you. the!
find everyone who tries to go VI
against the laws Of the country.
ION Saturday night, every BARRON
is closed, at exactly o'clock. Why
Because It is the law, and It's tn
same with every other law. Their
isn't bad man in the whole district
and woman can come home iron
town to the farm at midnight II sh
wants to. alone. That's Canada's ide
how to run a frontier: they have Gel
tainly taught US lot.
"On the other hand, we are runnin
their farms for them better than an
other class Of farmers. l guess
can say this without boasting, and tn
CANADIANS appreciate us. We tur
out to celebrate Dominion Day; the
are glad to have us help to farm th
country; they know how to govern
we know how to work"
Another farmer, from Minnesot
who settled in Central Saskatchewa
some years ago, has the following
say about the country
my wife and have done well enoue
since we came from the States; we ca
live anyway. We came in the spring
1901 with the first carload of settler
effects unloaded in these parts ar
built the first shanty between Sa
katoon and Lumsden. We brougl
with our car of settlers effects Il
sum of $500 in cash. to-day we a
worth $4,000. We proved up OF
of the finest farms in Western Canat
and bought 800 acres at SO per acr
We took good crops off the land f
four years. at the end of which '
had $4,000 worth of improvements
the way of buildings, etc.. and h;
planted three acres of trees. Ty
years ago we got such good of
that we sold our land at $45 per acI
From the above you will see that '
have not done badly since our q
rival"
Prof. Thomas Shaw of st. Paul, MI
nesota, with a number of other W.
known editors of American farm jol
mails, toured Western Canada recent
"a NJ