Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-01-14
country; they know how to gon
we know how to work" e''era;

country, tney know how tn oo,u
we know how to work" '''a'
Another farmer, from M,no
who settled in Central saskatnh~s
some years ago, has the follow;n v"aa
say about the country: "
MY wife and l have dona ,,
enough since we came from tho o+ot "s'
we can live, anyway. We came w. ~
spring of 1901, with the first csr,o 'us
of settlers effects unIoaded in th
parts, and built the first sbsnt, 'I''
tween Saskatoon and Lumsdnn W
brought with our car OF settlers, We
fects the sum Of $500 in cash W
day we are worth $4,000. We .nro,.,,
up one of the finest farms in Wostas'
Canada, and bought 800 acres ~ ~
per acre. We took good crops a. ~
land for four years, at the end -.
which we had $4,000 worth Of w
provements in the way of BUILDING,
ETC., and had planted three aero, y,
trees. Two years ago we got such
good offer that we sold our land At ca
per acre. From the above Won will
see that we have not done badly sinoa
our arrival"
Prof. Thomas Shaw, of St. PAM
Minnesota, with a number of o+bon
well known editors of American farm,
journals, toured Western Canada 70,
Gently, and in an interview at Winni,
peg said, in part:
With regard to the settlement ~
the West l should say that it is onv
we'll begun. have estimated that
in Manitoba one-tenth Of the land
had been broken, in Saskatchewan
one-thirtieth, and in Alberta, one-hun.
dred and seventy-ffth. | am satisfied
that in all three provinces grain can
be grown successfully up to tie six.
tieth parallel, and in the years to
come your vacant lands will be taken
at a rate of which you have at present
no conception. We have enough people
in the United States alone, who want
homes, to take up this land
What you must do in Western Can,
ada is to raise more live stock When
you are doing what you ought to do
in this regard the land which is now
selling for $40 an acre will be worth
from $50 to 500 per acre. 1t is as
good land as that which is selling for
more than $500 per acre in the corn
belt
I would sooner raise cattle in West.
ern Canada than in the corn belt Of
the United States. You can get your
food cheaper and the climate is bet
ter for the purpose. We have bet.
ter market, but your market will i'm.
prove faster than your farmers will
produce the supplies. Winter wheat
can be grown in one-half of the coun'
trv through which l have passed, and
alfalfa and one of the varieties Of
clover in three-fourths of it. The
farmers do not believe this, but it Is
true"
Keeping pace with wheat production,
the growth of railways has been quite
as wonderful, and the whole country,
from Winnipeg to the Rocky Noun,
tains, will soon be a network Of
trunk and branch lines. Three great
transcontinental lines are pushing con-
struction in every direction, and at
each siding the grain elevator is to be
found. Manitoba being the first SET
tied province, has now an elevator Ca
pacity of upwards of 25,OOOOOO bush
els: Saskatchewan, 100000, and Al
berta about 100000, while the ca
pacity of elevators at Fort William
and Port Arthur on the Great Lakes
is upwards of 100000 more.
Within the provinces Of MANITOBA
| Saskatchewan and Alberta there arc
| flour and oatmeal mills with COLI
bined capacity of $4,000 barrels pr
day. and situated along some famous
water powers in New Ontario, EhSIe
| are larger HILLS Ihe'h "t4A
anywhere in the prairie provinces,
Last year the wheat crop to'SllSu
over 10O,0O0,0O0 bushels. ThlS yea
the crop will yield 3O,OOOOOO lloI"
A recent summary shows that on 'DS
LIST of January, 1909, the surveyor
lands of the three western province
totalled 134,000,O00 acres, OF VIII.
about 100000 have been given a. az
subsidies to railways, 11,000'OVV u .ao
posed of in other ways, and 30V0OO..
given by the Canadian government 49,,
free homesteads, being Z50'O0V n0 ani.
steads of 100 acres each. VI ' ~.
enormous territory, there IS ploO@ w.,
under crop at the present 'In' W.
than 100000 acres; what sn' ~.
suits will be when wide a~aA' Az s
tiers have taken advantage OF 0"1 1.tia
offer and are cultivating tne is a,ns
prairie lands one can scarcely lln05lD