Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1911-07-21
$4,000 NEEDED TO
HARVEST WESTERN
CANADA'S CROP
viii Take 10000 Alto
gether to Take Care
of Yield of Prairie
Provinces.

One hundred and sixty-two thousand
farm hands will be required this year
to harvest the grain crops OF Mani
toba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. OF
this number the local help will pro-
vide about $4,000, which viii leave
about $4,000 extra farm hands. There
Is. therefore, great demand for this
class of laborers in all parts of West
ern Canada. In order TO meet the re-
quirements 1t has been arranged to
grant very low railway rates from all
boundary points reached by Canadian
railways. In order to secure these
rates 1t will be necessary for you TO
call on one of the following authorized
agents of the Canadian government:
M. v. McInnes, rs Jefferson Avenue,
Detroit. Michigan; G. A. Laurier. Mar
quette, Michigan; J. S. Crawford,
Syracuse, n. Y; Thos. Hetherington,
Room 202, 73 fremont Street. Boston,
Mass; H. NJ Williams, Alb Gardner
Bldg, Toledo. Ohio; Geo. Arid. ZIG
Traction-Terminal Bldg, Indianapolis,
Indiana; C. J. Broughton, Room 412
Merchants Loan & Trust Bldg, Chi
cago, ILL.,; Geo. A. Hall, End Floor, 10
Second Street, Milwaukee, Wis; +.
T. Holmes, 315 Jackson Street st.
Paul. Mimi: Chas Pilling, Clifford
Block, Grand Forks, n D.: J. NJ. Mac
Laehlan, Box 1877. Waterfowl. S. D.;
w " Bennett. Room 4. Bee Bldg.
Omaha, Neb.; w. II. Rogers. 125 West
9th Street, Kansas City, Mo-; Benz.
Davies, Room 6. Dunn Block, Great
Falls, Montana; j b. Carbonneau, Jr.,
PIT Main Street, Biddeford. Me-; ]. n.
Grieye, Auditorium Building. Spokane,
Wash.
This Will give TO intending harvest
laborers a splendid opportunity to look
over the magnificent wheat fields of
Western Canada and will give them
the best evidence that can be secured
of the splendid character of that coun-
try from the farmers standpoint.
There will be at least 200,000.000
bushels Of wheat harvested within the
area of the three provinces above
named this year and 1t is expected
that the yield will run from Is to %
bushels per acre. Many farmers, this
year. will net. as a result of their
labors, as much as SIS to $40 per acre
and many of them will deposit as
profits as much as $4,000 to $4,000
The wide publicity that has been
given TO the excellent crop that is be-
ing raised in central Alberta and
southern Alberta, central Saskatche-
wan and southern Saskatchewan, and
also in Manitoba, viii increase the
price OF lands in these three provinces
from 50 to So per acre and the man
who was fortunate enough to secure
lands at from s12 to $40 Per acre will
a for qualification that he
Ticient forethought to in
vest. wnne the man who was fortu-
nate enough to secure homestead OF
100 acres free will also have greater
reason to feel pleased.
Notwithstanding the great addition
to the acreage this year over las, and
the large crop that VIII be ready for
harvest there is no reason to become
alarmed that the harvest will not be
reaped successfully. There will be
great demand for these low rates dur
ing the next couple of months; be
sure to make your application to any
of the agents above mentioned that
may be in your territory at as early
date as possible. Harvesting win
commence about the 25th of July and
continue for five or six weeks, when
threshing will begin and there will be
plenty of work until November.