The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1911-07-28
$4,000 NEEDED TO
HARVEST WESTERN
CANADA'S CROP
Will 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. on
this number the local help will uro.
vide about 10000. which will leave
about $4,000 extra farm hands. There
Is, therefore, a great demand for thls
class OF laborers in all parts OF West
ern Canada. In order to meet the re-
quirements It has been arranged 10
grant very low railway rates from an
boundary points reached by Canadian
railways. In order TO secure these
rates II will be necessary for you 10
call on one OF the following authorized
agents of the Canadian government:
NJ V. McInnes. 176 Jefferson Avenle
Detroit, Michigan; c. A. Laurier Mar
quette, Michigan; j. S. Crawford.
Syracuse. y. Y; Thos. HetheringtOn
Room 202, 70 fremont Street, Boston,
Mass: H. NJ. Williams. 413 Gardner
Bldg. Toledo, Ohio; Geo Arid. ZIG
Traction-Terminal Bldg. indianapolis
Indiana; c. ]. Broughton. Room Az
Merchants Loan & Trust Bldg. CHI
cago, H.; Geo. A. Hail. End Floor. rs
Second Street, Milwaukee, Wis e
T. Holmes. 315 Jackson Street. 81
Paul, Mimi; Chas. Pilling, Clifford
Block. Grand Forks. n. d.; J. NJ Mac
Lachlan. Box 1877. WATERFOWL. s ~;
W. " Bennett. Room T. 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. DR.
PIT Main Street. Biddeford, Me; J. u
Grieve. Auditorium Building, Spokane
Wash.
This will give TO intending harvest
laborers a splendid opportunity to loos
over the magnificent wheat fields az
Western Canada and will give them
the best evidence that can be secured
OF the splendid character Of that cogn-
try from the farmers standpoint.
There will DO at least 2000000.0
bushels OF wheat harvested within tho
area O. the three provinces above
named this year and it is expected
bushels per acre. Many farmers. this
year, will net as a result OF their
labors, as much as IS TO $40 per acre
and many of them will deposit as
profits as much as $4,000 TO 10000
The wide publicity that has been
given to the excellent crop that IS De-
ing raised in central Alberta and
southern Alberta, central Saskatche-
wan and southern Saskatchewan, and
also in Manitoba, will increase the
price OF lands In these three provinces
from So to s. per acre and the man
who was fortunate enough TO secure
lands at from $12 TO $40 per acre VIII
have reason for qualification that Pc
exercised sufficient forethought 20 in-
vest, while the man who was FORTH.
nate enough to secure homestead q
100 acres free Will also have a greater
reason to feel pleased.
Notwithstanding the great addition
to the acreage this year over last and
the large crop that will be ready for
harvest there is no reason 70 become
alarmed that the harvest Will not he
reaped successfully. There will be
great demand for these low rates dur
ing the next couple Of months. be
sure to make your application 70 any
Of the agents above mentioned that
may be in your territory at as early
a date as possible. Harvesting wi.
commence about The 25th Of July and
continue for five or six weeks, when
threshing will begin and there VIII be
plenty OF work until November