Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-09
LESS CAPITAL REQUIRED.

To overcome this difficulty the farmer
| from the middle west is selling out to
the farmer coming from the east and
with one-tenth the capital required in
the states starts each of his sons In
business in western Canada. SO far
| most of the immigration to Canada has
been from the middle west. The 500
heads of families who went to Canada
from this country in September of this
year were divided as follows: North
Dakota, $50; Minnesota, 81; Iowa, 40:
Washington, Al; Michigan. 3S; Wilson,
sin, SO; Illir3ois, 1884: South Dakota. a.
Some of these settlers are native Amer
leans, but most of them are of foreign
BIRTH many In fact being Canadians
returning across the border. A large
percentage are Scnndinavans and a
large German strain Is found in each
community.
The selectivc restrictions of Canada
which several years ago ceased TO
welcome all the settlers who wished to
enter Its borders were explained by Mr..
Oliver in the fact that the undesirable
settlers created conditions which did
not appeal to the more desirable citi-
zens, and the government determined
to maintain n standard of citizenship
regardless of immediate gains to popu-
lation.
In n majority of the cases the settlers
are those who have some time in the
past experienced pioneer difficulties:
they have moved at least once before
from fixed conditions to new ones and
therefore find 1t easier to pack up their
Lares and Penates and lay new affairs
by new firesides. In the words of
Canadian immigration officer, "a man
who has moved once finds 1t easier To
move again"
THE WESTERN FARMER.
That is one reason why We get
most of our settlers from the west.
cin part Of the United States con-
tinued this same official. "Tn the west
the farmers have experienced the
pioneer stage and the attachment to
the soil is not us strong as it Is in
the older eastern states, where some
families till the same land their fore
fathers titled generations ago. Then
also the western farmers are of n
larger percentage of European blood.
Thus the national feeling Is not so
strong as in the east. The eastern
farmer will migrate to the western
part OF the United States, but he will
not be so ready to cross the border
to British territory us the man who
alrcndy has changed his citizenship
once or the man whose broader view
of conditions leads him to the belief
that in Canada his opportunities are
unrcstrained as in the states"
III the provinces Of Alberta, Sask-
atchewan and Manitoba the geology,
topography, and geography. and the
opening of n new empire by the Grand
Trunk Pacific along It's extension
from Winnipeg to Edmonton and
westward have contributed to make
that part of the continent the center
of population influx, according to Mr..
Oliver.
THE formation Is the same as in the
valleyof the Red River of the North"
Mr. Oliver has said "Thc same black
bed of soil found In the Red River
valley, which produces tho best wheat
in the states, spreads out like
blanket to the northwest As 1t an
pronches the west 1t meets the warm
winds from the Pacific, tempered by
the Japan current. and as it ap-
proaches the north It being on Il north
watershed. 1t gains constantly low a
cring altitude. The growing season
Is intensely warm. the soil has the
maximum of persistcncy IN growing
whent, and VIC believe that, acre for
acre, the prairie provinces can pro-
duce greater crops of greater value
than amy other section of North Amer
lea. There Is one farm In the Canna-
Jan section Of the Red River valley
that has prodnced rood crops of wheat
since 1915 without fertllz'~4.''