Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-28
A CANADIAN INVASION
10, 900 From Frozen Northlahd Look
ing Toward Oregon as Their
Promised Land.


Portland, April 26.-Willamette
valley and southern Oregon may re-
ceive an increased population of full
1 B 10000 thrifty people through one
single exodus of farmers from Can
ada alone, in the"next year or'two.
A delegation of four well-to-do
landowners of Saskatchewan province
is conducting a quiet Investigation Of
the Willamette, Umpqua and Rogue
River valleys, as the representatives
of more than $500 Canadian farmers
who are desirous of joining one vast
immigrative movement to Oregon.
In case the delegates now in this
state find that the prices of lands in
the territory tributary to Portland
markets are reasonable, that the
transportation facilities are adequate
and that the markets are of easy ac-
cess, this unprecedented horde of
new settlers will make arrangements
to dispose of their Canadian lands
and come to Oregon as SOON as posi-
BILE. 1t is estimated on good author
ity that with the families and chill
dren of these farmers it will mean a
new population of at least 10000
and probably nearer $4,000.
The four delegates are being con-
Quoted through the Willamette val
ley by w. H. jenkins, travelling pas
senger agent of the Southern Pacific,
and will gather their data from
which to base their recommendations
from the sections tributary to Salem
Albany, Corvallis, Eugene, Roseburg
and Grants Pass.
They arrived here the first of the
week and departed on this tremen-
dously significant mission Wednes
day night. They were provided with
letters of introduction to the leading
bankers of the cities named, these
letters being furnished by Emer!
Olmstead, chairman of the agricul
tural committee of the Oregon STATE
Bankers Association, and the Can
adams will make their preliminar.
survey of the western Oregon terri
tory through conferences with thes
bankers, one of whose principal func
tions is to be thoroughly familia
with what constitutes fair values TO
farm lands in the communities the
serve.
Chairman Olmstead also wrot
personal letters to these financieI
advising them of the purpose of tn
investigating tour of. the Saskatcht
wan farmers. The most importaI
phase of the situation is that tn
visiting delegates will have nothin
whatever to do with real estate o.
y orators during their stay in the Or
S gon valleys. They will be put
: touch with the actual landowner
: big or little tracts, directly upon Il
recommendation of the bankers
e these various cities, and will de
h directly with owners.
q Inasmuch as several different Sc
r tions are being investigated, it ma
S urally behooves the bankers in Il
t different localities to make the be
e possible showing to the committe
= In dealing with owners at fir
h hand, not only will inflated pric
: and exorbitant commissions be avoi
: ed, but the Canadians will be able
get much more reliable informatit
= about the soil, drainage, rainfa
4 kinds of crops, ETC., than they cou
+. by resorting to the glowing pal
a phlets of the realty broker.
i The moving cause in bringing Il
t Saskatchewans down here is the ha
and severe struggle they have hi
Q against the inhospitable climate
: the north, the short seasons and t
d narrow limits to the character of Il
: crops that can be raised.
This movement is further interes
!. ing for the reason that it is the pr
:, liminary step toward the future of
;, cial activities of the Oregon Sta
/, Bankers Association in assisting
: marketing agricultural lands of t
J, state at reasonable prices and on ca
: terms in cooperation with the col
e mercial bodies of the different citi
d of the state.
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