The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-06-08
LONE MILLION LEAGUE
FOR MANITOBA"


Manitoba League" are set out in the
fact that Manitoba wants more peo-
pie. Today the population is less than
f1ve hundred thousand, and the de-
termination of the representative men
OF the Province to devote their best
energies to increasing this to mil.
lion is worthy one. There is already
widespread interest in every munic-
ipality; committees are appointed,
whose duties are to secure such a
thorough knowledge of local condi-
tons that, whether the applicant for
information be laborer for the farm,
a would-be tenant, probable home
steader, the buyer of small improved
farm or the purchaser of large tract
for colonizing farmers, the informa-
tion is at hand, free.
The advantages that Manitoba pos
sesses are many, and with the ex-
ploitation that will be given them by
the birth of this new acquisition to
the settlement and immigration prop
uganda that is being carried on by
the Dominion Government, there is no
doubt that the establishment of the
bureau will very soon bring about the
results looked for. Manitoba is prac-
tically the gateway Of the great grain
belt of the West. It's farm lands
have demonstrated time and again
that they have yielding value that
practically makes them worth over
one hundred dollars per acre. Added
to the yielding value of the land, there
is an increased value on account cf
its nearness to markets, and the mat
ter of freight rates is carefully con-
sidered by the cautious buyer. But
the information more valuable to the
incoming settler is that it still has an
immense amount of vacant fertile land
open for homesteads This dispels the
idea that free homesteads in Manitoba
are about exhausted. In addition to
this, the territory recently added to
the Province will open up a home
stealing area which when filed
should fully satisfy the Million for
Manitoba League" Within the old
boundaries there is an area of 47,360,-
900 acres, less than six million acres
of the 1914 million acres occupied be-
ing under cultivation. At present there
are over 90 million acres of available
land capable of being put under the
plough. If in every one of the $4,000
vacant quarter sections of the Prov
ince an average family of four persons
were placed, there would be added a
rural population of nearly $780, 900. So
there is room for additional hundreds
of thousands on the farms Of Mani
toba, without any possibility Of con-
gestion. The population per mile in
Iowa Is 1914, in Minnesota it is 23.5.
That In Manitoba is only IL.
A glance at the map, copies of which
will be forwarded upon application to
any Canadian Government Agent,
shows that Manitoba is wonderfully
well supplied with railways. There
are but few farms that are more than
ten or twelve miles from a railway
line: elevators are convenient, and
markets are always good. The grow
ing Of grain, while a big feature in
the inducements held out, Is well re-
enforced by the great possibilities that
exist in all portions of the Province,
for the raising of stock, for dairying,
for hogs, and for a successful class of
mixed farming, and what gives addi-
tional interest is the fact that there
is so much land in the Province open
for free demonstrating that improved
farms in almost all of the SO munich
palities can be purchased at very low
| figures. Many of the owners of these
have made sufficient upon which to re-
| tire and are becoming residents of the
cities. In addition to the export mar
ket for the produce of the farm, Man.
itoba has number of large cities and
towns providing splendid local mar
ket. Truck and garden farming are
highly profitable branches. Winnipeg
is city bordering on 100000 Bran
don is a splendid centre, Portage la
Prairie is the hub of an excellent dis
trict, and Yorkton, Minnedosa, Dau.
phin, Morden, Manitou and a dozen
other towns are important help as con-
sumers.
The Dominion and Provincial immi
| grafton officials are working in strong
sympathy with the Million for Mani
toba League" and in addition to the
general literature sent out by the Gov
eminent, the League has prepared
pamphlets giving useful and concise
information. which on addressing the
Secretary, Million League, Winnipeg,
Manitoba, will be forwarded free.