Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-10-29
OLD FX-RFSIDFNT
TELLS OF ALBERTA
Geo. S. Friesen, Formerly of Wales
Writes of Things as He Finds
Them in Alberta
To the Editor:

To the Editor:
With the presumption upon my
part that you are still at the old
stand | am taking the pleasure at this
time of writing a few lines from my
present home in the Canadian North
west to the Courier Democrat, and at
the same time reaching many of those
1 left behind in Cavalier county when
leaving for the west. In the first
place this is to let you all know that
am still in the land of the living
and that myself and family are all
we'll and doing fairly we'll out here.
We have here in Alberta a splendid
country, and already it is traversed
by two lines of railroad. The line of
the Grand Trunk lies only six miles
to the east Of US and ten miles to the
southwest there is the Canadian Pa
cific. This is a vast difference to
what it was when ! first came to the
country over six years ago, when we
had the experience of haul of thirty
two miles to the town of Didsbury,
There is all the opportunities afforded
for the reasonable enjoyment Of life
and we have lots TO both eat and
drink, And the best of all is that de-
spite the present troubluous times we
find ourselves to be living in a land of
peacs Ind at peace with our neighbors
Around here the crops were good this
year although to the south Of US they
had no crop whatever, owing entirely
to the very severe drouth The prices
this fall for grain at the time / am
writing are as follows: Oats, 43 cents
wheat, 95 cents; barley, go cents.
Out here the people appear to be de,
pending more OF stockhorses and hogs,
the raising of which is carried on tc
the exclusion of raising of grain crops
in many instances. Cattle and live
stock of all kinds is ruling very high
in price this fall A short time age
, the prices for farm work horses were
, quite low, but since the war broke out
f they are being bought un quite read
+ lily at from 500 to $3.50 head.
would ask before closing how my many
old friends in Cavalier county are
getting along? l suppose that in the
lapse of time many have gone to the
far beyond. To look back it makes
person shudder to think of the
hard times experienced by all of us
who went through the early pioneer
days when the count first begun tc
settle up. We have had it better here
especially in the avoiding Of the siren
uous winters, which really are very
nice out here From the End to the
4th of this month, for the space OF
forty-eight hours we experienced
! quite big snow storm, which soaked
the ground to the extent that it could
not be worked. Now the snow is all
, gone and we are having summer
, weather again. Before drawing this
to close also desire to state that
: I have whole section Of land in one
f chunk for sale, four hundred acres of
which are under cultivation 1t is
) good land has grown good crops right
along and has a plenty of good water.
, There are about two hundred acres
now ready for crop The price will
be made known upon application.
Cattle and horses can be bought with
land if desired.
| am getting old and wish to retire
t from hard work, with kind regards tc
3 all my friends, l remain,
! G. S. FRIESEN.
Swalwell, Alberta, Oct 19, 1914