Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-10-03
WONDERFUL PLACE
IS PEACE RIVER

Attorney Daniel Ruggles has lust
returned from the Canadian North |
west where he has spent the past
month in travelling about and looking
over the country. This being Mr..
Ruggles seventh trip to this region he
has had opportunity to note the
growth and progress of that interest
ing country. The universal topic of
conversation in that region is the
crop which this year is good. the
only drawback being wet fall which
is unusual, and which has tendency
to delay thrashing. The fields of
wheat are estimated to yield from
fifteen to forty bushels to the acre,
oats from forty to one hundred
twenty-five, and flax from ten to
twenty-five bushels to the acre. The
income from these yields is consid-
cradle when it is considered that but
few people have less than one hun
dred acres in crop, while many run in
to the thousands of acres. A great
deal of the farming is done by gaso-
line engines. In fact there are farm
ers who keep no live stock, doing all
of their farming and hauling grain to
market with gasoline engine, and
their light running about with an
automobile. Ten heavy wagons
hitched together like train of cars
are drawn by a traction engine, thus
marketing about thousand bushels
of wheat or fax at one trip. In
places the roads are bad and wrecked
engines, broken axles, and loads
stuck in the mud are not unusual
sights along the highway.
Land. particularly heavy land
adapted to the growing of flax, is in
good demand and raw unbroken
prairie is being sold at price from
thirty TO forty dollars an acre. This
is in the Goose Lake district, south
west of Saskatoon, and is supposed to
be the best fax producing land on the
continent. The railroads are making
every effort to lay new lines and keep
up with the development of the
country. The new railroads are made
in hurry. The track is uneven so
that trains are frequently derailed, but
as they run slow, the damage is Or
dinarily not great. New tracts for set
Element are occasionally being thrown
open by the government. Each new
region is at once heralded to be super
Tor to any other in climate, fertility
and resources. A railroad is built, at
stated points along the line, towns are
started, hotels, livery barns, lumber
yards. groceries, restaurants and
Chinese laundries Immediately fol-
low. Churches, banks and elevators
soon come and the settlers pillow the
land and start to raise their crops.
About three hundredI of these atown
are started in Canada each sum-
mer.
Getting ON the Ground Floor.
The most talked of region at the
present time is tie Peace river coun-
try, which IS about three hundred
miles north of Edmonton and
about seven hundred miles north
OF the United States boun-
Diary. The railroad is heading that
way, and has already been built
one hundred miles toward the Peace
river country, leaving two hundred
miles yet to be laid, and it is supposed
will be completed in 1915. Alrt ady towu
sites have been located ahead of the
railway, Athabasca Landing and Fort
McMurry being two of the leading
places. Lots are now selling in these
places from two hundred dollars to
wo Thousand dollars per lot. These
people believe in getting in on tt e
ground floor and are not afraid of
discouuting the future. The tales
they tell of the Peace river country are
marvellous. For instance, beds of