Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-03-09
Spacious Efforts 10 Co|onjze
/ Them In the Climate
] Of Labrador.
BY JAMES A. EDGERToN.

our farmers into Canada. Pre-
eumably this stuff is paid for. 1t
rs hard to understand why anybody
would publish it for any other rea-
son. That gives to the whole trans
action certain fine old Benedict Ar
mold flavor. Arnold was paid also.
He only tried to sell fort to the
british, however. The purpose here
seems to be to sell American citizens
TO the British. The probability is that
This kind Of treason will fail as sig
nally as did the other. 1t was expo
sure that finished Arnold's little
scheme. Perhaps the same method
will help in the present case.
1t is easy to understand why the
Canadian government should try to in
duce people to settle on it's lands. Ev-
cry one it can so procure is an asset.
He becomes producer and a taxpay
,er. 1t is little harder to see why any
American newspaper or syndicate of
papers should be unpatriotic enough to
print the matter prepared by the Ca
madam government to further this
purpose, even though paid straight ad-
,vertising rates for the space, since
each American farmer induced to go
to Canada because Of these advertise
ments means the loss of a subscriber
and a corresponding loss to the mer-
chants with whom the paper does
business and to the community in
which it is published. The hardest
thing of all to comprehend, however,
is why any American farmer should
be misled by this advertising and
press agent material into going into a
frozen and sparsely settled wilderness
and into renouncing the stars and
stripes for the British flag.
American Acres Still Available.
There are still millions of acres of
land open to entry in the United
States. Outside of the reservations
there is the enormous expanse of ILL.,
986, 400 acres. If Alaska be excluded,
and that is fully as desirable as some
of this Canadian land, there are still
S43,971,674 acres in the United States
proper that are open for entry. Allow
ing 100 acres to farm, this gives
room for 2,149,S23 families. If forty
acres be allowed to each farm there
would be space for four times as
many, or nearly 100000 families,
approximately 100000 people. This
Is outside of the forest and other reser-
vations, much of the land on which is
open for settlement on easy terms.
Uncle Sam still has plenty of soil for
his people, plenty to hold comfortably
twice as many as now inhabit his do
main.
This land still open for entry is scat
tered all the way from Florida to
California and from Minnesota to the
gulf. The constant spread of irriga-
ton is bringing thousands of acres into
profitable small farms where as much
can be made from an acre as from five
acres in many other sections Before
these life giving streams the so called
American desert is disappearing. Out
side of the reclamation belt there are
veritable empires of desirable lands
awaiting entry. Minnesota alone has
more than 100000 acres, Nebraska
has nearly 100000 acres, Oregon con-
tains 17,5SO.573 acres. Washington has
S,l96,O59, South Dakota 1862, SO4 acres,
North Dakota 1,41O.225, Arkansas and
Florida each has about 100000 acres,
Alabama. Kansas, Louisiana, Michi-
gan. Mississippi. Oklahoma and Mis-
souri, each has smaller amounts while
Arizona, California, Colorado. Idaho,
Montana. Nevada, New Mexico, Utah
and Wyoming each has immense tracts
ranging from 100000 to nearly co.
100000 acres
Fertile Land For Settlers.
Nor is all of this land arid even
without irrigation. Very much Of it
rs fertile, but heretofore it has been
distant from railroads and therefore
has not been taken Much of it can
be titled by dry farming. The surface
Of some of these immense states has
scarcely been scratched. In addition
there is the empire Of Texas. The
Texas lands belong to the state itself.
but are open to entry on much the
same terms as the government lands
elsewhere. Aside from the land open
to entry, there are millions Of farms
already taken which can be purchased
at figures that would make them prof
table to farmers with little cash and
plenty Of energy.
With the reign of high prices and
the movement toward the cities there
10 no nation on earth Offering such op-
portunities to the farmer as the Unit
ed States. All these millions in the
cities must be fed. The constant cry
- that there Is not enough produced
on the farms. The population Of the
nation is increasing at the rate Of
more than 100000 per year, and most
Of it is in the cities. These added
mouths mean an increased market and
more prosperity for the farmer. There
never has been time in our history
when the farmer had more reason to
stay at home than now. Here is where
the people live and where they are 90